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Yellow Shirts mark 2nd anniversary of Oct 7 protest
BANGKOK, Oct 7 – The members of the People’s Alliance for Democracy (PAD) -- the Yellow Shirt movement -- on Thursday attended a religious ceremony at the Thai capital's Royal Plaza to commemorate the second anniversary of the Oct 7 incidents when two protesters were killed during a clash with police.
The PAD made Buddhist religious merit in the morning’s alms for persons killed in the incident, with all PAD leaders joining the event as well as a leader of the so-called multi-coloured group Dr Tul Sitthisomwong, who led a counter protest against the anti-government Red Shirt demonstrations earlier this year.
Maj-Gen Chamlong Srimuang, a top Yellow Shirt leader, urged the government to give justice to all sides and the dead through the judicial process and to resolve current political problems.
One hundred fifty police officers were deployed to provide security during the PAD gathering at the Royal Plaza and about 40 police helped direct the traffic. Some 1,700 metropolitan police officers have been on standby.
Pol Col Vicharnwat Borirakkul, deputy commander of the Metropolitan Police Division 1 responsible for the area where the PAD gathered said that two companies or about 300 police have been deployed to ensure order and security at the Laan Baan Chaophraya activity ground in the compound of the Asia Satellite television (ASTV), the Yellow Shirt’s satellite television station, as the PAD moved to hold activities there after making merit in the morning.
PAD protesters besieged Parliament in 2008 in an attempt to prevent then prime minister Somchai Wongsawat, an ally and brother-in-law of ousted prime minister Thakin Shinawatra from delivering his government’s policy statement.
Two protesters were killed and scores of them were injured during clashes between the Yellow Shirt protesters and the police in the capital. (MCOT online news)
The PAD made Buddhist religious merit in the morning’s alms for persons killed in the incident, with all PAD leaders joining the event as well as a leader of the so-called multi-coloured group Dr Tul Sitthisomwong, who led a counter protest against the anti-government Red Shirt demonstrations earlier this year.
Maj-Gen Chamlong Srimuang, a top Yellow Shirt leader, urged the government to give justice to all sides and the dead through the judicial process and to resolve current political problems.
One hundred fifty police officers were deployed to provide security during the PAD gathering at the Royal Plaza and about 40 police helped direct the traffic. Some 1,700 metropolitan police officers have been on standby.
Pol Col Vicharnwat Borirakkul, deputy commander of the Metropolitan Police Division 1 responsible for the area where the PAD gathered said that two companies or about 300 police have been deployed to ensure order and security at the Laan Baan Chaophraya activity ground in the compound of the Asia Satellite television (ASTV), the Yellow Shirt’s satellite television station, as the PAD moved to hold activities there after making merit in the morning.
PAD protesters besieged Parliament in 2008 in an attempt to prevent then prime minister Somchai Wongsawat, an ally and brother-in-law of ousted prime minister Thakin Shinawatra from delivering his government’s policy statement.
Two protesters were killed and scores of them were injured during clashes between the Yellow Shirt protesters and the police in the capital. (MCOT online news)
