Thailand Government Rejected the Red Shirt’s Ceasefire
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So far the fighting in Thailand has killed at least 31 people, all civilians, and wounded 230.The government rejected the hopes of a compromise to end fighting and demands for U.N.-supervised talks.
A red shirt leader, Nattawut Saikua, called for a ceasefire and U.N. moderated talks to end the violence that began on Thursday evening with an attempted assassination on a renegade general advising the red shirts, who was shot in the head.
“We cannot retreat now,” Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva said in a televised statement, encapsulating the government’s all-or-nothing campaign to end two months of protests seeking to topple his fragile, ruling six-party coalition.
“We have no other condition. We do not want any more losses,”the red shirt leader told supporters.
But the government swiftly dismissed the offer. “If they really want to talk, they should not set conditions like asking us to withdraw troops,” said Korbsak Sabhavasu, the prime minister’s secretary-general.
As fighting raged in two areas of the city of 15 million people, residents hoarded food at supermarkets, stayed indoors or fled to escape neighborhoods transformed into battlegrounds.
“Rejection of any ceasefire talk is very ominous,” said political scientist Vienrat Nethito at Chulalongkorn University. “This pretty much guarantees fighting will continue and the city will be even closer to the brink of civil war.”
The most severe fighting took place in the Bon Kai area of Rama IV, a major artery to the business district. Troops and snipers fired semi-automatic weapons as protesters hurled petrol bombs and burned kerosene-soaked tires to camoflauge themselves.Intense gun shots and explosions were heard well into the night on Sunday. A commercial building on Rama IV was ablaze.
As Bangkok braced for more unrest, many residents hoarded food and other supplies from grocery stores.
“We don’t know how much longer this nightmare is going to last and how far it will spread,” said Panna Srisuwan, a Bangkok resident waiting in line at a supermarket. “I am stocking up for the rest of the week.”Some wounded protesters were taken to hospital on the back of motorcycles, witnesses said, as medical rescue workers stayed clear of some of the most violent clashes after two were killed.
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