A small book packed with emotions and insights into the day known as "Thammasat Massacre", a blood-stain on the face of the contemporary history of Thailand. This is an account of people who were present at Thammasat on October 6, most of them were just mere highschool students and university students at the time. They were against Gen.Thanom Kittikajorn, the exiled enemy of the state, who were miraculously "pardoned" by the King Rama IX and allowed back into the country as a monk. The student uprising has been painted as an act of communism. More than 40 people were killed at Thammasat on October 6, when the violence broke with a sound of AK47 at dawn.
As mentiomed earlier, those who seek justice and reformation were painted as a communist, a threat to the nation, and therefore shall be eliminated. The junta government then ran campaigns to emphasize on how killing communists merit the nation, and elevate the killers above the threshold of karmas. People were out in the street, looking content and happy that they could help "defend" the country. What the fuck?
What terrifies me the most is how the situation back then reflects well with what we are facing today. Students are out in rallies demaning reformation and justice. Now we are painted with new accusations, a different name for the same thing, an enemy of the state.
By reading this book, it opens a frontier of truth for me. We are about to become victims of social reproduction orchestrated by the junta government and the highest, but utterly godless institution again. What can we do moving forward to stop such unlawful course of actions?