Cool heads must prevailThe government should tread extreme carefully in its handling of Saturday's political protests by young students at Democracy Monument in Phra Nakhon district and in the provinces. In a challenge to the emergency decree, these were the first major gatherings since the coronavirus hit the country in March. The organisers called off the Bangkok demonstration at about midnight after skirmishes with the police but vowed a repeat in two weeks. The government would be well advised to heed the students' demands. They started with exactly these kinds of small steps by students and ordinary people, whose calls for change had been dismissed.

Source: Bangkok Post July 20, 2020 23:03 UTC