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Edition: U.S. Article Comments (4) Slideshow Video Save Email Print Reprints Most Popular Most Shared US investigators hunt New York car bomb culprits 12:08am EDT Euro, stocks fall on Greece bailout fears 3:02am EDT Investigators hunt New York car bomb culprits | Video 3:23am EDT NY street vendors praised for spotting car bomb 02 May 2010 Boston area still on drinking water boil order 02 May 2010 Police barred from penis enlargement 23 Apr 2010 Sell Citigroup, Buy JPMorgan - Barron's 02 May 2010 U.S. presses BP to stop gushing Gulf Coast oil leak | Video 2:31am EDT WRAPUP 12-EU, IMF agree 110 bln euro bailout for Greece 02 May 2010 United, Continental boards OK merger: sources 02 May 2010 Police barred from penis enlargement 23 Apr 2010 Euro, stocks fall on Greece bailout fears 3:02am EDT Greece promised rescue package, but investors wary | Video 3:33am EDT Boston area still on drinking water boil order 02 May 2010 US investigators hunt New York car bomb culprits 12:08am EDT U.S. presses BP to stop gushing Gulf Coast oil leak | Video 2:31am EDT Potentially deadly fungus spreading in U.S. and Canada 22 Apr 2010 Ahmadinejad, Clinton face off at U.N. nuclear meeting 12:02am EDT Movie Gallery to close all U.S. stores: report 02 May 2010 Johnson & Johnson's recalls infant, children's Tylenol, Motrin 02 May 2010 Thai "red shirts" ignore new government threats Orathai Sriring BANGKOK Mon May 3, 2010 2:56am EDT Factbox Factbox: Thailand's resilient "red shirts" movement 2:56am EDT Related Video Thai PM warns Bangkok protesters Sat, May 1 2010 "Yellow-shirts" protest in Bangkok < 1 / 23 > View Full Size BANGKOK (Reuters) - Anti-government protesters in the Thai capital showed no sign of leaving the city's main shopping district on Monday despite warnings of new "clashes and losses" during a two-month crisis that has already killed 27 people. World | Thailand Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva warned thousands of red shirted protesters there was a risk of further trouble if they did not leave the upscale Bangkok shopping district where they have been barricaded for a month. Speaking in parliament on Monday, he added the government hoped to avoid violence and resolve the impasse through talks. "The government and I are determined to seek reconciliation and we will not give up," he said. Abhisit is under intense pressure to end the two-month stalemate that has choked off tourism, paralyzed Bangkok, shut major department stores and stoked concerns of civil unrest. The finance minister said last week the protests could cut economic growth by 2 percentage points if they continued all year. Thailand's financial markets, closed for a market holiday on Monday, have underperformed regional peers since April 10, when the protest turned deadly with a gunbattle in the heart of old Bangkok that killed 25 people and wounded more than 800. Over the past month, the benchmark SET index lost 3.1 percent, compared with a 1.1 percent rise in Asia's markets outside of Japan, making Thailand the poorest performer in Asia as foreign investors sold about $155 million of Thai stocks. Last week the baht currency suffered its largest weekly loss since January. On Monday, thousands of the red-shirted supporters of ousted Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra remained in their 3 sq km (1.2 sq-mile) fortified encampment, continuing to demand parliament be dissolved and an election held within three months. The mostly rural and urban poor red shirts say Abhisit lacks a popular mandate after coming to power in a controversial parliamentary vote 17 months ago and heading a coalition cobbled together with help from the military. British-born Abhisit has rejected a red shirt proposal for an election in three months, saying he would not negotiate in the face of threats. He has offered to call an election in December, a year early. NEW PLAN TO EASE TENSIONS Government spokesman Panitan Wattanayakorn said on Sunday Abhisit had come up with a new plan to ease tensions, which would be clarified soon. A report in The Bangkok Post newspaper on Monday said Abhisit would bring forward his offer to dissolve parliament, but this could not be immediately confirmed. Authorities also plan to use mobile phone text messages to try and persuade the protesters to leave. "The government will send text messages to protesters to tell them about the situation and is hoping they will return home," Panitan told reporters. Asked by reporters if Abhisit had accepted that, Nattawut Saikua, a protest leader, said: "That's Abhisit's problem. If he wants to do anything, we're prepared for that." Some army commanders, including army chief Anupong Paochinda, are reluctant to use force because of the inevitable bloodshed. On some evenings, tens of thousands of protesters gather in the occupied shopping district, women and children among them. The red shirt demonstrators caused outrage when about 200 of them barged into a hospital grounds on Thursday, looking for soldiers they thought were there preparing an attack. Their leaders apologized and removed part of a barricade in the area to allow better access to the hospital. They moved the barricade back further on Sunday to let traffic flow to and from several hospital entrances. But this appears to have been their only concession. The hospital incursion raised concerns about how much control leaders have over their followers, particularly Major-General Khattiya Sawasdipol and the shadowy "black clad" paramilitaries who have appeared at flashpoints during the rally. The fault lines are widening between the establishment -- big business, royalists, the military brass and the middle classes -- and the protesters who broadly back Thaksin, who lives abroad to escape a jail sentence handed down for corruption. (Writing by Jason Szep; Editing by Raju Gopalakrishnan and Alex Richardson) World Thailand Comments See All Comments (4) | Post Comment May 02, 2010 10:34pm EDT ["From now on, what the government will do may risk clashes and losses, but the government knows what it's doing. What needs to be done must be done," Abhisit said in a weekly televised address on Sunday. It was not clear what he meant by "losses."] seriously the writters don’t know what was the PM meant by “looses”? international news medias has been blaming