Thai PM urges reconciliation as calm returns to Bangkok

Thailand’s prime minister today promised an independent probe into “all events” surrounding anti-government protests, and called for reconciliation to heal deep political divisions that led to widespread violence and 83 deaths in two months.

“Fellow citizens, we all live in the same house. Now, our house has been damaged. We have to help each other,” Abhisit Vejjajiva said in a nationally broadcast address on television.