PPT is reproducing some of the posts we have had in the past about the 6 October 1976 massacre. Here’s the fourth, from 2015:
On 6 October 1976
The military massacre of 6 October 1976 should never be forgotten for its brutality in “protecting” the monarchy and using royalist gangs to murder.
Thai Rath Newspaper, from 2Bangkok.com
This picture is of a Thai Rath front page of events in Bangkok on 6 October 1976.
Readers are reminded of articles about this tragic event that we have on our site with permission from Critical Asian Studies. These articles are from the Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars Special Supplement on “October 1976: The Coup in Thailand” as it appeared in Volume 9, Number 3, July-September 1977:
- Cover, contents and introduction to the Supplement by Jayne Werner (bcas_9-3-1977_cover_intro)
- Puey Ungphakorn, “Violence and the Military Coup in Thailand” with an Introduction by David Millikin (bcas_9-3-1977_puey)
- Ben Anderson, “Withdrawal Symptoms: Social and Cultural Aspects of the October 6 Coup” (bcas_9-3-1977_anderson)
- E. Thadeus Flood, “The Vietnamese refugees in Thailand: Minority Manipulation in Counterinsurgency” (bcas_9-3-1977_flood)
- Carl A. Trocki, “Boonsanong Punyodyana: Thai Socialist and Scholar, 1936-1976″ including an interview with Boonsanong from the Far Eastern Economic Review (bcas_9-3-1977_trocki)
Some of these links probably still work:
Prachatai on photos of 6 October
The Guardian on a brutal Thai coup
Wikipedia on 6 October massacre
Pokpong Lawansiri on demystifying and remembering
Puey Ungpakorn on 6 October (opens a PDF)
Political Prisoners in Thailand 
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