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  • Finally: Student Unrest

    Thai student protesters test water as anti-govt anger simmers
    AFP February 26, 2020, 6:07 PM GMT+7 https://www.yahoo.com/news/thai-stud...110713537.html


    Universities across Thailand have seen rallies since the Future Forward Party was dissolved last week

    Universities across Thailand have seen rallies since the Future Forward Party was dissolved last week (AFP Photo/Mladen ANTONOV)
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    Thai students held rare flashmob protests on Wednesday as anger at the dissolution of a stridently anti-military opposition party bubbles in a kingdom with a long history of raucous street politics.

    Universities across the country have seen rallies since the Future Forward Party was dissolved last Friday over an alleged illegal loan by its billionaire founder.

    The party won 6.3 million votes in elections last March, earning the loyalty of millennials with its radical agenda to expunge the powerful Thai army from politics.

    The flickering of protests comes after several years of quiet enforced by military rule, with groups of high school students joining the march into the streets and calls for more rallies bouncing around social media.
    "There is a lot of abuse of power and inequality in this country," third-year student Fon told AFP at a downtown Bangkok campus, where hundreds gathered as evening fell.

    "This is my first time taking part in a protest -- but it is necessary," she added.

    Analysts say the dissolution of Future Forward -- and the ban of key members from politics including charismatic founder Thanathorn Juangroongruangkit -- could nudge the kingdom back towards mass protests that have scored much of the last 15 years of Thai history.
    Thai universities have been hotbeds of protest in the past.

    Bloody crackdowns in the 1970s at Thammasat, a key radical university in Bangkok, are etched into the memory of the pro-democracy movement, which has been routinely smothered in the wake of coups by the arch-royalist military.

    Discontent is simmering across the country.

    Thailand's economy is being squeezed by drought, high household debt and the impact of the coronavirus which has hammered the vital tourist industry at peak season.

    The protests also come as the government of Prayut Chan-O-Cha faces a no confidence vote in parliament later this week.
    Without Future Forward, the increasingly unpopular former army chief should comfortably stave off the motion.
    But the debate is raising awkward questions of his government.

    On Wednesday Prayut denied allegations the army -- which he helmed during a 2014 coup -- used taxpayer money to fund an online campaign targeting his political rivals.

    Presenting evidence from an army whistleblower, opposition lawmaker Wirote Lukana-adisorn said the military had launched "information operations" to hammer anti-establishment critics with large social media followings.
    Prayut said "there was no policy" of trolling opponents of the military and his aligned government.
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  • #2
    more convinced than ever that we have not seen the last of blood on the streets in Thailand .
    http://thailandchatter.com/showthrea...ll=1#post45112

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    • #3
      I wonder when the common soldiery will have jackshit of being tasked with shooting their own people. When they're not busy cleaning Sirs car.

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      • #4
        Originally posted by Mid View Post
        more convinced than ever that we have not seen the last of blood on the streets in Thailand .
        Unfortunately, I believe so as well.


        What might be more disappointing is the fact that they don't have a base as to the whys and wherefores of their rebellious behaviour.

        This circle not only includes the demonstrators, but the assorted punditry that miss the picture.
        Turns into a historic revolving cycle.

        These protests and whatnot serve only a purpose to comfort those in despair.

        If one is truly committed towards protests and so called change - a more practical manner might be to engage realities and live your protests......certainly as a mass collective.

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        • #5

          By Randy Thanthong-Knight
          https://www.bloomberg.com/asia
          February 28, 2020, 4:00 AM GMT+7

          2014 coup Prajak KongkiratiUniversity of North CarolinaThousands
          Democratic Process
          Last edited by harrymsmarkle; 02-28-2020, 06:15 AM.
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          • #6
            Let's hope these anarchists don't burn down any more shopping malls in Bangkok, eh?
            God, the panic within the Dems, MSM, and left must be horrifying...realizing that Joe is really the best they've got.

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            • #7
              Originally posted by Boon Mee View Post
              Let's hope these anarchists don't burn down any more shopping malls in Bangkok, eh?
              ...or start ripping up pink cards...
              Majestically enthroned amid the vulgar herd

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              • #8
                Cough...

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                • #9
                  I could not have said it better myself booner-

                  I don't know how long it will take Thailand to rid itself of it's cancer, or how much blood will be spilt in the process. But it has begun, and is building momentum.

