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News Source: IRIN
| about 1 year ago
An estimated 1,500 police mobilised to disperse demonstrators of the People's Alliance for Democracy (PAD) on 7 October, firing tear gas at the protesters, who had laid siege to the Parliament since 6 October. The PAD is now in its fourth month of...
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News Source: Inquirer.net
| about 1 year ago
Thailand on Tuesday deployed troops to quell anti-government protests in Bangkok that left at least one woman dead and 278 people hurt as months of political turmoil boiled over into violence, officials said. "One woman protester died here. We don't...
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News Source: Sify News
| about 1 year ago
Thousands of followers of the Thailand's People's Alliance for Democracy (PAD) surrounded the Parliament on Tuesday, forcing the Prime Minister to flee the compound by helicopter, after police failed to disperse the anti-government protestors with...
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News Source: CNN
| about 1 year ago
A deputy prime minister who was charged with negotiating with the demonstrators resigned over the crackdown. The protesters first prevented lawmakers from entering Parliament to hear newly sworn-in Prime Minister Somchai Wongsawat give his first...
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News Source: The Star
| about 1 year ago
Thai riot police clashed Tuesday with thousands of protesters who barricaded Parliament and vowed to block the government from leaving, a bold new tactic that intensified a six-week political crisis. More than 100 people were wounded including two...
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News Source: Al Jazeera
| about 1 year ago
Thailand's deputy prime minister has resigned following a day of clashes between police and protesters that left at least 69 people injured, some of them seriously. Chavalit Yongchaiyudh, himself a former prime minister, said in his resignation...
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News Source: International Business Times
| about 1 year ago
Prime Minister Somchai Wongsawat opened the parliamentary session after a 90-minute delay despite a boycott by the opposition Democrat Party, which said it objected to the government's use of force in clearing protesters outside the building. Somchai...
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News Source: The Courier-Mail
| about 1 year ago
ome protesters were badly hurt, including two men who had part of their legs blown off by exploding gas canisters when police moved to clear a path through the barricades for Prime Minister Somchai Wongsawat. The protesters from the People's Alliance...
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News Source: The Australian
| about 1 year ago
Thailand's parliament building today, after police fired tear gas in an attempt to disperse them. Emergency generators quickly kicked in after a short black-out in the assembly room and Senate building, an AFP reporter at the scene said. About 1,000...