Thailand’s pro-democracy statues are disappearing – and it’s not protesters tearing them down

As political activists from several groups staged peaceful protests around Thailand on Wednesday to mark the 88th anniversary of the revolution which ended the absolute monarchy in the country, it emerged that certain historical statues have been disappearing.But they are not effigies of colonialists or slave owners torn down by protesters. Instead, Thailand’s vanishing monuments celebrated leaders of the 1932 revolt, who were once officially honoured as national heroes and symbols of democracy…