THAILAND’S top military commander warned politicians, lecturers and students not to introduce left-wing ideas into the country or campaign to change its constitutional monarchy.
“Those who studied democracy abroad and read other countries’ textbooks must consider how they should be adapted instead of trying to change the constitutional monarchy,” General Apirat Kongsompong said at a news conference yesterday.
“Do not introduce the left-wing policies you learned.”
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