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Yahoo! My Yahoo! Mail More Yahoo! Services Account Options New User? Sign Up Sign In Help Yahoo! Search web search Home Singapore Asia Pacific World Business Entertainment Sports Technology Australia China India Indonesia Japan Malaysia Philippines Thailand Vietnam Thai PM's offer puts pressure on protesters AFP - 1 hour 43 minutes ago Send IM Story Print Thai PM's offer puts pressure on protesters BANGKOK (AFP) - – Pressure mounted on Thailand's anti-government "Red Shirt" protesters on Monday to respond to an offer by the prime minister to hold elections in November if they end two months of crippling rallies. Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva demanded over the weekend that the opposition "Red Shirts" give a "clear answer" by Monday on whether they will fully accept his peace roadmap, which envisages elections on November 14. The Reds said they were still discussing their response to Abhisit's offer and would come up with their own proposals to end the crisis. They also blamed the weekend killings of two police officers, which were followed late Sunday by two attacks including one on the home of the Thai election commission chief, on elements intent on sabotaging the peace process. "We affirmed that we are ready to join the reconciliation process and we will offer our roadmap," one of the protest leaders, Weng Tojirakarn, said on a rally stage in the Reds' vast encampment in the retail heart of Bangkok. "The government should not ask us to hurry up because what we are thinking about is how to make this country a strong constitutional monarchy," he said, one month after a failed army crackdown on protesters in the city's historic district sparked street battles that left 25 people dead and hundreds injured. The Reds have signed up to the peace process but are demanding a firm date for the dissolution of the lower house of parliament before dismantling their barricades made from piles of fuel-soaked tyres, bamboo poles and razor wire. FACTS: Key dates in Thailand's political crisis Abhisit called Sunday for a swift end to mass anti-government protests after the two police officers were killed in gun and grenade attacks in the capital, which is under a state of emergency. In another outbreak of violence, a bank and the home of the Thai election commission chief were targeted with a grenade and small bombs by unknown assailants late Sunday, but nobody was hurt, police said. Related article: Grenade, bomb attacks in Thai capital The grenade did not explode when it was fired at the bank, while no one was at home when three bombs were thrown at the house of the Election Commission chairman Apichart Sukkhakanont, said police spokesman Prawut Thavornsiri. "The bombs hit a nearby house and exploded. One damaged the house's fence, but injured nobody," he said. Local media said they were made from fireworks. Thailand is reeling from the worst political violence in almost two decades in its capital, where 29 people have died and almost 1,000 have been injured in a series of confrontations and explosions. On April 22 a series of grenade attacks left one woman dead and around 80 people wounded in the financial district. Crowds at the Reds camp have swelled to as many as 100,000 people in the past, but last week when a resolution appeared near, numbers dwindled to just a few thousand as a weary air descended on the rally area. On Saturday, however, their ranks were boosted by 5,000 more supporters who arrived from the movement's heartland in the rural, impoverished northeast. In a colour-coded crisis, Thailand is largely split between the mainly rural poor and urban working class Reds -- who broadly support fugitive former premier Thaksin Shinawatra -- and the rival pro-establishment "Yellow Shirts." The Reds consider Abhisit's administration undemocratic because it came to power in an army-backed 2008 parliamentary vote after a controversial court ruling ousted Thaksin's elected allies. They have said the government is intent on clinging to power until September to ensure the new army leadership line-up is appointed and the national budget is approved in parliament before it holds elections. 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