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Police threaten young rappers (Prathet Ku Mee (the song lists the…
Police threaten young rappers
Prathet Ku Mee
a music video
Means
What My Country's Got
which has been perceived as an attack on the military government
is heating up after
police
threatened to take legal action against the
artists
the production team.
claimed
the content of the song damages the country's image
and likely violates
the Computer Crimes Act.
Uploaded on YouTube
on October 22, 2018
the 5-minute music video
with English subtitles
has become a sensation across the country.
As of this morning
27/10/2018
the number of views had soared to 5.8 million.
This music video
became the talk of the town
became the talk of the town
especially
after the police and government came out to criticize
Made by “Rap Against Dictatorship”
an anti-military group
the song lists the country's
political
social problems
divisive
violent politics
chronic corruption
inequality
The lyrics talk about events
such as corruption cases under the military government.
"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"
There is a scene in the video
that seems to recreate the 1976 October
massacre in front of Thammasat University.
the production team
recreated the scene where chairs are used to
repetitively strike dead bodies
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