Abhisit said he was confident and ready to prove his innocence and explained that the situation he was in was not easy to handle. He insisted that he had adjusted strategies to avoid casualties but it was not easy because armed men were mingling among the protesters.
Vicha Mahakhun, spokesman for the NACC, had said that Abhisit and Suthep did not review or adjust the tactics used by military personnel to disperse the demonstrators.