BANGKOK, 23 September 2010 (NNT) – Defense Minister General Prawit Wongsuwan has dismissed any rumored attempt to orchestrate coup d’état during the current overseas mission of Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva in the US. Asked if any military coup d’état will be staged upon Prime Minister Abhisit’s visit to the US to participate in the UN […]
Former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, ousted in a 2006 coup and campaigning against his political opponents from abroad since, staged a meeting with seven Thai opposition leaders in Moscow, Kommersant reported. Thaksin discussed a new street protest in Bangkok that took place Sunday, a Thai lawmaker told the local Bangkok Post newspaper, the report […]
On the fourth anniversary of the coup today to oust the Thaksin government, we examine the price the country has paid in financial terms and democratic aspirations since the day the tanks rolled out. Four years on, the legacy of the coup to oust former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra lingers in a country where political […]
Thailand’s former prime minister will not press his demand to return to office, he indicated on Sunday as mass protests swept the country. On the fourth anniversary of the coup that ousted his democratically elected government, Thaksin Shinawatra pledged not to meddle in the country. Its politics have been paralysed by the division between pro-Thaksin […]
BANGKOK, Sept 18 — Nearly 2,000 police will be deployed around Ratchaprasong where anti-government ‘Red Shirt’ United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship (UDD) activists will conduct activities to mark the fourth month since government forces forcefully regained the area from the protesters. Eighty-nine persons were killed, and at least 1,900 were wounded during several confrontations […]
Trouble expected for protest anniversary Security is being stepped up at prisons where red shirt members are expected to turn up to demand the release of their leaders being held there. Chartchai Sutthiklom, director-general of the Corrections Department, said he has ordered security to be tightened at prisons, especially where red shirt leaders are held […]
Foreigners are warned by the US Embassy, Bangkok, to use caution in Bangkok and in and around Chiang Mai as the Red Shirts begin yet another demonstration which could turn violent as the 4th Anniversary of the ousting of Prime Minister Thaksin and the fourth month anniversary of the end of the Red Shirts protests […]
CHIANG MAI, Sept 15 – Anti-government protesters of the United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship (UDD) in the northern province of Chiang Mai, a major Red Shirt stronghold, on Wednesday promised a peaceful demonstration to mark the fourth anniversary of the September 19 coup which toppled prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra from power. Pichit Tamool, secretary […]
