The crowd of students sing vitriolic anti-government rap songs and waved placards denouncing the administration and call for the abolition of Thailand's strict royal defamation law.
Thousands of mainly young and black-clad Thai protesters converged on Saturday, July 18, at Bangkok's Democracy Monument as the city's largest and rowdiest anti-government protest in years stretched deep into the night.
The crowd of students sang vitriolic anti-government rap songs and waved placards denouncing the administration of former army chief Prayut Chan-O-Cha – and calling for the abolition of the Thailand's strict royal defamation law. Earlier hundreds of police tried to block off access to the Democracy Monument, the concrete concourse of which was suddenly filled in with pot plants on Saturday afternoon.Scuffles broke out as protesters tipped over metal barriers and forced their way through police lines to hold a noisy rally at the memorial, which was built to mark the 1932 revolution that established a constitutional monarchy.
The years since have seen the economy cramp up, freedoms shrink under new laws and Prayut reinvent himself as an elected premier under a constitution the army drafted.Hundreds of thousands of students are expected to be jobless when they graduate in September, joining millions of middle class and poor in unemployment in a country with a threadbare welfare system.
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