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<p></p> <table class="diff diff-contentalign-left" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #222; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #222; text-align: center;">Revision as of 04:38, 19 July 2018</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l1" >Line 1:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 1:</td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>BANGKOK (AP) - EDITOR'S NOTE: Associated Press Photographer Neal Ulevich won the Pulitzer Prize for his photos of the suppression of a left-wing student protest at Bangkok's Thammasat University on Oct. 6, 1976, and the brutal lynchings in its wake. Ulevich, then 30, arrived as a night of tension at the campus broke into a full-scale assault by paramilitary police on thousands of trapped and defenseless students.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Even with experience covering the Vietnam War- he was on one of the last helicopters out when the American presence ended with the communist takeover in April 1975 - Ulevich was stunned by the scale of the violence.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;After winning the Pulitzer, he said his happiness &quot;must be tempered with grim memories of the day. If there is any value in the pictures it is that they may have made some people pause and think about the wider issues such as hatred and violence.&quot;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;FILE - In this Oct. 6, 1976 file photo blood streaming down his face, a leftist student, center, wounded and captured by police is helped to an ambulance at the Thammasat University campus in Bangkok, Thailand. For some Thais, the bloody events of October 6, 1976 are still a nightmare. On that day, heavily armed security forces shot up Bangkok's Thammasat University campus and killed scores of students, while right-wing vigilantes captured would-be escapees, subjecting them to ghoulish lynchings. (AP Photo/Neal Ulevich,File)&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Ulevich wrote this first-person account, which the AP published soon after the massacre.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;___&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;In a real riot no one knows you're there. So as gunfire crackled over the campus of Bangkok's Thammasat University Wednesday morning, I pushed my way through an angry sea of rightists and found a hole in the high metal fence surrounding the campus.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;I paused momentarily while Boy Scouts pushed through the fence the body of a soldier with a chest wound. I jumped through.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;The police were on the attack and the rightists were cheering their support. Troops armed with M-16 rifles were spraying wild fire across a quadrangle, shattering classroom windows and nicking holes in the walls.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;With some Indochina combat coverage behind me, I could hear that more than 90 percent of the fire was going in one direction - toward the students. Occasionally it seemed a round came back.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;On the quadrangle, troopers worked their way toward classrooms.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Some of the troopers tossed hand grenades through the windows. The &quot;garrumph&quot; of a grenade going off was followed by a puff of smoke and the tinkle of showering glass. Then the recoilless rifle crew moved up.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;It wasn't immediately clear why the border patrol police were there, or why they thought they needed an armor-piercing antitank weapon to conquer students. The two-man crew moved forward, followed by a shaggy right-winger carrying a box <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">of ammunition. They blasted more classrooms.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;A few minutes later, about 9:30 a.m., </del> [http://www.vtr.org.vn/cam-nang-du-lich-bac-kinh-5-ngay-4-dem.html vtr.org.vn] the battle seemed over.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Students began to pour out of campus buildings, some wounded. I began to move forward, 50 yards behind the soldiers. I began to feel apprehensive, just as I did in Vietnam when crossing open ground. And with good reason. The shooting began again.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;The students threw themselves to the ground - I did, too - as the Thai police emptied more thousands of rounds into the classrooms. The fire slackened and the students got up.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;I reached the nearest classroom building.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;At the door, students were running out, diving to their hands and knees and crawling past soldiers who told them to take off their shirts, and coeds their blouses. Slow performance earned a kick.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;A grenade went off in a classroom above us, showering troops and their captives with glass and plaster. The students crawled toward the center of the quadrangle to lie in the hot sun.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;I was joined by a German reporter who speaks Thai, and we walked out through the gate.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Then we were out on the street - close by the pleasant green trees that surround the Pramaine Ground site of Bangkok's colorful weekend fair. But then we saw the angry swarm of Thais around two of those trees and their anger was white hot. I saw the body of a dead student hanging from one tree. The scene was being repeated just a few feet away.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;I don't know how much earlier the students had been lynched - probably just a few minutes - but enraged rightists felt robbed by death and continued to batter the bodies.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Other Thais who witnessed the 1973 student riots here said the earlier uprising, which left 70 dead, never evoked the brutality or hatred of Wednesday's attack on the students.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;No one had seen me. I had wandered throughout and taken pictures unmolested. But I had seen enough, and left.