BANGKOK (Reuters) - Anti-government protesters headed for Bangkok from the countryside on Saturday for what they are calling a "million-man march", aiming to paralyse the capital and topple a government they say is a front for unelected elites.
About 40,000 soldiers and police were mobilised in the capital from Friday, when several thousand red-shirted supporters of deposed premier Thaksin Shinawatra gathered at several points in "warm-up" events ahead of the main rally on Sunday.
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