Bernama.com, 11 Apr 2009, Yong Soo Heong
PATTAYA, April 10 (Bernama) - The protest mounted by thousands of demonstrators from the pro-Thaksin "Red Shirts" or "Great Masses of the Red-Shirt People" at the 14th Asean Summit and related summits here have fizzled out after they handed a petition that demanded the ouster of Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva.
A group of eight demonstrators from the "Red Shirts" came through the security cordon at the Pattaya Exhibition and Convention Hall (PEACH), the venue of the summits, and handed the petition to P. Bala Kumar of the Asean Secretariat and asked him to hand it over to the foreign leaders attending the summits.
Originally, they demanded to see a representative from a foreign delegation to hand over the petition. Initial indications were that they asked for Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, who is the Deputy Chair of Asean.
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