.- About ten thousand supporters of anti-government front, known for red shirts, rallied today in Bangkok to demand the release of their leaders and denounce the policy of "double standards" of the Thai Government. The demonstration called by the United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship, began at the headquarters of the Criminal Court, where the leaders read a manifesto that called for the immediate release of the leaders of the "red shirts", so called by the color of the clothes they carry.
The authorities have detained 17 anti-government leaders face charges of terrorism, since they were arrested last year following the riots in May after more than two months of protests that showed a balance of 91 thousand dead and 800 wounded. The demonstrators marched peacefully after so-called Democracy Monument, located in the old part of Bangkok and a short distance from where the camping political rivals - the "yellow shirts" - for three weeks.
Several hundred "yellow shirts" followers of the People's Alliance for Democracy, nationalistic, conservative, surround almost the entire compound housing the government palace to protest against the foreign policy of the Executive with respect to neighboring Cambodia. The Alliance calls on the Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva to submit the resignation in response to the management of the border conflict with Cambodia, sparking clashes between their respective troops between days four and seven in February with the result of eight dead and some 30 000 displaced from the two countries.
"We wonder why the court grants probation to the leaders of the Front Alliance and continue to be held when the charges against each other are the same," said Jatuporn Prompam, one of the leaders of the political platform linked to Oposito Party Puea Thai. Police deployed a thousand troops from the riot squad in order to prevent outbreaks of violence during the protest, one more than the "red shirts" have done since last September when they resumed their campaign of harassment to the Government.
The Thai government weighs hold elections by mid-year, after this week parliament passed constitutional amendments that the prime minister considered essential before calling elections. The "red shirts" claim that their mobilization is the result of the neglect of the rural environment and consider that the present government is illegitimate because it came to power through parliamentary agreements with Members defectors. 
The authorities have detained 17 anti-government leaders face charges of terrorism, since they were arrested last year following the riots in May after more than two months of protests that showed a balance of 91 thousand dead and 800 wounded. The demonstrators marched peacefully after so-called Democracy Monument, located in the old part of Bangkok and a short distance from where the camping political rivals - the "yellow shirts" - for three weeks.
Several hundred "yellow shirts" followers of the People's Alliance for Democracy, nationalistic, conservative, surround almost the entire compound housing the government palace to protest against the foreign policy of the Executive with respect to neighboring Cambodia. The Alliance calls on the Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva to submit the resignation in response to the management of the border conflict with Cambodia, sparking clashes between their respective troops between days four and seven in February with the result of eight dead and some 30 000 displaced from the two countries.
"We wonder why the court grants probation to the leaders of the Front Alliance and continue to be held when the charges against each other are the same," said Jatuporn Prompam, one of the leaders of the political platform linked to Oposito Party Puea Thai. Police deployed a thousand troops from the riot squad in order to prevent outbreaks of violence during the protest, one more than the "red shirts" have done since last September when they resumed their campaign of harassment to the Government.
The Thai government weighs hold elections by mid-year, after this week parliament passed constitutional amendments that the prime minister considered essential before calling elections. The "red shirts" claim that their mobilization is the result of the neglect of the rural environment and consider that the present government is illegitimate because it came to power through parliamentary agreements with Members defectors.
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