Ratchaprasong Red Shirts get Raucous
Thai Red-shirt activists pushed against the lines of police and soldiers positioned to prevent them leaving Ratchaprasong junction to stage protests on banned roads throughout Bangkok on Tuesday morning.
Demonstrators pushed and shoved and pelted police with eggs and plastic water bottles.
The short clash occurred around 11am near the Four Seasons Hotel, not long after extra riot police were installed in the business district.
Pressure was alleviated after police bowed to the United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship (UDD) leadership’s demand for safety personnel to move further away from the red-shirt rally at Ratchaprasong crossroads.
This followed conversations between UDD core figure Natthawut Saikua and Metropolitan Police Division 5 commandant Anuchai Lekbamrung. Police agreed to move back to a base near the Ratchadamri skytrain station. The skytrain operator proclaimed that the Ratchadamri station had been closed for the rest of the day.
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