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Red Shirts deny connection with bombings
BANGKOK, Feb 28 (TNA) -- Leaders of the anti-government Red Shirt movement, the United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship (UDD), said Sunday the group has no connection with the bomb incidents in the Thai capital and its neighbouring province of Samut Prakan on Saturday.
They asked the government to probe both the military and police as the explosives used in the incidents were ordinarily only possessed by the armed forces and police.
Key UDD leader Natthawut Saikuea insisted that his group would continue its struggle against the government in a peaceful way, denouncing the bombers for creating unrest and deteriorating the overall situation in the country.
Mr Natthawut said the incidents--in which no injuries were reported--would benefit the government as it could invoke the Internal Security Act by ordering the armed forces to control a major rally to be held by the UDD on March 14.
UDD leaders have announced earlier that the group would mobilise one million protesters nationwide and start gathering at Bangkok’s Sanam Luang on March 14 with an objective to oust the ruling government of Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva.
Mr Natthawut told a press conference Sunday that UDD supporters would start gathering in their provinces at noon on March 12 at various important places before arriving in Bangkok and congregate at Rajadamnoen Avenue early on March 14.
Another UDD key leader Jatuporn Prompan said explosives used on Saturday were used only by the military and border patrol police and that an investigation should be conducted of the national police chief and the army commander-in-chief.
Mr Jatuporn said UDD movement had nothing to do with the incidents although supporters of the group had rallied at Bangkok Bank headquarters recently.
That rally was held with an intention to ask senior executives of the bank to show responsibility in illegally encroaching a land in a forest reserve in the eastern province of Chanthaburi and return it to the state, said Mr Jatuporn. (TNA)
They asked the government to probe both the military and police as the explosives used in the incidents were ordinarily only possessed by the armed forces and police.
Key UDD leader Natthawut Saikuea insisted that his group would continue its struggle against the government in a peaceful way, denouncing the bombers for creating unrest and deteriorating the overall situation in the country.
Mr Natthawut said the incidents--in which no injuries were reported--would benefit the government as it could invoke the Internal Security Act by ordering the armed forces to control a major rally to be held by the UDD on March 14.
UDD leaders have announced earlier that the group would mobilise one million protesters nationwide and start gathering at Bangkok’s Sanam Luang on March 14 with an objective to oust the ruling government of Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva.
Mr Natthawut told a press conference Sunday that UDD supporters would start gathering in their provinces at noon on March 12 at various important places before arriving in Bangkok and congregate at Rajadamnoen Avenue early on March 14.
Another UDD key leader Jatuporn Prompan said explosives used on Saturday were used only by the military and border patrol police and that an investigation should be conducted of the national police chief and the army commander-in-chief.
Mr Jatuporn said UDD movement had nothing to do with the incidents although supporters of the group had rallied at Bangkok Bank headquarters recently.
That rally was held with an intention to ask senior executives of the bank to show responsibility in illegally encroaching a land in a forest reserve in the eastern province of Chanthaburi and return it to the state, said Mr Jatuporn. (TNA)
