Ref: Aasian Correspondent.com (Oct. 11 2010 - 10:44 am)
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Thailand's "Red Shirt" anti-government demonstrators lit candles and sang in honor of fallen comrades at a peaceful protest Sunday that was much smaller than past rallies.
Police were out in force because of suspicions that several small bombings in Bangkok in recent months have political links.
Sunday's crowd appeared to total several thousand, about half the size of a demonstration last month marking the anniversary of a 2006 military coup that ousted Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra.
The protesters include many Thaksin supporters as well as activists opposed to military interference in politics.
A lengthy Red Shirt protest that occupied streets in the city center starting in March degenerated into violence and a military crackdown in May, with about 90 people killed.
The Red Shirt movement has gradually resumed activity, handicapped by a state of emergency that continues in Bangkok. The emergency decree bans such gatherings, but it is applied loosely, and protests have occurred almost weekly to memorialize the dead and call for the freedom of detained Red Shirts.
The recent bombings include an explosion at an apartment building last week that killed an alleged bomb maker and three other people. Police speculate the device accidentally detonated. His widow said the man was a Red Shirt supporter.
Government officials have warned they expect a wave of terrorism in coming months in an effort to destabilize the government, but Red Shirt supporters say the accusation slanders their movement.
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