BANGKOK: Thousands of pro-government “Red Shirts” have begun massing in the Thail capital to challenge attempts by opposition protesters to hand power to an unelected regime, warning that the kingdom was lurching towards “civil war.”
The dismissal of prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra and nine ministers by the Constitutional Court this week for the improper transfer of a top security official has plunged the restive kingdom deeper into crisis.
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