Thai protest leader Suthep Thaugsuban<br />has vowed to escalate his campaign to topple the country’s government.<br /><br />Attempts by his followers on Monday to storm Bangkok’s police headquarters were thwarted but Suthep said the assault would resume on Tuesday.<br /><br />He remains defiant despite the issue of a warrant for his arrest on charges of insurrection.<br /><br />“I will probably be imprisoned,” he told a rally of anti-government protesters. “ But I, Suthep Thaugsuban, will never run away like their boss [Thaksin] who ran away overseas from a prison sentence.”<br /><br />Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra has called for talks with the opposition but stressed she will not hand over power to an unelected council as demanded by Suthep.<br /><br />The political crisis is Thailand’s worst since the bloody unrest in 2010. Government critics claim Yingluck is a puppet of her brother Thaksin who was ousted in a coup..<br /><br />Both sides are becoming increasingly polarised as the unrest which is concentrated near government buildings, intensifies.
