International Photojournalist and Photographer

I first reported on the “Red Shirt” anti-government protests in Bangkok in March 2010. On April 10th 2010, after a few days of more intensive riots around a major protest camp which was set up at the Phan Fa bridge in the capital city of Thailand, the first major and lethal clash took place between the protestors and the government. Many protestors were injured, a number were killed and a Japanese cameraman working for the Reuters news agency was murdered. Army personnel were captured by the protestors and burned tanks littered the streets. The protest camp grew throughout April 2010 and relocated to the central location on the Ratchaprasong highway junction in Bangkok, adjacent to the shopping malls which sell top end consumer goods to the elite of Thai society and visitors from around the world. The protestors were violently removed from their camp by Thai army and Police forces in May 2010. One year on I will be re-visiting the red shirt protestors, in their poor village homes in the provinces as well as in Bangkok, and asking: In the wake of the wave of anti-government protests taking place throughout North Africa and the Middle East, and against the back drop of government elections in Thailand, what is your next move? What did last years protests, deaths, injury and imprisonment achieve?