Thai Students Mobilise To Resist Junta Rule

[cavanami]

Thai students mobilise to resist junta rule

 

http://news.yahoo.com/thai-students-mobilise-resist-junta-rule-032503120.html

 

Huddled around a table at a university canteen, six Thai students draft a newsletter celebrating democracy -- a meeting that would have barely attracted a glance two months ago, but could now land them in jail.

 

 

 

They are part of a small but growing troop of undergraduates uniting in Bangkok to resist the curtailment of civil liberties under military rule.

 

"We should write about what isn't being reported," says Achara, a 24-year-old languages student spurred into action by the junta's censorship of domestic media.

 

Democratic rights. Students and the coup. The legality of the takeover. Just some of the ideas she lists in a notepad whose cover reads "Big things often have small beginnings".

 

These small and sporadic acts of resistance by students -- from launching alternative publications to group readings of George Orwell's anti-authoritarian novel "Nineteen Eighty-Four" -- are among the few public expressions against the takeover...

[Flashermac]

I'm remind of the time I used 1984 as outside reading in a class. I heard later the students decided I must be a communist for making them read it. Yep, Orwell was a real red.