Prayuth Chan-ocha seeks to end conflict but protesters give him deadline to resign
Thailand’s prime minister has said he may lift severe emergency measures that were imposed last week to halt months of pro-democracy protests but which have instead sparked even bigger, nationwide rallies against his government and the monarchy.
Prayuth Chan-ocha, a former army general who first came to power in the 2014 coup, said he was moving to de-escalate the situation, adding that the country “must now step back from the edge of the slippery slope that can easily slide to chaos”.
