Awareness on Thailand.
"BANGKOK — A Thai theater chain has withdrawn the latest “Hunger Games” movie after several student protesters were detained for using a gesture taken from the films, a three-finger salute of resistance to authoritarian government.
The salute, which in the movies is a daring act of silent rebellion, began to appear here in the weeks after the May 22 coup. The authorities warned that anyone raising it in public could be subject to arrest.
The military government in Thailand has clamped down on all forms of protest, censored the country’s news media, limited the right to public assembly and arrested critics and opponents. Hundreds of academics, journalists and activists have been detained for up to a month, according to Human Rights Watch."
This is a transcript fromhttp://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/21/world/asia/thailand-protesters-hunger-games-salute.html?_r=0
Why should a military coup be allowed to suppress the people in such manner! Limiting freedom most likely will spark more hostilities, if they really followed their "make happy and comfortable" plan this would not have happened.
Arresting students with minds of their own is not only bad for Thailand as intellectuals being arrested, but also the image of a developing country falling back to undeveloped means of suppression. Time to stop injustice of a coup government that not only took away the democratically elected government but now also human rights on freedom of speech!
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