Cameron McKinley

Led by Thailand’s top general, Prayuth Chan-ocha, the army did its putsch following increased political tensions between rival groups after Thaksin’s younger sister Yingluck Shinawatra was ousted from her position

Despite the ousting of Yingluck Shinawatra from her position as prime minister by Thailand’s highest court mid last week, the South East Asian nation’s protracted political crisis continues with no resolution in sight.

Images of Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra mistakenly putting her ballot paper into the wrong voting box made the front page of more than one Bangkok newspaper on Monday.

BANGKOK—Protesters aiming to oust the government of Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra managed to disrupt some of Thailand’s general election Sunday, in a further escalation of the country’s protracted political crisis.

Thailand’s top general, Prayuth Chan-ocha, has said that the country’s military is prepared to take action if the political situation in Bangkok turns violent.

Tens of thousands of anti-government protesters took over important intersections in Bangkok on Monday in a bid to force out the caretaker government of Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra.

A young woman and her mother, refugees from China, collected signatures in Bangkok for the Doctors Against Forced Organ Harvesting petition to the UN Human Rights High Commissioner to end forced organ harvesting from Falun Gong practitioners. The mother had been given a blood tests in a Chinese labor camp, a sign that the woman who ended up soliciting signatures to end organ harvesting was at one time at risk of having her own organs taken.

Anti-government protesters in Bangkok attempting to topple Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra, were quelled with teargas near Thailand’s Government House on Sunday.