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January 29 group rallies at Govt House

About 200 members of the January 29 group rallied in front of Government House on Tuesday demanding the government release detainees in political cases and accept draft amnesty legislation to be submitted by several groups for consideration, reports said.

The members of the group, drawn from Bangkok and other provinces, began to gather at the Royal Plaza about 6am.

They set up a stage in front of the equestrian statue of King Rama VI and put up 18 tents for use by those taking part in the rally.

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  • jacksprat

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    Discussion 2 : 29 Jan 2013 at 14.272

    "He did not think the group was applying pressure on the government." If demanding the government do something is not pressure, then what is?.

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    Discussion 1 : 29 Jan 2013 at 12.521

    "He did not think the group was applying pressure on the government".......Well, think again. This is precisely what they are doing. The slow-walk processing of PADites from 2008 offenses, through the Judicial system, while UDD/Red Shirts from 2010 offenses find themselves in jail, including leadership, is a "political prisoner double-standards" travesty. That is what this is all about. The referencing of 200 people from a specific pressure group, and then vague talk of a "large number of Red Shirts" joining them, does not give an accurate picture of the size of this "pressure on the Government"rally at Govt. House today.

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