Thai police looking at charging NDM leaders

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Police looking at charging NDM leaders
THE NATION

BANGKOK: -- The authorities recorded the New Democracy Movement's anti-junta protest march from Thammasat University to Democracy Monument on Saturday and police are considering laying charges, Army Chief General Udomdej Sitabutr said yesterday.

Udomdej said he understood the activists desire to express their opinions on such an important and symbolic day - the ninth anniversary of the September 19, 2006 coup.

However he asked them not to do it again, adding that the Public Assembly Act had been enacted and if it had been violated the demonstration leaders must be held responsible.

Talk at Thammasat

Prior to the march, the NDM held a discussion at Thammasat University entitled "Nine Years - Failure to Move On After September 19 Coup".

Udomdej said the National Council for Peace and Order allowed people some self-expression but it tried to be careful to maintain peace and order.

A key NDM member, Rangsiman Rome, responded to Udomdej's remark that the activists had never accepted the NCPO and its laws, so he was unconcerned about being charged.

He said the group's members were prepared to accept any outcome their actions might prompt.

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/politics/Police-looking-at-charging-NDM-leaders-30269211.html

-- The Nation 2015-09-21

[Somtamnication]

As was in the '76 massacre protest and the 2 universities battling it out, I can only say, with sadness, that this will happen again. Thais forget their history 5 minutes after.

[BSJ]

Thammasat University seems to be the fraternal home of a lot of troublemakers and dissenters, and has been for decades. The army should have leveled the place with tanks and artillery back in the seventies. It's not to late to reconsider!

[Reigntax]

Thammasat University seems to be the fraternal home of a lot of troublemakers and dissenters, and has been for decades. The army should have leveled the place with tanks and artillery back in the seventies. It's not to late to reconsider!

Yes, the country could do without educated and free thinking people and just leave control to the buffalo's who for 70 years keep doing the same thing expecting a different result.

[aussieinthailand]

Thammasat University seems to be the fraternal home of a lot of troublemakers and dissenters, and has been for decades. The army should have leveled the place with tanks and artillery back in the seventies. It's not to late to reconsider!

BSJ DISGUSTING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Leveling churches will not stop Christian's, nor Muslim's, nor casino's and gambling, nor crack houses and drug users, nor will persecution of people stop them from wanting freedom, Some people in this world think they have the divine right to control others, and some say NO we are our own selves and we will be free no matter what you say no matter what you do to us, Repression is an evil that is for the powerful few against the many...

[Laughing Gravy]

And the prime minister is going to the UN to talk about democracy. What a joke. People should look up what democracy actually means.

[ldiablo]

They will wait until the general is back from New York before anyone is charged.

[GeorgesAbitbol]

Thammasat University seems to be the fraternal home of a lot of troublemakers and dissenters, and has been for decades. The army should have leveled the place with tanks and artillery back in the seventies. It's not to late to reconsider!

Pathetic answer

You neither know nothing about thai History or are just a troll...

I really hope one day you'll face the full weight of a dictatorial junta in your country so maybe you would understand.

Without people like those ones we would never have the biggest progression in countries like, USA, France, Germany, ....

Edited September 21, 2015 by GeorgesAbitbol

[oneday]

That's it...keep putting the best people in this country in jail and you continue to dilute the strength and goodness of this country more and more.

[Acharn]

As was in the '76 massacre protest and the 2 universities battling it out, I can only say, with sadness, that this will happen again. Thais forget their history 5 minutes after.

No, but they certainly want to blot that event out. It puts the elite in a very bad light. Come to think of it I don't see them ever celebrating any but events so old that nobody could be offended by them. Do they have a holiday for the 1932 uprising? I know they do have a holiday celebrating the constitution, but it's never stated which one they mean, so everybody can join in on that one.