Thailand: resumption of demonstrations in favor of reform of the monarchy

This Sunday, November 14, thousands of demonstrators were in the streets of Bangkok;

the clashes left three people injured, one of them seriously.

REUTERS - SOE ZEYA TUN

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In Thailand, protests for reform of the monarchy resumed yesterday, Sunday, November 14.

Thousands of demonstrators were in the streets of Bangkok;

the clashes left three people injured, one of them seriously.

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With our correspondent in Bangkok,

The demonstrators campaigning for a reform of the monarchy initially wanted to go to the symbolic monument to Democracy, in the old quarter of the capital.

But, prevented by police roadblocks, they finally fell back on the German embassy, ​​a country where the sovereign Rama X often spent extended stays.

In the late afternoon, detonations were heard and at least one protester was shot in the chest, according to local media.

Scare

It is a decision of the Constitutional Court last Wednesday which set fire to the powder, by considering that any public demand to reform the monarchy would henceforth be considered as an attempt to overthrow the state, a way of trying to put an end definitive by the fear of sanctions to the pro-democracy movement which has agitated the country for more than a year.

Life sentence

The leaders of this movement are now facing life imprisonment.

They decided to fight through the courts to establish that a demand for reform does not amount to an attempt to abolish the monarchy. 

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