It was a moment the 51-year-old business consultant had never foreseen, but she felt desperate to do something after her son, student protest leader Parit "Penguin" Chiwarak, 22, was taken to hospital after nearly eight weeks of hunger strike.
As authorities locked up young protest leaders and largely brought their campaign to a halt, Sureerat came to forge an unlikely alliance with other mothers who are seeking freedom for their children and had never been particularly political before. The mothers have recently staged several quiet protests, standing together for one hour and 12 minutes - a reference to Article 112 in the criminal code on insulting the monarchy - next to cardboard cutouts of their children and showing the three-finger salute of defiance to demand that they be granted bail.
The protesters also demanded the departure of former junta leader Prayuth Chan-ocha as prime minister and a new constitution. The crackdown on the protest leaders brought their campaign to a halt but it fired up the mothers, most of whom were never particularly political before.
You will never know the courage that could possess until one of her children is in the middle of trouble.
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