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With October 6 marking the 44th anniversary of the Thammasat University Massacre, in which scores of students were killed in cold blood, Professor Mark S. Cogan reflects on how Thailand arrived at one of its darkest ever moments
Thailand’s military rulers have long had difficulties sharing (...)
On 13 August 2020, historian Professor Nidhi Eoseewong released a written statement about the 6 October 1976 massacre to the public after a news agency incorrectly reported the views he shared during an interview. Prachatai disseminated the statement in Thai on the day it was released and here (...)
For many, learning about October 6, 1976 is a jarring and thoroughly disconcerting experience, particularly for those using the event as a gateway into understanding Thai history and politics.
However, apart from Thongchai Winichakul’s seminal and highly personal book, Moments of Silence: The (...)
On 24 June 2018 at Thammasat University, Tha Prachan, the Thai Academic Network for Civil Rights (TANC) and the 24 June Democracy Group held a conference on “86 years since 1932: Branches and Fruit of Siam’s Great Revolution”
The panel speakers (from left to right): Chaiyan Rajchagool, Rawee (...)
ON THE MORNING OF October 6, 1976, Thai state forces and civilians carried out a massacre of unarmed students at Thammasat University in Bangkok. Although the right wing had been gaining power for months, the immediate catalyst for the massacre was an accusation that a student drama group had (...)
From concerts, musicals, to movies, read ISOC’s cultural mission in their process of promoting the main ideology of the security services.
We invite you to look at the origin and development of the ideological promotion process of “nation-religion-monarchy” by the security agencies of the Thai (...)
October is an important month in Thailand’s political history as it marks the anniversary of two important political events. One is the popular uprising of 14 October 1973 where thousands of people rose up against military dictatorship, while the other, which occurred on 6 October 1976, was a (...)
BANGKOK — Social media was abuzz Wednesday after an ultra-royalist threatened Monday to destroy the 1932 Revolution plaque located next to Rama V’s equestrian statue.
User Thepmontri Limpaphayorm posted a photo of the plaque used to commemorate the location where the People’s Party announced its (...)
The king is dead, long live the king? The Thai royal family legitimates power more than actually possessing it. This function could be endangered with the coming to the throne of the crown prince. The death of King Bhumibol Adulyadej was officially announced on October 13, 2016. He had long (...)
King Pumipon of Thailand was a weak and characterless monarch who spent his useless and privileged life in a bubble, surrounded by fawning, grovelling, toadies who claimed that he was a “god”. He was a pathetic creature who should not in any way be pitied. His life’s work was in self-enrichment, (...)
Bhumibol Adulyadej died on October 13th. The king of Thailand was 88.
AIRCRAFT dropped flowers and lucky rice on the crowds that gathered in Bangkok to see Bhumibol Adulyadej return from university to be crowned. He was 22, and had been king for three years. Auspicious signs had preceded his (...)
Chulalongkorn University’s commemoration of the 6 October Massacre explored new methods to connect younger generations with the political tragedy, recognising that concepts of human rights and democracy have yet to be firmly established in Thai society.
Every 6 October, commemorative events are (...)
Protesting students labeled as communists were shot, beaten, raped and killed, in a brutal campus massacre 40 years ago.
Oct. 6, 1976, is a date that still haunts the government and people of Thailand. On it, state forces massacred scores of student activists on the lawn of Bangkok’s Thammasat (...)
Puangthong Pawakapan, a scholar in the Faculty of Political Science at Chulalongkorn University and member of the organizing committee for the “40th anniversary of 6 October: ‘We do not forget’” events gave an interview to Prachatai about the deeply-embedded culture of impunity in Thai society. In (...)
The “Red Shirts” movement has caused large-scale political instability, but it has brought to the fore critical questions about the road to Thai democratization.
For some years now Thailand has been undergoing a colossal political crisis, resulting in the 2014 coup d’état, the second military coup (...)
Despite the intense royalist indoctrination of the Bhumibol era it would be naïve not to imagine that at least some Thais draw inspiration from the country’s long republican tradition.
Thailand is typically understood as a deeply royalist country ruled by a highly revered monarch.
The king’s (...)
Andrew MacGregor Marshall, “A Kingdom in Crisis: Thailand’s Struggle for Democracy in the Twenty-First Century”, Z Books.
Andrew MacGregor Marshall’s book “A Kingdom in Crisis: Thailand’s Struggle for Democracy in the Twenty-First Century” is misnamed because it has nothing to do with Thailand’s (...)
One of the more telling decisions of the Royal Thai Army, which seized power in Thailand in a coup on May 22 this year, is to erect a new “Great Kings Monument,” comprising nine giant statues representing Thailand’s greatest kings, to honor Thailand’s monarchy and its aging king, the ninth in the (...)
Thailand has been changing in unexpected ways. Grant Evans explores the sociology of a country in continuing political crisis.
Thailand has been in crisis since an armed forces coup overthrew prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra in September 2006, ultimately forcing him into exile. Although his (...)
The man who came closest to persuading me of the virtue of toppling a democratically elected government was a former investment banker and English public schoolboy called Korn Chatikavanij. All the foreign journalists in Bangkok know Korn, and a conversation with him is one of the pleasures of (...)
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