Red Shirts Contingent Tour Pattaya En Route To Bangkok

Published : March 12, 2010 :: 16:03:44 [ 3,056 views ]

Over 300 Red Shirts went to pay homage to the shrine of King Taksin before touring Pattaya, looking for recruits and then moving off to join the demonstrations in Bangkok, this weekend.

Pattaya, 12 March, 2010, [PDN]: Early this afternoon, Mrs. Jureeporn Sindhuprai, President of the People Love Democracy Association of Pattaya led a group of over 300 Red Shirts to first pray and give homage to the shrine of King Taksin, behind Rungland Village, South Pattaya and secondly to assemble in front of Pattaya City Hall, before moving off on a ‘rebel rousing’ tour of the city.

The ‘rebel rousing’ took the form of broadcasting stirring rhetoric from a bus with the intent of recruiting local people to join their group going to Bangkok. Their speech attacked the Prime Minister and the President of the Privy Council. Over 50 Pattaya Police and police volunteers provided security at different points in Pattaya.

Mrs. Jureeporn Sindhuprai announced that, so far, between 1,000 to 1,500 local people will be going to Bangkok tomorrow. Most will be going by car and motorbike, with at least 100 of them going via the Chonburi By-pass to join the main Eastern Seaboard group on the Bangna–Trad Road. The demonstrators took 80 temporary toilets with them.

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Comments

willsmith

said :

IS THIS A JOKE ? KING TAKSIN ?
AFTER 60 YEARS OF LEADING THE THAI, PEOPLE LIKE HIS BELOVED CHILDREN , THEY PUT UP A SHRINE AND CALL IT KING TAKSINS ! WOW !
THIS MUST REALLY HURT THE REAL KING BADLY .

Email : ssmttys@yahoo.com Date : 2010-03-13 20:00:11

passenger

said :

Does that mean that there’ll be no motorbike taxis and songthaews available within the next days?

Email : ach_so@hotmail.com Date : 2010-03-12 18:11:32

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