Friday, March 11, 2011

Thai nationalistic "yellow-shirts" threaten to seize government House again

11 Mar, 2011
Source: Xinhua


Thai nationalistic "yellow-shirt" leader on Friday threatened to lead protesters to seize the Government House compound if they are dispersed from their present protest site by police, Thai media report.

The Centre for the Administration of Peace and Order (CAPO) on Thursday issued an ultimatum, that yellow-shirt People's Alliance for Democracy (PAD) and its splinter group Thai Patriots Network ( TPN) protesters must move away from the roads around the Government House by March 15 to make way for the annual Red Cross Fair.

Maj-Gen Chamlong called on the public to join the PAD rally in larger numbers.

If the government used force to disperse them, the protesters would move into the Government House compound, the same way they had done in 2008, he said.

In 2008, PAD demonstrators occupied the Government House compound for 193 days, demanding the ouster of then governments of the late Prime Minister Samak Sundravej and, later, former Prime Minister Somchai Wongsawat -- whom they viewed as proxies of the fugitive former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra.

On Friday morning, leading PAD members went on stage and told the protesters to check their belongings and prepare for authorities to disperse them, expecting it to happen next Monday or March 14.

The PAD protesters occupied roads around the Government House to pressure Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva to resign after he failed to meet PAD's demands on the Thai-Cambodia border dispute.


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