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| Stranded passengers wait their turn to check-in for their flights, departing from U-Tapao, at a makeshift terminal in Bangkok. Photo: Reuters |
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Anti-government protesters in Thailand have ended a three-month sit in at the prime minister's offices in Bangkok, redeploying to help demonstrators tighten their paralysing grip on the city's airports. Leaders of an alliance trying to force premier Somchai Wongsawat to resign said they were abandoning Government House because of recent grenade attacks
which have killed two protesters and wounded dozens more. But in an apparent climbdown in the stand-off, which has left 350,000 travellers stranded, the People's Alliance for Democracy (PAD) has allowed 37 empty aircraft to fly out of Suvarnabhumi international airport. washed dishes before heading off to the domestic Don Mueang airport. A PAD spokesman, Suriyasai Katasila, said the movement hoped to hand over the site to the government on Tuesday morning. The royalist PAD seized the cabinet offices in August as part of a campaign they launched in May to topple an elected government they accuse of running the country on behalf of former premier Thaksin Shinawatra. |
