ANTI-GOVERNMENT protesters dug into their encampments around Bangkok and rejected talk of negotiations yesterday after a month-long standoff escalated into clashes that killed 21 people in Thailand’s worst political violence in nearly two decades.

Thousands of anti-government demonstrators broke through police and military lines today to flood the streets around Bangkok’s business district and other areas of Thailand’s capital.

Thousands of anti-government demonstrators clashed with Thai police and military troops trying to prevent them from leaving the capital’s commercial district today to stage protests elsewhere in Bangkok.

Five foreigners were detained and their foreign-registered aircraft impounded after it landed in the Thai capital today with tons of war weaponry on board that originated in North Korea, Thai media quoted officials as saying.