Shirtless students lie facedown on the ground, as police stand guard on the Thammasat University campus in Bangkok on October 6, 1976 when protesting students were shot, beaten to death and lynched by state forces and royalist mobs. — AFP pic
“It wasn't an equal battle — it was a massacre. The students didn't fight back, we didn't have guns,” Krisadang tells AFP.Today, the 62-year-old represents two prominent faces of a new youth-led movement against the kingdom's military-aligned government — human rights lawyer Anon Numpa and activist Panupong Jadnok.
The kingdom has long seen an interminable cycle of political violence and short-lived civilian governments bracketed by military coups. Krisadang escaped by the skin of his teeth, crawling through the campus to avoid gunfire before launching himself into the river and swimming to a nearby pier.For Thais who lived through this period, the topic remains sensitive and is not openly discussed, which academics say is a product of the establishment's whitewashing of history.
“The students want answers to questions that mainstream history does not have,” academic Puangthong Pawakapan tells AFP.
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