Hundreds of anti-government protesters woke on Wednesday (December 11) after a night camping out on the streets near Government House, where Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra's office is located, in Bangkok.<br /> <br />On Tuesday (December 10), Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra pleaded for anti-government protesters to clear the streets after she called for snap elections to be held in February of 2014, but protest leaders said she should step down within 24 hours.<br /> <br />Yingluck insisted she would not step down and said she would continue her duties as caretaker prime minister until the election.<br /> <br />The number of protesters on the streets dropped on Tuesday to around 6,000 protesters by mid-afternoon, in the historic part of Bangkok around Government House, police said, a far cry from the 160,000 that converged peacefully on the complex on Monday.<br /> <br />The protesters, a motley collection aligned with Bangkok's royalist elite, want to oust Yingluck and eradicate the influence of
