Campaigners in central Bangkok plead for peace
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A woman holds a candle and a placard during an anti-violence campaign in central Bangkok
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A man holds a candle during an anti-violence campaign in central Bangkok
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People light candles during an anti-violence campaign in central Bangkok
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People hold candles and a placard during an anti-violence campaign in central Bangkok
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People hold candles and a placard during an anti-violence campaign in central Bangkok
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People hold candles and placards during an anti-violence campaign in central Bangkok
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People hold candles as they form a peace sign during an anti-violence campaign in central Bangkok
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A man holds a poster during an anti-violence campaign in central Bangkok
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A man holds up a poster during an anti-violence campaign in central Bangkok
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A boy holds a candle as people form a peace sign during an anti-violence campaign in central Bangkok
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Thailand on Friday played down talk of a military coup ahead of a planned "shutdown" of the capital next week by protesters trying to overthrow Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra. Demonstrators led by former opposition politician Suthep Thaugsuban aim to paralyze the capital for between 15 and 20 days by blocking seven main intersections, causing gridlock in a city clogged with traffic at the best of times. The turmoil is the latest episode in an eight-year conflict that pits Bangkok's middle class and royalist establishment against the mostly poorer, rural supporters of Yingluck and her brother, former premier Thaksin Shinawatra. (Reuters)