Thailand's 'Red Shirts' in mass Bangkok rally

Up to 40,000 'Red Shirt' supporters from across Thailand converged on central Bangkok on Saturday to mark the second anniversary of a deadly crackdown on street protests, city police said.

A carnival of flag-waving Red Shirts, food vendors and the occasional monk, took over the retail heart of the city, where the 2010 protests in support of ousted premier Thaksin Shinawatra descended into the kingdom's worst violence in decades.

Police blocked traffic at the Ratchaprasong intersection, one of Bangkok's busiest junctions, as mainly rural working-class Red Shirts arrived en masse in coaches laid on by the movement. 

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