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Moments of silence : the unforgetting of the October 6, 1976, massacre in Bangkok /

The massacre on October 6, 1976 in Bangkok was brutal and violent, its savagery unprecedented in modern Thai history. Four decades later there has been no investigation into the atrocity, information remains limited, the truth unknown. There has been no collective coming to terms with what happened...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Thongchai Winichakul (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, [2020]
Subjects:
Thammasat University Massacre, Bangkok, Thailand, 1976.
Collective memory > Thailand.
Psychic trauma > Thailand.
Political activists > Thailand > History > 20th century.
Thailand > Politics and government > 20th century.
Table of Contents:
  • The Unforgetting of October 6
  • The Massacre and Unanswered Questions
  • The Beginning of Memories
  • The Trial and the Beginning of Silence
  • Disquieting Silence after 1978
  • The Commemoration in 1996
  • The Good Silence
  • Sliding Memory
  • Silence of the Wolf
  • Praxis of Memory: The Octobrists.