Police in Thailand allowed anti-government protesters to enter the prime minister’s office compound earlier today in an apparent bid to ease the country’s worst political crisis in three years. The protesters want to oust the government and replace it with an unelected “people’s council.” Their outrage erupted last month over an amnesty bill that would have eliminated a corruption conviction against the brother of the current prime minister, who himself led Thailand until his ouster in 2006. Protests escalated over the weekend with at least three people killed. Earlier today, police removed barricades near the police headquarters and allowed protesters to swarm the lawn of Government House in a symbolic victory that appeared to calm tensions.