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Thai red-shirts stage new anti-government protest

Anti-government protesters in Bangkok, 3 April 2010
Anti-government protesters have been rallying for weeks
Tens of thousands of Thai anti-government protesters have rallied in the capital, Bangkok, in their latest push to topple the government.
The protesters, known as the red-shirts, are calling on Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva to dissolve parliament and hold early elections.
The red-shirted demonstrators have been holding regular protests for weeks.

Mr Vejjajiva has said he will hold elections by the end of the year - an offer the protesters have rejected.
The BBC's Rachel Harvey reports from Bangkok that there is no obvious or early end to the crisis in sight.
There have already been two unsuccessful rounds of talks to resolve the crisis.
On Friday business leaders, academics, and people from the tourism industry turned out wearing pink shirts to call for an end to the crisis and show their continuing support for the government.
They numbered several thousand but did not match the tens of thousands that have attended the red-shirt rallies, our correspondent says.
The red-shirted protesters are mostly supporters of former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, an exiled former telecoms tycoon who was ousted in a coup in 2006.
Many are from rural areas, and they have portrayed themselves as fighting for democracy.
They say that Mr Vejjajiva's offer of holding elections a year early is not enough, and that they are only willing to hold more talks if the prime minister brings forward his timetable.

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