While the number of protesters was far from their peak of the past few years, the yellow shirts provided all the other ingredients for a deja vu when they returned to their familiar spot near Government House yesterday.

In fact, the Abhisit government must have felt something eerily familiar as it suggested it was not taking the seemingly peaceful protest for granted.

As big TV projectors sprang up, cooks started working and the sounds of “clappers” in the Makkhawan Bridge area revived old memories, government leaders immediately rejected the three main demands of the People’s Alliance for Democracy (PAD) concerning Thailand’s territorial conflicts with Cambodia.

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