Bangkok Braced For Bloodshed As Red Shirts Vow No Surrender -- Times Online
Hospitals in Bangkok are preparing for bloodshed after anti-government Red Shirt protesters ignored an ultimatum to abandon their occupation of central Bangkok, but there were faint signs of a last minute compromise between the two sides.
The chief negotiator for the Government told a senior protest leader that the Royal Thai Army will stop firing on Red Shirts if they withdraw to their main camp in the Ratchaprasong district of central Bangkok. “If they call their people back to Ratchaprasong there will be no single bullet fired by the soldiers,” said Korbsak Sabhavasu. “”If he is serious about solving the problem he is capable of doing it. He can simply call back his people.”
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