Red Shirt leader accuses junta of looking for a 'fight'

The leader of Thailand's opposition Red Shirts accused the junta on Thursday of trying to provoke them into a fight as the movement falls under suspicion for a bomb attack and the circulation of a forged document on the revered king's health.

The Red Shirts are loyal to the toppled government of Yingluck Shinawatra, who was banned from politics last month by the junta-picked National Legislative Assembly.

The group - who fall under the umbrella of the United Front of Democracy Against Dictatorship - has been a powerful force in Thailand's near-decade of political turmoil.