Thai Red Shirt protesters charge TV station

Sian Powell, Ladlumkaew & ,}

Thousands of anti-government protesters stormed a Thai heavenly body radio station and forced hundreds of soldiers and troops officers in demonstration rigging to retreat yesterday in the initial assault in some-more than a month of demonstrations written to force uninformed elections.

Protesters from the United Front for Democracy Against Dictatorship (UDD) converged on the Thaicom construction in Ladlumkaew, 40 miles (65km) north of Bangkok, on scooters and in vans and pick-up trucks.

They demanded that the report anathema on People TV, the handle channel that supports them, be lifted. The hire was shut off underneath a state of puncture that was spoken by the Government on Wednesday.

UDD protesters, ordinarily well known as Red Shirts, pushed on the gates and the coiled razor handle along the fringe of the grounds. The troops detachment dismissed teargas at the crowds, forcing most to retreat.

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They shortly returned, however, to play rocks and half-spent teargas canisters back at the ranks of soldiers. They fast pennyless by the barricades and threw themselves opposite the security forces.

Discarded troops apparatus helmets, demonstration shields and shin pads was shortly submerged in the pool in front of the Thaicom building, tongue-tied sworn statement to a battle that seemed to be over in a make a difference of minutes. Later triumphant Red Shirts hold weapons higher in a impetus by the grounds.

Lines of troops officers and soldiers, a small bandaged and a small barefoot, began trudging by the crowds.

Their fast better lifted the subject of their eagerness to do conflict with the Red Shirts, who appeared to be armed with small some-more than determination. Certainly the Thai Government has shied afar from a approach confrontation with the protesters, preferring to concede them to sojourn on one of Bangkoks budding selling areas, where they have been camped given the weekend.

Polly Karakate, a 49-year-old helper and Red Shirt from Bangkok, pronounced that she was confounded by the assault of both sides yesterday, but referred to that any lingering fright that the demonstrators had of the security forces had disappeared. We are not fearful of them, she said. We are rebuilt to die for democracy in Thailand, all of us are rebuilt to die.

The Red Shirts, often representing the farming bad of Thailands north and northeast, wish Abhisit Vejjajiva, the Thai Prime Minister, to renounce and his Government to be dissolved. They contend that the statute bloc won energy illegitimately and, instead, await the suspended and banished former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra. They have called for an election.