Yellow Shirts to rally against reconciliation bill on May 30

BANGKOK, May 26 – The People’s Alliance for Democracy (PAD), or the Yellow Shirt movement, will gather next Wednesday in Bangkok to protest against the reconciliation bill which was set to be deliberated in the House of Representatives on that day.

The yellow-shirts move came as the House session is scheduled to consider on May 30 the reconciliation bill proposed by the 2006 coup leader Gen Sondhi Boonyaratglin, now MP and leader of Matuphum Party, amid criticism that the bill was crafted to benefit ousted ex-premier Thaksin Shinawatra rather than the general public.

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