Thai army defends business area from "red shirts"

2010/04/19 23:44:20 @Reuters: World News

BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thai soldiers threw a security cordon around Bangkok's business district after "red shirt" protesters demanding early elections threatened to march into the area on Tuesday, raising fears of a bloody crackdown. div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=1597D6Zo0c0:wUUgpRaiECc:yIl2AUoC8zA" img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0" /img /a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=1597D6Zo0c0:wUUgpRaiECc:F7zBnMyn0Lo" img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?i=1597D6Zo0c0:wUUgpRaiECc:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0" /img /a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=1597D6Zo0c0:wUUgpRaiECc:V_sGLiPBpWU" img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?i=1597D6Zo0c0:wUUgpRaiECc:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0" /img /a /div img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/reuters/worldNews/~4/1597D6Zo0c0" height="1" width="1"/
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