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Peace activists call for another try at peace talks
The Nonviolence Network, led by prominent peace activist Gothom Areeya, and its allies Monday called for government and red-shirt leaders to hold informal negotiations after an earlier attempt to organise peace talks had failed.

Peace dialogue: by who and for whom?
Forget Thaksin, Abhisit, ammat (elite) and prai (grass-roots poor) for a while. The biggest reason why we need reconciliation is not that more and more Thais are wearing coloured shirts and going out to show their ideological stance. What tells us that our nation has gone dangerously too far is that when we don't have those shirts on, we are simply husbands and wives, brothers and sisters, parents and children, friends, relatives and co-workers.

Govt keen on truce
>> Abhisit appoints education minister, secretary to negotiate with red shirts >> Red leader Nattawut insists protesters will talk only with PM and ultimate goal is dissolution of Parliament

Artists create a gory message
Over 45,000 cubic centimetres of blood drawn from red-shirt protesters were used yesterday by artists to paint 70 metres of canvas with expressions of the red shirts' spirit and resolve to oust Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva and call on him to dissolve the House.

Police seek two Men with militarystyle haircuts
Grenades fired at Defence Ministry and anti-graft agency building site

88% want social justice to end conflicts
More than 88 per cent of respondents to a snap Abac Poll on Saturday support eradicating social injustice and double standards to end conflict in the country, according to results released yesterday.

ISA to remain to March 31 or later
The Cabinet will finalise security plans tomorrow following the government's decision the strict measures to contain the red-shirt rally should not be allowed to expire.

Flu case causes rally concerns
A TV reporter covering the red-shirt rally in Bangkok has come down with type-A(H1N1) influenza but is in safe condition.

Blood could have saves many lives
The 300,000 cubic centimeters (cc) of blood reportedly collected from over 70,000 red-shirt protesters last Tuesday, that was splattered at Government House, the Democrat Party head office, and Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva's residence, could have saved hundreds of patients at hospitals in Bangkok waiting for blood donations.

Red March in Photos
Animated photo galleries of the red-shirt march in Bangkok on Saturday

Red Signal
Portest leaders reject talks unless they are directly with PM

After the procession, it's back to square one
Thaksin Shinawatra has asked his supporters to stay on a little longer, but from the way things are going, the Bangkok showdown is looking more and more like a TV series whose script writers don't know how to end. When the red shirts regrouped at the Phan Fa Bridge yesterday evening after peacefully roaming Bangkok on thousands of vehicles, it was almost symbolically "back to square one".

The red shirts' nine-hour trek
Chronology of the march

'I miss my family' PM
Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva said yesterday that he longed to be with his family again and had slept only three to five hours a day since spending his nights at the Royal Guard's Infantry Regiment 11 base since March 12.

Red shirts buoyed by support
Many in capital's working and lower-middle classes clearly sympathetic

Disgruntled citizens complain
Police received some complaints yesterday from members of the public who were inconvenienced by the red shirts' procession while travelling on several roads in Bangkok, while a red-shirt protester was injured in an automobile accident during the march.

Natthawut brushes aside 'ammart' or 'phrai' discussion over Thaksin
Red-shirt co-leader Natthawut Saikua yesterday dismissed the question of whether Thaksin Shinawatra was an ammart (aristocrat) or a phrai (lowly peasant) by saying the fugitive ex-PM was of the same social class as the red shirts and his wealth and lavish lifestyle were not relevant.

Pheu Thai mulls non-cooperation
The opposition Pheu Thai Party is considering stepping up pressure on Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva to dissolve Parliament by ceasing to cooperate or refusing to participate in the legislature's functions.

Red shirts lap up urban support
Many in working- and lower-middle classes back movement

Show of force by red shirts
Tens of thousands of red-shirt protesters marched on several Bangkok streets Saturday, causing severe traffic congestions.

THAILAND NEWS 24 - Politic

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