‘There is blood on your hands’

Making demands: Anti-government protesters holding Thai national flags during a rally to condemn war with Cambodia and demand the resignation of Paetongtarn at Victory Monument in Bangkok. — AFP

Protesters rallied in the Thai capital to demand the resignation of court-suspended Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra and in support of the armed for­ces following a violent border dispute with Cambodia that killed more than three dozen people and displaced over 260,000.

Gathered at Bangkok’s Victory Monument despite soaring temperatures, many sang patriotic songs and listened to speeches denouncing Paetongtarn and her father, Thaksin, a former prime minister, and voiced their backing of the country’s army, which has always retained substantial power in the South-East Asian country.