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EVENTS: Thailand: New clashes in Bangkok, negotiations stalled

 

Mobilization in Thailand continues. New clashes took place Monday, Dec. 2 in the morning in Thailand between police and thousands of opposition seeking to topple the government demonstrators. The clashes occurred after a meeting between the leader of the movement and challenged Yingluck Shinawatra Prime Minister.

"Yingluck has responded to anything (...) We maintain our plans. This will be done in two days, "and reported at the end of the meeting Suthep Thaugsuban, the leader of the protest still at large despite an arrest warrant for the occupation of the Department of Finance.

On Monday, the police again resorted to firing tear gas to defend

the seat of government under high protection, surrounded by concrete blocks and rolls of barbed wire, according to AFP reporters on the spot. Protesters threw for their projectiles at police, including bars.

Clashes also took place outside the headquarters of the Metropolitan Police, where many tear gas were fired, according to AFP reporters on site . On Monday, most universities in Bangkok were closed for security reasons. Fear of a return of Thaksin

At the heart of the anger of the protesters, motley alliance of conservative bourgeois family of the Democratic Party, the main opposition party, and ultra-royalist factions: a deep hatred of brother Yingluck Shinawatra First Minister, Thaksin Shinawatra. They accuse the billionaire thrown from his prime minister by a coup in 2006, to be always the real decision-making of government policy since his exile in Dubai.

The protest movement was caused by a draft amnesty law tailored according to the opposition, to allow the return of Thaksin, in exile to escape a prison sentence for embezzlement. Despite the rejection of the text by the Senate, the protesters were not disarmed. Sunday, there were about 70,000 demonstrators across Bangkok against nearly 180,000 there one week.

The escalation of tension for a month, which has turned a corner this weekend, extremely worried in a prompt countries to ignite. Several major shopping centers, one of which was burned during the 2010 crisis, were closed.

The last public appearance of the Prime Minister back to Saturday.

With news (AFP)