Thai Protesters Extend Blockade After Rejecting Poll Talks
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Thai anti-government protesters pledged to maintain a blockade of central Bangkok until Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra agrees to quit, rejecting an offer to discuss a postponement of elections scheduled for Feb. 2.
“We will not compromise on our demand for Yingluck to get out before the election,” Suthep Thaugsuban, a former member of the opposition Democrat Party, who is leading the protest, told supporters in Bangkok yesterday. “There are only two ways. We win and remove Yingluck, or we lose and go to jail.”