September 19, 2010: While a motorcade of 150 vehicles made their way from Bangkok to Chiangmai for a rally of the United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship (UDD), popularly known as the Red Shirts, expected to draw 10,000, a growing crowd of Red Shirts has been gathering since morning around Rathaprasong Intersection, the site of the April-May mass protest camp of Red Shirts that was bloodily repressed by the military on May 19. Ninety-one people were killed and thousands were wounded. Hundreds of Red Shirts remain in detention.
The Red Sunday group plans to release 10,000 red balloon at 17:00 hrs.
These pictures relayed by Rajprasong News via Twitter tell the story of the gathering crowd:
According to Rajprasong_News the police estimated the crowd as 10,000 at 4pm, but other estimates were higher, especially leading up to 5pm.
Pics posted to Twitter by Kwang_nnanorth of the UDD rally held that night in Chiangmai: