- Firefighters trying to put out a fire on a bus that have set a light on the street of Bangkok.
- By: BangkokPost.com
- Published: 14/04/2009
Two red-shirt core leaders, Veera Musikhapong and Suporn Uttawong, surrendered to police on Tuesday after they told protesters to disperse.
Mr Veera and Mr Suporn are leaders of the United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship (UDD), the major support group in Thailand for convicted former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra, who fled to exile,
The two contacted police and asked to be picked up at Misakawan intersection, near Government House where the red-shirts have been camped out since March 26.
Their surrender was disrupted briefly as some supporters tried to stop them.
Their arrest followed their announcement that the protest had ended for now and their followers should disperse after days of rioting in the capital. Troops dispersed the rioters in several violent clashes in Bangkok on Monday.
Troops then surrounded the remaining 2,000 protesters at Government House overnight and made plans to disperse them.
Another core UDD leader, Arisman Pongruangpong, was arrested after the invasion of the Asean summit venue at Pattaya on Saturday.
2 comments:
To Thais:
Don't laugh at your neighboring countries anymore, especially Cambodia.
I just saw a sign of dictatorship in yours too.
At last, the King that all of you respect showed his flaw these days!!
There might be a peasant revolution in Thailand because the Establishments- the army, the police, the courts and the bureaucrats plus the king gang up against the rural people- the pro-Thaksin red shirt group. Revolution always started by the poor peasant's uprising.
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