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Thousands of Thai anti-government protesters overtook Bangkok's Democracy Monument on Wednesday (October 14), in a symbolic move in their fight for democracy. Earlier in the day they had faced off ...
Anti-government protesters took to the streets of Bangkok, Thailand, on August 7.This footage, posted on August 7 by Twitter user Franc Han Shih, shows riot police walking through the city.Local ...
Thousands of anti-government protesters filled Bangkok's streets Saturday for the fourth day straight, leading to a mass shutdown of the city's transit system. ... Protesters are calling for the ...
One Bangkok Post columnist wrote that republican sentiment has never been stronger in Thailand, [336] while another opined that the 19 September 2020 protest was a critical juncture for the movement, with the protesters needing to broaden their agenda again to wider societal reforms if it were to succeed. [123]
Voting was disrupted in areas of Bangkok and southern Thailand by PDRC protesters blocking entry to polling stations, leading to an annulment of the result by the Constitutional Court. [31] Sporadic violence, including shootings, bomb attempts and grenades thrown at protesters led to 28 deaths and over 800 injuries during the course of the ...
The 2010 Thai political protests were a series of political protests that were organised by the United Front for Democracy Against Dictatorship (UDD) (also known as "Red Shirts") [3] in Bangkok, Thailand from 12 March–19 May 2010 against the Democrat Party-led government.
Protest suppression measures were enacted, and security was increased throughout the nation. Despite the government's warnings, the UDD did not protest the verdict, but instead announced that they would hold a large-scale protest in Bangkok on 14 March calling for elections. Abhisit increased security measures to suppress 14 March protests.
Thai authorities have summoned university chancellors to order them to prevent students from demanding monarchy reform and to draw up lists of student protest leaders, warning that student demands could lead to violence, specifically referencing the Thammasat University Massacre of student protesters by far-right paramilitary groups and the 1992 Black May massacre by the Thai military. [1]