Hello, Am 03.07.2017 um 04:41 schrieb Asaf Bartov:
DaB.: Wikimania has already been held in a military dictatorship (Egypt, 2008), without particular problems.
that’s not a reason to repeat the mistake. If you held an event (especially such a big one as the Wikimania) in a dictatorship, you support this dictatorship. You support the suppression of free speech and other human rights.
And cs, just to quote enwp:
“Since May 2014 Thailand has been ruled by a military junta, the National Council for Peace and Order, which has partially repealed the 2007 constitution, declared martial law and nationwide curfew, banned political gatherings, arrested and detained politicians and anti-coup activists, imposed internet censorship and taken control of the media.”
The conflicts of the yellow- and the red-shirt-people were so bad you even got reports in European news-programs on TV, and so was the conflict of the Preah Vihear Temple. So please try not to fool me.
Thailand is surely a great country, but it has many problems (dictatorship, civil uprisings, corruption, police-corruption, high number of deaths on road traffic, and so on) that makes it unsuitable for a conference.
Sincerely, DaB.