Bangkok Cleans Up After The Crackdown | Jack Kurtz: Photojournalist & Travel Photographer

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20 MAY 2010 - BANGKOK, THAILAND: Central World, the second largest shopping mall in southeast Asia, was destroyed by arsonist working with the anti government Red Shirts in the Ratchaprasong Intersection in Bangkok Thursday. The day after a military crackdown killed at least six people, Thai authorities continued mopping up operations around the site of the Red Shirt rally stage and battle fires set by Red Shirt supporters in the luxury malls around the intersection. Anti government forces set fire to the mall and several other locations across Bangkok after their leaders surrendered to police. PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ

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20 MAY 2010 - BANGKOK, THAILAND: Central World, the second largest shopping mall in southeast Asia, was destroyed by arsonist working with the anti government Red Shirts in the Ratchaprasong Intersection in Bangkok Thursday. The day after a military crackdown killed at least six people, Thai authorities continued mopping up operations around the site of the Red Shirt rally stage and battle fires set by Red Shirt supporters in the luxury malls around the intersection. Anti government forces set fire to the mall and several other locations across Bangkok after their leaders surrendered to police. PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