.- Thousands of supporters of the United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship, known as the "redshirts" gathered in Bangkok today amid tight security on the first anniversary of protests that ended with serious disturbances in the heart of the capital. Some 90 people died and more than 800 thousand were injured in street clashes and military demonstrators held between April and May last year.
The first followers of anti-government platform started coming around Democracy Monument where they remain until tomorrow at noon, announced one of their leaders, Jatuporn Prompan. About three thousand 500 policemen were deployed in the area to watch a demonstration that the red shirts waiting to be the biggest crowd since the riots of last year.
"The police expected to have more than 40 thousand protesters but do not expect that there is violence," said national police spokesman, General Prawut Thavornsiri. The festive tone of the recent demonstrations took it a more solemn remembrance of those killed and injured in the riots of April and May.
The demonstrators gathered in front of the Monument of Democracy where he set a stage and through several screens which are expected to intervene through videoconference and exiled former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra. During the protest is expected that seven leaders of the "red shirts", jailed in May and released on parole on February 22, involved to tell their experiences in prison.
Also expected to attend three other leaders who surrendered yesterday to the Special Investigation Department and were released after undertaking not to provoke violence. This is the security chief of the platform, Aree Krainer, who is facing terrorism charges, the writer and singer Wisa Kanthap Paijit Aksornnarong, both charged with instigating the protests.
The anti-government group says its mobilization is the result of the neglect of rural areas and believes that the current government of Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva, is illegitimate because it came to power through parliamentary agreements with members instead of defecting to the polls.
Most of the "red shirts" hopes for the return of Thaksin Shinawatra, ousted in a military coup in 2006 and charged in absentia to two years in prison for a corruption case in 2008. 
The first followers of anti-government platform started coming around Democracy Monument where they remain until tomorrow at noon, announced one of their leaders, Jatuporn Prompan. About three thousand 500 policemen were deployed in the area to watch a demonstration that the red shirts waiting to be the biggest crowd since the riots of last year.
"The police expected to have more than 40 thousand protesters but do not expect that there is violence," said national police spokesman, General Prawut Thavornsiri. The festive tone of the recent demonstrations took it a more solemn remembrance of those killed and injured in the riots of April and May.
The demonstrators gathered in front of the Monument of Democracy where he set a stage and through several screens which are expected to intervene through videoconference and exiled former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra. During the protest is expected that seven leaders of the "red shirts", jailed in May and released on parole on February 22, involved to tell their experiences in prison.
Also expected to attend three other leaders who surrendered yesterday to the Special Investigation Department and were released after undertaking not to provoke violence. This is the security chief of the platform, Aree Krainer, who is facing terrorism charges, the writer and singer Wisa Kanthap Paijit Aksornnarong, both charged with instigating the protests.
The anti-government group says its mobilization is the result of the neglect of rural areas and believes that the current government of Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva, is illegitimate because it came to power through parliamentary agreements with members instead of defecting to the polls.
Most of the "red shirts" hopes for the return of Thaksin Shinawatra, ousted in a military coup in 2006 and charged in absentia to two years in prison for a corruption case in 2008.
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