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PM urges 'Red Shirts' to rally within legal framework
BANGKOK, Oct 9 -- Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva urged the anti-government 'Red Shirt' United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship (UDD) to rally or carry out their other political activities on Sunday within Thailand's legal framework, and peacefully.
The UDD planned to rally at Democracy Monument and on Ratchadamnorn Road in the morning and planned to hold activities in the afternoon to mark the death of key Red Shirt ally Maj Gen Khattiya Sawasdipol, better known as Seh Daeng, at the entrance of Lumpini Park, near the King Rama VI statue
Gen Khattiya, a hard-line member of the Red Shirts, was shot in the forehead while he was being interviewed by a foreign reporter.
Mr Abhisit said he believed the activities would take place without any problem, and that the national police chief closely monitored and followed up the situation.
However, the premier asked for cooperation from all citizens to help prevent any violence or any third party to take advantage of the opportunity to cause disorder.
National police chief Pol Gen Vichien Poteposri earlier said that about 3,000 police will be deployed at sensitive areas in the Thai capital Sunday.
He said police have estimated that 5,000 to 7,000 UDD Red Shirt supporters will participate in the rally.
Police will be posted at important and sensitive areas including BTS Skytrain stations, MRT underground stations and at the Democracy Monument, which was the scene of a bloody clash between protesters and security personnel on April 10.
Tharit Pengdit, director-general of the Department of Special Investigation (DSI) said the agency will monitor activities of protesters during their planned rally on Sunday while investigators are urged to quickly apprehend 18 terrorist suspects who are still at large.
He said DSI officials have been ordered to closely monitor the planned rally of UDD after intelligence reports suggested earlier that more bombing incidents are in the making while the recent Bang Bua Thong apartment explosion in Nonthaburi province would not stop violence in the country.
There are still groups of ill-intentioned people with heavy weapons who are prepared to create unrest in the country, he said.
Four people were killed and nine were wounded in the apparent bomb-assembling accident at an apartment in Bang Bua Thong on Tuesday. The initial investigation found a bomb-making suspect, who rented the apartment, accidentally killed himself and others.
Mr Tharit said he had ordered DSI officials to quickly arrest 18 other terrorist suspects who escaped arrest.
He said key UDD leaders have fled overseas with their families while some are hiding in Thailand’s neighbouring countries but it is difficult to bring them home for trial as it might affect relations with those countries. (MCOT online news)
The UDD planned to rally at Democracy Monument and on Ratchadamnorn Road in the morning and planned to hold activities in the afternoon to mark the death of key Red Shirt ally Maj Gen Khattiya Sawasdipol, better known as Seh Daeng, at the entrance of Lumpini Park, near the King Rama VI statue
Gen Khattiya, a hard-line member of the Red Shirts, was shot in the forehead while he was being interviewed by a foreign reporter.
Mr Abhisit said he believed the activities would take place without any problem, and that the national police chief closely monitored and followed up the situation.
However, the premier asked for cooperation from all citizens to help prevent any violence or any third party to take advantage of the opportunity to cause disorder.
National police chief Pol Gen Vichien Poteposri earlier said that about 3,000 police will be deployed at sensitive areas in the Thai capital Sunday.
He said police have estimated that 5,000 to 7,000 UDD Red Shirt supporters will participate in the rally.
Police will be posted at important and sensitive areas including BTS Skytrain stations, MRT underground stations and at the Democracy Monument, which was the scene of a bloody clash between protesters and security personnel on April 10.
Tharit Pengdit, director-general of the Department of Special Investigation (DSI) said the agency will monitor activities of protesters during their planned rally on Sunday while investigators are urged to quickly apprehend 18 terrorist suspects who are still at large.
He said DSI officials have been ordered to closely monitor the planned rally of UDD after intelligence reports suggested earlier that more bombing incidents are in the making while the recent Bang Bua Thong apartment explosion in Nonthaburi province would not stop violence in the country.
There are still groups of ill-intentioned people with heavy weapons who are prepared to create unrest in the country, he said.
Four people were killed and nine were wounded in the apparent bomb-assembling accident at an apartment in Bang Bua Thong on Tuesday. The initial investigation found a bomb-making suspect, who rented the apartment, accidentally killed himself and others.
Mr Tharit said he had ordered DSI officials to quickly arrest 18 other terrorist suspects who escaped arrest.
He said key UDD leaders have fled overseas with their families while some are hiding in Thailand’s neighbouring countries but it is difficult to bring them home for trial as it might affect relations with those countries. (MCOT online news)
