We knew this would happen. Police use water cannons to repel revelling youths defying water-splashing ban. How ironic.
That’s exactly what happened on Wednesday, when Police deployed two water cannons on Ratchadamnoen Nok Road in response to pro-democracy groups defying the government’s ban on Songkran water splashing behaviour by having a big ol’ water fight.
They splashed buckets of water. They squirted vibrant coloured squirt guns. They laughed and splashed around Democracy Monument. They hurt nobody. Members from Talufh, Ratsadon, We Volunteer the United Front of Thammasat and Demonstration pro-democracy groups all joined in on the irreverent fun.
The demonstrators turned revellers also poured water on the Democracy Monument to symbolically “wash the filth away”. When police set up barricades around the monument, the demonstrators carried a replicated plaque…
