New ultimatum for Bangkok protest

Thai authorities have set an ultimatum to protesters camped in Bangkok since March, calling on women and the elderly to leave the camp by Monday afternoon.

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Thai authorities have set an ultimatum to protesters camped in Bangkok since March, calling on women and the elderly to leave the camp by Monday afternoon. The Red Cross has been asked to help coax people out of the camp, where protesters are calling on PM Abhisit Vejjajiva to resign. New ultimatum for Bangkok protest One protest leader said Thailand was close to "civil war" after clashes with soldiers killed at least 25 people. Several hundred protesters are gathering in another part of the city. Soldiers have taken up positions beside a road leading to the camp, where witnesses say they are firing live rounds, apparently targeting anyone who comes near them. Abhisit has postponed the new school term in the city for a week, but a planned curfew has been cancelled. Thai television has shown footage of women and children leaving the protest site. The fighting flared on Thursday as the army moved to isolate a fortified protest camp. Thousands of people who say Abhisit came to power undemocratically remain behind makeshift barricades of rubber tyres, sandbags and bamboo stakes in the Ratchaprasong commercial district. The protesters are known as red-shirts, after the colour they have adopted. They want the prime minister to step down to make way for new elections. Red-shirt leaders have been calling for reinforcements, but protesters coming from elsewhere in the country have been unable to breach the military cordon, and are congregating nearby. Several hundred red-shirt suppporters have gathered around a mobile stage set up in central Bangkok's Klong Toey area, and protest leaders have called for a rally at another mobile stage in the north of the city.

New ultimatum for Bangkok protest

One protest leader said Thailand was close to "civil war" after clashes with soldiers killed at least 25 people.

Several hundred protesters are gathering in another part of the city.

Soldiers have taken up positions beside a road leading to the camp, where witnesses say they are firing live rounds, apparently targeting anyone who comes near them.

Abhisit has postponed the new school term in the city for a week, but a planned curfew has been cancelled.

Thai television has shown footage of women and children leaving the protest site.

The fighting flared on Thursday as the army moved to isolate a fortified protest camp.

Thousands of people who say Abhisit came to power undemocratically remain behind makeshift barricades of rubber tyres, sandbags and bamboo stakes in the Ratchaprasong commercial district.

The protesters are known as red-shirts, after the colour they have adopted.

They want the prime minister to step down to make way for new elections.

Red-shirt leaders have been calling for reinforcements, but protesters coming from elsewhere in the country have been unable to breach the military cordon, and are congregating nearby.

Several hundred red-shirt suppporters have gathered around a mobile stage set up in central Bangkok's Klong Toey area, and protest leaders have called for a rally at another mobile stage in the north of the city.

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