PDRC agrees to end protests and its supporters sent home

BANGKOK: -- Thousands of supporters of the People’s Democratic Reform Committee are due to leave Bangkok tonight after their leaders agreed to call off their protests and to disperse.

Buses have been arranged by the National Peace-keeping Council to bring the anti-government protesters homes – many of them southerners and also many of them have been protesting for months at protest sites starting at Samsen railway station last November then shifting to the Democracy Monument, Ratchaprasong intersection, Pathumwan intersection, Asoke intersection, Lumpini park and finally back to the Democracy Monument and Ratchadamnoen road.

Colonen Sombat Tunyawan, commander of the Cavalry School, asked PDRC core member Thavorn Senniam for the return of the Ratchadamnoen road for normal traffic flow.

A brief discussion was held between the two men and it was agreed that the protests were to be called off and the protesters sent homes.

Earlier, red-shirt followers rallying at Aksa or Utthayan road had been dispersed and bused homes by the military.

Source: http://englishnews.thaipbs.or.th/pdrc-agrees-end-protests-supporters-sent-homes/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=pdrc-agrees-end-protests-supporters-sent-homes

-- Thai PBS 2014-05-22

The hell they agreed. They had no choice.

hope they are proud to bring all this to this lovely country... a disgrace they should be ashamed

hope they are proud to bring all this to this lovely country... a disgrace they should be ashamed

They scored a partial victory they can home.. this is a disaster for the Shins. You lost get over it.

hope they are proud to bring all this to this lovely country... a disgrace they should be ashamed

Au contraire, the people that should be ashamed are the allegedly educated people like yourself who supported the corrupt ineptocracy that has brought this 'lovely country' to it's knees and to the verge of bankruptcy with a display of corruption that makes President Marcos look like St Francis of Assis.

Your support of Thaksin and Shinclan has been ashamedly sickening. I will leave it there eh!

Bye bye losers.

hope they are proud to bring all this to this lovely country... a disgrace they should be ashamed

They scored a partial victory they can home.. this is a disaster for the Shins. You lost get over it.

don't think so... wait the long game

next election reds win... and again.. and again... get over it

Finally, the final push.

hope they are proud to bring all this to this lovely country... a disgrace they should be ashamed

The army prevented that Thailand get like the Philippines under Marcos or worse like North Korea under dearest leader Thaksin.

Absolute right step from the army and they tried everything else before.

See you again after the next election when the Amart's man isn't elected.

hope they are proud to bring all this to this lovely country... a disgrace they should be ashamed

Au contraire, the people that should be ashamed are the allegedly educated people like yourself who supported the corrupt ineptocracy that has brought this 'lovely country' to it's knees and to the verge of bankruptcy with a display of corruption that makes President Marcos look like St Francis of Assis.

Your support of Thaksin and Shinclan has been ashamedly sickening. I will leave it there eh!

I do not support Shin or Thaksin oh intellectual giant of farangland

I support paradigm shift towards a classless society and have NO affiliation to reds or shins

I see the larger picture whilst you gobble up the yellow propaganda that they feed you and say 'more, more, more'

we will see...

A lot of redshirt supporters butt hurt tonight.

Did they think the Shin cleptrocracy would last forever?

hope they are proud to bring all this to this lovely country... a disgrace they should be ashamed

They scored a partial victory they can home.. this is a disaster for the Shins. You lost get over it.

Do you (and Winton liking it) actually live in Thailand? Im curious because of all this "we won" and "you lost" banter.

Sitting in the house with no tv and soon no internet, banned from going out, with soldiers on the streets. Does that feel like a victory to you?

hope they are proud to bring all this to this lovely country... a disgrace they should be ashamed

They scored a partial victory they can home.. this is a disaster for the Shins. You lost get over it.

don't think so... wait the long game

next election reds win... and again.. and again... get over it

I don't see how this is going to help "heal" the divide, if anything it's going to widen it.

your like a child binjalin

hope they are proud to bring all this to this lovely country... a disgrace they should be ashamed

Au contraire, the people that should be ashamed are the allegedly educated people like yourself who supported the corrupt ineptocracy that has brought this 'lovely country' to it's knees and to the verge of bankruptcy with a display of corruption that makes President Marcos look like St Francis of Assis.

Your support of Thaksin and Shinclan has been ashamedly sickening. I will leave it there eh!

I do not support Shin or Thaksin oh intellectual giant of farangland

I support paradigm shift towards a classless society and have NO affiliation to reds or shins

I see the larger picture whilst you gobble up the yellow propaganda that they feed you and say 'more, more, more'

we will see...

Great removal of classes I am all for it.. and without Taksin and corruption I have no problems with the reds winning. I only had a problem with corruption, misuse of power. Had they played by the book and not try to get Taksin home and 25.000 corruption cases removed it would be ok.

