Questioning Thailand’s Monarchy Was Off-Limits. Now Protesters Are Doing Just That.

Before she stepped onstage at a current pro-democracy rally in Bangkok, the keynote speaker stated she trembled with worry. She was about to do one thing few in Thailand have dared to do: publicly query the nation’s highly effective monarchy.

Panusaya Sithijirawattanakul, a 21-year-old sociology and anthropology scholar at Thammasat University, known as for sweeping modifications that may decriminalize insulting the royal household, curb its powers and make palace spending auditable.

…