After police found more than 32 knives, and gun ammunition at one Bangkok university on Thursday, PM Prayuth calls on students and alumni to end to the violence. Police searched the school grounds of the Uthenthawai campus of Rajamangala University of Technology after a video of students firing guns into the air went viral on Wednesday. Uthenthawai is one of many Thai vocational universities notorious for violence based on school rivalries.
In 2016, police found two handguns and ammunition, 55 knives, six bulletproof vests, and materials for making nail bombs, also on the Uthenthawai campus. Many videos show students at Uthenthawai and other vocational schools fighting each other. Sometimes, the fighting happens on public transportation routes where students run into each other. One former Uthenthawai student told VICE in an interview that when he saw a student from the Pathumwan…
