There is no order signed to mobilise and arm thousands of forest rangers nationwide to Bangkok to prevent red shirts from rallying in Bangkok, Suwit Khunkitthi, minister of natural resources and environment said Wednesday.
The minister was responding to a claim by a red shirted leader; Jatuporn Prompan that he has evidence to prove that Suwit signed an order to mobilise 6,000 forest rangers with firearms to the capital to block the red shirts coming to rally here.
However, Suwit Wednesday dismissed the accusation as totally unfounded.
"How could he claim that he has got the signed order. I've never signed such an order? I hate violence and neither want to see any confrontation nor violence," he said.
Instead he instructed civil servants to remain impartial.
The government and the military have intensified their security in many areas particularly the capital in the run-up to the Supreme Court's February 26 ruling whether to seize the assets worth Bt76 billion of convicted forme prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra.
