Police Take Legal Action Against Red Shirts In Chiang Mai

Police Take Legal Action Against Red Shirts in Chiang Mai

CHIANG MAI: -- Police have charged red-shirt members in Chiang Mai Province with trespassing. Meanwhile, police are set to issue an arrest warrant for a monk who splashed blood on soldiers.

Mae Ping Police Station Superintendent, Police Lieutenant Colonel Samphan Sirima, revealed that investigators have indicted eleven leaders of the 'Love Chiang Mai 51' group, including one Buddhist monk, for trespassing after they led red-shirt protesters into the office of the Provincial Police Region 5 on January 24th to oust the commissioner of Provincial Police Region 5, Police Lieutenant General Somkid Boonthanom.

Sources added that one of the group's leaders, Petchawat Watthanaphongsirikoon, have already led other leaders to turn themselves in to the police.

Police added that they will issue an arrest warrant for a Buddhist monk named Phra Khru Suthep Sitthikhun for smearing military officers with blood in Chiang Mai Province if the monk ignores police summons a third time.

-- Tan Network 2010-03-31

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