By Amy Sawitta Lefevre BANGKOK (Reuters) – Thai protesters took to the streets on Monday to renew their fight to topple Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra, prompting riot police to fire teargas and stun grenades for a second day outside her fortified office compound to keep them at bay. The protesters had set Sunday as "Victory Day" to oust the government but failed to achieve their goal of seizing Government House or any other state agencies in the capital. The violence is the latest dramatic turn in a conflict pitting Bangkok's urban middle class and royalist elite against the mostly poor, rural supporters of Yingluck and her brother, Thaksin Shinawatra, a populist former prime minister ousted in a 2006 military coup. Reuters reporters saw a crowd of around 2,000 gathering near barricades erected by the authorities to stop them approaching Government House.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/thai-protesters-seek-topple-pm-clashes-004222850.html

This entry was posted on Monday, December 2nd, 2013 at 12:19 am and is filed under World. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.