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MOMENTS OF SILENCE : the unforgetting of the october 6, 1976, massacre in bangkok;the unforgetting of the october 6, 1976, massacre in bangkok by Thongchai, Winichakul, is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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"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 or who is responsible. Thai society still refuses to confront this dark page in its history. Moments of Silence focuses on the silence that surrounds the October 6 massacre. Silence, the book argues, is not forgetting. Rather it signals an inability to forget or remember-or to articulate a socially meaningful memory. It is the "unforgetting," the liminal domain between remembering and forgetting. Historian Thongchai Winichakul, a participant in the events of that day, gives the silence both a voice and a history by highlighting the factors that contributed to the unforgetting amidst changing memories of the massacre over the decades that followed. They include shifting political conditions and context, the influence of Buddhism, the royal-nationalist narrative of history, the role played by the monarchy as moral authority and arbiter of justice, and a widespread perception that the tru

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Author

Thongchai, Winichakul,

Publisher

University of Hawaii Press; University of Hawai‘i Press

Published

2020

Language

EN

ISBN

9780824882341

Category

nonfiction

Updated

2026-03-24