Image Credit: Thai Lawyers for Human Rights (TLHR)

 

Political banners popped up on the campuses of Chulalongkorn and Thammasat universities on Friday, urging students to “wake up” politically and not to submit to suppression of free expression.

 

The banners are in support of two monarchy reformists, Tantawan Tuatulanon and Orawan Phuphong, who voluntarily revoked their own bail to return to a women’s remand home to start their hunger strikes.

 

The two protesters rallied in front of the Criminal Court on Monday to announce their decision to return to the Central Women’s Correctional Institution (CWCI) and to begin their hunger strikes in two days, if their demand for the release of all political detainees and prisoners is not met.

 

Full Story: https://www.thaipbsworld.com/banners-supporting-two-hunger-strikers-raised-at-thammasat-and-chulalongkorn-universities/

 

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The universities have the power for changes.. They are the future and all changes start with students...Always been and always will...Thailand is too outdated... Respect for them as they dare to stand up....More should follow as united  you can reach your goals, individual will not do

Edited January 20, 20233 yr by ikke1959

Obviously too young to remember what happened to protesting students in the 70's and 80's

This is a good thing. The Thai people need to wake up from their slumber. No nation wants or needs dinosaurs running it. The lack of progress here, on nearly every front, except a few infrastructure projects is a humiliation for the people. 

1 hour ago, spidermike007 said:

This is a good thing. The Thai people need to wake up from their slumber. No nation wants or needs dinosaurs running it. The lack of progress here, on nearly every front, except a few infrastructure projects is a humiliation for the people. 

Most Thai adults are either happy with the status quo or too lethargic to do anything, only the young and the brave will change the system, but it will come at a price.

Only if all connections to the military regime are cut will this bring about any sort of change.

This lot will just keep arresting protesters.

Agree with above comments. Easy to rag on the young nowadays for being feeble and having it easy etc, but in this case at least they are leading by example. Takes some real balls to do this kind of thing here. The vast majority in this sleepy fair land should take note!

45 minutes ago, hotchilli said:

Most Thai adults are either happy with the status quo or too lethargic to do anything, only the young and the brave will change the system, but it will come at a price.

Only if all connections to the military regime are cut will this bring about any sort of change.

This lot will just keep arresting protesters.

I disagree. I think very few are happy with the current regime. However, you are correct that very few are prepared to step up and take any risks. There are some very brave youth here. I really applaud them. My guess is their folks hate the regime as much as they do. For the most part, the heinous Thai army and PM have done an excellent job of repressing any signs of discontent. 

41 minutes ago, spidermike007 said:

I disagree. I think very few are happy with the current regime. However, you are correct that very few are prepared to step up and take any risks. There are some very brave youth here. I really applaud them. My guess is their folks hate the regime as much as they do. For the most part, the heinous Thai army and PM have done an excellent job of repressing any signs of discontent. 

The very few being the elite families, the upper wealth band, officials who can earn bonus payments doing a normal days job, and upper civil servants they are all happy with the status quo.

If only all those who hate this regime including students took to the streets peacefully or vote wisely at the ballot box things would change.

On 1/21/2023 at 12:06 PM, hotchilli said:

The very few being the elite families, the upper wealth band, officials who can earn bonus payments doing a normal days job, and upper civil servants they are all happy with the status quo.

If only all those who hate this regime including students took to the streets peacefully or vote wisely at the ballot box things would change.

" .....vote wisely at the ballot box things would change." unlikly as fault will be found with the vote and it will be disqualified / banned or whatever excuse they can find to invalidate the votes. 

Edited January 22, 20233 yr by Artisi

They should not unitarely revoke their bail, but organise large hunger strikes accross country. 
it's pointless to go to prison on their will. 
all those political prisoners already inside should consider hunger strike from the first day of being locked. 
 

those 2 are not taking any liquids and now in prison hospital. With rapidly deteriorating health. Probably will be put on saline drips. 
But its dangerous not to drink, with long term impact on all body systems. 

1 hour ago, Artisi said:

" .....vote wisely at the ballot box things would change." unlikly as fault will be found with the vote and it will be disqualified / banned or whatever excuse they can find to invalidate the votes. 

In which case the streets would be the next step, but the government would have initiated that move by quashing the vote of a vast majority..

55 minutes ago, internationalism said:

They should not unitarely revoke their bail, but organise large hunger strikes accross country. 
it's pointless to go to prison on their will. 
all those political prisoners already inside should consider hunger strike from the first day of being locked. 
 

those 2 are not taking any liquids and now in prison hospital. With rapidly deteriorating health. Probably will be put on saline drips. 
But its dangerous not to drink, with long term impact on all body systems. 

Correct, you can survive for a very long period of not eating before the body starts consuming itself, but you can't survive long without water intake. 

5 minutes ago, hotchilli said:

In which case the streets would be the next step, but the government would have initiated that move by quashing the vote of a vast majority..

Didn't they cancel 20% of the Future Forward parties vote in the last election?

On 1/20/2023 at 3:32 PM, hotchilli said:

Most Thai adults are either happy with the status quo or too lethargic to do anything, only the young and the brave will change the system, but it will come at a price.

Only if all connections to the military regime are cut will this bring about any sort of change.

This lot will just keep arresting protesters.

Aside from obvious, symbolic protests of this romantic nature do little to change or address anything - with the exception that it makes good copy in the suspected press. 

 

Any such movements for change need to come by way of living one's protest in a most practical manner - en masse.