Tensions ease in Thailand as police remove barriers Thailand anti-government protest NEW: The protest leader says the fight isn't over Government and protesters agree to a truce, a security official says Protesters are allowed past barricades at government and police offices Bangkok, Thailand (CNN) -- Tensions eased in Thailand on Tuesday as police took down barricades in the capital and allowed anti-government demonstrators to enter the compounds of government buildings. The Thai government said it had negotiated a truce with protesters for the next several days to honor the birthday of the country's deeply revered King. But the leader of the protests said the fight against Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra and her exiled brother would continue. Lt. Gen. Paradon Patthanathabut of the National Security Council said that thousands of protesters were allowed to enter the compound of Government House, the headquarters of Yingluck's administration and a key target of demonstrations in recent days. Paradon said Tuesday that the government and protesters had "mutually agreed to back down for the sake of our great father, our King." The world's longest-serving monarch, King Bhumibol Adulyadej of Thailand turns 86 on Thursday. But Suthep Thaugsuban, who has led the demonstrations against Yingluck's government in pockets of central Bangkok in recent weeks, said the campaign wasn't over. "We will continue fighting until Thaksin's regime is definitively wiped out," he said, referring to Thaksin Shinawatra, the exiled former Prime Minister and brother of Yingluck who is considered to retain considerable influence in Thailand. Calmer atmosphere Under the direction of Suthep, a former deputy prime minister for the opposition Democrat Party, protesters have occupied various official buildings over the past ten days. The situation remained mostly peaceful until Saturday, when clashes between protesters and government supporters left three people dead and dozens wounded -- the worst civil unrest in Thailand since scores died amid a military crackdown on demonstrations in 2010. Suthep had declared late Monday that some demonstrators would head for Bangkok's Metropolitan Police Bureau and "seize this police office for the people of Thailand." One of the senior protest organizers, Anchalee Paireerat, was heard announcing to a crowd "we will stop for now for our King's birthday" over a loud speaker mounted on a truck near Government House. The protesters stated goal of ridding Thailand of the "Thaksin regime" appears ambitious. Parties affiliated with Thaksin, who built his political success on populist policies that appealed to Thailand's rural heartland, have won every election in the country since 2001.