Anti-coup protesters defy Thai junta ban

BANGKOK: Public anger at the Thai military’s coup grew Sunday as more than one thousand protesters shouting “Get Out!” marched across the capital Bangkok in defiance of an army warning against protests.

Demonstrators began marching in the Chidlom district and made their way across the city to the Victory Monument cheered by onlookers, an Agence France-Presse reporter at the scene said, after a tense standoff with armed soldiers in the city’s retail heart.