"I beg heaven to show pity"

MAE SAI, Thailand – This is a simple melody sung at picking up acoustic guitars by schoolchildren sitting around candles: "I ask heaven to show compassion and of empathy / My brothers are »

The song is dedicated to the events taking place in a flooded mountain cave in northern Thailand, where 12 boys aged 11 to 16 and their football coach have missing a week ago, it was written and performed by students of the Lek Nai Tung Kwang School across the country, in Buriram Province.

The clip was broadcast 24 hours a day in news stories Tham Luang Nang National .Not cave in the far north of Chiang Rai province.This is part of a wave of hope, empathy and concern across Thailand for boys, their families and the army of people who works To bring them back home

"We are worried. Everyone wants to hear good news, "said Keeta Wariburee, a teacher at the school that produced the video. "We want to help them, but if we went, we would probably get in the way."

Rescuers, including the elite divers of the Thai Navy, a US military team, experts from the United States British caverns and Australian and Chinese rescuers were frustrated by the incessant rain that flooded the cave and made locating boys more difficult.A rain break over the weekend facilitated flooding in the cave system, but the pumping water has not solved the problem and the focus has been focused on finding wells on the mountainside.

In a desperate move, officials have fallen in the care packs makeup filled with food, drinks, a phone, a flashlight, candles, a lighter and a map of the cave. deeply divided by political conflicts and remains under the Military regime following a coup d 'état four years ago, the sight of soldiers and volunteers subject to the mud filled the Thais with pride and common sense.

Lamduan Mayula traveled to the cave of Payao province, where she owns a gift shop and volunteers as a rescuer. She and her friends set up a kitchen and distribute food to hungry workers

"I just feel like I have to do something, I can not sit at home and watch the news," she said. she said, "and I will stay here until we and the boys and their trainer can all go home together."

As a sign of solidarity with the missing, students around Thailand are organizing mass prayers and other events.They showed solidarity by sitting in rows to form number 13 – the number of missing.Some folded paper origami cranes marked with messages of

Muangthong United, one of the most important and most popular teams of the Thai Football League, made a similar move, posting a video in which their stadium, holding hands in a circle around footb balls all forming number 13.

In a post on his Facebook page in April, Eakapol Chantawong, the missing coach of the boys' football team of Wild Boars, went to the stadium writes: "One day, I have to bring my young players here."

A number of hashtags have taken off on social media, including those that translate "13 lives must survive," "Sending encouragement to Tham Luang" and "The aliens whose faces we most want to see.

Drawings and emotional images also made the rounds. The watch shows rescuers in a dark cavern with "13 Hope Do not Give Up" writing on their oxygen tanks. Another shows the silhouettes of 12 boys and a man against the stalactites of a cave with the words: "Stay strong. We arrive. Another character on the team rides on a big boar and says, "Wild boars continue to fight.

Keeta, the teacher, said the popularity of his students' song was a sign of the nation's common purpose.

"It reveals one thing, which is Thai society, in difficult times, we never give up," he said. "But it would be even better if the children were found."

Or as his students' song ends: "Let the heaven show us the way and clear it up / Let this group of friends pass this danger / To return home quickly for the safety of all."

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Kaweewit reported from Bangkok

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