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Thai protest ends peacefully
(Agencies)
Updated: 2009-04-14 22:41

"Do or die"

Army spokesman Sansern Kaewkamnerd said red-shirted protesters had tried to stop transmission of a state television channel in two places on Monday, and Thaksin supporters were thwarted from setting up a blockade in his northern Chiang Mai stronghold, police there said.

Thai protest ends peacefully
Supporters of ousted Thai prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra leave the Government House area as soldiers watch in Bangkok April 14, 2009. [Agencies] 

"This is not the end," one protest leader Nattawut Saikuar said. "We'll be back. Our leaders will meet after Songkran to discuss our next move."

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Abhisit said in the early hours of Tuesday it was a "do-or-die" moment for the rule of law and he would not negotiate with Thaksin.

He said dissolving parliament in order to hold elections could lead to electoral violence, but he would listen to the grievances of protesters.

The end to the protests is a blow to Thaksin, ousted in a 2006 coup and living in exile to avoid jail on a corruption conviction. He had been calling for a "people's revolution" that for now has fizzled.