‘Hunger Games’ Continues to Inspire Coup Resistance in Thailand -- Bloomberg
Thai police detained three students on the opening day of the new “Hunger Games” movie, including one who flashed a three-fingered salute made popular by the film’s resistance fighters and adopted by opponents of military rule.
The detentions outside two Bangkok movie theaters yesterday came a day after five student activists were taken away by police after giving the salute during a speech by junta leader Prayuth Chan-Ocha on his first post-coup visit to the country’s northeast, the political stronghold of the government he toppled in May. The students wore t-shirts that spelled out the words in Thai for “No Coup.”
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