Demonstrators march through Bangkok with coffins of their dead

At least 874 people were wounded when army troops tried to regain control by force from public areas taken by the “red shirts” that require the immediate resignation of Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva, and the calling of elections.

According to reports the Bangkok Post today, the political parties in the coalition government pressure the prime minister to give in to the protesters and dissolve Parliament within six months, not Later this year, as offered two weeks ago.

Bangkok continues in tension and to re-ignite fears of violence as the “redshirts” loyal to ousted former prime minister and billionaire Thaksin Shinawatra, announced that they are willing to keep their protests and collapse the city to achieve their purpose.

The demonstrators also blamed the carnage on the security forces, who-used-as reported real bullets to disperse them, and put in evidence a number of rifles and machine guns seized some soldiers.

fiercest clashes were fought in the vicinity of the busy street of Khao San, very famous among backpackers, where tourists could clearly hear the sounds of bullets and explosions from the shelters.

Since last Wednesday in Bangkok governs the state of emergency, which allows the military to assume security control, banning street meetings, declare curfews and censor the media.

The emergency measure has been applied to suspend the P-channel TV TV and block several websites for “inciting violence” in the worst crisis gripping the country since 1992.

Thailand is undergoing a deep political divide the enormous divide between supporters and detractors from the coup that ousted Shinawatra in 2006, a fugitive from justice and from exile is committed to continue leading.

The “red shirts” sympathetic to the lower classes of rural areas in the northeast, enemies of the Bangkok elite who embodies Vejjajiva Democratic Party.