Thailand’s military National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO) has decided that protesters who flash the anti-coup three-finger sign, which they’ve adopted en masse from ‘The Hunger Games,’ are subject to arrest and criminal charges.
The Bangkok Post was first to report, and Robert Mackey has a good roundup at the New York Times. Here’s the AP’s coverage. Newley Purnell, WSJ’s man in Thailand, has an item here.
Katniss would be proud.
The three finger anti-thai coup salute – offered fleetingly by these woman at a Bangkok shopping mall pic.twitter.com/lgPQ7PNxki
— John Sparks (@c4sparks) June 1, 2014
"It's means thanks,
it means admiration,
it means goodbye to someone you love"
-[Katniss Everdeen] pic.twitter.com/TzsrK8Vgxi
— The Reader (@TheReaderThai) June 2, 2014