Apr 16th, 2009 - Times Online
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The founder of Thailand's "yellow shirt" protest movement, which wasbehind the week-long occupation of Bangkok's main airports late last year,was shot and wounded early this morning.
The car of Sondhi Limthongkul was attacked in a petrol station near thecentral bank around 5am local time (2200 GMT on Thursday), a spokesman forhis People's Alliance for Democracy (PAD) said.
The PAD was not part of the latest political violence in Thailand over thepast week, which involved the red-shirted supporters of Thaksin Shinawatra,a former prime minister ousted in a coup in 2006 and now living inself-imposed exile.
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