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Police threaten young rappers (What is the song information and what this…
Police threaten young rappers
What Controversy over a music video, Prathet Ku Mee (What My Country's Got) do?
been perceived as an attack on the military government
heating up after police threatened to take legal action against the
artists
production team
What is the song information and what this is song have been?
uploaded on YouTube on Oct 22
the 5-minute music video (with English subtitles
has become a sensation across the country
as of this morning, the number of views had soared to 5.8 million
became the talk of the town, especially after the
police
came out o
criticise it
government
made by an anti-military group called Rap Against Dictatorship
the song lists the country’s
political
social problem
divisive
violent politics
chronic corruption
inequality
injustice
What the MV short said?
My country's got a black panther shot by a rifle. My country preaches morals but has a crime rate higher than the Eiffel [Tower].
It's a country where judges live in a resort built inside a national park and it is a country where the city centre becomes a killing field!
My country points a gun at your throat. It claims to have freedom but gives no right to choose.
At the end of the music video, the following message is given: "Divide-and-rule is a dictator's best trick. All People Unite.
With condolences to all lives which have perished on both sides due to the bloody crackdown.
What there is a scene in the video that seems to?
recreate the 1976 October massacre in front of Thammasat University
What the production team recreated the scene?
where chairs are used to repetitively strike
dead bodies
presumably protesters
hanging form a tree
What the government spokesperson Buddhipongse Punnakanta said?
The government was sad and disappointed that the young rappers had made this song.
The lyrics appear to be an attack on the government. The creators must feel vindicated, but the most damaged party is the country.
What deputy police chief Srivara Ransibrahmanakul said ?
Yesterday that the group may have violated the law.
There's a 50% chance the song "What My Country's Got" may have violated a junta order.
What Pol Gen Sivara said and warned?
said
The police would summon the rappers and investigate the case.
Those who share the clip on social media might face a 5-year jail term and/or a fine up to 100,000 baht.
warned
that musicians shouldn't do anything risky and against the law because
if it was found there was any wrongdoing, it would not lead to good results for them or their families
What a spokesperson for Rap Against Dictatorship told the media that the music video and said?
was made to raise political awareness
The objective of making this song was to use music as a medium to make teenagers and working people more interested in politics. Music is easily accessible for all. We used the Oct 6, 1976 massacre as the background for the music video to reflect a situation in which state agencies create disharmony among people. We need people to pay attention to freedom of speech. Rappers can sing songs about politics and they should feel free to express what's on their minds.
What Teerawat Rujenatham, director of the music video told the Bangkok Post in a phone interview and said?
that he was not surprised by the government's reaction
said
Yet, I wish the police would spend time doing something more productive such as serving people or solving corruption cases.
What Mr Teerawut said?
I need to thank the police and government's overreaction which helped people see our work.