Re: BANGKOK: More than 100K at 9pm. Many More Coming. JAMS 50km Long. ArbiSHIT SHITTI
By The Nation
May 12, 2010
Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva issued an ultimatum to the red shirts to leave the Rajprasong protest site by today after their failure to honour their commitment to end the protest despite Deputy Prime Minister Suthep Thaugsuban reporting to the Department of Special Investigation (DSI) yesterday as demanded by them.
The government would step up measures to force them to leave the areas and such measures might also affect people who live and do business there, he said.
"If they have sincerely accepted the road map for national reconciliation as announced earlier, the protesters should go home by May 12 and we can discuss other matters in detail later," Abhisit told reporters.
A government source said the Centre for Resolution of the Emergency Situation would cut power and water supply in the Rajprasong area to force the protesters to leave.
Red-shirt leader Jatuporn Promphan said the protesters would not comply with the government's ultimatum and would stay on until Suthep really 'surrendered' to the police.
"We are not afraid of such pressure. After the death of many protesters, nothing can stop the red people," he said. "How can we stop as the murderers are walking freely."
Power supplies to be cut by midnight : Sansern
By The Nation
May 12, 2010
Red shirts leaders on Wednesday claimed they are not shaken by the government's warning of severing food and water supplies at the Rajprasong rally site.
They told reporters that they have their own power generators which would work immediately after the power supplies were cut.
Weng Tojirakarn, a red shirts leader, said, "None of the red shirts are afraid of your threats to cut water and power. We will run at soldiers with our two bare hands even if they fire at us with assault rifles."
"We just want Suthep Thaugsuban to publicly surrender himself to police," he said from a stage in the sprawling rally site in the capital where several shopping centres and upscale hotels have been forced to close temporarily.
The authorities announced new measures to take effect by midnight Wednesday to make life tougher in the sprawling encampment, cutting off electricity and water supplies as well as telephone and transportation links.
Sansern Kaewkumnerd, spokesman of Emergency Operations Center, said Wednesday that the cut of power and food supplies as well as telephone and transportation links would be cut around midnight on Wednesday.
"The people living in this area will be affected as well as embassies," said Sunsern.
Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva has demanded the red shirts demonstrators leave the area on Wednesday, but the mainly poor and working class movement appeared in no mood to pack up and go home.
Protest leaders have vowed to continue their rally until deputy premier Suthep Thaugsuban surrendered to police, not Department of Special Investigation.
By The Nation
:( With more than 25 fatalities (never mind coloured affiliations)??!
