Silom was once the bustle street filled with business people and office workers of high-profile companies. The street is never falling into asleep. There have been activities 24 hours a day. In daytime, white collar workers rush between skyscrapers to do their routine jobs. The district is the financial center of the country and one of the most important financial centers of the region. Almost business units in the country and beyond rely on financial data generated from here and use them as benchmark in making business decision.

During nighttime, the street is even more bustle as the nightlife begins. Its neighboring districts Patpong and Surawong are notorious with what they have to offer: shopping for fake merchandises, drinking, dancing and even sex—a perfect place to go hang out all night long—in other word, burn your money.

It has never been a place where a broke wandered. Until come the Reds.

Being despised as poor, rural, and uneducated people, the ‘Red-Shirted’ demonstrators seized an intersection neighboring to Silom as their stronghold for a rally against the government whose they accused come to power unlawfully. The mob has been expanded and threatened to spread out through Silom district as they seek equally treatment in political right as a Thai citizen as those who wear suit working in the district.

The demonstration carries out for a month and likely to be beyond even though a threat from the government that poises to exercise forces on a crackdown and even life shot of war weapons if, they say, necessary.

The established mob braced themselves up for the threat with barricade of car tires and sharpened poles covered with plastic netting.

A mob is believed to be well prepared even against soldiers deployed to control the area, ever since the military crack down on April 10, which left 25 people dead and almost 800 injured. Despite a threat, they remain received continuing support from the rural people.

Boasted themselves as more educated and willing-hearted mob, a group of local people of Silom district gathered up in a variety color of shirt, of course, except one, and move their front line to encounter the ‘Reds’.

Bad languages have been exchanged between two sides, including stone throws and melee fight.

23.30 hours of Thursday, April 22, five grenades had been launched from an M79 grenade launcher into a mob of the Silom crowd, leaving one dead and 87 injured.

Police captured five suspects immediately.

As expected, the government accused the ‘Reds’ as wrongdoers.

No one will win the battle, but politics standoff has brought in something the country never heard of—terrorists.