Youth take on the establishment

Fighting for their rights: Students lighting up their handphones as they attend a rally demanding the government to resign, dissolve the parliament and hold new elections under a revised constitution, at the University of the Thai Chamber of Commerce in Bangkok. — Reuters

Leaderless, social media-savvy and inspired by Hong Kong’s young activists, Thailand’s budding pro-democracy movement is intent on overhauling the government, rewriting the constitution and even taking on a law that shields the monarchy.

The country has seen a decades-long spin-cycle of coups and violent street protests led by well-funded veterans for or against the establishment.