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Tension eases in Thailand

Cops, protesters reach temporary truce ahead of king's birthday

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Tensions eased in Thailand yesterday as police took down barricades in the capital and allowed antigovernment demonstrators to enter the compounds of government buildings.
The Thai government said it had negotiated a truce with protesters for the next several days to honor the birthday of the country's deeply revered king. But the leader of the protests said the fight against Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra and her exiled brother would continue.
Several days of street battles gave way to hugs and smiles after police said they would no longer use force against protesters trying to storm prime minister's offices as well as the city police headquarters.
The sudden change in tactics, after violent clashes between stone-throwing mobs and police firing tear gas, water cannon and rubber bullets, came as the nation prepares to celebrate King Bhumibol Adulyadej's 86th birthday tomorrow.
The protests, aimed at unseating Yingluck's government and replacing it with an unelected "people's council", are the latest bout of unrest in the kingdom since royalist generals ousted the premier's brother Thaksin Shinawatra in a coup seven years ago.
Four people have been killed and about 250
wounded in the street violence since Saturday, according to the city's Erawan emergency centre.
Protest leader Suthep Thaugsuban, a former deputy premier, told supporters the fight to unseat the government was not over, in comments that suggested tensions could flare anew after the king's birthday.
"It's a partial victory but it's not final because the Thaksin regime is still in place. You cannot go back home yet. We have to continue our struggle," said the former deputy premier, who faces an arrest warrant for insurrection.
It is the kingdom's worst political violence since a deadly military crackdown on pro-Thaksin "Red Shirts" in 2010, although the recent clashes have been largely confined to certain parts of the city, away from main tourist districts.
In a short televised address to the nation yesterday, Yingluck said talks were needed between the different sectors of society to find a long-term solution.
The rallies were triggered by an amnesty bill, since abandoned by the ruling party, which opponents feared would have allowed Thaksin to return to his home country. He fled in 2008 to avoid jail for a corruption conviction he contends is politically motivated.
The demonstrators are a mix of royalists, Thaksin opponents, students and supporters of the opposi-