workingclasshistory:

On this day, 6 October 1976, the Thammasat University massacre (aka: “the 6 October event” in Thailand) occured when state forces and far-right royalist mobs attacked student protesters after four to five thousand students from various universities had demonstrated for more than a week against the return of former military dictator Thanom Kittikachorn to Thailand from Singapore. After years of workers, peasants and students fighting for democracy, social justice, an end to long-held privileges and even in some cases an end to capitalism itself, the Thai ruling class responded with the utmost brutality and installed a new dictatorship over the mutilated bodies of those struggling for freedom. Dozens of demonstrators were killed, many of them hanged from trees and then beaten with sticks and chairs. https://www.facebook.com/workingclasshistory/photos/a.296224173896073/1228088217376326/?type=3