Students burn effigies of the junta

 

 

 

  

 

On July 3, students gathered in front of the Army Command Headquarters to demand the junta to return to their real jobs, and call to scrap the internal security bill, allegedly to perpetuate the junta's power.

 

The Students Network to Protect Democracy and the People burned effigies of Council for National Security (CNS) chairman Gen Sonthi Bunyaratklin, CNS deputy secretary-general Gen Saprang Kanlayanamit, Prime Minister Gen Surayud Chulanont, and Privy Council president Gen Prem Tinnasulanont, with the effigies shown to be trampling on a model of the Democracy Monument.

 

They said in their statement that the interim administration is undeniably under the influence of the CNS, and what the CNS and the government have done is dubious and apparently insincere, be they the scheduling of the election, the process of drafting the Constitution, the referendum, the internal security bill, and so on.

 

The CNS has had no legitimacy in the first place since they staged the coup, they said.

 

They also called on the people to reject the draft 2007 Constitution as the illegitimate CNS has exerted its influence on the drafting process right from the start.   The content of the draft charter, as it appears, is against Democracy and the people's power; for example, the selection of half of the Senate.  And there are attempts to mislead the people to vote for the draft by the Constitution Drafting Assembly and other state agencies.  Therefore, the people should reject it to show that coup d'etat is not a solution and the Sept 19 coup must be the last one in history.

 

The government must hold the election as promised by reinstating the 1997 Constitution.  And the new elected government must conduct a political reform, they said.

 


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