6. October was another black mark in the politics of Thailand. After October 14, 1973, a new watch, new constitution and new elections have given hope of a change for the better. But from 1973 – 1976 a series of weak coalition governments in a chain of "failure of the journey to Jerusalem.
In 1976 the political climate was sad. A uniform hung Vietnam after the communist victory and the death camps in Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge, as an ominous specter of the region. With the withdrawal of U.S. troops fromAsia, South-East Asia were living in fear.
This was also a time of newfound freedom for the students and intellectuals. Still heady from their moral victory three years ago have been committed in self-expression, organized demonstrations, strikes and demands for reform.
But from October 6, 1976 have shifted the winds of political change. The same people who supported the students three years ago, were skeptical, now in relation to the Communist threat.
Theconservative middle class found the sharp left-wing radicalism disturbing. There was a strong anti-communist sentiment in Thailand with a revolt in the south. The proximity of neighboring communist Vietnam and Cambodia reinforced fears.
There was an increase in extreme right groups at village level and among students of technical and vocational schools to meet the left-wing groups, with frequent clashes between the two. The weak government riven by factional fighting, was not able toCurbing the two extremes.
In the midst of all this, the Field Marshal Thanom Kittikachorn, the fallen dictator in 1973, was ordered back to Thailand and Monaco. With the bitter memory of October 14, 1973 still fresh in memory, the students were outraged. They amassed a large protest at Thammasat University.
From now on, the students were with their liberal attitudes on the left, with suspicion. As in some other Southeast Asian countries, it was easysealed only by a Communist resistance against the constitution.
The spark that the pogrom was fired, the burning of an effigy of the students who looked like an alleged member of the royal family. In the eyes of common people and the right-wing groups, students have gone too far.
On the evening of October 6, 1976, rights groups, police and military stormed the campus in an orgy of killings and unspeakable atrocities against the living and the dead. Had hopes of a breakthrough in a new democracyquickly shattered. Many intellectuals fled to the mountains.
For the dead and missing members complain about the lack of public interest for the victims of the 6th Held in October 1976 are not the same as the martyrs of October 14, 1973. 6. October was a nightmare as the company would prefer to forget.
Each year, October 6, the relatives gather to scientists and politicians sympathetic to 6 Thammasat University in October 1976 in memory to commemorate the unfortunate victims in the hope of gloryare not completely forgotten.
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