Candle-lighting campaign organized to call for peace in Thailand

BANGKOK, January 13 (TNA) - People in all parts of Thailand have participated in a candle lighting campaign as a symbolic move to call for peace and democracy in the nation. In the Thai North, pro-democracy people in Pitsanulok Province, including teachers and students from Chiang Rai Rajabhat University who were dressed in white, gathered at the roundabout in front of the main provincial railway station on Sunday night to joined in a mass candle-lighting activity to call for peace in the nation and to support the new general election on February 2, 2014. In the central and eastern regions, people in Ang Thong and in Chon Buri Provinces, also dressed in white, took part in their local candle-lighting activity as a symbolic campaign against any move or condition which may lead to violence, so did people in Si Sa Ket and Nakhon Phanom in the Thai Northeast. A number of students and the general public in Nakhon Phanom also gathered at the Provincial Hall on Monday morning to show their common stance on supporting the general election, but opposing to a coup, vowing to carry on the move until national peace is restored. In the Thai South, pro-democracy locals assembled at the Nakhon Surat Thani Municipality for a similar candle-lighting activity to campaign for voters to cast their ballots on the February 2 national poll, but against all forms of military coup.(TNA)