Post date: Dec 03, 2013 2:41:21 PM
Thai police allow thousands of anti-government protesters to enter the Government House compound after two days of violent clashes.
BANGKOK, THAILAND (DECEMBER 3, 2013) (REUTERS) - Thai police allowed thousands of anti-government protesters to enter the Government House compound on Tuesday (December 3) after two days of violent clashes.
Waving Thai flags and blowing whistles, the anti-government protesters walked in through barricades and to the lawn.In the last two days, riot police tried to repel them using tear gas and water cannons from the Government House, where Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra holds office.
Some protesters say they are not completely at ease with such concession from the police.
"This is not the end, so I think this are still uncertainties lying ahead. I will be more confident if the soldiers listen to the people. I think we will feel more certain when they (government) are out and we are in the process (of reforming)," said Chutimol Nitipaphawat, a 60-year-old protester.
Earlier, the Thai government said it had ordered police confronting anti-government protesters to stand down to avoid violence in the worst political violence to hit the country since 2010.
A police spokesman said in a televised address they still had control over Government House and also the Metropolitan Police Headquarters.