{"id":102781,"date":"2019-07-22T02:19:46","date_gmt":"2019-07-22T00:19:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2019\/07\/22\/i-thought-they-would-kill-me-thai-dissidents-targeted-in-brutal-crackdown\/"},"modified":"2019-07-22T02:19:46","modified_gmt":"2019-07-22T00:19:46","slug":"i-thought-they-would-kill-me-thai-dissidents-targeted-in-brutal-crackdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=102781","title":{"rendered":"&#039;I thought they would kill me&#039;: Thai dissidents targeted in brutal crackdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ever since sham elections in March, activists have been singled out in a series of brutal attacks as the military tightens its grip on power The blows came hard and heavy on Sirawith Seritiwat\u2019s head. The four men, dressed in motorcycle helmets, black gloves and balaclavas, brought their metal truncheons down again and again down onto the young activist\u2019s face, shattering his nose and eye socket as blood poured from a wound in his head.\u201cI have never felt so much excruciating pain, I thought they would kill me,\u201d said Sirawith, popularly known as \u201cJa New\u201d. But as cries of \u201cthe police are coming\u201d reverberated across the busy suburban Bangkok junction, the attackers jumped on motorcycles and drove off, disappearing as quickly as they had come. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/jul\/22\/i-thought-they-would-kill-me-thai-dissidents-targeted-in-brutal-crackdown\" target=\"_blank\">&#039;I thought they would kill me&#039;: Thai dissidents targeted in brutal crackdown<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ever since sham elections in March, activists have been singled out in a series of brutal attacks as the military tightens its grip on power The blows came hard and heavy on Sirawith Seritiwat\u2019s head. The four men, dressed in motorcycle helmets, black gloves and balaclavas, brought their metal truncheons [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=102781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102781\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=102781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=102781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=102781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}