Et voilà, mes amis de Phichit sont à
Bangkok. Bientôt la jonction avec le mouvement Suthep?
Depuis des jours, Suthep tente de rallier les riziculteurs à sa cause (ces derniers ont toujours tenu leurs distances en déclarant qu'ils étaient près à marcher sur
Bangkok mais nullement à rejoindre Suthep). Avec ce dernier coup d'éclat, il pourrait bien y arriver.
More than 100 rice farmers from Phichit arrived in Bangkok last night and are going to the Grand Palace to petition the King over the unpaid rice payment by the caretaker government.
The farmers who arrived in two chartered buses which they have to pay on their own at 400 baht each stayed overnight at a
Bangkok hotel owned by a Phichit tycoon and were given breakfast before proceeding to
the Grand Palace.
Farmers said they have no other people who they can trust and therefore will go to the King who they said is their last resort and who understands the plight of farmers most.
Farmers said they no longer have faith in the government who betrayed them, caused some of their colleagues to commit suicide due to the heavy debts and also disintegrated their families.
Source: ThaiPBS
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Protesting farmers who have been blocking Rama II highway at Wang Manao intersection of Ratchaburi’s Pak Tho district have decided to lift the blockade and to travel to Bangkok to join the protest at the Commerce Ministry.
The agreement to lift the road blockade was reached between protest leaders and Pol Lt-Col Suparat Kam-in, inspector of
Petchaburi highway police.
Mr Valit Charoensombat, chairman of Ban Rang Mai Daeng rice centre, apologized commuters and motorists for the blockade, saying that the farmers were deeply in trouble and the move was necessary to attract government’s attention.
However, since the government did not pay attention to their plight, he said the farmers decided to lift the blockade and to travel to
Bangkok to join the protest at the Commerce Ministry instead.
Regarding the government’s suggestion that it will return the pledged rice in stockpiles to any farmers who want them back, Mr Ravee Rungruang, another protest leader, said the rice need to be checked first whether they were Thai rice or rice smuggled in from neighbouring countries.
It was expected that Rama II would be reopened to normal traffic by noon today.
Source: ThaiPBS
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oh la la vous avez touchez le jack pot.. et bien la 
