Students wearing white ribbons on their hair and wrists make the three-finger salute to show support for the student-led democracy movement in Bangkok, Thailand, August 19, 2020.
BANGKOK: Wearing white ribbons, publicly hacking off their hair and making Hunger Games salutes — Thailand’s high school students are doing their best to shake up the country’s rigid education system.
As university students stage weeks of high-profile campus protests for democracy, their younger brethren are advancing their own rebellion to Thailand’s establishment.
“There’s a viral saying that ‘our first dictatorship is school,’” 17-year old Peka Loetparisanyu told Reuters at her apartment.
“They are trying instill in us that we are only the little people in an authoritarian society,” Loetparisanyu said. “This means that a lot of our rights have been violated.”
