The red shirts yesterday rebuilt their road barricade outside Chulalongkorn Hospital after it was removed earlier in the day following public outrage over their raid of the hospital on Thursday night.
The barricade - made with car tyres, wooden spikes and barbed wire - was removed late yesterday morning following a meeting of protest leaders, including Natthawut Saikua, weng Tojirakarn and Suporn Atthawong.
However, at around 6pm, the red-shirt protesters began reconstructing the barricade that they said was at the order of renegade Army specialist Maj-General Khattiya Sawasdiphol. Many red shirts still admire Khattiya even though some leaders earlier encouraged the protesters to "cut ties" with him because of the allegedly aggressive nature of his moves. The protesters said Khattiya had told them that removing the barricade would make it easy to disperse the crowds.
Yesterday, the hospital evacuated most of its patients after it was stormed by some 200 protesters who mistakenly believed that troops were hiding there to prepare for a crackdown. However, they did not find any soldiers inside.
Protest leader Jatuporn Promphan yesterday promised that the red shirts would not obstruct the hospital's operations anymore and prevent any such confrontations in the future.
Meanwhile, Suporn yesterday asked for understanding, saying that the red shirts had to put up the barricade in order to protect themselves. He said the red-shirt guards stationed at Lumpini Park, opposite the hospital, would be told not to storm into the hospital again.
In a related report, acting police chief General Patheep Tanprasert said yesterday that protest leader Payap Panket had violated the law by leading the raid into the hospital.
However, despite the police presence at the scene, no arrests were made because the police were waiting for a more appropriate time, he said.
Patheep said that after the incident, he had instructed Metropolitan Police commissioner Lt-General Santhan Chayanond to provide "sufficient care" for hospitals, adding that Pathumwan police were assigned to guard Chulalongkorn Hospital.
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