Students in 2021 riots jailed for 2 years
published : 16 Mar 2023 at 07:05
writer: Gary Boyle
ORIGINAL SOURCE/WRITER: Post Reporters
The Criminal Court handed down two-year sentences yesterday to two protesters for an attempted arson attack on a police truck in 2021.
On Aug 11, 2021, students Sakda Udomsri and Kanpirom Budkot joined a rally of about 600 people against Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha.
They marched from Victory Monument to Prayut's house, which was guarded at the time by crowd control police.
Protesters threw objects at officers and set fire to a police truck.
A video clip from Facebook live showed that the students threw a burning projectile at one of the car's tyres, setting it alight, before a different person threw another flaming object at the truck.
The court ruled the defendants did not burn the truck.
However, they were still found guilty of attempted arson as a result of setting fire to other people's property.
Vocabulary
- arson: the illegal use of fire to destroy a house, building, or property; an arsonist is a person who commits arson - การลอบวางเพลิง
- attempt (noun): when a person tries to do something or achieve some goal, makes an effort to do it - ความพยายาม
- defendants (nloun): people who have been accused of a crime and are on trial - จำเลย
- flame: the brightly burning gas that you see coming from a fire - เปลวไฟ, เปลวเพลิง
- guard: to watch a place carefully to protect someone from attack, to prevent something from being stolen, or to prevent someone from escaping - เฝ้ายาม, ดูแล, รักษาความปลอดภัย
- guilty: having been decided by a court of law that you committed the crime your were accused of - มีความผิด
- march (verb): to walk with stiff regular steps like a soldier - เดินแถว, เดินขบวน, เดินสวนสนาม
- object: a thing that can be seen or touched, but is not alive - วัตถุ, สิ่งของ
- projectile (noun): an object, such as a bullet, that is fired from a gun or other weapon; any object that is thrown as a weapon - วัตถุใด ๆ ที่ถูกขว้างหรือถูกยิงออกไป
- protester: someone who shows that they disagree with something by standing somewhere, shouting, carrying signs, etc - ผู้ต่อต้าน, ผู้ประท้วง
- rally: a large public gathering of people to support someone or to protest against something - การชุมนุม
- sentence : a punishment given by a court of law - การตัดสินลงโทษ
