1. Bangkok protesters challenge PM
Anti-government protesters calling for Thailand’s prime minister to step down launched a rally
in Bangkok today that authorities feared would grow into the biggest demonstration the country
has seen since she took office last year. The rally, which was expected to draw tens of
thousands of protesters, was mostly peaceful in its early stages. Police, however, fired tear gas
to disperse between 50 to 100 people who tried to break through a line of concrete barricades
erected on a street near the protest site. Earlier in the week premier Yingluck Shinawatra
ordered nearly 17,000 police to deploy and invoked a special security law, citing concerns that
the rally could turn violent. She also accused demonstrators of seeking to overthrow her elected
government. The demonstration underscores the still-simmering political divisions that have split
the country since the army toppled Ms Yingluck’s brother Thaksin Shinawatra in a 2006 military
coup. Today’s protest was organised by a royalist group calling itself Pitak Siam – Protect
Thailand. Led by retired army general Boonlert Kaewprasit, the group accuses Ms Yingluck’s
administration of corruption, ignoring insults to the revered…
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