You Heard It Here Last

By Janice Castro

In Patpong, the glitzy sex district of Bangkok, video pirates usually specialize in illegal copies of feature films and music videos. Lately, though, they can't keep a hot political video in stock. It seems that government-controlled Thai TV did not carry footage of the police violence against the huge pro-democracy demonstrations in Bangkok last month. Thai citizens are now catching up with what the rest of the world saw happening in their own country.