Thai farmers protest elite, clash with riot police!

Thai protesters clash with riot police

BANGKOK — Thousands of anti-government demonstrators clashed with Thai police and military troops trying to prevent them from leaving from the capital's commercial district Tuesday to stage protests
elsewhere in Bangkok.

The demonstrators pushed against police lines and pelted the riot squads with eggs and plastic water bottles along a tree-lined boulevard near the Four Seasons Hotel.

Protest leaders have defied a government order to vacate the commercial heart of Bangkok as they try to pressure Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva to
relinquish power. They vowed Tuesday to stage convoys through 11 main
city roads the administration has declared off-limits to them.

"We will teach the government a lesson — that every road belongs to the people," said one of the protest leaders, Nattawut Saikua.

The government in turn restated that it wanted to solve the crisis peacefully.

"Under the current climate, many citizens wouldn't want violence to take place or confrontation. And we've been mindful of that concern. It's the
direction that informed our actions," government spokesman Panithan
Wattanayakorn said as the clashes began.

Meanwhile, business leaders have called for an end to the crisis, predicting even greater shocks to the economy and tourism if it persists.

More than a dozen shopping malls were set to close their doors for the fourth day in Bangkok's luxury shopping district, which includes five-star hotels
like the Four Seasons, the Hyatt and InterContinental. Guests at the
hotels there were checking out in greater numbers.

"The protests have hit thousands of entrepreneurs as well as their staff and employees because (the area) is a prime shopping and tourist location,"
said a joint statement by three leading business associations in the
district, which estimated losses in the area since the occupation began
at up to 900 million baht ($28 million).

The "Red Shirt" protesters, mostly farmers from impoverished provincial areas who have characterized their movement as a class war against the Bangkok elite,
have sworn not to let up their pressure until Abhisit steps down and
calls new elections. Abhisit has offered to call elections by the
year's end, but the protesters want quicker action.

The movement — known formally as the United Front for Democracy Against Dictatorship — contends that Abhisit came to power illegitimately in the years after
ex-Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra was removed in a 2006 coup on
corruption allegations. The group is made up largely of Thaksin
supporters and pro-democracy activists who opposed the putsch.

So far, the government has refrained from using force against them despite pressure from segments of the Bangkok population fed up by business
losses and disruption to daily life.

Allies of Thaksin — whose policies of cheap health care and low-interest village loans benefited the rural poor from which many of the protesters are drawn — won the
first elections after the coup but two resulting governments were
forced out by court rulings. A parliamentary vote brought Abhisit's
party to power in December 2008. The Red Shirts say his rule is
undemocratic and that only new elections can restore integrity to Thai
democracy.

Abhisit must call new elections by the end of 2011, and many believe Thaksin's allies are likely to win — which could spark protests by Thaksin's opponents.

Thaksin, a multimillionaire convicted in absentia on corruption-related charges, is a fugitive abroad and encourages the Red Shirts with frequent messages. His six
years in office were riddled by accusations of nepotism and an erosion
of democratic institutions..

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