Protesters keep eagle eye out for celebs who supported 2014 coup

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 26, 2020
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Protesters keep eagle eye out for celebs who supported 2014 coup

Thai actress Daraneenute “Top” Pasutanavin became the latest target of online attack after her 2014 Instagram post supporting the People’s Democratic Reform Committee (PDRC) protest resurfaced on Wednesday (August 26).

The PDRC protest against a blanket amnesty bill led to a military coup and the ousting of Yingluck Shinawatra’s government. 
Daraneenute is the third celebrity to be caught in the cyberspace war. 
The other two were Pawanrat “Miew” Naksuriya and Ornapa “Ma” Krisadee, a transgender TV personality. Both of them were co-hosts of the TV show “Khao Sai Khai” aired on Thairath TV.
Celebrities came under the spotlight after Ornapa posted a vulgar message attacking student protesters, saying: “Keep playing with your [expletive] at home. Don't go to school, you demon kids.” 
Angered by her comment, netizens launched a boycott campaign against Ornapa and she was forced to give up her job in two TV shows. 
The next person to come under fire was Pawanrat, whose clip mocking victims of the “popcorn gunman” Vivat Yodprasit, who targeted red-shirt protesters at Bangkok’s Laksi intersection in 2014, resurfaced. 
Netizens have launched boycott campaigns against celebrities who allegedly supported the 2014 military-led coup and it is believed that more will be targeted.

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