Thailand Military aims crosshairs on Future Forward Party taking on junta

Thailand’s military establishment is intensifying attacks on a young political party that surged in March’s general election and whose 40-year-old leader is the newest symbol of opposition to the junta.

The party, Future Forward, won about 18 per cent of votes and is a key part of a coalition trying to prevent the junta’s proxies from forming the next government. The party’s supporters say the military administration is trying to cow opponents and blunt the anti-junta alliance to retain power.
 

Since the March 24 poll, activists have called for Future Forward to be broken up for being anti-monarchy, a junta legal