Thai protesters reach Asian summit hotel
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Thai protesters reach Asian summit hotel
AFP
The demonstrators were part of a group of about 1000 supporters of fugitive former premier Thaksin Shinawatra that gathered in the resort town of Pattaya shortly after the meeting with 15 foreign nations began. The main crowd briefly clashed with police before a smaller number forced their way through a group of soldiers deployed about 500 metres (yards) from the luxury hotel. Television footage had shown riot police and red-shirted protesters angrily pushing each other on a road leading to the hotel in the first major confrontation since mass protests began three days ago in Bangkok. The demonstrators shouted slogans against current premier Abhisit Vejjajiva who has resisted calls to step down and order early elections.
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Thai Protesters Move to Disrupt Summit
New York Times
It was not immediately clear whether the protesters would succeed in shutting down the 16-nation gathering in Pattaya a beach town 100 miles southeast of Bangkok. But red-shirted demonstrators swarmed nearly unchecked at the entrance to the hotel and conference center where the three-day meeting began on Friday morning. The protesters — chanting “Abhisit get out!” — were allies of the tens of thousands of other “red shirts” who have gathered in Bangkok to call for the resignation of Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva. Early in the afternoon in an unusual move the deputy prime minister Suthep Thueksuban emerged from the meeting and approached the swarm of angry protesters. “We’ve been waiting for you” a protest leader shouted through a megaphone from the back of a pickup truck. “If you resign the red shirts will stop protesting.
Protestors trap Thai PM inside beach hotel
AFP
The supporters of fugitive former premier Thaksin Shinawatra smashed the window of a vehicle carrying Abhisit as he escaped from the luxury resort in the coastal town of Pattaya where he had been holding a cabinet meeting. The clash stoked tensions a day before a mass rally in Bangkok where Thaksin loyalists have besieged Abhisit’s offices since March 26 and raised security fears ahead of a summit of Asian leaders in Pattaya on Friday. “There was a little incident that’s why I was a bit late” Abhisit who was unhurt told a special sitting of parliament later in Bangkok. The protesters want British-born Abhisit to dissolve parliament and call elections but he has said his four-month-old government must stay to resolve problems that have plagued Thailand since Thaksin was toppled in a 2006 coup.
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Thai police prepared to deal with protest leaders
Xinhua
At least 2000 pro-Thaksin “red-shirt” protesters besieged the Royal Cliff Beach Resort the venue of the 14th ASEAN Summits and Related Summits in Pattya. Deputy PM Suthep was seen heading to see protest leaders in order to negotiate reporters at the scene said. However no negotiation has taken place and Suthep was later seen retreating into the hotel. The summit is to begin on Friday evening with a working dinner.
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