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Thousands of supporters of Thailand’s beleaguered government rallied in the capital Sunday afternoon, bringing a new and combustible element to a political stalemate that is edging closer to open violence. The demonstration was held the same day that 50 government opponents were injured when a grenade was fired into one of their protest sites in central Bangkok. Four people were seriously injured in the early-morning explosion in the prime minister’s compound, which has been occupied for months by anti-government forces. The government supporters, calling themselves the United Front of Democracy against Dictatorship, rallied in Bangkok and vowed to remain until anti-government demonstrators vacate the country’s main airports, which they seized last week. Analysts fear that if the red-shirted government supporters and the yellow-shirted anti-government People’s Alliance for Democracy (PAD) clash, there could be widespread violence. “The red-shirts have been fairly restrained,” said Thit
The supporters called off a protest planned for Saturday in the capital, Bangkok, to focus on rallying forces for the anniversary. “We have decided to postpone the (Saturday) rally to have one big one on Sept. 19 to commemorate the plight of Thailand since the coup three years ago,” Veera Musigapong , a protest organizer, told reporters. Thaksin was ousted in a bloodless coup on Sept. 19, 2006, after months of protests by his opponents. He was subsequently convicted in absentia of violating a conflict-of-interest law and sentenced to two years in prison. Since the coup, Thaksin has remained at the center of a long political crisis in Thailand and retains strong support among the urban and rural poor who benefited from his populist policies.
