BANGKOK (Reuters) - "Red shirt" protesters broke through security forces and entered the grounds of Thailand's parliament on Wednesday as they stepped up pressure on the government to call elections, a Reuters reporter said.
The protesters pushed through a thin line of riot police, who retreated. The demonstrators did not immediately try to get inside parliament. Ministers had met there earlier but then left the building, the reporter said.
A supporter of former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra waves a Thai national flag and a flag with an image of revolutionary leader Che Guevara during a rally in the main shopping district of Bangkok April 6, 2010. (REUTERS/Sukree Sukplang)
(Reporting by Kitiphong Thaicharoen; Writing by Alan Rayboulod)
The protesters pushed through a thin line of riot police, who retreated. The demonstrators did not immediately try to get inside parliament. Ministers had met there earlier but then left the building, the reporter said.
A supporter of former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra waves a Thai national flag and a flag with an image of revolutionary leader Che Guevara during a rally in the main shopping district of Bangkok April 6, 2010. (REUTERS/Sukree Sukplang)
(Reporting by Kitiphong Thaicharoen; Writing by Alan Rayboulod)
