Thai protest rivals in show of force on Bangkok streets | Malay Mail

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BANGKOK, Oct 14 — Thai anti-government protesters and royalist supporters of King Maha Vajiralongkorn staged rival shows of force on either side of a Bangkok street today with political tension growing after three months of demonstrations. Several hundred protesters at the Democracy Monument...

Former monk Buddha Issara, a Royalist leader, holds a face mask near the Royal Plaza in Bangkok, Thailand October 14, 2020. — Reuters pic

Just a couple of dozen metres away, hundreds of royalists assembled with members of security forces — all of them clad in the royal yellow colour — hours before a royal motorcade was due to pass along the road. “They must not touch on the institution,” he told reporters. “We will not accept any booing or raising three or four fingers during the motorcade as well.”

“We are out here to fight, with respect to all the people as well as the monarchy,” protest leader Anon Nampa told the protesters. “We're out here to call for a reform to the institution to better the country.”

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