[file]3462d65c9489[/file] Thai anti-government demonstrators celebrate after they vandalize a car leaving the Thai Interior Ministry on Sunday, April 12, 2009, in Bangkok, Thailand. The country's embattled government, humiliated by demonstrators who shut down a 16-nation Asian summit, declared a state of emergency in the capital Sunday and ordered armored vehicles into the streets to stem a tide of protest across the country.  [file]0541f99dc07e[/file] Red-shirted anti-government protesters and supporters of ousted Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra stand on and look at the car of Niphon Promphan, secretary of Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva, at the Interior Ministry in Bangkok, Thailand, Sunday, April 12, 2009. Thailand's embattled government, humiliated by demonstrators who shut down a 16-nation Asian summit, declared a state of emergency in the capital Sunday and ordered armored vehicles into the streets to stem a tide of protest across the country. Niphon and his driver were seriously injured in the attack and are in hospital. [file]cc8b1d5c9c44[/file] Thai soldiers take position as they face with smokes set by protesters after they clear an intersection in downtown Bangkok, Thailand, Monday, April 13, 2009. Thai soldiers unleashed hundreds of rounds of automatic weapons fire to clear rock-throwing anti-government protesters from a major intersection in the capital in the pre-dawn darkness Monday. [file]bfa5fbd98743[/file] Soldiers and tanks have appeared in Bangkok after Thai authorities declared a state of emergency, a day after protests canceled a major Asia summit. [file]547248f113b3[/file]