Thai Protesters Spill
Blood On PM's House
Red
Shirts Protesters in Thailand have hurled plastic bags filled
with gallons of blood at the prime minister's house in Bangkok.
In a symbolic protest, security forces allowed a few of the
red-shirted demonstrators to splatter the blood outside the
compound of Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva.
The protesters have also picketed the US embassy, accusing US
intelligence of bugging deposed ex-PM Thaksin Shinawatra.
Demands
The opposition, many of whom back Mr. Thaksin, wants fresh
polls.
Red-shirt leaders and government figures have insisted they are
determined to keep the protests, the largest in recent years,
peaceful.
The demonstrators said Mr Abhisit's government was illegitimate
and should be dissolved.
The protest lead to the cancellation of a cabinet meeting
scheduled for Tuesday and a parliamentary hearing had also been
stopped for lack of a quorum.
The protesters say the present government was installed
illegally after Mr. Thaksin was ousted in a military coup in
2006 and two subsequent allied governments were deposed by court
action.
Mr. Abhisit has been staying at the headquarters of the 11th
Infantry Battalion in the north of Bangkok since the protests
began.
BBC/Williams/Yinka
