CAS350H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Human Rights Watch, Hamtaro, Rote Learning
Document Summary
Thailand"s bad students" are rising up for democracy and change. Opinion by sunai phasuk: senior researcher, asia division at human rights watch. Calling for an end to all forms of harassment against students demanding democracy, revocation of obsolete and abusive school regulations, and educational reforms with students" full participation . Comprised of students wearing white ribbons and raising three finger salutes (as they do in the hunger games) Broadly: demand for democracy, free speech, removal of authoritarian rule and practices prohibiting democratic freedoms. Among the rallies, the mood is jovial, packaged with youth lots of influences from popular culture adopted for the purpose of protest. Students see school as the first dictatorship in their lives top-down and unaccountable. Rules that control everything from hair length to clothes. Adults volunteered to be security guards and medics. Others bring food, drinks, megaphones and even mobile toilets to support the children and their protests.