him for months without any correct background story. well, ruters and cnn seem to be a bit better fairer than bbc. anyway international medias justify him base on their fall conception of democracy and tweaked vision of urban and rural in thailand. result in his government too afraid to do what necessary to protect the city, the economic, the life of the people. when you all international media will learn to just report the news without your own prejudice? remember that what the red or the rural is asking is the return of thailand most corrupted PM and government. ask your self if that is democracy? who and what system are you supporting? see the freedom of press in thailand during thaksin and just it your self. one more is try to learn what the real local life style and way of thinking is. seek a deeper why in a country some people came from nothing and end up rich or middle class, but some came from wealthy to poor. there is a lot more reason by only simply say middle class taking advance of poor. that stupid, ok? learn more before you justify another people or you will end up showing off how little you know about it. blackout Report As Abusive May 02, 2010 10:45pm EDT Wake Up, the world! Red Shirt gave Thailand a bad press. They are terrorists comprise of three main groups of people:1) Previous Priminister-in-exile allies 2) People paid to join the mob and lastly, but sadly 3) poor, uneducated Thai people who used to get fish but never learn how to fish! I’ve been following the news published by western news websites…Sadly they reported “some facts” but rarely ” the truth”. Only small group of people gave Thailand a bad press. I hope it will be a tipping point of Thailand to grow out of the power in shadow. RedNeckBaby Report As Abusive May 02, 2010 10:55pm EDT “The fault lines are widening between the establishment — big business, royalists, the military brass and the middle class — and the protesters who broadly back Thaksin” that is also far from accurate. a lot of big business taking thaksin’s side. i bet you don’t know that thaksin got a lot of rich friends that completely took over thailand economic during thakins was a PM, and kill of all their rival business opposition and by that it kill off a lot of opportunity for smaller business to grow, right? anyone that believe in free world, free trade and think that you know it then learn what thailand was when thaksin was in power and tell what if that can call free world. the correct one should be “The fault lines are widening between the establishment — people who prefer a real democracy with out vote cheating, corruption and dictatorship — and the people that want to live under dictatorship, massive corruption for as long as they get pay or economically benefit from the ruler which is not conceptually democracy” remember that -rural doesn’t always mean poor. -in thailand urban don’t always take advance of poor, but the other way around is more common. -thaksin supporter is not poor. -anti-thaksin is not always rich or middlclass. -not ever anti-thaksin waring yellow. blackout Report As Abusive May 02, 2010 11:40pm EDT The fundamental problems in Thailand were the distribution of nation wealth within the country and the distribution of privileges and illicit wealth among the central elites, after all, Thailand is still regarded as a moderate to rampant corrupted country by major rating agencies, whoever the leader. The elites will accept military coup and any elected leader as long as they got their fair share of their privileges, nation and illicit wealth, Thaksin, a brown shirt turned business man before entering politic, do only the former and not the latter, was toppled in 2006 by the dark green shirt on charges of corruption and the easily and commonly used lèse majesté law, may be due to he has became more popular than the queen, prince and princess. Thaksin allies won the election after the coup, which attract immediate protest from the yellow shirt with occupation of government compound and 2 airports, the ruling party was later disbanded under the dark green shirt drafted constitution and replaced by the pro yellow shirt coalition. After gaining power, some yellow shirt figures believed that they can gain rural support by simply handing out sweets while some advocated a certain percentage of legislative members to be appointed with the reason that easy vote buying from the rural poor. The former has proved not working, the latter will not work either, while the rural poor vote can be bought cheaply, legislative member votes can also be bought, though at a higher price. The current government had lost the moral ground to prosecute and punish the red leaders who disrupted a regional summit last year and occupying financial district currently since no yellow member who occupied the government compound and two airports in 2008 is behind bar now and in the foreseeable future, and the newly formed multi color shirt members were allowed to demonstrate legally, either peaceful or clashes with red shirt under the current state of emergency in Bangkok. Unquestionably, it is a nation tragedy when the rule of law is written in color. It remain to be seen whether the red shirt complaint of encroaching the forest reserve by powerful elites will ever be investigated though there is a 2 years jail sentence awaiting for Thaksin. While peoples in the Land of Smiles were always forgiving, it must be done under the context of proper distribution of privileges and wealth above. The only way to avoid bloodshed or escalation into civil war is the King intervention with no sign in sight. Any military intervention may attract condemnation worldwide, though the US will has reservation, after all, the red shirts were viewed as socialist by the US, not to mention that they wore the same color and the fear that the uprising might develop into civil war or Maoist insurgency as seen in South Asia. With so many die hard color fans in Thailand, couple with the light green separatist movement in the south, the black “terrorists” and the orange monks taking side, to remain neutral, the colors for visitors to dress in Thailand are getting limited. Nude Report As Abusive See All Comments (4) Add a Comment *We welcome comments that advance the story directly or with relevant tangential information. 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