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Shutdown Bangkok

26 images Created 13 Jan 2014

Shutdown Bangkok is the latest strategy of the anti-government protestors in Bangkok to bring down the elected government of Yingluck Shinawatra. Protestors have occupied at least seven key intersections in Bangkok and shut down the roads around the intersections. Traffic is gridlocked in the areas around the intersections and government ministries are being forced to work out of other locations.

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  • 13 JANUARY 2014 - BANGKOK, THAILAND: Former Thai Prime Minister ABHISIT VEJJAJIVA, a leader of the Democrat party, walks through the anti-government protest in Lumpini Park. Abhisit and all of the other Democrats, the opposition party in Thailand, resigned from Parliament and are not participating in the coming election. Tens of thousands of Thai anti-government protestors took to the streets of Bangkok Monday to shut down the Thai capitol. The protest was called "Shutdown Bangkok" and is expected to last at least a week. The Shutdown Bangkok protest is a continuation of protests that started in early November. There have been shootings almost every night at different protests sites around Bangkok, including two Sunday night, but the protests Monday were peaceful. The malls in Bangkok stayed open Monday but many other businesses closed for the day and mass transit was swamped with both protestors and people who had to use mass transit because the roads were blocked.    PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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