<p>Phuttipong Pong-anakekul, a second-year law student at Ramkhamhaeng University, wrote an article in Prachatai in response to what Surapon Nitikraipot, Rector of Thammasat University, <a href="http://www.prachatai.com/english/node/1596">said</a> at a public forum on 25 Jan. </p>
<p><a href="http://www.tu.ac.th/eng/administrators/rector.html">Surapon Nitikraipot</a>, Rector of Thammasat University, has spoken in a public forum in defence of the 2006 coup and its resulting constitution. He argued that anti-coup activists should have also opposed the 1997 Constitution, as it resulted from a coup in 1991. As a law professor himself, he said that there were no double standards in prosecuting the red and yellow shirts, except that the cases were being handled sooner or later. </p>