Somsak Jeamteerasakul is a former history lecturer at the Faculty of Liberal Arts, Thammasat University. His academic field is contemporary political history, especially recent Thai history from 1930.
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The 6 October 1976 massacre, also known as the 6 October event in Thailand, was a violent crackdown by Thai police and lynching by right-wing paramilitaries and bystanders against leftist protesters w
Somsak Jeamteerasakul
…interested in politics since he was a student representative during his secondary education. He was a student leader and present at the campus during the 6 October 1976 Thammasat University massacre. He was arrested and later spent two years in jail. Somsak Jeamteerasakul earned a PhD degree from Monash University in Australia. His doctoral thesis…
A crowd looks on, some with smiles on their faces, as a man uses a folding chair to beat the hanged body of an unknown student just outside the university. Photo by Neal Ulevich.
Prime Minister Seni Pramoj
The return of Thanom Kittikachorn caused the sit-in at Thammasat University prior to the massacre.
An exhibition of 6 October 1976 in Thammasat University reads "Thai kill[ed] Thai. Bloodshed [at] Thammasat."