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Thai PM: gov't not behind the latest attack on protesters |
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22:00, November 20, 2008 |
Thailand's Prime Minister Somchai Wongsawat denied his government was involved in the latest bomb attack at a protest site inside Bangkok's Government House compound on early Thursday morning.
Somchai said the police would probe the incident and take swift action against those behind the attack.
He dismissed as groundless statement of People's Alliance for Democracy (PAD) which blamed the killing on the government.
The statement said the "use of a war weapon showed that it's the work of the government."
Somchai told reporters that he could not understand why the PAD must put the blame on the government every time they were attacked. It is not the government's policy to use force or violence.
Following the attack, the PAD said it would hold a mass protest on Sunday to "stop the tyrant government" led by Somchai, which they said is a corrupt proxy for ousted premier Thaksin Shinawatra.
"The PAD will no longer tolerate daily brutal crackdowns by the government and cannot accept any type of Thaksin regime," the statement said.
The early Thursday morning bomb blast in the Government House has killed one protester and injured 26 others from the anti-government PAD which occupied the complex since mid-August.
Source: Xinhua
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