A protest is going on in Thailand. A plaque placed by Thai pro-democracy demonstrators near the Grand Palace in Bangkok revealed that Thailand belongs to the people and not the king has been removed, as police issued a warning on Monday that they may charge those behind the symbolic gesture. The plaque was installed on Sunday after a demonstration by thousands of people who cheered calls for reforms to the monarchy of King Maha Vajiralongkorn. “I’ve received a report that the plaque is gone but I don’t know how and I don’t know who did it,” Bangkok’s deputy police chief Piya Tawichai informed a leading daily.

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The cops informed, “Police are checking with the BMA (Bangkok Metropolitan Administration) and checking who took it out as the plaque is part of the evidence to charge the protest group (for this wrongdoing).” As the biggest demonstration in Thailand in years, protesters cheered calls for reform of the monarchy as well as for the removal of Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-Ocha, a former junta leader, and a new constitution and elections.

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After the protest, people lined up to take pictures next to the plaque, which also features a hand giving the three-finger salute adopted by pro-democracy protesters. But far from all Thais support the new plaque, which resembles one that had commemorated the end of absolute monarchy in 1932 and which was removed from outside a royal palace in 2017, after Vajiralongkorn took the throne. Prominent right-wing politician Warong Dechgitvigrom announced on Sunday the plaque was improper and the king was above politics.

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