By The Nation
The National Institute of Development Administration (NIDA) yesterday issued an official statement advising the government to step down, while Chulalongkorn and Thammasat universities called on the People's Alliance for Democracy (PAD) to stop rallying.
According to the statement, students from NIDA's School of Social and Environmental Development are worried that there will be a repeat of the bloody October 14, 1973, and May, 1992 uprisings, and want the government to withdraw all police officers and do the responsible thing by resigning.
The statement also said the PAD should stop rallying after the government resigns, and has called on the media to report the news in a moral and balanced manner.
However, students from the two universities issued a statement condemning the PAD, saying that their protest was destroying democracy and that peaceful means were not being used.
All sides said they had issued the statements independently. | 