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;FILE - In this Oct. 6, 1976 file photo a member of a Thai political faction strikes at the lifeless body of a hanged student outside Thammasat University in Bangkok Oct. 6, 1976. For some Thais, the bloody events of October 6, 1976 are still a nightmare. On that day, heavily armed security forces shot up Bangkok's Thammasat University campus and killed scores of students, while right-wing vigilantes captured would-be escapees, subjecting them to ghoulish lynchings. (AP Photo/Neal Ulevich, File)&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;FILE - In this Oct. 6, 1976 file photo, police stand guard over leftist Thai students on a soccer field at Thammasat University, in Bangkok, Thailand. For some Thais, the bloody events of October 6, 1976 are still a nightmare. On that day, heavily armed security forces shot up Bangkok's Thammasat University campus and killed scores of students, while right-wing vigilantes captured would-be escapees, subjecting them to ghoulish lynchings. (AP Photo/Gary Mangkorn, File)&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;FILE - In this Oct. 6, 1976 file photo leftist students who surrendered to police lie on the ground of the soccer field at Thammasat University in Bangkok, Thailand, awaiting orders from their captors. For some Thais, the bloody events of October 6, 1976 are still a nightmare. On that day, heavily armed security forces shot up Bangkok's Thammasat University campus and killed scores of students, while right-wing vigilantes captured would-be escapees, subjecting them to ghoulish lynchings. (AP Photo/Neal Ulevich, File)&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;FILE - In this Oct 6, <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline"> [http://www.vtr.org.vn/cam-nang-du-lich-bac-kinh-5-ngay-4-dem.html du lịch Bắc Kinh] </del>1976 file photo a policeman kicks a leftist student who surrendered moments before as police moved in on Thammasat University in Bangkok, Thailand. For some Thais, the bloody events of October 6, 1976 are still a nightmare. On that day, heavily armed security forces shot up Bangkok's Thammasat University campus and killed scores of students, while right-wing vigilantes captured would-be escapees, subjecting them to ghoulish lynchings. (AP Photo/Neal Ulevich, File)&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;FILE - In this Oct. 6, 1976, file photo, police fire a shell as they storm the walls of Thammasat University in Bangkok, Thailand. For some Thais, the bloody events of October 6, 1976, are still a nightmare. On that day, heavily armed security forces shot up Bangkok's Thammasat University campus and killed scores of students, while <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">right-wing </del>[http://<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">www</del>.<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Accountingweb</del>.<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">co.uk/search/site/vigilantes</del>%<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">20captured </del>vigilantes captured<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">] </del>would-be escapees, subjecting them to ghoulish lynchings. (AP Photo/Neal Ulevich, File)&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;FILE - In this Oct. 6, 1976 file photo a member of a Thai political faction strikes at the lifeless body of a hanged student outside Thammasat University in Bangkok Oct. 6, 1976. For some Thais, the bloody events of October 6, 1976 are still a nightmare. On that day, heavily armed security forces shot up Bangkok's Thammasat University campus and killed scores of students, while right-wing vigilantes captured would-be escapees, subjecting them to ghoulish lynchings. (AP Photo/Neal Ulevich, File)&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Advertisement</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>BANGKOK (AP) - EDITOR'S NOTE: Associated Press Photographer Neal Ulevich won the Pulitzer Prize for his photos of the suppression of a left-wing student protest at Bangkok's Thammasat University on Oct. 6, 1976, and the brutal lynchings in its wake. Ulevich, then 30, arrived as a night of tension at the campus broke into a full-scale assault by paramilitary police on thousands of trapped and defenseless students.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Even with experience covering the Vietnam War- he was on one of the last helicopters out when the American presence ended with the communist takeover in April 1975 - Ulevich was stunned by the scale of the violence.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;After winning the Pulitzer, he said his happiness &quot;must be tempered with grim memories of the day. If there is any value in the pictures it is that they may have made some people pause and think about the wider issues such as hatred and violence.&quot;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;FILE - In this Oct. 6, 1976 file photo blood streaming down his face, a leftist student, center, wounded and captured by police is helped to an ambulance at the Thammasat University campus in Bangkok, Thailand. For some Thais, the bloody events of October 6, 1976 are still a nightmare. On that day, heavily armed security forces shot up Bangkok's Thammasat University campus and killed scores of students, while right-wing vigilantes captured would-be escapees, subjecting them to ghoulish lynchings. (AP <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline"> [http://www.vtr.org.vn/cam-nang-du-lich-bac-kinh-5-ngay-4-dem.html du lịch Bắc Kinh 5 ngày 4 đêm từ Hà Nội] </ins>Photo/Neal Ulevich,File)&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Ulevich wrote this first-person account, which the AP published soon after the massacre.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;___&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;In a real riot no one knows you're there. So as gunfire crackled over the campus of Bangkok's Thammasat University Wednesday morning, I pushed my way through an angry sea of rightists and found a hole in the high metal fence surrounding the campus.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;I paused momentarily while Boy Scouts pushed through the fence the body of a soldier with a chest wound. I jumped through.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;The police were on the attack and the rightists were cheering their support. Troops armed with M-16 rifles were spraying wild fire across a quadrangle, shattering classroom windows and nicking holes in the walls.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;With some Indochina combat coverage behind me, I could hear that more than 90 percent of the fire was going in one direction - toward the students. Occasionally it seemed a round came back.