Overview

• The Constitutional Court suspended Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra last month after a leaked phone call with Cambodian leader Hun Sen in which she called him “uncle” and disparaged a Thai general
• Police estimated roughly 2,000 demonstrators gathered by mid-afternoon at Victory Monument, singing patriotic songs and calling for the military to safeguard Thai sovereignty
• The rally drew participants from the conservative Yellow Shirts movement, longtime opponents of the Shinawatra family’s political influence
• More than three dozen people were killed and over 260,000 displaced in the recent Thai-Cambodian border clashes before a Malaysian-brokered ceasefire took effect on July 29
• Thailand’s army, which has carried out 13 successful coups since 1932, remains a central power broker and was lauded by protesters as the nation’s protector