As per latest update: from India 4 Indian, 3 Armenian and 3/2 African
rejected.

Regards,

Jayanta Nath

On Mon, Jul 3, 2017 at 10:34 PM, Dhaval S. Vyas <[email protected]> wrote:

> Can we please not keep this thread dedicated to the discussion that the
> subject suggests? What European medias has shown and what any individual's
> belief for any country of the world could be fun to discuss on social media
> where more people can join. These kind of personal views can hurt feelings
> of citizens/residents of those countries.
>
> This thread started with the issues faced in getting visa to this year's
> Wikimania, let us stick to that please.
>
> Thanks,
> Dhaval
>
> On 3 Jul 2017 17:18, "DaB." <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hello,
> Am 03.07.2017 um 04:41 schrieb Asaf Bartov:
> > DaB.: Wikimania has already been held in a military dictatorship (Egypt,
> > 2008), without particular problems.
>
> that’s not a reason to repeat the mistake. If you held an event
> (especially such a big one as the Wikimania) in a dictatorship, you
> support this dictatorship. You support the suppression of free speech
> and other human rights.
>
> And cs, just to quote enwp:
>
> “Since May 2014 Thailand has been ruled by a military junta, the
> National Council for Peace and Order, which has partially repealed the
> 2007 constitution, declared martial law and nationwide curfew, banned
> political gatherings, arrested and detained politicians and anti-coup
> activists, imposed internet censorship and taken control of the media.”
>
> The conflicts of the yellow- and the red-shirt-people were so bad you
> even got reports in European news-programs on TV, and so was the
> conflict of the Preah Vihear Temple. So please try not to fool me.
>
> Thailand is surely a great country, but it has many problems
> (dictatorship, civil uprisings, corruption, police-corruption, high
> number of deaths on road traffic, and so on) that makes it unsuitable
> for a conference.
>
> Sincerely,
> DaB.
>
>
>
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