Thai Anti-Government Protesters Vow to Seize Police Headquarters
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Thai protesters said they will seize Bangkok’s police headquarters today after failing to secure the facility yesterday, signaling their month-long effort to oust Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra may be losing momentum.
Protest leader Suthep Thaugsuban, a former deputy prime minister with the main opposition Democrat party, called for the police and civil servants to support the demonstrators. Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra said a demand to replace the government with an unelected council was “unimaginable” under the constitution, and called for talks to end a dispute that is damaging Southeast Asia’s second-largest economy.