I asked you once before how do you suppose to finance your handouts to poor.. does that mean that office workers now have to pay more tax (they are not that rich). Just curious how you really think to get money for new projects. Because in my opinion the middle class is already paying enough and its almost impossible to tax the rich.. even if you tax them there are not enough rich to pay for much. They might have a lot of money but not income.

I probably went too deep with my questions as most reds never think about stuff like how to do it.

hope they are proud to bring all this to this lovely country... a disgrace they should be ashamed

They scored a partial victory they can home.. this is a disaster for the Shins. You lost get over it.

Do you (and Winton liking it) actually live in Thailand? Im curious because of all this "we won" and "you lost" banter.

Sitting in the house with no tv and soon no internet, banned from going out, with soldiers on the streets. Does that feel like a victory to you?

I don't see how this is going to help "heal" the divide, if anything it's going to widen it.

Have to wait for the next poll to come out.

75+% agreed with military marshal law. My guess there will be similar numbers for this coup.

Seems people are sick and tired of Shin democracy and want the real thing, if thats possible.

hope they are proud to bring all this to this lovely country... a disgrace they should be ashamed

They scored a partial victory they can home.. this is a disaster for the Shins. You lost get over it.

don't think so... wait the long game

next election reds win... and again.. and again... get over it

Who cares about the reds, as long as the entire Shinclan are all history and that will be a major win for Thailand. Any rumors yet about seizing assets of YL, cancelling passports for YL and her cabinet. Oh I forgot,

,and cancelling TS's Thai passport and put a red interpol complaint in placefor him.

Job done' time go home... Congrats to all..

hope they are proud to bring all this to this lovely country... a disgrace they should be ashamed

They scored a partial victory they can home.. this is a disaster for the Shins. You lost get over it.

Do you (and Winton liking it) actually live in Thailand? Im curious because of all this "we won" and "you lost" banter.

Sitting in the house with no tv and soon no internet, banned from going out, with soldiers on the streets. Does that feel like a victory to you?

Unlike you I am in Thailand and live here.. been living here quite a while.

This is a partial victory because now reforms will be made that will make sure that a new government cant abuse its power and will curb corruption. Probably will be some rules against getting people on places of power and such.

So the next red government (if there will be one) will have a lot less power and has to play by the rules.

I said partial because it would have been better if the reforms had been agreed upon with the PTP then they would be supported broader but the reforms would be weaker as this red government was removing checks and balances.. not strengthening them.

So its a partial victory (assuming change will come and I am sure it will)

A few days or even a week of discomfort of soldiers on the street followed by a time of changes and no government is a small price to pay.

hope they are proud to bring all this to this lovely country... a disgrace they should be ashamed

They scored a partial victory they can home.. this is a disaster for the Shins. You lost get over it.

Do you (and Winton liking it) actually live in Thailand? Im curious because of all this "we won" and "you lost" banter.

Sitting in the house with no tv and soon no internet, banned from going out, with soldiers on the streets. Does that feel like a victory to you?

Add to that having to listen to your wife that it's not fair that all the soaps are off, and the sky is falling and that Godzilla is coming!!

Curfew is 10 pm tonight NATIONWIDE.

How are they going to get home in time?

hope they are proud to bring all this to this lovely country... a disgrace they should be ashamed

They scored a partial victory they can home.. this is a disaster for the Shins. You lost get over it.

Do you (and Winton liking it) actually live in Thailand? Im curious because of all this "we won" and "you lost" banter.

Sitting in the house with no tv and soon no internet, banned from going out, with soldiers on the streets. Does that feel like a victory to you?

Add to that having to listen to your wife that it's not fair that all the soaps are off, and the sky is falling and that Godzilla is coming!!

I think they made a fatal mistake banning the soaps.. soon the wives and mia nois of the army personnel will withhold sex until the soaps are back.

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Finally, the final push.

See you again after the next election when the Amart's man isn't elected.

A lot to say for a 2 day member!

How many other usernames do you have?

The hell they agreed. They had no choice.

Well, they got exactly what they wanted, so obviously there's little point in maitaining a street presence.

next protest, send in the troops directly in stead of doing nothing for 7 months ?

maybe the army can go help the poor farmers next , getting their money ?

hope they are proud to bring all this to this lovely country... a disgrace they should be ashamed

Au contraire, the people that should be ashamed are the allegedly educated people like yourself who supported the corrupt ineptocracy that has brought this 'lovely country' to it's knees and to the verge of bankruptcy with a display of corruption that makes President Marcos look like St Francis of Assis.

Your support of Thaksin and Shinclan has been ashamedly sickening. I will leave it there eh!

Hey Jimmy some people find your behaving a little vommit Inducing

There are no winners in this yet another coup . It is clear that holding a meeting between the leaders of both sides achieved nothing .

Something had to be done to break the deadlock and a potential civil war in Bangkok . The military are not the best at governing , so eventually elections will be held . A general election will likely produce the same result , but there needs to be found a PM who isn't a seeming mouthpiece of Thaksin .

In my opinion , what the country really needs is Thaksin to put Thailand back on its feet again .