BANGKOK: Some students at Thailand's Thammasat University posed with cardboard cutouts of well-known critics of the monarchy in a protest on Saturday as King Maha Vajiralongkorn was to present degrees amid growing calls for royal reform.
Student protesters set up life-size cardboard cutouts of historian Somsak Jeamteerasakul and former diplomat Pavin Chachavalpongpun, widely followed critics of the monarchy who live in self-exile. "Whatever it takes so that the hall is left with the smallest number of people," Suppanat told Reuters."This is to send an indirect message that some of us are unhappy with the monarchy and we want change."
"My mother asked me to come," said one 24-year-old student who gave his name only as Japan."I didn't really want to join it, honestly."Many families display gilt-framed pictures of graduates receiving degrees from the monarch, a practice begun last century to strengthen royal bonds with the middle class.
These students are very courageous, If I was Thaï i will be very proud of this youth. They're the future of Thailand for XXI century.
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