Thailand’s military rulers speak out against a gesture borrowed from ‘The Hunger Games’

Thailand's military rulers said Tuesday that they are carefully looking at a salute borrowed from the film, The Hunger Games.

Throughout the weekend, flash mobs stood alone, flashing three fingers in the air. Authorities say that they will arrest people who ignore warnings to gesture with raised arms. Also, political meetings of more than five people have been banned, at this point.

"At this point we are monitoring the movement," Col. Weerachon Sukhondhapatipak, a spokesman for the junta, told the Associated Press. "If it is an obvious form of resistance, then we have to control it so it doesn't cause any disorder in the country."

Thailand’s army seized power on May 22, according to The Washington Post.

In the film The Hunger Games, the gesture is a protest against totalitarian rule. Protesters have given many explanations for what their sign means. Protesters have said that they are “standing for the French Revolutions’s ideas: liberty, equality, fraternity.” Others have said that it means freedom, election and democracy. In a comparison to the motion picture, The Hunger Games, a photo appeared online with a graphic of three fingers labeled, 1. No Coup, 2. Liberty, 3. Democracy.