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Red Shirts won't go to Ministry of Public Health when Cabinet convenes
BANGKOK, March 22 (TNA) - Thailand's anti-government protesters from the United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship (UDD)--the Red Shirts--have decided not to go to Ministry of Public Health where the Cabinet will convene its weekly meeting Tuesday while calling for its supporters nationwide to go to Bangkok next Saturday for another mass rally, according to UDD leaders.
Mr Jatuporn Prompan said that on Tuesday the demonstrators would stay at the Phan Fah Bridge on Ratchadamneon Avenue, its main protest site, where their rally entered its second week and would not go to protest at the Ministry of Public Health.
The government had shifted its weekly meeting from Government House to the Minsitry of Public Health in Nonthaburi to avoid protest by the Red Shirt demonstrators.
The Red Shirt protesters on Sunday announced that they would apply new strategy by sending sone 10,000 members to follow Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva everwhere he goes to pressure him to bow to their demand to dissolve parliament and call fresh election.
Mr Jatuporn said the information the Red Shirt received indicated that the government may incite the violence and blamed the incident on the Red Shirt protesters just similar to the incident at the Interior Ministry during Songkran protest last year.
The prime minister's car was attacked by the protesters at the Interior Ministry but Jatuporn said Mr Abhisit was not in the car and he claimed that the government had soldiers wear red shirts and act violently so as to frame charges against the UDD.
However, Mr Abhisit repeatedly said that he was in the car that was battered by anti-government protesters at the Interior Ministry and the government had not plotted the violence that broke out at the Ministry.
Meanwhile, another UDD leader, Natthawut Saikua, said that althoughthe Red Shirts would not to go to the Ministry of Public Health, it will send 500 volunteer motorcycles across Bangkok on four main routes to the 11th Infantry Regiment, Government House, the prime minister's house at Sukhumvit 31 and the route that they snaked around the capital on Saturday.
He also urged the Red Shirt supporters nationwide to travel to Bangkok again on Satuday for another mass rally after the motorcade last Saturday was successful.
UDD core leader Veera Musikapong read the movement's third statement affirming that the Red Shirts had only one proposal - dissolve the House and return power to people.
However, the UDD was open for talks but both sides must have full authority in making decision, he said, adding that the government must be represented only by Mr Abhisit as he has full authority to dissolve Parliament.
He said after the House dissolution every group would be immediately dissolved and an agreed upon social consensus that every political party could campaign in every area and after the general elelction every group must accept to let the country go on. (TNA)
Mr Jatuporn Prompan said that on Tuesday the demonstrators would stay at the Phan Fah Bridge on Ratchadamneon Avenue, its main protest site, where their rally entered its second week and would not go to protest at the Ministry of Public Health.
The government had shifted its weekly meeting from Government House to the Minsitry of Public Health in Nonthaburi to avoid protest by the Red Shirt demonstrators.
The Red Shirt protesters on Sunday announced that they would apply new strategy by sending sone 10,000 members to follow Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva everwhere he goes to pressure him to bow to their demand to dissolve parliament and call fresh election.
Mr Jatuporn said the information the Red Shirt received indicated that the government may incite the violence and blamed the incident on the Red Shirt protesters just similar to the incident at the Interior Ministry during Songkran protest last year.
The prime minister's car was attacked by the protesters at the Interior Ministry but Jatuporn said Mr Abhisit was not in the car and he claimed that the government had soldiers wear red shirts and act violently so as to frame charges against the UDD.
However, Mr Abhisit repeatedly said that he was in the car that was battered by anti-government protesters at the Interior Ministry and the government had not plotted the violence that broke out at the Ministry.
Meanwhile, another UDD leader, Natthawut Saikua, said that althoughthe Red Shirts would not to go to the Ministry of Public Health, it will send 500 volunteer motorcycles across Bangkok on four main routes to the 11th Infantry Regiment, Government House, the prime minister's house at Sukhumvit 31 and the route that they snaked around the capital on Saturday.
He also urged the Red Shirt supporters nationwide to travel to Bangkok again on Satuday for another mass rally after the motorcade last Saturday was successful.
UDD core leader Veera Musikapong read the movement's third statement affirming that the Red Shirts had only one proposal - dissolve the House and return power to people.
However, the UDD was open for talks but both sides must have full authority in making decision, he said, adding that the government must be represented only by Mr Abhisit as he has full authority to dissolve Parliament.
He said after the House dissolution every group would be immediately dissolved and an agreed upon social consensus that every political party could campaign in every area and after the general elelction every group must accept to let the country go on. (TNA)
