Tens of thousands of red-shirt protesters are blocking a major intersection in the capital's business centre since Saturday, April 3rd 2010. Paralysing traffic and closing shopping malls, as they continued their campaign to force Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva to immediately dissolve the House of Representatives.

Leaders of the "Red shirt" United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship (UDD) led their followers to the central business district of Bangkok where they confronted security forces.