Locals cheered on thousands of passing Red Shirts on bicycles, motorbikes, pickup trucks, vans and buses Sunday morning. The protesters were headed to the 11th Infantry Regiment’s Bangkok base where they aimed to pressure the PM into dissolving Parliament and calling elections.
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