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Thai police ask "area" back from protesters
BANGKOK, Feb 12 (TNA) - Thailand's metropolitan police have started legal procedures, in line with international practice, to seek a return of rally areas for normal traffic and public transport from protesters.
Police Major General Wichai Sangprapai, Commander of Metropolitan Police Division 1, handed over two orders issued by the government's Centre for Administration of Peace and Order (CAPO) to core leaders of the yellow-shirt people's Alliance for Democracy (PAD). The CAPO orders ban people and vehicles from occupying roads around the Government House and the Thai Parliament in the heart of Bangkok.
Major General Chamlong Srimuang, a PAD hardline leader, signed his name to accept the official orders issued by CAPO, which was established to take care of social order after the Thai Cabinet approved earlier this week the imposition of the Internal Security Act in seven areas in the capital from February 9-23. Major General Chamlong said that PAD leaders would meet Saturday afternoon (Feb 12) to discuss measures to respond to the government's orders and further legal steps.
The PAD protesters have rallied at Makkhawan Rangsan Bridge near the Government House for 19 days, demanding that the Thai government withdraw Thailand's membership from the World Heritage Committee under the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO), revoke the 2000 memorandum of understanding (MOU) signed between Thailand and Cambodia and push Cambodian villagers living in border areas claimed by Thailand back to their homecountry, and that Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva and his government step down for failure to solve unsettled border issues with neighbouring Cambodia. The yellow-shirt people have also voiced their opposition to any amendment of Thailand's 2007 Constitution.
Meanwhile, protesters of the red-shirt National United Front of Democracy against Dictatorship (UDD) have also vowed to stage their new rallies in Bangkok on February 13 and 19 as planned, saying that they would demonstrate in front of the Criminal Court on Ratchadapisek Road and the Democracy Monument on February 13 and would then gather in front of the Supreme Court on February 19. (TNA)
Police Major General Wichai Sangprapai, Commander of Metropolitan Police Division 1, handed over two orders issued by the government's Centre for Administration of Peace and Order (CAPO) to core leaders of the yellow-shirt people's Alliance for Democracy (PAD). The CAPO orders ban people and vehicles from occupying roads around the Government House and the Thai Parliament in the heart of Bangkok.
Major General Chamlong Srimuang, a PAD hardline leader, signed his name to accept the official orders issued by CAPO, which was established to take care of social order after the Thai Cabinet approved earlier this week the imposition of the Internal Security Act in seven areas in the capital from February 9-23. Major General Chamlong said that PAD leaders would meet Saturday afternoon (Feb 12) to discuss measures to respond to the government's orders and further legal steps.
The PAD protesters have rallied at Makkhawan Rangsan Bridge near the Government House for 19 days, demanding that the Thai government withdraw Thailand's membership from the World Heritage Committee under the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO), revoke the 2000 memorandum of understanding (MOU) signed between Thailand and Cambodia and push Cambodian villagers living in border areas claimed by Thailand back to their homecountry, and that Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva and his government step down for failure to solve unsettled border issues with neighbouring Cambodia. The yellow-shirt people have also voiced their opposition to any amendment of Thailand's 2007 Constitution.
Meanwhile, protesters of the red-shirt National United Front of Democracy against Dictatorship (UDD) have also vowed to stage their new rallies in Bangkok on February 13 and 19 as planned, saying that they would demonstrate in front of the Criminal Court on Ratchadapisek Road and the Democracy Monument on February 13 and would then gather in front of the Supreme Court on February 19. (TNA)
