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| Thai Reds offer compromise |
| 2010-04-24 |
| BANGKOK - ANTI-government 'red shirts' on Friday offered Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva a compromise by easing their demand for an immediate dissolution of Parliament following several grenade explosions on Thursday night. Their new demand was for the House to be dissolved within 30 days, followed by elections which, by law, would have to be held 60 days later. They also demanded that an independent commission be set up to look into the violence of April 10 which took at least 25 lives and left hundreds injured, and insisted that armed troops be withdrawn from around their rally sites in Bangkok. The new conditions came as invited foreign diplomats were given a tour of the red shirts' main rally site at the upscale Ratchaprasong intersection, which has been turned into a sprawling tent city. Late last night, Mr Abhisit said he was ready to go if he could not solve the ongoing conflict, Xinhua news agency quoted local media reports as saying. But the reports did not say if his statement meant that he was going to resign or to dissolve Parliament. |
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