Thai politics deadlocked as protesters create blood art

Thailand was mired in political deadlock on Sunday as demonstrators used their own blood to create a giant piece of protest art after refusing talks with the government.

Bangkok: Thailand was mired in political
deadlock on Sunday as demonstrators used their own blood to create a giant piece of protest art after refusing talks with the
government.

Buoyed by a huge parade a day earlier, the defiant
"Red Shirts" painted and wrote poems on white canvas with the
remains of the blood donated by supporters and splattered on
the prime minister`s house and offices in the past week.

"People of the next generation will know that the
older generation would sacrifice everything, including their
blood," Red Shirt poet Visa Kantab told the cheering crowd
from the main rally stage in Bangkok`s old quarter.

"After we are victorious, we will frame it as evidence
of history," he said before the artwork was displayed to
protesters, who are calling for parliament`s dissolution and
immediate elections.

The Reds back ex-Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra and
say the current government is illegitimate as it came to power
with army backing via a 2008 parliamentary vote after a
controversial court ruling removed his allies.

In what they have dubbed a "class war," the mainly
poor and rural Reds say they are fighting Thailand`s elite in
bureaucratic, military and palace circles, whom they accuse of
ousting elected governments.

Yesterday`s carnivalesque convoy through the city,
which swelled to 65,000 people, aimed to win urban support and
revive the waning rally, now in its eighth day. More than
100,000 took part last weekend.

PTI

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