Update | Thai 'red shirts' mass in Bangkok to back Yingluck Shinawatra
Turnout is not as great as expected as pro-government leaders say they will oppose any move by the courts to remove premier
Thousands of Thai pro-government "red shirts" massed yesterday in a show of support for Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra, warning that they would resist attempts to oust her through the courts.
More than 3,000 police and troops were mobilised for the rally on the western outskirts of Bangkok, following months of political violence in which 24 people were killed and hundreds wounded.
Thailand has been rocked by years of sometimes bloody street protests by supporters and opponents of fugitive former premier Thaksin Shinawatra, Yingluck's elder brother.
Supporters of the movement arrived in buses and trucks for what red-shirt leaders hoped would be their biggest show of strength in the months-long crisis.
"I want to see justice. I want the country to have democracy," said Keatisak Thaweerit, 46, who hails from northeast Thailand.
"We are here to use the voices of the majority of the people in the country."