Students to boycott classes to save country

Written by Admin on Sunday, September 7th, 2008

Students to boycott classes to save country

The so-called Country-Salvage Youth Network planned to have about 4,000 member students stop attending classes on a long-term basis at over 80 campuses nationwide in bid to press for Prime Minister and Defence Minister Samak Sundaravej to step down, according to Wasant Wanich, a student activist.

Khon Kaen University student Wasant, said the student network will call on its members and others to stop showing up at their normally-scheduled classes on a long-term basis.

However, the activist students are yet to decide just how long they will remain absent from the classroom. Mr Wasant said that the parents of some of the students would understand, however.

The Khon Kaen varsity student said the network will prove Mr Samak’s comment — that there are only “just a handful” of students wanting him to vacate the office — to be wrong and that thousands of students will eventually come out in protest against his premiership.

He said that the Country-Salvage Youth network will further discuss its plans to rise against Mr Samak on Tuesday.

Mr Wasant also criticised university lecturers who had earlier warned against students joining the anti-government protests and said they simply had the right to do so.