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Army chief tasked with monitoring Red Shirt activities
BANGKOK, Sept 17 – The Centre for the Resolution of the Emergency Situation (CRES) on Friday appointed Army Chief Gen Anupong Paochinda to monitor the movement of the anti-government Red Shirt United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship (UDD) to mark the anniversary of the 2006 coup over the weekend.
CRES spokesman Col Sansern Kaewkamnerd said after the CRES meeting, chaired by deputy prime minister Suthep Thaugsuban on Friday, that the agency discussed the response plan for the UDD activities this weekend to mark the September 19 coup, which ousted then premier Thaksin Shinawatra.
Gen Anupong, assisting the CRES director, is to head the monitoring of the overall situation on Saturday and Sunday (September 18-19), the Internal Security Operations Command (ISOC) will monitor the Red Shirt movement in the provinces, Col Sansern said.
Police will set up checkpoints and conduct patrols,.said Metropolitan Police Command Centre deputy commander Songpol Wattanachai --more than 100 checkpoints -- and guard high-rise buildings. Some 3,000 uniformed police officers will be deployed as well as plainclothes police. The police will also record the activities to monitoring infractions of the law.
He said the police have informed protest leaders regarding the limits of their gathering and the organisers say they are ready to comply with the law.
Meanwhile, speaking about the Red Shirt activities in the northern province of Chiang Mai, stronghold of ex-premier Thaksin’s supporters, Col Sansern said the situation is not worrisome although the state of emergency was lifted, because the authorities can work together using normal laws with the main task to oversee security will be carried out by six companied of police or about 900 police officers while five companies of soldier will be on stand-by.
The (CRES ) on Friday also announced an additional rule to ban using amplifiers and stages or vehicles installed with amplifiers except a permission from the authorities under the enforcement of the emergency decree, Col Sansern said.
The new regulation was issued on Thursday in addition to the CRES rule in April banning gatherings of over five people in areas under the state of emergency, which is now put in place in the capital of Bangkok and other six provinces.
The new regulation is part of the CRES’s preparation in response to the Red Shirt’s upcoming activities at Ratchaprasong intersection in Bangkok and the northern province of Chiang Mai. (MCOT online news)
CRES spokesman Col Sansern Kaewkamnerd said after the CRES meeting, chaired by deputy prime minister Suthep Thaugsuban on Friday, that the agency discussed the response plan for the UDD activities this weekend to mark the September 19 coup, which ousted then premier Thaksin Shinawatra.
Gen Anupong, assisting the CRES director, is to head the monitoring of the overall situation on Saturday and Sunday (September 18-19), the Internal Security Operations Command (ISOC) will monitor the Red Shirt movement in the provinces, Col Sansern said.
Police will set up checkpoints and conduct patrols,.said Metropolitan Police Command Centre deputy commander Songpol Wattanachai --more than 100 checkpoints -- and guard high-rise buildings. Some 3,000 uniformed police officers will be deployed as well as plainclothes police. The police will also record the activities to monitoring infractions of the law.
He said the police have informed protest leaders regarding the limits of their gathering and the organisers say they are ready to comply with the law.
Meanwhile, speaking about the Red Shirt activities in the northern province of Chiang Mai, stronghold of ex-premier Thaksin’s supporters, Col Sansern said the situation is not worrisome although the state of emergency was lifted, because the authorities can work together using normal laws with the main task to oversee security will be carried out by six companied of police or about 900 police officers while five companies of soldier will be on stand-by.
The (CRES ) on Friday also announced an additional rule to ban using amplifiers and stages or vehicles installed with amplifiers except a permission from the authorities under the enforcement of the emergency decree, Col Sansern said.
The new regulation was issued on Thursday in addition to the CRES rule in April banning gatherings of over five people in areas under the state of emergency, which is now put in place in the capital of Bangkok and other six provinces.
The new regulation is part of the CRES’s preparation in response to the Red Shirt’s upcoming activities at Ratchaprasong intersection in Bangkok and the northern province of Chiang Mai. (MCOT online news)
