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THAILAND’S top military commander warned politicians, lecturers and students not to introduce left-wing ideas into the country or campaign to change its constitutional monarchy.
“Those who studied democracy abroad and read other countries’ textbooks must consider how they should be adapted instead of trying to change the constitutional monarchy,” General Apirat Kongsompong said at a news conference yesterday.
“Do not introduce the left-wing policies you learned.”
Gen Kongsompong’s addressed his comments directly “to the students, lecturers and officials who studied abroad,” many of whom reportedly voted for the centre-left Future Forward Party, which preliminary figures indicate came third in the country’s inconclusive general election on March 24.
The party’s co-founder Piyabutr Saenkanokkul was part of a group of legal academics that sought reforms Thailand’s lese majeste law, which the state has used to surveil and arrest human rights activists and those critical of the military junta.
