The mix of bloodshed and the banal has become all too common in the United States, even as it bursts into lands less accustomed to violence like New Zealand and Norway. “This will be seen as not just an individual case, but as a sign of underlying tensions,” said Phil Robertson, deputy director of Human Rights Watch’s Asia division. “It’s about the fact that people are really getting desperate — the economic situation is really not going well. A lot of people are very unhappy.”Thai officials initially said the man, Sgt. It was a conflict, he said, that had been simmering for days and could have been resolved without violence.

Source: New York Times February 09, 2020 16:07 UTC