 Hello and welcome to People's Dispatch Annuosclaim. In 2014, Thai military organized a coup data and took over the government, the elected government. Since then, the people's movement in the country has been fighting for elections and restoration of democracy. Today we are in Bangkok and with us we have Rome from Democracy Restoration Group. We'll talk more about the political situation in Thailand and about the people's movement in the country. Thank you, Rome, for speaking to People's Dispatch Annuosclaim. Let's start with the current political situation. The people's movement in the country had been demanding elections and the military government under NCPO had been continuously delaying it. What do you think the situation will be in the future? Yeah, it's like that we know we have the coup in 2014 and after that we don't have the election so far more than four years. Before this, we have the Islam, some people support the military and some people support democracy. We will have two big movements, the Russia and Russia. Russia supports the democracy and the Russia supports the military and supports the coup data. We fight about it more than 10 years and we have the coup data to come. That's why Thailand still goes to the crisis. However, after the last coup, I think a lot of people start to think what the mistake of happening in Thailand and a lot of the yellow shirt try to support democracy now. However, because the military, that's why we cannot launch the campaign, we cannot educate the people that we want. So that's why it's not easy because the military tries to block everyone and try to dominate the people. However, the military promised the people that we will have the election in this year, in November 2018. But in January, the military postponed again. I mean before they postponed many times, but they postponed again in February 2019. And now they postponed again to be 2019 too, but different months, maybe in May 2019. And the military made some conditions like they will create an erection after the pink coordination because in Thailand, we are the kingdom, not republic. So that's why the military tries to wait when we will have the pink coordination. But however, exactly now, we don't know when we will have the erection. So it means the military can control everything in Thailand like before. Even we try to launch the campaign to protest them because we want the erection. Our people want it because people want to speak out, people want to speak out, people want to express it, but we cannot. And when we try to express, we will get arrested. So that's why the situation of the human rights of Thailand, I mean of the civil policy is still getting worse. So this is the situation of Thailand and from this, it's really hard to see the future. What Thailand will go to, I mean because it's really hard to predict the future of Thailand. Can you speak a bit more about the movement which is happening in the country for elections and democracy? DIG and our group in Thailand, we build a movement and we call it the people who want erection. And at this moment, we start to run the campaign on the 27th of January 2018. And for this movement, we try to cope with a lot of people from like a young generation, like a worker, like some group of the nation, some people, I mean some group of the rural area. We cope with them and we try to make the campaign because if we have the erection, this is the starting to have the freedom of expression. And a lot of people join with us and try to run the campaign in every area. But absolutely the problem of the one thing that is like the media, they just live in Bangkok. So that's why another area, a lot of people don't know that we have the campaign like this too. But however, this campaign can make the military go and lose the confidence and they really try to control us again. I mean, they try to block the people who want to join us in Bangkok. So that's why when we have the event, people will get cash, people will get arrested. And many times, like me, when I had the campaign, nowadays I got the cases in the court around nine cases. Which include tradition. So that's why a lot of people fear. But for this campaign, people try to stand to fight with the military. But it's still hard to fight because the military, they have the army support them and they can control everywhere in Thailand. Rome, you came into the activism through student movement during the year student movement. So can you speak a bit more about your role during the student movement and how this moved into formation of democracy restoration group? And how DRG is now working and what are the demands of DRG? Actually, in Thailand, we have the strong student movement. But however, in the 40 years ago, we got the massacre in the Tamasat University. A lot of people died. However, a lot of the students joined the Thai Communist Party. But however, the military can destroy the Communist Party in Thailand. So we lose the party. But however, the student movement, they try to connect with the people, they try to connect with each other and try to develop and fight for the country. Until now, before the good days, I was a student activist too. First, it's like this, before the good days, we have a little bit of democracy. So before that, we try to focus with the right of the student, the freedom of expression, the political prisoner. We try to focus about that and we try to educate people, we try to give people information. So that's why we know each other and we try to build the movement. But before the good days, we just small movement, not really big. Because the issue that the students focus is too much, too many issues. So sometimes it's like we cannot connect. But if we have the good days, we have the one issue that we can fight, that we can call. That is the good days and military issue. So after the good days, me and my friend, we try to call with a lot of the students in every university in Thailand. And develop that and try to make them to be the professional. After that, we build the DIG and the DIG will focus with them and try to build the student movement. I mean to develop them to be more and try to connect them. Because sometimes they're from different cultures. So the DIG can be like the middleman to connect with them in every area. So nowadays we have the support from the student movement and we can mobilize them to fight with the UNDA. And the one thing that really success for us, that is the student movement, really support to fight for the election campaign that we have. So that's why we can continue the campaign because we got the support from the student movement. Last question regarding the socio-political and economic situation in Thailand. At present, there is a military government. But at the same time, apart from the question of democracy, many organizations in the south, in the north and in the northeast are fighting for the land, their land rights, the working class rights. Can you speak a bit more about this? Yeah. In Thailand it's like many countries that the unfair happen everywhere. People who are really poor, it's like a big gap from the class of the people is really big. So that's why we got the program. And when we have the military, it's like the military, they are the partner of the rich class. So it's like, it's not just the economy, but they use the power from the government because the government should be from the people. But in Thailand nowadays, we have the government just for the rich class. And that's why they took the land from the people, they took the resource, they support some company to have a mining, something like this. And it means a lot of people lose the land and lose the good environment to live. And that's why we got a lot of the program now in nowadays. But however, for the standpoint of the DIG, we try to support the people in the rural area to protect them, to fight with them. But it's still hard that I told you because the military, they can dominate. And people are afraid to fight. But I think so that by erection is the starting, at least people will not get the virus by the military. And we can speak out every issue because when we have the erection, it's not finished. We have a lot of things to do in the future. And that's why we have to have the erection. And we have to take the land for the people back from the military, from some company that hold with the military. And not just the land that we lose for the good data, for some class. But it's like we have the forest in the mountain that no one can do the house. But because by the support thing from the military, they support the judge in Thailand to debute the house. So they not just take the land from the people, but they take the good environment from the people too. Thank you, Loon, for speaking to me because this is my address. Thank you.