Yommarat 5:20-7:15pm April 13th

Just after the Thai police secured Uruphong I noticed smoke coming from the direction the Redshirts retreated and I could see some Redshirts maneuvering a bus at the top of the ramp on the road they left on (Phetchaburi – I think).

I walked over to where the smoke was coming from and once I got there I realized that the Redshirts had just set a bunch of tires and a bus on fire.

There were two Redshirts still throwing mini Molotov cocktails at the bus to keep the fire going. The most common type of Molotov cocktail I saw over the day was made from small bottles for Redbull and other energy drinks. An example of one of these can be seen in the second pic below (It's the bottle with the rag coming out of it). These Molotovs tended to not be too effective. I would see many of them thrown soon and it seemed that most of them didn't catch fire.

I also saw a Fire truck that the Redshirts had gotten a hold of. For some reason they started to unload one of the fire hoses (I never did find out what they intended to do).

While the Redshirts were unloading the Fire truck I noticed that some of the Redshirts were throwing rocks at something behind the corner on my right. It would turn out that this was a group of locals who were pissed at the Redshirts and decided to take matters into their own hands. The locals came at the Redshirts from the train tracks on both sides of the intersection. The Redshirts were throwing rocks and Molotov cocktails (they set one little shop on fire) at the locals and the locals were throwing rocks back. In addition there were two occasions where one of the locals fired a gun wildly at the Redshirts from the other side of the intersection I was in (I didn't get a picture of the shooter but he was located near the truck in the second picture).

Around 5:50pm the locals gained control of the intersection and the Redshirts retreated down Phitsanulook road. Thai Army soldiers entered the intersection once the locals had control of it – eventually setting up at the entrance to Phitsanulook road.

The locals chased the Redshirts down the road but eventually the Redshirts regrouped and pushed the locals back. Both sides eventually settled down with the locals and Thai soldiers at Yommarat and the Redshirts maybe 2-300 meters down the road. This was the situation when I left around 7:15 because it was quiet (the Thai soldiers were sitting down eating while their PSYOP truck blasted messages) and I was hungry.