Thai soldiers guard at a building inside the compound of Government House Tuesday, April 21, 2009 in Bangkok, Thailand. Thailand's anti-government movement will stage new protest actions in the next few days following a military crackdown that ended deadly rioting last week, the group's fugitive leader Jakrapob Penkair said. (AP Photo/Apichart Weerawong)

Thai soldiers guard at the gate of Government House Tuesday, April 21, 2009 in Bangkok, Thailand. (AP Photo/Apichart Weerawong)

A popular seaside resort for Thai people is Bangsaen Beach in Chonburi Province. It is just over one hour from Bangkok and at the weekend it is packed with thousands of people. Over recent years, its popularity has started to take a toll and the beach has started to look more like a garbage tip. Children have to pick their way through plastic bags and broken beer bottles in order to reach the water. (Richard Barrow/ThaiPhotoBlogs.com)

The Phra Pradaeng Songkran Festival took place this weekend in Samut Prakan province. It differs from others in that it is held a little later than in most other locales. The Songkran rituals and celebrations here are held on the weekend that follows after Songkran Day on April 13. The highlight is the parade through the town to Wat Proteket Chettharam where Miss Songkran 2009 (with red sash), together with local administrators, release birds and fish as a means of making merit. (Richard Barrow/ThaiPhotoBlogs.com)

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Thai soldiers stand guard at the Victory Monument in Bangkok ,Thailand, Saturday ,April 18. 2009. Ousted Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra has joined his political rivals in calling for reconciliation after the mob violence that bloodied Bangkok's streets, but some of his supporters are refusing to give up their struggle to topple Thailand's government.

In this handout photo made available by Asia Satellite Television, Sondhi Limthongkul, one of the founders of Thailand's Yellow Shirt movement, lies bleeding from head and shoulder wounds at a Bangkok, Thailand emergency room Friday, April 17, 2009. Limthongkul was being driven to work before dawn Friday when at least two men in a pickup truck ambushed his car and opened fire with an M-16 and an AK-47, first aiming to shoot out the tires and then spraying the vehicle with bullets, said police Maj. Gen. King Kwangvisetchaichai. (Manager)

Sondhi Limthongkul, founder of the People's Alliance for Democracy (PAD), lies injured in a hospital in Bangkok April 17, 2009. The founder of Thailand's "yellow shirt" protest movement, which was behind the week-long occupation of Bangkok's main airports late last year, was shot and wounded early on Friday, a spokesman for his movement said. (Manager)

Thai soldiers inspect the damaged vehicle that was carrying the founded the People's Alliance of Democracy (PAD) Sondhi Limthongkul, in downtown Bangkok on April 17, 2009. The Thai activist who led a blockade of the kingdom's main airports last year was shot in the head in an assassination attempt the government said was aimed at inciting fresh unrest. Doctors said that Sondhi Limthongkul, founder of the "Yellow Shirts" royalist movement that helped topple former premier Thaksin Shinawatra, was in a serious condition and in surgery to remove a bullet from his skull. (Getty Images)

A Thai soldier looks at the bullet riddled automobile of Sondhi Limthongkul, one of the founders of Thailand's "yellow shirt" movement Friday, April 17, 2009. Limthongkul was being driven to work before dawn Friday when at least two men in a pickup truck ambushed his car and opened fire with an M-16 and an AK-47, first aiming to shoot out the tires and then spraying the vehicle with bullets, said police Maj. Gen. King Kwangvisetchaichai. Sondhi was wounded in the attack. (AP)

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The Nicaraguan government anounced it has made fugutive former premier Thaksin Shinawatra a "special ambassador" and issued him a diplomatic passport. The passport was issued in January when Thaksin visited the country, and was given to him in February, when he met Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega. (matichon.co.th)

Thai people play with water in Bangkok on the last day of the Songkran festival, which is regarded as Thailand's traditional New Year, Wednesday, April 15, 2009. This year, the start of Songkran was delayed by political protests in Bangkok (Richard Barrow/ThaiPhotoblogs.com)

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A security officer takes pictures of Thai protesters showing their ID cards before they leave the site of an anti-government rally at the premier's office, in Bangkok on April 14, 2009. Thai anti-government protesters threatened with a military offensive abandoned a three-week rally at the premier's office, pulling the kingdom back from a potentially bloody showdown in the streets. (Getty Images)