Thailadn Crisis Arrest Warrants Issued
Video: Thai Clashes End, Protesters Disperse
SCENARIOS-Is there an escape route from Thailand’s crisis?
By Andrew Marshall, Asia Political Risk Correspondent
SINGAPORE, April 15 (Reuters) – Political unrest flared again in Thailand this week, after protesters loyal to former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra forced the cancellation of an Asian summit, and two people were killed in violence in Bangkok.
Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva declared a state of emergency in the capital, and on Tuesday the protesters peacefully ended their three-week siege of Government House.
Following are possible scenarios for what could come next, and their implications for markets:
ABHISIT HOLDS ON BUT THAILAND REMAINS TURBULENT Abhisit’s government did not win a mandate at the polls — it was formed in December after “yellow shirt” royalist protesters occupied Bangkok’s airports and the courts dissolved the previous ruling party which was loyal to Thaksin.
- Supporters of ousted Thai prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra aboard a truck leave the Government House area in Bangkok April 14, 2009. (Xinhua/Reuters Photo)
Other three leaders of the UDD or the red-shirts, Veera Musigapong, Natthawut Saikua and Weng Tochirakarn, surrendered to the police Tuesday after declaring the end of a sustained protest. They have been detained separately, said the authorities.
Arrest warrants issued for Thai protest leadersPolice were today searching for the leaders of the anti-government movement in Thailand after combat troops quashed the violent demonstrations in Bangkok earlier this week.
An arrest warrant was also issued for ousted Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, who had addressed the demonstrators nearly every night via video from an undisclosed location and called for a “revolution” as Bangkok spiralled into chaos. He has lived largely overseas since being toppled by a military coup in 2006 for alleged corruption, and was last known to be in Dubai.
Authorities were checking airports in case some of the 10 protest leaders had tried to flee the country.
Three of the protest leaders were in police custody, metropolitan police spokesman Suporn Pansua said, and the Bangkok Criminal Court issued arrest warrants for 11 others, including Mr Thaksin, who fled into exile last year before a court convicted him of violating a conflict-of-interest law.
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