BANGKOK тАУ Thai protesters say they have accepted a deal to end the violent political crisis that has paralyzed central Bangkok for nearly two months.
The Red Shirt leaders agreed Tuesday to Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva's proposal to hold new elections on Nov. 14 in exchange for an end to their protest.
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This is a great start. Abhisit has done well to hit this result. It feels like he let the reds gain as little ground as possible from all this.
He let it sit for just long enough and did one of the most important things you can do to resolve any dispute... He built them a golden bridge to retreat across without losing too much face.
They did not directly agree to it. Weera will negotiate but there are lots of conditions attached to the red shirts going ahead, such as full details and a date of the parliament being dissolved, an end to government iintimidation, removing restrictiions on the media including the red shirt radio, websites etc, and a whole bunch more. Seh Daeng and a bunch of others are not happy about it, and nor is Chuan Leekpai.
DonтАЩt pop the cork yet. Read what they said, not just the headlines.
One can welcome a proposal without accepting it.
The speeches made at Rajprasong were not very welcoming.
Thanks for the insight, FOF... I suppose it's a positive progression but there are still significant hurdles then.
Hopefully they manage to reconcile the few differences remaining, but rejecting the proposal with the excuses they used was just stupid, in my opinion. The demand that a date must be set for dissolution is stupid, because now if elections aren't held on Nov 14th, unless there's a VERY good reason, everyone knows there'll be a protest twice the size of the one we just seen.Originally Posted by Beachlover
Red shirts should be grateful Abhisit is currently in power, as he's been very respectful, cordial, and restraint throughout the entire process. Imagine if someone with a heavier hand was leading Thailand right now? There'd more than likely have been alot more blood spilt already. Even Kim said he really liked Abhisit and what he had to say, and this is after two months of saying he wants Abhisit to die.
such as Thaksin?
Yes lots of blood, and you can bet he is running the show now.....Remember the number of innocents shot during his so called 'drug clean up' policy back in '03 time? Not a very nice man..........such as Thaksin?
Yes. Two thousand five hundred.
It makes the Red Shirt affair seem like nothing.
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