More than 1,000 protesters surrounded the Thai premier's offices for a third day, after the country's former leader Thaksin Shinawatra blamed the king's advisors for a coup against him.
The fugitive former prime minister delivered an angry video address to tens of thousands of his loyal supporters late Friday, urging them to continue a rally that began Thursday in the hope of forcing the government to resign.
Mr Shinawatra told the crowd in the 75-minute speech that former premiers General Prem Tinsulanonda and General Surayud Chulanont were behind the 2006 coup that unseated him and ‘led to all this mess’.
Mr Tinsulanonda led the country's government during the 1980s, while Mr Chulanont was in charge of the military-led administration that ran the country following Thaksin's ouster until elections in December 2007.
Both now act as key advisors to the country's revered king.
