\u201cHis friend shared a clip with me. But I didn\u2019t know it was my son. I didn\u2019t think it was until I saw it on the news elsewhere. I really didn\u2019t think it was my son.\u201d
\u201cHe\u2019s only 15. He\u2019s only 15, and he has to face this.\u201d
These were the words of Nipaporn Somnoi on 17 August, the mother of a 15-year-old youth shot in the neck in front of the Din Daeng Police Station at the 16 August protest. He\u2019s still in critical condition.
\u201cHe told me he\u2019s going to the protest. I said no, don\u2019t go. It\u2019s not the duty of a child. Don\u2019t go. But I didn\u2019t know that he went with friends. When I called, he didn\u2019t answer. This was his first time at the protest. He never went before.\u201d
Who is to blame for this and many other incidents?
The police blame the parents as they consider charging parents who \u201callow\u201d their children to join the protest.
General Prayut Chan-o-cha blames the youths and called their actions \u201cgangster.\u201d
Ultra-traditionalists blame Thaksin Shinawatra and Thanathorn Juangrungruangkit, including the CIA and the US Government, reasoning that they are behind Thailand\u2019s political protests.
Protesters and supporters blame the police, General Prayut, and someone else we cannot mention.
Thailand\u2019s political struggle is 89 years in the making.
The 1932 Revolution was meant to transform an absolute monarchy into a democracy. Instead, within a year, the military faction of Khana Ratsadon took power, and we became a dictatorship.
For 89 years and ongoing, the struggle is between generals and democratists with 13 successful military coups as the theme. Even when there\u2019s a civilian government, the generals pull the string from behind the curtain more often than not.
The present is the consequence of the past. Every action has a domino effect that links the past to the present and the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
\u201cHis friend shared a clip with me. But I didn\u2019t know it was my son. I didn\u2019t think it was until I saw it on the news elsewhere. I really didn\u2019t think it was my son.\u201d \u201cHe\u2019s only 15. He\u2019s only 15, and he has to face this.\u201d These were the words of Nipaporn Somnoi […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":239,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[72,73,12,14,13,74],"class_list":["post-238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-thisurpt","tag-nipaporn-somnoi","tag-protest-thailand","tag-thailand","tag-thisrupt","tag-whatshappeninginthailand","tag-youth-thailand"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thisrupt.co\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thisrupt.co\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thisrupt.co\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thisrupt.co\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thisrupt.co\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thisrupt.co\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":240,"href":"https:\/\/thisrupt.co\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238\/revisions\/240"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thisrupt.co\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thisrupt.co\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thisrupt.co\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thisrupt.co\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}