SitiWanMahani - Polis Thailand berubah jelujur, menghapuskan halangan benteng menyekat penunjuk perasaan anti-kerajaan daripada memasuki pejabat Perdana Menteri. Sekurang-kurangnya 3orang terbunuh dan 230 cedera dalam seminggu protes yang ber-tujuan untuk menewaskan kerajaan Thailand.
Awal pada Selasa polis membersihkan halangan kawat berduri melindungi pejabat Perdana Menteri Yingluck Shinawatra dari serangan penunjuk perasaan anti -kerajaan. Futej dari televisyen Thai menunjukkan penunjuk perasaan pengilangan di sekitar luar ‘Government House’.
Perdana Menteri Yingluck telah berpindah ke lokasi rahsia pada hari Ahad selepas aktivis menyerbu kelab sukan polis di mana dia telah tinggal.
Perubahan ini polis Thai strategi bertujuan untuk meredakan ketegangan yang meningkat berikutan minggu protes. Ketua Polis bandar Kamronvit Thoopkrachang memberitahu Reuters bahawa pegawai rusuhan telah diperintahkan untuk berundur.
“Dalam setiap kawasan di mana terdapat konfrontasi, kita kini telah mengarahkan semua polis untuk menarik balik. Adalah menjadi dasar kerajaan untuk mengelakkan konfron-tasi,” Kamronvit kepada Reuters. “Hari ini, kami tidak akan menggunakan gas pemedih mata, tiada konfrontasi, kami akan membiarkan mereka ke dalam jika mereka mahu.”
Polis bertempur dengan protes cuba untuk memecahkan penghadang ke ‘Government House’ pada hari Isnin. Pegawai menggunakan gas pemedih mata, meriam air dan peluru getah untuk menangkis aktivis, yang membaling batu pada polis.
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Thai police have changed tack, removing fortified barriers blocking anti-government protesters from entering the prime minister’s office. At least three people have died and 230 were injured in a week of protests aimed at ousting Thailand’s government.
Early on Tuesday police cleared the barbed wire barriers protecting Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra’s office from the onslaught of anti-government protesters. Footage from Thai television showed the protesters milling around outside the Government House.
Prime Minister Yingluck was moved to a secret location on Sunday after activists stormed the police sports club where she had been staying.
The Thai police’s change of strategy seeks to defuse rising tensions following a week of protests. City Police Chief Kamronvit Thoopkrachang told Reuters that riot officers have been ordered to stand down.
"In every area where there has been confrontation, we have now ordered all police to withdraw. It is government policy to avoid confrontation," Kamronvit told Reuters. “Today, we won't use tear gas, no confrontation, we will let them in if they want.”
Police clashed with protests attempting to break through the barricades to Government House on Monday. Officers used tear gas, water cannons and rubber bullets to repel the activists, who threw rocks at police.
Penunjuk perasaan anti-kerajaan berkumpul di sekitar ‘Government House’ semasa perhimpunan di Bangkok 3 Disember 2013. (Anti-government protesters gather around the Government House during a rally in Bangkok December 3, 2013. (Reuters/Chaiwat Subprasom - think IN pictures @1WORLD Community)
Keganasan paling teruk minggu yang mendatang pada petang Sabtu apabila sekumpulan penunjuk perasaan melepaskan tembakan pada perhimpunan pro-kerajaan, membunuh sekurang-kurangnya 4 orang dan mencederakan berpuluh-puluh lagi. Kira-kira 70,000 penyokong PM Yingluck telah berkumpul di kawasan Ramkamhaeng di Bangkok.
Kerajaan Yingluck enggan panggilan oleh pergerakan protes untuk pilihanraya umum dan telah menolak tuntutan mereka sebagai “tidak mengikut perlembagaan.”
Ketua penunjuk perasaan Suthep Thaugsuban - seorang ahli politik yang berjanji bagi pembangkang Parti Demokrat - telah menuntut bahawa Yingluck meletakkan jawatan untuk memberi laluan kepada pembentukan sebuah “Majlis rakyat” terdiri daripada Thaugsuban dipanggil untuk mogok di seluruh negara pada hari Isnin “orang yang baik.”
Beliau telah menuduh Perdana Menteri Yingluck menjadi “boneka” untuk jutawan beliau abang Thaksin Shinawatra. Thaksim yang digulingkan dari kerajaan oleh rampasan kuasa tentera pada tahun 2006 dan kemudiannya meninggalkan negara ini selepas didapati bersalah kerana rasuah. Beliau kini tinggal dalam buangan di Dubai, tetapi kekal sebagai bahagian penting dalam kerajaan sekarang.
Pihak berkuasa Thailand mengumumkan pada hujung minggu yang Suthep telah mahu untuk “tuduhan pemberontakan yang hendaklah dihukum dengan hukuman mati atau penjara seumur hidup.” Satu waran tangkap telah dikeluarkan untuk Suthep minggu lepas atas tuduhan mendalangi pendudukan kementerian kerajaan.
The worst violence of the week came on Saturday evening when a group of protesters opened fire at a pro-government rally, killing at least four people and injuring dozens more. Around 70,000 supporters of PM Yingluck had gathered in the Ramkamhaeng area of Bangkok.
Yingluck’s government has refused calls by the protest movement for snap elections and has dismissed their demands as “unconstitutional.”
Protest leader Suthep Thaugsuban – a former politician for the opposition Democrat Party – has demanded that Yingluck resign to make way for the formation of a “people’s council” made up of “good people.” Thaugsuban called for a nationwide strike on Monday
He has accused Prime Minister Yingluck of being a “puppet” for her billionaire older brother Thaksin Shinawatra. Thaksim was ousted from government by a military coup in 2006 and subsequently fled the country after being found guilty of corruption. He now lives in exile in Dubai, but remains an important part of the current government.
Thai authorities announced over the weekend that Suthep was wanted for “the charge of insurrection which shall be punished with death or life imprisonment." An arrest warrant had already been issued for Suthep last week on charges of orchestrating the occupation of government ministries.
Polis rusuhan Thai tersenyum kerana mereka bersorak oleh penunjuk perasaan anti-kerajaan selepas demonstrasi memanggil keluar di luar ‘Government House’ di Bangkok 3 Disember 2013. (Thai riot police smile as they are cheered by anti-government protesters after demonstrations are called off outside Government House in Bangkok December 3, 2013. (Reuters/Dylan Martinez - think IN pictures @1WORLD Community)
Penunjuk perasaan anti-kerajaan dalam meraikan di dalam ‘Government House’ selepas demonstrasi kita memanggil keluar di Bangkok 3 Disember 2013. (Anti-government protesters celebrate inside the grounds of Government House after demonstrations we called off in Bangkok December 3, 2013. (Reuters/Dylan Martinez - think IN pictures @1WORLD Community)
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