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Students call on people to rise up and oppose the junta
Red Thai Socialist - June 25, 2015
They did this in order to defy the police warrant for their arrest because they refused to report to the police over their peaceful protests on the first anniversary of General Prayut's May 2014 coup d'etat.
Students and their supporters, along with many reporters, gathered outside Patum Wan police station, near Chulalongkorn University. They read out a declaration calling on people to join them and rise up and oppose the junta. They also accused the police of using violence against them in order to break up their peaceful protest in May.
The military spokes-person for the junta accused the students of being "trouble makers with a hidden agenda". Fighting for democracy in the open and on the streets can hardly be classified as a hidden agenda, nor can the military's wilful destruction of democracy! On previous occasions military loud-mouths have accused the students of "being too young to understand politics and democracy".
Meanwhile the military still calls people in for "attitude-changes". The latest case is that of people from a north-eastern women's group who dared to make merit at a temple on former elected Prime Minister Yingluk's birthday.
Also on 24th June this year, at the metal plaque commemorating the 1932 revolution, a group of activists laid flowers as a symbol of democracy.
Meanwhile Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Defence, Fat-head General Prawit tried to claim that the military junta was protecting the tradition of the Peoples' Party Revolution because it was "building and protecting democracy". From somewhere around his hindquarters, he was heard to exclaim that the government was "not a dictatorship". Perhaps he is too old, too stupid and too military to understand democracy?
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