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Thammasat University massacre

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Thammasat University massacre

The Thammasat University Massacre, or Massacre of 6 October 1976 (เหตุการณ์ 6 ตุลา), was an attack on students and protesters that occurred on the campus of Thammasat University and at Sanam Luang in Bangkok. Students from various universities were demonstrating against the return to Thailand of former military dictator Field Marshal Thanom Kittikachorn. By the official count, forty-six people died in the attack, during which protesters were shot, beaten and their bodies mutilated. According to Puey Ungpakorn: "sources at the Chinese Benevolent Foundation, which transported and cremated the dead..., revealed that they had handled over a hundred corpses."[4]

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