6 - Tuesday, January 14, 2014 The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com 6 - Tuesday, January 14, 2014 The Michigan Daily - michigandailycom Protesters boycott election, block roads in Thai capital Demonstrators have been held to counter the shutdown and urge the election vow to "shut down" be held. Yingluck said she has pro- city while political posed to meet Wednesday with various groups - includ- negotiation continues ing her opponents - to discuss a proposal from the Election BANGKOK (AP) - Anti-gov- Commission to postpone the ernment protesters seized key elections, according to Deputy intersections across Thailand's Prime Minister Pongthep Thep- capital on Monday, blockading kanchana. major roads into the heart of There was no immediate Bangkok's downtown districts response from demonstra- at the start of a renewed push to tors, but protest leader Suthep derail elections next month and Thaugsuban said, "you cannot overthrow the prime minister. mediate with this undertaking, The protesters vowed to "shut you cannot compromise with down" the cityof 12 million peo- this undertaking. In this under- ple, but life continued normally taking, there's only win or lose inmost places, with the majority ... today, we must cleanse Thai- of businesses and shops open. land." The intensified protests were The International Cri- peaceful and even festive, as vast sis Group think tank said the swarms of people blew whistles, "scope for peaceful resolution is waved Thai flags and spread out narrowing." tents and picnic mats at seven "If the sides can agree on key crossroads where demon- the need to avoid violence and strators wearing bandanas and for a national dialogue built sunglasses turned cars back. on a shared agenda, a solution Still, the protests raise the might just possibly be found," stakes in a long-running crisis the group said. "It is a slim reed that has killed at least eight peo- on which to float hopes, but in ple in the last two months and Bangkok there is little else avail- fueled fears of more bloodshed able." to come and a possible army The United States said Mon- coup. The army commander has day its ambassador and officials said he doesn't want to be drawn are engaged with "the full range into the conflict, which broadly of interested parties to encour- pits the urban middle and upper age dialogue and a peaceful, class opponents of Prime Minis- democratic, political resolu- ter Yingluck Shinawatra against tion." State Department spokes- her supporters in the poorer woman Marie Harf said the northern countryside. U.S. is urging all sides to refrain The demonstrators, who from violence, and applauds the accuse the government of cor- restraint shown so far by gov- ruption, have vowed to stay in ernment authorities. the streets for as long as it takes Since Yingluck assumed the to achieve their goals. They premiership after 2011 elec- are demanding that Yingluck's tions, she has walked a careful administration be replaced by tightrope with the army and a non-elected "people's coun- her opponents that succeeded in cil" which would implement maintaining political calm. The reforms they say are needed to trigger for the latest protests end corruption and money poli- was an ill-advised move late last tics. The main opposition party year by ruling party lawmakers is boycotting Feb. 2 elections to push through a bill under the that Yingluck has called in a bid guise of a reconciliation mea- to ease tension - and which she sure offering a legal amnesty would almost certainly win., for political offenders. The last- Critic, kav lashed ou-at -minute inclusion of Thaksinpled the mo as power struggle to public outrage and the bill aimed at ringing the Southeast was voted dSw. 0 Asian nation's fragile democ- Since then, demonstrators racy to ahalt. Candlelight vigils have steadily escalated pressure on Yingluck, attackingher office at Government House and the city's police headquarters for several days in December with slingshots and homemade rock- et launchers. There are fears the protest- ers are trying to incite violence to prompt the military to inter- vene, and Yingluck has dealt softly with the demonstrators in a bid to keep the situation calm. There was no effort by police to stop Monday's seizure of major traffic intersections. The country's powerful army commander has repeatedly said he wants to stay out of the con- flict, but in a sign of apparent impatience late last month, he refused to rule out the possibil- ity of a military takeover. The real target of the protest- ers' wrath is Yingluck's brother, former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, who lives in self- imposed exile to avoid