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Tue, May 11 2010 Related Video Thai protesters make new demand Mon, May 10 2010 Thai govt awaits protesters' reply < 1 / 13 > View Full Size BANGKOK (Reuters) - The Thai military said it would cut off supplies on Wednesday to anti-government protesters camped out in downtown Bangkok and might ultimately use force to clear them if they did not pack up and leave. World It is not the first time the authorities have threatened tough action to break up crippling rallies that have dragged on for two months, and the immediate defiant response from the "red shirt" protesters suggested the stand-off would continue. "Please don't threaten us. Whatever measure you use, we are not scared," Weng Tojirakarn, a leader of the United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship (UDD) as the red shirts are formally called, told Reuters. The authorities are faced with the dilemma of how to dislodge thousands of protesters, including women and children, from the camp they have occupied for five weeks, which sprawls across 3 sq km (1.2 sq mile) of Bangkok's main shopping district. Thailand's finance minister said earlier that growth in Southeast Asia's second-biggest economy could be crimped by the unrest, which has scared off tourists and forced luxury hotels and upmarket malls to close. At midnight, the army would shut off power, cut supplies and seal entrances to the plush district where thousands of red shirts remain behind barricades of tires and bamboo staves, an army spokesman at the government's crisis control center said. "The measures to cut water and power are the first measures. If the protest does not end, we have to fully enforce the law which may involves using force to reclaim the area," said spokesman Sansern Kaewkamnerd. Thai stocks edged up after the announcement, reversing earlier losses. "The market initially reacted positively to this news although it remains uncertain how protesters will ultimately respond to military action," said Teerada Charnyingyong, a strategist at Phillip Securities. Severing supplies to the protest camp will present a huge logistical challenge -- the occupied area is crowded with hotels, embassies and high-end residential complexes, some of which are still operating. Attempts to intercept red shirt supplies could also risk clashes on the fringes of the area. "We are trying our best to avoid the use of force to prevent any casualties, which is why we came up with these initial measures, which include cutting off supplies and closing off routes into the area," said Sansern. EARLY ELECTION Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva offered an election on November 14 -- just over a year before one is due -- to try to end rallies that began in mid-March with a demand for an immediate poll. Twenty-nine people have been killed and more than 1,000 wounded in Thailand's worst political violence in 18 years. The protesters, mostly supporters of former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra who was ousted in a coup in 2006, have accepted the election date but are pushing other demands, in particular wanting a deputy prime minister to be charged over a bloody clash with troops in April in which 25 people died. Abhisit's tone has hardened in the past two days. Late on Tuesday he said the security forces needed to "take measures" quickly and the protesters had to leave on Wednesday. The protests are the latest installment in a political crisis that has festered since Thaksin's populist premiership, exposing deep divisions between the rural and urban poor who are the core of the red shirt movement and the Bangkok middle classes and traditional royalist elite. Finance Minister Korn Chatikavanij forecast the economy would grow 4.5 to 5.0 percent this year but said the unrest could shave 0.3 point off the range. Foreign investors have turned negative since violence flared in April and have sold 17.4 billion baht ($539 million) in Thai shares in the past five sessions, cutting their net buying so far this year to 21 billion baht as of Tuesday. At the protest site on Wednesday, where a ramshackle network of tents, trailers, food stalls and mobile toilets has spread across some of the capital's smartest streets, there was no sign of protesters packing up or greater security force activity. "They said they want reconciliation and they are threatening to cut off supplies," said Komsan Sukpradit, a 48-year-old red shirt guard who was patrolling the area after getting blessed by a chanting Buddhist monk. "It just shows they are not interested in making up. They will crush us given a chance and we can't let that happen." Sirinaj Jantoh, who works at a marketing agency in the area, said she feared the government's threat may escalate tension. "It's going to make it harder to come in to work," she said. "Maybe we will work from home for a while, especially if there is no power. I just hope the red shirts leave soon -- they have caused enough trouble already." (Additional reporting by Chalathip Thirasoonthrakul and Ploy Ten Kate in Bangkok and Lee Chyen Yee in Beijing; Writing by Alan Raybould and Alex Richardson; Editing by Nick Macfie) World Comments See All Comments (3) | Post Comment May 11, 2010 9:57pm EDT The Reds are a hopeless violent lot. They provoke the violence among themselves and it is almost a consensus among Bangkokians that the Reds leadership are willing to ’sacrifice’ the blood of thousands of their protesters for their dubious objectives. MattBkk Report As Abusive May 11, 2010 10:11pm EDT I have never saw something like that in my whole life,the city taken by demonstrators for months,the government with a new deadline everyday,i don’t thing so they know what does it means,last time the two airport taken by yellow shirt,now the upmarket district,probably the multicolored peoples would come next,cheers. car44los Report As Abusive May 11, 2010 10:13pm EDT I don’t understand the situation there although I wish I did. However, in a sense I feel that these protests from “red shirts” are fitting and justified, if only to give the “yellow shirts” a dose of their own medicine. The latter was also perfectly willing to disrupt society in order to dismiss a democratically elected government that they did not like. So, in a vindictive way, I’m rooting for the Red shirts. But in a practical way, the Red shirts are asking for trouble and may lead Thailand to a civil war. 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