Tens of thousands join red rally

Tens of thousands of people from across the country joined a pro-government rally on Saturday where leaders warned that the courts were trying to "take over power without elections".

 

Crowds built throughout the day along Aksa Road in Bangkok's Thawi Watthana district, where the red-shirt United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship (UDD) intends to mass until Monday. The event... has been billed as a last-gasp attempt to save the government of caretaker Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra, whose future appears likely to be decided by the courts within a few weeks.

As the red-shirts gathered, anti-government protest leader Suthep Thaugsuban was rallying supporters 20 kilometres to the east in Lumpini Park for a "final battle" - an expression he has used on several...
The propaganda war, meanwhile, has grown more intense. Crudely Photoshopped pictures surfaced on the internet yesterday of red-shirted marchers wearing traditional Burmese lungyi, with the suggestion that...

The movements led by Mr Suthep and UDD chairman Jatuporn Promphan have also been obsessed with the number of people each side can attract. One image tweeted widely on Saturday showed what appeared to be...

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