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Red Shirts Flex Muscle, Call for End to Dictatorship, Demand Elections
Thai Red-shirt activists will congregate outside a military garrison on Monday to demand the government’s reply on their demands that the government disband the House by noon or face mass protests in the capital.
United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship (UDD) co-leader Natthawut Saikua said on [...]

Red Shirts Rally
The red shirted United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship on Sunday issued an official declaration from the main stage at Phan Fa bridge insisting that the government disband the House of Representatives within 24 hours or expect giant street demonstrations.
The statement, read by UDD leader Veera Musikhapong, said that from the time when [...]

Rumored Arrest of Red Shirt Leader
Bangkok Police were issued a warrant on Saturday to take into custody a leading red shirt organizer on charges of inciting violence.
Unconfirmed accounts said Arisman Pongruangrong was detained Saturday afternoon and under arrest at an unnamed police station.
Mr Arisman is alleged to have said earlier this week that every shirt [...]

Red Shirts on the March to Bangkok
Thai Red-shirt followers of the United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship (UDD) from all over the nation are departing their places of origin to come together in the Bangkok and unite with the giant anti-government gathering on Sunday.
Many Thousands of motor vehicles carrying UDD followers from the Northeast and [...]

Thaksin Sends SMS and Twitters to Followers
Thailand’s convicted former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra has sent out an SMS message to his followers asking them to join in the mass anti-government protest rally this weekend by the United front for Democracy against Dictatorship (UDD) in Bangkok.
The UDD plans a giant public meeting in Bangkok this weekend, [...]

Thaksin Family Leaves Thailand
Former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra’s immediate family has gone or is departing the country ahead of this weekend’s rally by followers of the exiled elected leader who was removed by a military takeover more than three years ago.
His former wife Potjaman na Pombejra and their son left for Hong Kong on [...]

Internal Security Act to be Enforced in Bangkok
The Thai Prime Minister’s cabinet on Tuesday concurred on a decision to bring into play the Internal Security Act (ISA) from March 11-23 to deal with with the United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship’s (UDD) giant protest assembly, as advocated by the security monitoring commission, acting government spokesman [...]

Monks to Join Red Shirt Rally
Thailand’s opposition Red-shirt leader Arisman Pongruangrong has asserted that about 20,000 Buddhist monks will join the rally organized by the Democratic Alliance Against Dictatorship next week.
The monks will supply a morale enhancement to the red shirts, he said, and will pray and chant so the protesters can defeat the evil [...]

Monks Told not to Monkey in Politics
Thai Monks should not become involved in the planned mass anti-government gathering next weekend as it is not their affair, Deputy Prime Minister managing safety Suthep Thaugsuban said on Friday.
United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship (UDD) core figure Arisman Pongruangrong previous has said Buddhist monks will unite in the [...]