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March to go ahead amid tight security

A new “royal ground” signpost is seen in front of the Crown Property Bureau on Monday ahead of a planned march to the office by Free Youth protesters on Wednesday. (Photo by Arnun Chonmahatrakool)

The pro-democracy Free Youth group asks their supporters to meet first at the Democracy Monument on Wednesday before moving on to the nearby Crown Property Bureau.

In its latest Facebook post, the movement urged people to join them at the monument on Ratchadamnoen Avenue at 3pm.

They will then move to the CPB on Nakhon Ratchasima Road in Bangkok to “reclaim assets that should have belonged to people”.

In 2017, a law was passed to treat public assets as crown assets and have the CPB, a unit under the King, manage them. From 1937, when the system of government was changed to constitutional monarchy, the two…

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