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The army of students marched on, waving their placards and shouting slogans, the entire width of the road taken up by their number. A protest of epic proportions---some had estimated that no less than three hundred thousand students were assembled from the far corners of the kingdom to protest against the coup d'état against the puppet government. They demanded that the democratic process be returned to them, and that the army stand down from their unconstitutional ways.

The military leadership was silent on the matter. Ever since they forcefully removed the government from the parliament house, there was no word from them when the democratic process would be normalised. There were rumours that many of the representatives in parliament were pre-emptively thrown into military prisons by the military police as a means of enforcing the martial law. No one knew what to trust.

The students knew what they wanted. They wanted due process to be returned. It started as a small movement, but when government was overtaken by the military, the small movement ballooned into a full-scale national-level issue. Many were inspired by their parents' actions back in the day, when a similar military coup was demonstrated against by them to force the rebuild of the second constitutional monarchy. But this time, there was more at stake.

The battle for their country. The battle for their freedom against the tyranny of the over-powerful military.

(Based on an exercise generated by WriteThis - 31-May-2014 18:43:53)