efforts to overthrow the Thai Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej became very intense. Tens of thousands of protesters have occupied for nearly a week the government headquarters in Bangkok and for the first time today, these events were relocated to the provinces and caused the closure of airports in Phuket, Krabi and Hat Yai. Rail services were also disturbed, because union workers have decided to support the movement that aims to oust Prime Minister who took office just last seven months. Yesterday
violent clashes took place in 2000 when militants attacked the royalist police headquarters in Bangkok. All were eventually dispersed with truncheons and tear gas. These clashes have been about forty wounded in the ranks of demonstrators and police.
Samak told the international press: "They want a spark, they want bloodshed so that the army and make a coup."
But General Anupong Paochinda, the head of the Thai army, assured the Prime Minister that there will be no new coup to overthrow the government.
activists accuse Samak Sundaravej royalists to be a puppet in the pay of former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra removed from power by a military coup in 2006 and fled the country to escape prosecution on cases corruption.
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