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Tue, 04/06/2010 - 17:21
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Red Shirt protesters enter some of main streets in capital banned by government
BANGKOK, April 6 (TNA) -- Defying a government order banning them from rallying on major commercial streets in the capital, anti-government protesters of the United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship (UDD) on Tuesday afternoon marched to the banned thoroughfares to tangle traffic and pressure Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva to dissolve the House.
Tens of thousands of UDD protesters, now occupying two major areas in the capital including Ratchaprasong intersection and Ratchadamnoen Avenue, marched to the rest of areas prohibited by the government, saying the government put pressure on them in the morning.
Protesters decided to take an “offensive measure against the government” after the Centre for the Administration of Peace and Order (CAPO) earlier in the day pledged to force the protestors from leaving the Ratchaprasong intersection, UDD key leader Natthawut Saikua told the cheering crowd.
Mr Natthawut told the demonstrators that about 5,000 of them should move to nearby Ratchadamri Road and help protesters led by another UDD key leader Weng Tochirakarn in forcing soldiers stationing there to return to their barracks.
Tensions were eased when Pol Maj-Gen Wichai Sangprapai, commander of Metropolitan Police Bureau Division 1, negotiated with UDD leaders that soldiers posted at Lumpini Park on Ratchadamri Road would be withdrawn from the park and return to their barracks.
Later, a group of protesters drove motorcycles from Ratchadamnoen Avenue and headed to Lumpini Park to help their companions in forcing soldiers from leaving Lumpini Park. They succeeded as soldiers there left the park and returned to their barracks.
In another development, police have been able to defuse a bomb planted near the main entrance of state-run Chulalongkorn University. A Bangkok Metropolitan Administration garbage collector alerted police after seeing a suspicious plastic bag, which turned out to be a home-made bomb.
A police bomb squad rushed to the scene and were able to defuse the device.
The home-made bomb was planted at the university after some of its professors late last week came out in support of the coalition government in not dissolving the House as demanded by UDD protesters.
Members of the ruling Democrat Party held a Buddhist religious ceremony Tuesday at party headquarters to celebrate the 64th anniversary its founding in 1946. An anniversary meetig of the party was in progress but members left the building afterlearning that protesters would march there.
Party members were told to attend sessions of the House of Representatives Wednesday and Thursday before cutting short the meeting and leaving the building. (TNA)
Tens of thousands of UDD protesters, now occupying two major areas in the capital including Ratchaprasong intersection and Ratchadamnoen Avenue, marched to the rest of areas prohibited by the government, saying the government put pressure on them in the morning.
Protesters decided to take an “offensive measure against the government” after the Centre for the Administration of Peace and Order (CAPO) earlier in the day pledged to force the protestors from leaving the Ratchaprasong intersection, UDD key leader Natthawut Saikua told the cheering crowd.
Mr Natthawut told the demonstrators that about 5,000 of them should move to nearby Ratchadamri Road and help protesters led by another UDD key leader Weng Tochirakarn in forcing soldiers stationing there to return to their barracks.
Tensions were eased when Pol Maj-Gen Wichai Sangprapai, commander of Metropolitan Police Bureau Division 1, negotiated with UDD leaders that soldiers posted at Lumpini Park on Ratchadamri Road would be withdrawn from the park and return to their barracks.
Later, a group of protesters drove motorcycles from Ratchadamnoen Avenue and headed to Lumpini Park to help their companions in forcing soldiers from leaving Lumpini Park. They succeeded as soldiers there left the park and returned to their barracks.
In another development, police have been able to defuse a bomb planted near the main entrance of state-run Chulalongkorn University. A Bangkok Metropolitan Administration garbage collector alerted police after seeing a suspicious plastic bag, which turned out to be a home-made bomb.
A police bomb squad rushed to the scene and were able to defuse the device.
The home-made bomb was planted at the university after some of its professors late last week came out in support of the coalition government in not dissolving the House as demanded by UDD protesters.
Members of the ruling Democrat Party held a Buddhist religious ceremony Tuesday at party headquarters to celebrate the 64th anniversary its founding in 1946. An anniversary meetig of the party was in progress but members left the building afterlearning that protesters would march there.
Party members were told to attend sessions of the House of Representatives Wednesday and Thursday before cutting short the meeting and leaving the building. (TNA)
