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Thaksin "red shirts" gather again in Bangkok
Sat Apr 25, 2009 8:56am EDT
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By Panarat Thepgumpanat
BANGKOK (Reuters) - About 3,000 supporters of exiled former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra gathered in Bangkok on Saturday for their first rally in the capital since violent street clashes two weeks ago.
Security was tight with 450 police monitoring the crowd of red-shirted protesters at Sanam Luang, a public square near Bangkok's Grand Palace.
"The protest is going well so far. No violence," Police Major General Suporn Pansuea told Reuters.
Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva ended a 12-day state of emergency in the capital on Friday, saying he wanted to foster reconciliation after the street clashes which killed two people and dented investor confidence.
"Lifting emergency rule doesn't mean the government will give up monitoring the situation," Abhisit told reporters on Saturday.
A leader of the pro-Thaksin United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship (UDD) said the rally would be peaceful and end around midnight.
"Our request is the same. We want the Prime Minister to quit," Somyos Prueksakasemsuk said.
The UDD plan more rallies in the provinces before returning to Bangkok for a large demonstration in May, he said.
Abhisit, who was elected in a December parliamentary vote with the help of former Thaksin allies, has refused to call an election analysts say his Democrat party would likely lose.
Instead, he has promised constitutional reforms as a way out of the political crisis, but there are doubts it will be enough to heal the deep political rifts in Thai society.
The crisis is a battle between the "yellow shirts" -- royalists, the military and urban, middle-class Thais who back Abhisit -- and the "red shirt" supporters of Thaksin, whose power base is mainly drawn from millions of rural and urban poor who loved his populist policies.
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The street violence two weeks ago was the worst Thailand had seen in 16 years, forcing the cancellation of a summit of Asian leaders. The volatile situation was compounded by an attempted assassination of "yellow shirt" leader Sondhi Limthongkul.
Thai media reported on Saturday police want to question five soldiers over a possible connection to the attack on Sondhi.
A senior police official denied the reports, which followed last week's confirmation by Thailand's army chief that some of the bullets used in the April 17 attack were from the military. Continued...
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