Thai gov't to tighten security around 'red-shirt' rally site
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The Center for the Resolution of Emergency Situations (CRES) announced Sunday to tighten security measures around the "red-shirt" rally site to maintain law and order.
The Center for the Resolution of Emergency Situations, which is also known as the Emergency Operations Command, is set up to deal with the ongoing "red-shirt" rally in Bangkok.
The CRES is going to deploy troops on high buildings around the Rathchaprasong Intersection to ensure security for the "red-shirt" protestors, the Thai News Agency reported.
The CRES will repeatedly warn the red-shirts" that the rally site Rathchaprasong area is dangerous since terrorists are feared to attack either the "red-shirts" or security personnel.
Therefore, the "red-shirts" should not participate in the rally.
The National News Bureau of Thailand quoted CRES spokesman Col. Sansern Kaewkamnerd as saying additional check points are to be set up to prevent additional "red-shirts" from joining the rally at the Rathchaprasong area.
The CRES plans are made after a CRES meeting, which was chaired by national Army Commander-in-Chief General Anupong Paochinda, who has been authorized by Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva from Friday night to be in charge of ordering use of forces to ensure peace and order.
The authorization for the Army Commander-in-Chief is aimed to cut short of the command line in a move to prevent and encounter with terrorists, who are feared to incite violence.
The CRES structural adjustment was made after Friday's failure of the CRES attempt to arrest the "red-shirt" leaders at the SC Park Hotel in capital Bangkok.
Currently, the "red-shirt" core leaders and their supporters are gathering at the Rathchaprasong Intersection in the center of capital Bangkok.
They have demanded Prime Minister Abhisit to "immediately" dissolve the lower House of parliament and hold a new general election.
The "red-shirts" have still viewed that, apart from the House dissolution, there is no other solution to the country's ongoing political conflict.
