Thai red-shirts confirm rally on Sept. 19

16:47, 12 September 2009

BANGKOK. September 12. KAZINFORM. The anti-government red-shirted group confirmed Saturday afternoon that the mass rally will fall on Sept. 19 as planned, even though the government invokes the Internal Security Act, Thai media reported; Kazinform refers to Xinhua.

Core leader Jatuporn Promphan of the pro-Thaksin group insisted that the red-shirts have constitutional right of assembly without weapons, Bangkok Post online reported.

The red-shirts, or the United Front of Democracy against Dictatorship (UDD), will gather at the Royal Plaza and after that they will march to Si Sai Theves residence of Gen Prem Tinsulanonda, president of the Privy Council, Jatuporn said.

The demonstrators will peacefully disperse at around midnight, he said.

Red-shirts' statement came after Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva earlier in the day admitted the odds of invoking the Internal Security Act again to deal with the planned mass rally on Sept. 19.

The imposing of Internal Security Act was on the table again, after the government invoked the Act from Aug. 29 to Sept. 1 to handle the red-shirts' protest, which was initially scheduled for Aug. 30 to press Abhisit to dissolve the House and to call new election; Kazinform cites Xinhua. See www.xinhuanet.com for full version.

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