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[Gene]

The website Prachatai, which continues to be blocked by the ICT Ministry, has reported the following:

"About 100 NGO workers, activists, students and academics have signed an open letter addressed to their peers in civil society, rejecting the Reform Thailand plan being pushed by Prawase Wasi and Anand Panyarachun, and criticizing it as illegitimate and untrustworthy.

According to the letter, the signatories are part of the civil society movement, including current and former NGO workers, students, academics and social activists who are seriously concerned with their fellows’ response to the call to the Reform Thailand.

They say that the claim of a certain group of people who are participating in Reform Thailand that they represent the people’s sector or civil society is bogus, misleading society into believing that the majority of the people’s sector agrees with the idea. In fact, a number of members of the people’s sector have criticized or rejected outright the reform plan, because it is illegitimate and does not address the problem of political inequality which is currently the main conflict in Thai society.

Reform Thailand is just a ploy which the government is using to divert society’s attention from public demands for the government to find the facts about the recent killings and suppression, and to show responsibility for the deaths and injuries resulting from its operations to ‘secure parameters’ to quash the red-shirt movement. They say that the Reform Thailand proposal is just an attempt by the government to buy time so that they do not have to return power to the people through general elections."

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