Chit Phumisak
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Chit Phumisak was a Thai Marxist historian, activist, author, philologist, poet, songwriter, and communist revolutionary. His most influential book was Chomna Sakdina Thai, written in 1957 under the p
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Chit Phumisak at Angkor Wat in Cambodia
A birthday billboard for Chit’s 2020 birthday in Bangkok
The King Never Smiles
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The King Never Smiles is an unauthorized biography of Thailand's King Bhumibol Adulyadej by Paul M. Handley, a freelance journalist who lived and worked as a foreign correspondent in Thailand. It is p
Chit Phumisak
…was burned and no proper ceremony for his death occurred until 1989, when his remains were finally placed in a stupa at the nearby Wat Prasittisangwon. Paul M. Handley, the author of The King Never Smiles, states that Chit was executed by government officials near the Phu Phan mountains shortly after he was released…
The King Never Smiles book cover