Red Shirts ready to negotiate with Thai government

Thailand’s Red Shirt protest leaders said today they are willing to negotiate with the government if the army ends its crackdown immediately to put an end to four days of street fighting that has killed 25 people.

“We are willing to negotiate immediately. What’s urgent is to stop the deaths of people. Political demands can wait,” Nattawut Saikua, one of the leaders, told reporters and supporters.