Thailand's street protesters are taking extreme measures in drawing attention to their demands on who should run their country. The newest tactics: Splattering their own blood and threatening to hurl plastic bags of human waste.
On Tuesday, antigovernment demonstrators poured several gallons of blood at the gates of government headquarters in a symbolic sacrifice to step up their campaign for fresh elections and to bring back ousted populist leader Thaksin Shinawatra from exile. Activists have threatened to resort to what they call “biological weapons.”