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Yahoo! My Yahoo! Mail Yahoo! Search Search: Sign InNew User? Sign Up News Home - Help Navigation Primary Navigation Home Singapore Asia Pacific World Business Entertainment Sports Technology Top Stories Most Popular Secondary Navigation Australia China India Indonesia Japan Malaysia Philippines Thailand Vietnam Search Search: Thousands march to Gov't House in fresh Thai protests AFP - Sunday, February 1 BANGKOK (AFP) - - Thousands of supporters of ousted premier Thaksin Shinawatra rallied outside Thailand's main government offices in Bangkok Saturday, vowing to fight on until the new administration left office. ADVERTISEMENT The protesters spent nearly two hours marching towards Government House, arriving just before midnight (1700GMT) after making their way past four steel barricades across their route, manned by unarmed riot police. Rally leaders read a list of demands to the cheering crowd, vowing to return and stage a permanent protest in 15 days' time if these were not met. "During those 15 days we will keep monitoring how the government intend to meet our demands. If we are not satisfied we will come back," rally leader Veera Musikapong told supporters. "We will not come back at night, we will come during the day and will not return home. We will not let the government of Abhisit Vejjajiva administrate the country any more," he added as the crowd began to disperse around 12.30am (1730GMT). Around 30,000 protesters had earlier gathered at Sanam Luang park in Bangkok to hear protesters' speeches before the crowd set off, led by more than 100 motorbikes and 10 trucks carrying rally leaders. Police told AFP they had deployed 5,250 officers in response to the rally, with many more on standby along with the army, but confirmed it had gone off peacefully. "I think they will return home... There was no incident during the rally," police area commander Major General Anan Srihiran said. Many officers lined the 4 kilometre (2.5-mile) route to Government House, fearing a repeat of a three-month siege by rival protesters that began last August. Saturday's protesters -- known as the "Red Shirts" because their crimson clothes show they oppose the yellow-clad, anti-Thaksin People's Alliance for Democracy (PAD) -- were in good spirits during their march. They waved Thai flags and foot-shaped clappers as they walked past police, encountering delays only at the fourth barricade that was heavily fortified with chains and barbed wire. The Red Shirts are calling for those involved in a siege of Bangkok's airports last year to be fired from government jobs and prosecuted, and for parliament to be dissolved. They also seek the reinstatement of the 1997 so-called "people's constitution," scrapped by the military administration following the 2006 coup that ousted Thaksin. Organiser Jakrapob Penkair said the government was illegitimate and accused the army of staging a silent coup to bring it to power. "How can the party that lost in elections three times become the government? The army denies being involved in setting up this government but no one believes them anymore," Jakrapob said. Thousands of anti-Thaksin protesters occupied Government House for three months last year before moving their protest to a blockade of Bangkok's airports as they tried to topple the government elected in December 2007. They said the ruling People Power Party (PPP) was running the country on behalf of Thaksin, who was ousted in a 2006 coup but has remained enormously divisive despite living in exile for most of the time since the putsch. The PAD escalated their campaign for the PPP government's downfall and seized Bangkok's two airports between November 25 and December 3. They eventually got their wish when a court dissolved the PPP and forced then-premier Somchai Wongsawat from office. The move paved the way for the Democrat Party's Abhisit Vejjajiva to be elected prime minister in a parliamentary vote last month, alienating many PPP supporters who felt robbed of their democratic rights. Abhisit sparked outrage in December by appointing PAD sympathiser Kasit Piromya to the post of foreign minister and two other PAD members to key adviser positions. But speaking earlier on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum at Davos in Switzerland, Abhisit said he was not worried by Saturday's rally. "I think the mood of the people now is that they very much want to move forward, they want to get over the current divisions, they want to see a government that works hard, that deals with people's concerns and has the honesty and integrity that has been missing for so long," Abhisit said. 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