Pro-democracy students gather to participate in a large rally as pictures of Thai Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha and deputy Prime Minister Prawit Wongsuwan are displayed in the foreground at Thammasat University in Pathum Thani, north of Bangkok. Thailand's normally docile students have been holding large rallies around the country, triggered by a court ruling dissolving a popular opposition political party whose democracy-promoting policies had attracted substantial support among younger Thais. — AP
BANGKOK: Thailand's prime minister and the army denied on Wednesday opposition accusations in parliament that the military targets political opponents and rights activists with online propaganda campaigns run from fake accounts on Facebook and Twitter.
The accusations provoked Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha to walk out of a heated parliamentary debate on Tuesday after a lawmaker of the outlawed opposition Future Forward Party presented documents that he said bore out the claims.
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