By Teo Cheng Wee

BANGKOK: Some 3,000 pro-government supporters gathered at Sanam Luang yesterday evening in a major rally that marked the second anniversary of the coup which removed former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra from office.

Despite a heavy downpour which lasted an hour, supporters of the United Front of Democracy against Dictatorship (UDD), who said they were gathering in the name of democracy, bathed the Sanam Luang area in a sea of red.

Sanam Luang is close to where thousands of anti-government People's Alliance for Democracy (PAD) protesters are stationed at Government House.

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