Flashermac Posted February 19, 2014 Report Share Posted February 19, 2014 Caretaker Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra and her entire caretaker cabinet ministers cancelled their scheduled meeting at her temporary office inside the Office of the Defense Ministry’s Permanent Secretary citing the mass protest as main reason. The grounds were crowded with almost ten thousand farmers and anti-government protesters who arrived at 11 a.m. and gathered in front demanding to meet her. Anti-government protesters were led by all the core leaders of the People’s Democratic Reform Committee (PDRC), led by Suthep Thaugsuban. Barbed wire defense was erected and guarded by soldiers. As angry farmers waited outside in the heat of the daylight sun, anger grew when nobody come out to meet them. They shouted to see her immediately. But before the situation went out of control, a spokesman of the Office of the Permanent Secretary, Maj-Gen Surachart Jitjaeng, said the caretaker prime minister had called off the meeting because of the mass protest and that her presence could bring inconvenience to the host. Angry farmers then shouted and cursed her. Meanwhile, PDRC co-leader Sathit Wongnong-toei spoke through a loudspeaker to call on the Office of the Permanent Secretary to appoint a representative with authority to meet their leader, Suthep Thaugsuban. He said the PDRC leader wanted to clarify the intention of the protesters to eliminate all the Thaksin regime and would return after the clarification. Earlier on Chaengwattana road, hundreds of nail traps were strewn on a 500- meter stretch of the elevated section of the road, causing tyres of several vehicles to go flat. The incident caused added a worse traffic jam on the road as well as the expressway exit ramps to Muangthong Thani. Soldiers were called in to close traffic on the section and began to collect the traps. The nail traps were strewn to stop farmers and protesters traveling to the Office of the Permanent Secretary to see the caretaker prime minister. http://englishnews.t...ers-protesters/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flashermac Posted February 19, 2014 Author Report Share Posted February 19, 2014 Khunying Dr. Porntip Rojanasunan, flaming red hair as usual, just finished speaking on the protest stage at Pratumnam. She gave a serious discussion of how people and especially civil servants are supposed to act. Then she finished by slamming "Lord Thaksin" and the police as well for not acting against the criminal "cliques". It is fascinating to compare the people opposing Thaksin with those that support him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cavanami Posted February 20, 2014 Report Share Posted February 20, 2014 ...a Madonna wanna be Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WorldFun Posted February 20, 2014 Report Share Posted February 20, 2014 any bets how many days more before the stubborn lady flees the holy land of LOS? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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