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Johan moved from Sweden in early 2015, “when he was still fine in Thailand.”
Since then, it has only gone downhill, he tells Expressen.
– The military junta does not do what is best for the people, the military junta only does what is best for its own pockets, he says.
The king demanded love
For the past three months, there have been massive pro-democracy protests in the capital Bangkok.
The protesters are demanding that Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha, who took power in the 2014 military coup, resign and reform the monarchy.
King Maha Vajiralongkorn, who spent the crown pandemic in isolation in a hotel in Germany surrounded by at least a dozen lovers, has now returned to Thailand and demanded the love of the people.
“The country needs people who love the nation and the institutions of the monarchy,” King Maha Vajiralongkorn said in a televised address on Friday.
The statement had the opposite reaction, and this weekend it was demonstrated again in Bangkok, against the junta and the king.
“Don’t you dare share on Facebook”
This weekend, the police used water cannons against protesters in Bangkok and many participants were also arrested.
Johan lives and works in the capital and believes that violence against pro-democracy protesters will intensify.
– In Bangkok, it will really crash, he says, adding that the military junta tries to silence all criticism, both on social and traditional media.
– You cannot support or promote the protesters in Bangkok. No one dares to speak [i media]. Nobody dares to share anything on Facebook anymore.
Witnesses of a lost tourist paradise
Johan does not want to put up with a photo or his last name, as there is a risk that it will affect his work permit. The military junta follows up.
– Immigrants like me are hunted with a blowtorch. You want more money, there are always bribes when you need a visa. But it is now at the end that they have really started to harden.
– They call us “dirty”, they say “you’re just a problem”. Everything becomes much more complicated.
He says that many other Western immigrants he speaks to, like him, “felt sorry for the military junta in this way.”
– I think Thailand is a lost tourist paradise.
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The surveillance camera captures the accident on film: about 20 dead and more than 30 injured.
