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...abandon its occupation of Suvarnabhumi international airport and Don Muang domestic airport, and passenger flights are expected to resume. Protesters seized the airports last Tuesday, stranding an estimated 350,000 travelers and tourists and causing untold economic losses. The capital's patience for the occupation is wearing thin. "The PAD leaders must also be tried for breaking the law. They have trespassed on property and caused damage which they must pay for," Donavanik said...
...protesters' leadership, despite the injuries their ranks incurred overnight, remain resolute. Chamlong Srimuang, one of the heads of the antigovernment People's Alliance for Democracy (PAD), told supporters at New Bangkok International Airport, also known as Suvarnabhumi, on Sunday morning that they would soon be victorious. Lawyers for the ruling People Power Party and two other political parties in the government coalition are scheduled on Tuesday, Dec. 2, to make closing arguments before the Constitutional Court in election fraud cases that could result in the parties being dissolved, effectively ending their hold on power...
...clear, however, how quickly the court will render its verdicts, leaving the question of how long antigovernment forces intend to maintain this vigil that, in the last week, has led to the loss of millions of tourist dollars and left an estimated 100,000 passengers stranded. The PAD has been protesting since May, when the government announced it would begin amending the constitution. The protesters and other critics of the government claim it intends to change the charter in ways that would torpedo the cases against it, and also cases and convictions against former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra...
...Alliance for Democracy took place around midnight at Government House, the office compound of Prime Minister Somchai Wongsawat, which the protesters have occupied since August. Most of the wounded were women, four critically. It was the fourth grenade attack on the compound this past week by unknown assailants. One PAD security guard was killed and several others were wounded in the previous attacks. Two grenades and several rounds of gunfire were also fired at the offices of ASTV, a satellite television station owned by Sondhi Limthongkul, one of the protest leaders, early Sunday, and a bomb exploded at a barricade...
...Saturday, police abandoned their checkpoints leading to the international airport when several truckloads of PAD members ran the blockade to reach their fellow demonstrators. Prime Minister Somchai Wongsawat had issued a state of emergency covering the two airports the day before and ordered police to clear them of the several thousand PAD protesters. So far, the police have not attempted to enter the terminals at either airport. Olan Chaipravat, an economic advisor to the government, said on Saturday that the closure of the airports could cost the country one million jobs in the tourism industry, as arrivals could drop from...