jail time for a corruption conviction but still wields considerable sway over Thai politics. They accuse Yingluck of being Thaksin's puppet, but the rural poor like him for the populist policies he implemented, including virtu- ally free health care. "I'm here to get rid of Thaksin and his cronies," said Darunee Suredechakul, a 49-year-old Bangkok native and resort owner who is staying in a hotel so she and her daughter can join the protests. "The govern- ment has to go. Reforms must be carried out. This is mainly because we don't want to see the same old corrupted politicians returning to power over and over again." While she acknowledged the street blockades must be creat- ing some headaches for people, "Bangkok residents must be patient until we move past this point so that our children will not have to suffer like we do. Trust me. It's worth it," she said. Most Thai and international schools in Bangkok were closed Monday, as was at least one major shopping mall. Enterprising residents set up makeshift booths to sell drinks, skewers of chicken and bowls of noodles, while others hawked whistles, caps and T-shirts. AMR NAB1L/AP An Egyptian worker sits on boxes of ballots while receiving a list of polling stations from a colleague, at the Giza courthouse, in Cairo, Egypt, Monday. Egyptian mi litary oversees referendum ongav. charter Opposing party members arrested for protesting campaign efforts CAIRO (AP) - Egyptians are being asked to vote this week on a vision of their nation's future sponsored by the powerful mili- tary, a two-day election widely seen as a referendum on a likely presidential run by the country's top general - but held in a cli- mate of fear and intimidation. An astounding 160,000 sol- diers and 200,000 policemen were expected to deploy across Egypt on Tuesday and Wednes- day to guard polling stations and voters following months of violence that authorities have blamed on Islamic militants. Supporters of Mohammed Morsi, the Islamist president ousted in a coup last summer, have said they would stage mas- sive demonstrations and boycott the vote on a new constitution. In many ways, Egypt looks more like a country going to war rather than one preparing for what is supposedly a transition to democratic rule. The govern- ment and the overwhelmingly pro-military media have por- trayed the balloting as the key to the nation's security and stabil- ity over which there can be no dissent. Hundreds of thousands of fliers, posters, banners and bill- boards exhort Egyptians to vote "yes." Posters urging a 'no' vote have led to arrests. "There appears to be a con- viction among security officers that there should be zero accom- modation for anyone who wants a 'no' vote," said Heba Morayef, the Egypt director for Human Rights Watch. Authorities have threatened legal proceedings against the owners of cyber cafes, presses and stationery stores if they allow use of their facilities for the production of 'no' fliers or posters, according to secu- rity officials. They said police commanders have instructed officers to arrest anyone distrib- utingleaflets or hanging banners against the draft charter. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity in exchange for dis- cussing security operations. "We are trying to mobilize the 'yes' vote. Anyone doing the opposite is a traitor and an American agent," said Moham- med Hamdy, a politician and local dignitary from the city of Assiut, an Islamist stronghold with a large Christian commu- nity south of Cairo. In Washington, U.S. State Department deputy spokes- woman Marie Harf said Mon- day: "We're deeply concerned by reports of ongoing arrests for campaigning for a 'no' vote on the constitutional referendum. We are also deeply troubled by reports that at least one indi- vidual was beaten during his arrest." The referendum is the sixth nationwide vote since the 2011 ouster of longtime authoritar- ian ruler Hosni Mubarak, with the five others possibly the fre- est ever seen in Egypt. While unlikely to be stained by fraud, this week's vote is taking place at a time when many of the free- doms won in the uprising that toppled Mubarak have vanished in the months since Morsi was removed after just one year in office. The government has detained thousands of Brotherhood mem- bers including Morsi and most of the group's leaders. Recently, the notorious domestic security agency set up hotlines for citi- zens to report members of the Brotherhood, which the gov- ernment has declared a terror- ist group. For their part, Morsi's supporters have been waging -near-daily protests since the popularly backed July 3 coup that ousted him. 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