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                  • #10
                    Thai PM, army deny campaigns on social media to target political opponents
                    Reuters February 26, 2020, 5:39 PM GMT+7 https://www.yahoo.com/news/thai-pm-a...103913079.html


                    ASEAN leaders attend closing ceremony of the 35th ASEAN Summit in BangkokBANGKOK (Reuters)

                    Thailand's prime minister and the army denied on Wednesday opposition accusations in parliament that the military targets political opponents and rights activists with online propaganda campaigns run from fake accounts on Facebook and Twitter.

                    The accusations provoked Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha to walk out of a heated parliamentary debate on Tuesday after a lawmaker of the outlawed opposition Future Forward Party presented documents that he said bore out the claims.

                    "I don't know about this, I don't have this type of policy," Prayuth told reporters on Wednesday, referring to the documents.
                    "We will investigate, but there is no policy."

                    The lawmaker, Wiroj Lakkhanaadisorn, had told parliament the documents showed Prayuth's government was funding military-run smear campaigns to systematically harass opponents and praise the government on social media.

                    He read from what he said were two leaked military memos that ordered army personnel to create fake social media accounts to "offer counternarrative" for criticism of the government.

                    Reuters has not examined the documents.

                    "The army works in the open and we don't use avatars," Lieutenant General Thanya Kiatsarn, of the second army area command, a unit the opposition said figured in one of the memos, told the Khaosod newspaper.

                    Some soldiers may be using social media to defend the reputation of the military but the effort was not centrally organized, he added.
                    Facebook and Twitter did not immediately respond to emails to seek comment.

                    Prayuth's coalition majority was strengthened by the disbanding last week of Future Forward, the third-largest party in parliament, on the grounds that the party breached the law when it took a loan from its founder.

                    The dissolution has sparked daily protests among university students who are among the party's most vocal supporters.
                    Following Friday's court ruling to dissolve the party, its members have launched a string of accusations against Prayuth and the former military junta he led for five years before elections in 2019.

                    The ruling banned from politics 11 party lawmakers who lost their seats, while giving the 65 remaining MPs 60 days to either form a new party or join an existing one.
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                    • #11
                      Originally posted by sabang View Post
                      I could not have said it better myself booner-



                      I don't know how long it will take Thailand to rid itself of it's cancer, or how much blood will be spilt in the process. But it has begun, and is building momentum.
                      Not seeing any of that here, sabang.

                      Don't believe what you read in the fake news media and only half of what you hear. Maybe even less than half because opinions are like assholes - everybody has one...
                      God, the panic within the Dems, MSM, and left must be horrifying...realizing that Joe is really the best they've got.

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                      • #12
                        Originally posted by Boon Mee View Post
                        Not seeing any of that here, sabang.

                        Don't believe what you read in the fake news media
                        ......so, not deluded enough to believe your own posts......
                        Last edited by harrymsmarkle; 02-28-2020, 05:53 PM.
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                        • #13
                          Originally posted by sabang View Post
                          I could not have said it better myself booner-



                          I don't know how long it will take Thailand to rid itself of it's cancer, or how much blood will be spilt in the process. But it has begun, and is building momentum.

                          Sure.
                          Yet, we've seen these instances of momentum in the past without much development manifesting.

                          Generally speaking, the goodly percentage Thais are hardwired to admire the malignancy. Regardless of their positions of challenging, questioning, and revolutionary ideals -
                          Have no idea as to the historic cause and effect.

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                          • #14
                            Sure thing, Yoda.

                            Now back to the here and now, think some people are finding friends harder to come by these days.
                            Unless of course you consider gangsters good and loyal mates. Or oligarchs that bribe you.
                            There is a certain someone who's loyalties are notoriously fickle. H'mm, wonder where next.

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                            • #15
                              Originally posted by sabang View Post
                              Sure thing, Yoda.

                              Now back to the here and now, think some people are finding friends harder to come by these days.
                              Unless of course you consider gangsters good and loyal mates. Or oligarchs that bribe you.
                              There is a certain someone who's loyalties are notoriously fickle. H'mm, wonder where next.
                              A good generation.
                              The holding pattern will stand true.

                              Even among all these slobbering romantics that insist otherwise.

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