Troops and police seal off one of busiest intersections in attempt to block planned protest
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(29 May 2014) Hundreds of
(29 May 2014) Hundreds of Thai troops and police sealed off one of Bangkok's busiest intersections on Thursday in an attempt to block a planned protest one week after a military coup.
Truckloads of soldiers blocked all incoming roads to the capital's Victory Monument, prompting shops in the normally congested area to close amid concerns of a crackdown on anti-coup protesters who have come out almost daily to defy a ban on political gatherings.
There was no immediate sign of protesters as police attempted to clear the area.
The army want to prevent demonstrators gathering in defiance of a ban on political gatherings of more than five people.
The large deployment came a day after hundreds of protesters gathered at the monument and outnumbered soldiers.
Across the capital, dozens gathered at the Thammasat University to denounce the coup.
The demonstrations have been generally small and mostly leaderless but protesters planned to gather again Thursday and called for a mass rally on
Sunday.
The mounting tension comes a week after the army seized power, overthrowing a government that won a landslide election victory three years
earlier.
The army says it had to act to restore order after seven months of increasingly violent political turbulence.
A curfew remains in effect, although it was shortened on Wednesday to midnight to 4 a.m. - where previously it was 10 p.m. to 5 a.m.
How long it might continue, and when an elected civilian government returns to office, is currently unknown.
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Truckloads of soldiers blocked all incoming roads to the capital's Victory Monument, prompting shops in the normally congested area to close amid concerns of a crackdown on anti-coup protesters who have come out almost daily to defy a ban on political gatherings.
There was no immediate sign of protesters as police attempted to clear the area.
The army want to prevent demonstrators gathering in defiance of a ban on political gatherings of more than five people.
The large deployment came a day after hundreds of protesters gathered at the monument and outnumbered soldiers.
Across the capital, dozens gathered at the Thammasat University to denounce the coup.
The demonstrations have been generally small and mostly leaderless but protesters planned to gather again Thursday and called for a mass rally on
Sunday.
The mounting tension comes a week after the army seized power, overthrowing a government that won a landslide election victory three years
earlier.
The army says it had to act to restore order after seven months of increasingly violent political turbulence.
A curfew remains in effect, although it was shortened on Wednesday to midnight to 4 a.m. - where previously it was 10 p.m. to 5 a.m.
How long it might continue, and when an elected civilian government returns to office, is currently unknown.
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