Ratchaprasong

Ratchaprasong (Thai: ราชประสงค์, pronounced [râːt.t͡ɕʰā.prā.sǒŋ]; also spelled Rajprasong) is the name of an intersection, and a shopping district named after it, in Pathum Wan District, Bangkok, adjacent to the Siam area, at the BTS Skytrain's Chit Lom Station and the intersection of Phloen Chit, Rama I, and Ratchadamri Roads.

From March to May the Red Shirt protesters occupied a large area around Ratchaprasong intersection in civil disobedience aimed at reinstalling the government under Thaksin Shinawatra.

[8] After weeks of failed negotiations, the Thai army moved in to clear the Ratchaprasong intersection on 19 May 2010.

The violent government crackdown against the "Red Shirt" protesters resulted in the deaths of about 90 civilians and soldiers.

[11][12] In August 2015, a bomb exploded at the Ratchaprasong intersection killing twenty people and injuring 125.