Bangkok ? Anti-government protesters paraded coffins through the Thai capital today following a weekend of savage street fighting that left 21 killed and fears of further violence unless the activists and government reach a political compromise.

At least 874 others were injured when security forces tried to crack down Saturday on demonstrators who have been staging a month of disruptive protests in the Thai capital, seeking to have Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva dissolve Parliament and call new elections. It was the country’s worst political violence in nearly two decades.

Unconfirmed reports in local newspapers said political parties in the coalition government were pressuring Abhisit to compromise with the “Red Shirt” protesters by dissolving Parliament in the next six months instead of by year’s end, as he had earlier promised.