"They confessed to tearing down the voter lists because they liked the color pink," Damrong told Reuters. Two 8-year-old girls in Thailand have been charged for violating campaigning rules ahead of a contentious referendum next month after tearing voter lists off a wall because they liked the pink paper they were printed on, police said on Sunday. The girls were charged with obstructing the referendum process and destroying public property after tearing down the lists posted outside a school, said Damrong Phetpong, police commander in the northern province of Kamphaeng Phet. The referendum will be the first big test of the public's opinion of the military government since it came to power after a May 2014 coup. He said they would not face punishment because they were so young.

Source: Thanhnien News July 24, 2016 03:11 UTC