'If [the] Thai government sends them back to China, it’s like we send them to death,' says opposition lawmaker Rangsiman Rome.
The country's confirmed cases of COVID-19 have skyrocketed in the past two months from 374 to more than 31,000
Analysts, advocates tell VOA that Thailand has made little if any headway in restoring democracy since elections in March ended five years of military rule; government claims democracy is back 'in full stream'
But analysts say any insurgents involved in the attacks may have acted for others, as they've done before
