in clashes in Bangkok between protesting government opponents and the police are injured.
case of protests by government opponents in Bangkok on Tuesday there have been clashes between demonstrators and security forces. Several thousand opposition supporters broke through barriers in the Thai capital. Police officers and soldiers with eggs and plastic bottles pelted. With the explosion of a grenade in front of the headquarters of the party of the Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva in Bangkok two policemen were injured.
A spokesman for Abhisit Democratic Party (DP) announced that the Prime Minister during the explosion was not in the building. The DP celebrated on Tuesday the 64th Anniversary of its founding. She is heading a fragile coalition government. Supporters of ousted in 2006 and now exiled former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra demand since 14 March with mass protests to topple Prime Minister Abhisit.
On Monday, the opposition supporters had ignored a request by the police, to vacate the occupied by them business center in Bangkok.
"We will give the government a lesson - that every street belongs to the people," said one of their leaders, Nattawut Saikua. The government has banned protests in eleven major roads. In several places in Bangkok were on Tuesday morning compared to up to a thousand demonstrators and as many security forces. Luxury hotels then barricaded their entrances.
assured the government that the conflict should be resolved peacefully. Previously, business leaders had demanded an end to the protests and warned against a loss for the retail and the tourism industry. Interested in the quarter the capital of local companies quantified their losses in the wake of continuing protests for weeks to around 21 million euros (900 million baht). Several large shopping centers had to remain closed again on Tuesday, luxury hotels, reported more and more tourists checked out because of the protests.
The protesters accuse the current government leader Abhisit that he was illegally using the armed forces and had influential persons from the ruling class in power. You want to stop their protests until resigns Abhisit and it immediately comes to elections.
Given the continued tense political situation in Thailand warned the Austrian Foreign Ministry against a heightened security risk for the greater Bangkok area. Despite the peaceful nature of the demonstrations so far the extra-parliamentary opposition ("redshirts") in Bangkok could not be ruled out acts of violence, it said on Tuesday on the website of the Ministry. Austrian citizens are advised to obey orders of the security forces follow to avoid crowds and media coverage to follow closely.
