Bangkok protestors lay down conditions for leaving airports

Indonesia News.Net
Tuesday 2nd December, 2008

Anti-government protestors in Bangkok have agreed to leave two Thai airports after the Constitutional Court effectively removed the ruling government.

Protestors had besieged the airports for over a week, in an effort to topple the administration.

The People's Alliance for Democracy said in a statement that they would leave both Suvarnabhumi International Airport and Don Mueang on Wednesday.

But they also threatened to return unless two conditions were met by the new government.

The PAD statement said the next government could not be a puppet regime for Thaksin Shinawatra and would need to introduce new politics.

The PAD, which has been opposed to the return to power of Thaksin and his followers, described their sit-ins at the airports as a 'last battle' to bring down the government of Thai Prime Minister Somchai Wongsawat, who is Thaksin's brother-in-law.

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