Thai government welcomes 'peaceful' red-shirt rally

[Joanne98]

Source: BBC

The Thai government has thanked anti-government demonstrators for acting peacefully in their largest rally since the violent end to last May's protests.

Two months of protests then left more than 90 people dead.

On Sunday, at least 30,000 protesters, known as red-shirts, gathered to remember those killed.

They also wanted to show they have the discipline to demonstrate without violence, posing a new challenge to the government in an election year.

Tens of thousands of red-shirt protesters gathered at Bangkok's Democracy Monument.



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