BANGKOK — Authorities are working to locate and re-educate a group of student activists who ate sandwiches in protest of the military junta today, said the deputy chief of the Thai police.
This morning, six members of the student activist group Centre of Students for Democracy of Thailand (CSDT) ate sandwiches and read George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-four in front of the US Embassy in Bangkok.
Their rally followed a one-man demonstration at the embassy on Sunday, in which a lone protester voiced his anger towards the US government for downgrading its military relations with Thailand in response to last month's military coup d'etat.
Although the military junta has strictly banned all forms of political protest, a senior police commander said on Sunday that the anti-America protester, Thep Vetchavisit, was exempted from the ban because he was merely voicing his anger towards the US government.
The anti-coup CSDT activists said they were staging their demonstration at the US Embassy today to enjoy the same privilege enjoyed by Mr. Thep.
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