Leader: Thai "red-shirts" to regather late June

BANGKOK, May 30 -- The United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship (UDD) or the so-called "red-shirts" will hold a mass rally on June 27 in Bangkok to demand for true democracy and oust the government led by Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva, a core leader said Saturday.

The demonstration will be held at Sanam Luang which can contain some 100,000 people and a symbol rally site of the "red-shirts", the website of Bangkok Post on Saturday quoted Jatuporn Prompan, core leader of the UDD as saying.

Jatuporn said he expected that Sanam Luang will be filled with the "red-shirts".

Another UDD leader Nattawut Saikua said he will bring those who were injured by the government's crackdown on protesters at Bangkok's Din Daeng intersection to police to file charge against Abhisit for allegedly ordering the attacks on the people.

No one has come out to clarify whether the government has followed the right procedures in dispersing the crowd last month, he said

The UDD was known by the world in mid-April when its red-shirted supporters rushed into the then-ongoing 14th ASEAN Summit and Related Summits in Thai eastern beach resort city of Pattya, forcing the meetings to be canceled. Their rally aiming to oust the government led-by Prime Minister Abhisit later escalated into clashes with the military and Bangkok residents, leaving more than 100 injured and two dead.