From Manager, October 13, 2013
Caption: Thai people 40 years ago would not understand Thai people nowadays.
Student: Even though Thanom-Praphas were less dictatorial and corrupt than Thaksin… hundreds of thousands of us came out to oust them… Thaksin has viciously done this much to our country, why you still remain idle? What a shame!
[The photo shows the popular uprising on October 14, 1973 that was to topple the dictatorship that included Field Marshal Thanom Kittilachorn and Field Marshal Praphas Charusathien. With an over-the-top claim that the dictatorship of the past was not as bad as Thaksin running the government, the cartoonist laments the disinterest of students today to resist the activities of the Pheu Thai-led government.
This brings to mind the similar laments of pro-Thaksin and Red Shirts groups. They have claimed that historic pro-people and pro-democratic movements in Thailand are the same as the pro-Thaksin cause today and also complained that students were not marching for the cause as they did for democracy movements in the 1970s.]
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