Jatuporn vows to defy centres ban
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Red-shirt leader Jatuporn Prompan on Sunday vowed to continue its anti-fraud centre activities by using social media means, despite being banned by the junta.
Shortly after the police foiled United Front for Democracy for Dictatorship (UDD) from holding an opening ceremony of the centres launching nationwide and broadcasting the activities, Jatuporn appeared at red-shirt Peace TV studio at Imperial World shopping centre in Bangkok's Lat Phrao area.
Red-shirt leader Jatuporn Prompan criticises Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha during a press interview on Sunday. The red leader slammed the PM on ground that the premier changed his mind to stop the fraud watchdog activities though previously he said the red shirts were allowed to do so.
He said though the officers occupied anti-fraud centres in Bangkok and provinces where red-shirt supporters, who ran the fraud watchdog, were arrested, the red-shirts would not back down from their plan.
He said Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha was unreliable as the PM earlier allowed the anti-fraud centres to be set up but eventually the junta made a u-turn and barred the red-shirt’s operation.
The centres, in fact, had been opened since June 5 and it would continue gathering referendum fraud complaints from the people through online channels, said the UDD leader.
The UDD leader said they would meet with United Nation's Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (UNOHCHR) on Monday again to discuss the human rights issue during the country was heading to the August referendum for charter draft.
Initially the UDD on Friday submitted a letter to UNOHCHR informing its anti-fraud centre objectives in a bid to gain support from the UN's agency.
The junta did not allow people to take part in the referendum, Jatuporn said, adding that Prayut would be the next Gen Sujinda Kraprayoon, former Prime Minister who took the office during the uprising Black 1992.
