Thailand's Violence Comes to an End

The Moment: Thailand
Photograph by James Nachtwey / VII for TIME

On Fire
After anti-government protesters, known as Red Shirts, occupied Bangkok's high-end shopping and hotel district for almost two months, Thai army soldiers began an operation to clear them out of the fortified encampments they had built. A Red Shirt demonstrator is arrested by Thai Army soldiers during the crackdown.

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