(20 May 2010) SHOTLIST
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1. Policeman with radio and rifle walking up street with line of police behind him
2. Tracking shot of policeman running with gun ready to fire UPSOUND: gunfire
3. Policeman walking with hand on his pistol
4. Policeman with rifle
5. Policeman crossing road with rifle
6. Wide of flames and smoke coming out of bank building in Din Daeng area
7. Close up of flame
8. Wide of firefighters hosing flame
9. Mid of fire inside building
10. Police arresting a motorbike taxi driver, holding him face-down on the ground
11. Police leading away handcuffed man
12. Wide of street with police van driving by
13. SOUNDBITE: (Thai) Somjit Suksumrain, resident, construction company manager:
"This really worries me. This shouldn't happen to Thailand. Thailand should not have ended up like this."
14. Close up of policeman with rifle ready
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15. Key Red Shirt leaders Veera Musikapong (red jacket) and Weng Tojirakarn (black jacket) and their partners arriving at a police station in Bangkok to give themselves up
16. Wide of another key leader Korkaew Pikulthong walking into police station
17. Wide of the three leaders sitting behind table with police
18. SOUNDBITE: (Thai) Veera Musikapong, Red Shirt Leader:
"I'd like to ask all sides to calm down and talk with each other in a peaceful manner. Please dissolve your anger. We cannot create democracy with anger."
19. Cutaway media
20. SOUNDBITE: (Thai) Veera Musikapong, Red Shirt Leader:
"The Red Shirts are not a threat or a poison to this country. We are Thai, we love our country and all institutions but we are against dictatorship. We want to create a democracy but what has happened in the last couple of days and until today is a tragedy. It has saddened me and my friends."
21. Wide of armed police outside building
22. Close of weapons
23. Wide of the leaders leaving, being escorted out by police
STORYLINE
The Thai government declared on Thursday it had mostly quelled 10 weeks of violent protests in the capital as buildings still smouldered, but pockets of violence, shooting and arson occurred throughout the day as residents attempted to return to normal life.
While the government regained control of the central commercial district of Bangkok, other parts of the sprawling city remained volatile and fears grew that the tentative quiet restored to Thailand's capital may just be a respite from violence and political polarisation that could continue for years.
In the Din Daeng district, a bank was set alight, prompting a quick response from armed police who arrested at least three suspects.
Troops and anti-government protesters also exchanged sporadic fire in parts of the city and one incident left local residents jumpy and depressed at what was happening to their country.
"This really worries me. This shouldn't happen to Thailand," said resident and construction company manager Somjit Suksumrain.
A Thai military operation on Wednesday cleared most of an anti-government protest encampment in the centre of the capital, leaving 15 dead and nearly 100 injured.
Army spokesman Colonel Sansern Kawekamnerd said the situation in the capital was mostly under control.
Three more Red Shirt leaders surrendered to authorities on Thursday. Five leaders gave themselves up the day before and were flown to a military camp south of Bangkok for interrogation.
"I'd like to ask all sides to calm down and talk with each other in a peaceful manner. Please dissolve your anger. We cannot create democracy with anger," Red Shirt leader Veera Musikapong said after being taken into custody on Thursday.
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