Placards were placed at the Sanya Dharmasakti monument, reading #Thammasatwillnottolerate and slogans like “even if you pick the all the flowers you cannot stop spring”, “Are you (the senators) afraid of the new age?” and “250 > 14 million voices.” Fabric signs were also in evidence, their messages directed at the senators and MPs.
Furthermore, the demonstrators convened to blow candles on a cake and sing happy birthday to the former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra on his 74th birthday.
They claimed that his removal from power through a coup had resulted in the loss of democracy and being governed by a dictatorship.
The demonstrators concluded their activities by symbolically placing funerary paper flowers and nailing a coffin shut.
At 8.30pm, after reading out announcements from activist…
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