Krama petition urges government to abandon trio of laws

Rolling out what may be the world’s longest krama, some 130 protesters presented the National Assembly with a petition yesterday morning bearing thousands of thumbprints urging lawmakers not to pass a trio of pending laws. “We all urge the government to stop its attempt to pass the laws on NGOs, unions and agricultural cooperatives, which restrict people’s lives,” their petition read. The demonstrators had fastened pages bearing what they said were more than 10,000 thumbprints to the blue scarves, which had been stitched together end-to-end to form a single stretch of cloth that was rolled out across the street from the Assembly to its 230-meter length…