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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: Thai army cracks down on protesters Reuters - 1 hour 49 minutes ago By Martin Petty ADVERTISEMENT BANGKOK - Thai troops fired repeatedly into the air in Bangkok on Monday after anti-government protesters torched a bus at a main junction, forcing the demonstrators to pull back, a Reuters reporter said. When troops tried to put the bus blaze out with a water cannon, the protesters threw a volley of five or six fire-bombs at them, and the soldiers advanced in response to that. The clashes, two days after protesters forced a cancellation of an Asian summit, have undermined confidence in the government and dealt another blow to the image of an economy already reeling from last year's political chaos and the global financial crisis. "I believe the darkest days in Thailand's history are yet to come, as we see no swift solution to ongoing divisiveness," said Prinn Panitchpakdi, a CLSA Asia-Pacific analyst. Bangkok Medical Centre director Peeraphong Saicheau said 77 people were injured in clashes at the junction, which began just before dawn. Two civilians and two soldiers had gunshot wounds. A number of protesters had been arrested, said Army spokesman Colonel Sansern Kaewkamnerd. Sansern said the fracas began when troops in vehicles with loudspeakers asked the red-shirted protesters to lift a blockade they have maintained for days at Din Daeng junction. The junction is a crucial part of Bangkok's traffic system, although Monday is the start of a three-day holiday for the Thai New Year and many people have already left for the provinces. Financial markets are shut until Thursday because of the holiday. Troops had rolled up water cannon and demonstrators had covered the road in petrol, apparently threatening to set it ablaze if troops moved in -- which they did when the "red shirts" set the bus ablaze. Protesters had commandeered an LPG tanker near the junction. "We won't leave. We want real democracy," said one "red shirt" standing at the junction where protesters had driven six public buses to create a roadblock. "We're not scared of the army," said the man who gave his name as Wi. But the Reuters reporter said troops succeeded in pushing the protesters out of the Din Daeng junction, chasing after them and firing into the air. Soldiers detained several protesters, stripping them of their red shirts. SMOKE RISING Fires blazed in the street and plumes of smoke rose from burning tyres during the morning standoff between troops and protesters. Ambulances and firetrucks were on standby. A Buddhist monk with a megaphone stood in the intersection pleading for calm and telling the soldiers: "Don't shoot, think about your country." Police on motorbikes shuttled between troops and demonstrators to mediate. Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva declared a state of emergency in Bangkok on Sunday after red-shirted supporters of former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra forced the cancellation of the Asian summit in the southern beach resort of Pattaya. Thaksin's supporters say Abhisit only became premier last December because of parliamentary defections the army engineered. They want new elections, which they would be well placed to win. Several thousand "red shirts" were encamped at Government House, about 4 km from Din Daeng junction, where they have been demonstrating for nearly three weeks. Their numbers have shrunk considerably from around 40,000 on Sunday night and busloads were seen leaving to reinforce the Din Daeng blockade, Reuters reporters at the scene said. Abhisit urged the protesters at Government House to leave, guaranteeing their safety. "I would like to give assurance that the government will provide safety for citizens who wish to leave the rally,' he said in a televised statement on Monday. "This is important in helping the authorities achieve their objectives to resolve the situation and other problems to the best of their ability." Train services were cancelled in the north of the capital where the trouble was. Abhisit had threatened on Sunday to take tough action against the protesters. He had been humiliated before his Asian peers when the "red shirts" bowled over riot troops at the summit in Pattaya and smashed their way into summit venue. Some leaders had to be evacuated by helicopter. Thaksin, who has been making nightly phone calls to his supporters from his place of exile, told protesters at Government House on Sunday night he was ready to move back to Thailand to lead a people's uprising if there was a coup. Thailand has seen 18 coups since 1932 and another one is certainly a possibility if there is blood in the streets. The chaos in the capital is bound to further hit the tourism sector, one of Thailand's biggest foreign exchange earners, and several countries have already warned against travelling there. "What we'll watch now is to see how unstable the situation becomes, and try to figure out what the lasting impact will be, mainly on investment in the economy, both domestic and foreign, because continued unrest would be bad for domestic investors to put their money at risk as well as foreign investors," said Thomas Byrne, senior vice president and regional credit officer for Moody's in Singapore. 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