But in a vague and quietly sinister tone, it blames Mr Supaluck and his group for breaking the agreement and "stage-managing" the scene to highlight the conflict between those who wanted to bow and those who wanted to prostrate. Chulalongkorn's deputy rector said the student activists "had planned" the spectacle for reporters in the hope of demonising the university. As far as the establishment is concerned, Mr Netiwit and his friends are the Trojan Horse now ensconced in Troy. For Mr Netiwit and Mr Supaluck, who've been elected as executives of the university's student council (leaving the old guard to seethe), they're fighting a long war whose implications are felt beyond the campus. Without being alarmist, sometimes it's good to remember that Oct 6, 1976 didn't happen in a vacuum.

Source: Bangkok Post August 04, 2017 19:30 UTC