ISA lifted
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Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra on Monday signed an order to lift the Internal Security Act (ISA) enforced in three Bangkok districts, the government spokesman said.
Tossaporn Serirak said that ISA would be lifted with immediate effect in Phra Nakhon, Pom Prab and Dusit districts. The ISA had been enforced in the areas ahead of a mass rally held by the Pitak Siam group led by Gen Boonlert Kaewprasit.
Meanwhile, Boonlert denied that he had been paid by former PM Thaksin Shinawatra to bring the rally to an abrupt end on Saturday. He added that Thaksin did once offer him the post of defence minister under Samak Sundaravej’s government, but he rejected it.
Boonlert said he chose to call off the rally because police managed to block people heading in from the provinces from joining the rally.
He did not want to see anybody killed or injured.
