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Over 100 demonstrators gathered yesterday to protest what they said was the University’s apparent lack of response to the anti-layoffs campaign...
...protest leader whose followers commandeered Bangkok's international airport for eight days last December was shot early Friday morning in Bangkok in an apparent assassination attempt, shattering hopes for calm and political reconciliation following the dispersal of violent anti-government demonstrations earlier this week that paralyzed the Thai capital, brought the army on to the streets, and forced the cancellation of a summit of regional leaders...
...rise up in a "people's revolution." The red shirts subsequently stormed a summit of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations in Pattaya, forcing its cancellation and the evacuation of regional leaders, attempted to physically attack Prime Minister Abhisit on two occasions, and launched a sometimes violent an chaotic protest in the capital, during which they burned buses, set off small bombs, threatened to blow up a gas tanker, blocked traffic on major roads, and shot and killed two local non-protestors who objected to their invasion of a neighborhood market...
...military dispersed the protest on Monday and Tuesday, but 123 people, including many soldiers, were injured. The Red Shirts are still claiming casualties, though no independent source has confirmed this. Prime Minister Abhisit said no red-shirt protesters were killed the military in breaking up their demonstration. He has refused to resign, called for a political reform process and invited the opposition to participate...
...themselves and tend to be dislocated from sector to sector. The result, Groux says, is French management often ignores them while preparing for layoffs and remains high-handed once negotiating begins. All that, he says, increases the allure and utility of insurrectional action - and pushes the limits of dramatic protest over time...