Thai students learn art of politics

Ms Chonthicha Jangrew, who fronts the Democracy Restoration Group, stands by a pro-democracy sculpture in Thammasat University in Bangkok.
Ms Chonthicha Jangrew, who fronts the Democracy Restoration Group, stands by a pro-democracy sculpture in Thammasat University in Bangkok.ST PHOTO: TAN HUI YEE
Published
Mar 10, 2018, 5:00 am SGT

Activists hold demonstrations, camps in call for action as electoral system starts up

Indochina Bureau Chief
tanhy@sph.com.sg

Ms Chonthicha Jangrew wears a T-shirt which reads: "Light a fire in the wind."

The slogan symbolises what the graduate student and her fellow activists are doing, by organising demonstrations to call for an election that Thailand's military government has repeatedly pushed back.

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