Thailand’s student activists speak out against political oppression

Netiwit ‘Frank’ Chotiphatphaisal. Image via Frank’s Facebook page. >

Student activist Than Rittiphan: “Mixing, diversity, that is Thainess. ‘Yam Salmon’ is Thainess.” 

By James Austin

By Saksith Saiyasombut & Siam Voices Mar 09, 2015

Since the declaration of martial last year in Thailand and subsequent crackdowns on public dissent, criticism against the junta, led by Prayuth Chan-ocha, who was appointed Prime Minister by a military-heavy national assembly, has been aired for the most part in print and online (despite a newly drafted Computer Crimes Act that includes suitably vague criminalization of the creation and/or dissemination of information deemed harmful to the country).
Thailand’s Student Activists Speak Out Against Political Oppression by Thavam Ratna