Bangkok Post
A large number of red-shirt supporters of the United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship (UDD) have occupied the Ratchadamnern avenue in a rally at the Democracy Monoment to mark the fifth anniversary of the Sept 19, 2006 coup.
Police have blocked the Ratchadamnern avenue to vehicular traffic.
UDD core leaders have begun to take turn going up the stage to speak to the crowd.
Worawut Wichaidit, the UDD spokesman, said UDD core members such as Jatuporn Prompan, Nathawut Saikua, Korkaew Pikulthong, Weng Tojirakarn, and UDD chair Thida Thavornseth were scheduled to returned to Suvarnabhumi airport from Cambodia at 4pm and they would directly head for the rally site.
It was still not known whether former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra would speak via a video conference to the demonstrators tonight, he said.
About 1,300 police have been deployed to maintain law and order. The rally was expected to end at 1am.
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