BANGKOK: With leaders rounded up and soldiers deployed in their rural heartlands, Thailand’s “Red Shirts” have gone to ground but experts say they will regroup against the military’s toppling of the government they helped elect.

Meanwhile, Thai former prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra, anti-government protest leader Suthep Thaugsuban and a number of other people under military detention have been released, local media reported on Monday. Yingluck was allowed to return home on Sunday night from an army camp in Bangkok in an order issued by the National Council for Peace and Order, Bangkok Post quoted an army source as saying.

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