At least ten thousand protesters gathered on Sunday in Bangkok to protest against the government and calling for reform of the monarchy.
The tension is rising in Thailand, where the pro-democracy movement is gaining momentum. “The event for the students, there are 10,000 people” said to AFP a spokesman of the metropolitan police in Bangkok, about the rally, this Sunday.
Still running in the early evening, this event is the most important organisations in the kingdom since the coup of 2014, which had brought to power the current Prime minister.
Since last month, the protests have become almost daily, carried out by groups of students who are calling for a reform of the main organs of power, including the monarchy, breaking a taboo, deep in the thai society. One of the junctions of the busiest of the capital of thailand, was held Sunday afternoon by protesters who were chanting “down with the dictatorship” and flapping of the doves in the paper to symbolize peace.
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Hong Kong model
The arrest by the authorities of three activists in the past two weeks has caused a rise of tension in the country. Released on bail, they are being sued for a dozen reasons, among which the sedition and the violation of the law of a health emergency.
It was meant not to repeat their offences but one of them, Parit Chiwarak, alias “Penguin”, the leader of the students Union of Thailand was present Sunday at the event in Bangkok. The protesters thai, taking as a model the young hong Kong people have no real leader and rely primarily on social networks to relay their calls to protest.
Their main target has long been the Prime minister Prayut Chan-O-Cha, former head of the army author of a coup d’etat in 2014 and who remained in power after disputed elections in 2019. Protesters have been calling for his resignation, the dissolution of Parliament and the rewriting of the Constitution of 2017, which gives a very wide 250 senators, all chosen by the army.
But last Monday, in front of some 4,000 protesters gathered on a campus in Bangkok, the organisers had for the first time listed 10 demands for reform of the monarchy, a bold act that has seized the country.
“the future belongs to The young”
With an estimated fortune of $ 60 billion, the monarch Maha Vajiralongkorn, called Rama X, has also brought unprecedented changes after his accession to the throne in 2016, taking direct control of assets royal, and placing army units directly under his command.
“It is a matter very risky and it is unacceptable for the majority of Thais” had said on Thursday the Prime minister about the claims of the protesters before taking the tone of appeasement in a televised speech, calling for unity and stating that “the future belongs to the youth”. Other cause of the protests, Thailand is experiencing one of its worst economic crises since 1997 due to the pandemic of sars coronavirus.
millions of Thais have lost their jobs, and the crisis has highlighted the inequalities in the economy of the country, perceived as benefiting primarily the elite pro-military.
