(Photo by Weerawong Wongpreedee)After the junta’s much-publicised blame on its opponents for ripping a copy of eligible referendum voters' lists in a northern province over the weekend, police have caught the culprits -- two eight-year-old girls who played in the area. It also ordered kamnans (sub-district chief) and village chiefs to monitor “strangers or ill-intentioned people” at the venues where voters’ lists were put up, as well as assigning guards to watch the areas. Authorities had planned to charge the offenders with breaking two sections of the referendum law. A woman checks names of eligible voters for the Aug 7 referendum put up by the Bung Kum district in Bangkok on Tuesday. On Saturday, the voters’ lists on a notice board at a referendum polling unit inside Wachirasan Sueksa School in tambon Salokbat of Khanu Woralaksaburi district, Kamphaeng Phet, were pulled down and destroyed by unidentified person.

Source: Bangkok Post July 19, 2016 08:44 UTC