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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 Thousands of Thai protesters defy deadline to leave AFP - Tuesday, May 18 Send IM Story Print BANGKOK (AFP) - – Thousands of protesters in the Thai capital defied a deadline to leave their fortified encampment Monday despite the threat of a crackdown after street clashes that left at least 35 people dead. A renegade Thai general allied with the anti-government Reds died in hospital, days after he was shot during an interview with a foreign reporter on the edge of the demonstrators' main rally base. The escalating violence has turned parts of the city into no-go zones as troops use live ammunition against protesters, who have blocked streets with burning tyres and fought back, mainly with homemade weapons. Related article: Thai protesters vow to remain in Bangkok base. Protesters were ordered to leave by 3:00 pm (0800 GMT) Monday. Authorities dropped leaflets from a small plane flying overhead asking people to evacuate the area, which remained calm soon after the deadline passed. Normally bustling streets in much of the capital almost emptied. Red Shirts were seen dancing and a Buddhist monk led prayers on the stage inside the rally site, where police said an estimated 5,000 people remained despite the threat of forced dispersal. Related article: Monks pray for peace "The operation (to disperse) will be executed as soon as possible," said Satit Wonghnongtaey, minister attached to the prime minister's office. He said the authorities would "do everything possible" to tell the Reds to leave, using television and radio messages, loudspeaker trucks and leaflets. Those who stay face two years in prison, the government said, warning also that their lives are at risk from "terrorist attack" at the rally site. Thai authorities said Sunday they would send the Red Cross to help evacuate the area of women, children and the elderly who wanted to leave. But there was no rush to leave the camp where men, children and women -- including a breast-feeding mother -- remained on Monday. Earlier in the day, behind a Red Shirt barricade on the edge of the camp Vinit Virangtong, 43, dragged a suitcase deeper inside the danger zone. "I'm staying here but I'm moving inside," he said. "The situation is now dangerous. They're shooting into here and it's not safe." Major-General Khattiya Sawasdipol, a key Red supporter known as Seh Daeng, died in hospital on Monday as the toll from three days of street violence hit 35 dead, excluding the general, and 244 injured, officials said. Related article: Renegade Thai general dies About 1,000 people attended a funeral for the slain general at a pagoda in the city's historic district. Some mourners wept as his body was carried in an open casket in his distinctive camouflage hat. The government has ordered schools not to reopen after summer holidays, and it declared two days of national holidays to keep civilians off the streets. Commuter train services were shut for the third straight day and large parts of the city -- including the Silom financial and entertainment district -- remained too risky to enter. Early Monday, guests at a luxury hotel in the city of 12 million people were forced to shelter in the basement after the building came under gunfire and was rattled by an explosion on the fringes of the Red camp. The Reds called Sunday for UN-mediated talks with the government, which swiftly rejected the idea, saying it was an internal matter. "Protesters must show good intention before negotiations by stopping demonstrations, rioting and attacks on security officials or civilians," said government spokesman Panitan Wattanayagorn. Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva has shelved a plan to hold early elections -- which the Red Shirts initially agreed to -- because the protesters refused to disperse. The Reds consider the government illegitimate because it came to power in a 2008 parliamentary vote after a court ruling ousted elected allies of their hero, telecoms tycoon turned former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra. Australia became the latest country to close its Bangkok embassy to visitors. The crisis has now left 66 people dead, including Seh Daeng, and about 1,700 wounded. Twenty-five people died in a failed army crackdown on April 10. 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