Bangkok's Thammasat University Uprising Nudged by a newly-freed media and an increasingly prosperous Chinese minority, the government of Thailand is being asked to come clean on the nation's history, including bits that have been swept under the carpet -- like the bloody suppression of a students uprising in 1976. Emerging from the shadow of decades of military rule, Thailand is today seen as well on its way to establishing a stable parliamentary democracy. But greater social and media freedom in recent years has also thrown up disturbing questions about the country's authoritarian past. In October 1996, thousands of former student and political activists gathered at Bangkok's Thammasat University to remember dozens of colleagues killed on the campus grounds twenty years ago by right-wing groups and police. The massacre was followed by a military coup and ended ....

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