Move to oust Thai PM more than just a walk in the park for protesters


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  • Thursday, 10 Apr 2014

Anti-government protesters' tents are set up inside Lumpini Park, the main protest site in Bangkok in this March 4, 2014 file photo. REUTERS/Damir Sagolj/Files

BANGKOK (Reuters) - Two months ago, Piyavadee Boonmak was living comfortably at home. But she quit her job as a civil servant and now works as a volunteer cleaning toilets at Lumpini Park, the new focal point of anti-government protests in the Thai capital.

Piyavadee now lives in a khaki tent in the central Bangkok park, once a haven for joggers but now a temporary home for more than 10,000 supporters of a movement that has been trying for five months to oust Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra.

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