Chairman of university presidents council deplores education minister's inaction over attacks agains
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The chairman of the Council of University Presidents of Thailand (CUPT) Sunday criticised Education Minister Chaturon Chaisang for declining to help Ramkhamhaeng University students when they were attacked by the red-shirt demonstrators.
Thammasat University Rector Somkid Lertpaithoon, the CUPT chairman, said Chaturon ignored the call for help from the Ramkhamhaeng University rector but he instead made a speech on the stage of the red-shirt rally in the Rajamangala stadium.
Somkid said Chaturon did not come out from the stadium to stop the red-shirt attacks.
“As the supervisor of universities, he should have stopped the violence and he has power to do so. I don’t understand why it happened so. The education minister has done nothing at all,” Somkit said.
The Nation
