Caretaker prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra yesterday dismissed red-shirts’ rhetoric of a division of the country and asked them to exercise restraint, as Army chief Gen Prayuth Chan-ocha warned the country risked sliding into civil war due to the ongoing political rift.

Meanwhile, caretaker Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Surapong Tovichakchaikul turned to the United Nations for possible help with Thailand’s impasse.

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