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;On the quadrangle, troopers worked their way toward classrooms.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Some of the troopers tossed hand grenades through the windows. The &quot;garrumph&quot; of a grenade going off was followed by a puff of smoke and the tinkle of showering glass. Then the recoilless rifle crew moved up.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;It wasn't immediately clear why the border patrol police were there, or why they thought they needed an armor-piercing antitank weapon to conquer students. The two-man crew moved forward, followed by a shaggy right-winger carrying a box&#160; [http://www.vtr.org.vn/cam-nang-du-lich-bac-kinh-5-ngay-4-dem.html vtr.org.vn] <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">of ammunition. They blasted more classrooms.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;A few minutes later, about 9:30 a.m., </ins>the battle seemed over.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Students began to pour out of campus buildings, some wounded. I began to move forward, 50 yards behind the soldiers. I began to feel apprehensive, just as I did in Vietnam when crossing open ground. And with good reason. The shooting began again.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;The students threw themselves to the ground - I did, too - as the Thai police emptied more thousands of rounds into the classrooms. The fire slackened and the students got up.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;I reached the nearest classroom building.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;At the door, students were running out, diving to their hands and knees and crawling past soldiers who told them to take off their shirts, and coeds their blouses. Slow performance earned a kick.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;A grenade went off in a classroom above us, showering troops and their captives with glass and plaster. The students crawled toward the center of the quadrangle to lie in the hot sun.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;I was joined by a German reporter who speaks Thai, and we walked out through the gate.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Then we were out on the street - close by the pleasant green trees that surround the Pramaine Ground site of Bangkok's colorful weekend fair. But then we saw the angry swarm of Thais around two of those trees and their anger was white hot. I saw the body of a dead student hanging from one tree. The scene was being repeated just a few feet away.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;I don't know how much earlier the students had been lynched - probably just a few minutes - but enraged rightists felt robbed by death and continued to batter the bodies.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Other Thais who witnessed the 1973 student riots here said the earlier uprising, which left 70 dead, never evoked the brutality or hatred of Wednesday's attack on the students.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;No one had seen me. I had wandered throughout and taken pictures unmolested. But I had seen enough, and left.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;FILE - In this Oct. 6, 1976 file photo a member of a Thai political faction strikes at the lifeless body of a hanged student outside Thammasat University in Bangkok Oct. 6, 1976. For some Thais, the bloody events of October 6, 1976 are still a nightmare. On that day, heavily armed security forces shot up Bangkok's Thammasat University campus and killed scores of students, while right-wing vigilantes captured would-be escapees, subjecting them to ghoulish lynchings. (AP Photo/Neal Ulevich, File)&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;FILE - In this Oct. 6, 1976 file photo, police stand guard over leftist Thai students on a soccer field at Thammasat University, in Bangkok, Thailand. For some Thais, the bloody events of October 6, 1976 are still a nightmare. On that day, heavily armed security forces shot up Bangkok's Thammasat University campus and killed scores of students, while right-wing vigilantes captured would-be escapees, subjecting them to ghoulish lynchings. (AP Photo/Gary Mangkorn, File)&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;FILE - In this Oct. 6, 1976 file photo leftist students <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline"> [http://www.vtr.org.vn/cam-nang-du-lich-bac-kinh-5-ngay-4-dem.html du lịch Bắc Kinh] </ins>who surrendered to police lie on the ground of the soccer field at Thammasat University in Bangkok, Thailand, awaiting orders from their captors. For some Thais, the bloody events of October 6, 1976 are still a nightmare. On that day, heavily armed security forces shot up Bangkok's Thammasat University campus and killed scores of students, while right-wing vigilantes <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[http://blogs.realtown.com/search/?q=captured%20would-be </ins>captured would-be<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">] </ins>escapees, subjecting them to ghoulish lynchings. (AP Photo/Neal Ulevich, File)&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;FILE - In this Oct 6, 1976 file photo a policeman kicks a leftist student who surrendered moments before as police moved in on Thammasat University in Bangkok, Thailand. For some Thais, the bloody events of October 6, 1976 are still a nightmare. On that day, heavily armed security forces shot up Bangkok's Thammasat University campus and killed scores of students, while right-wing vigilantes captured would-be escapees, subjecting them to ghoulish lynchings. (AP Photo/Neal Ulevich, File)&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;FILE - In this Oct. 6, 1976, file photo, police fire a shell as they storm the walls of Thammasat University in Bangkok, Thailand. For some Thais, the bloody events of October 6, 1976, are still a nightmare. On that day, heavily armed security forces shot up Bangkok's Thammasat University campus and killed scores of students, while [http://<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Mondediplo</ins>.<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">com/spip</ins>.<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">php?page=recherche&amp;recherche=right-wing</ins>%<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">20vigilantes right-wing </ins>vigilantes<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">] </ins>captured would-be escapees, subjecting them to ghoulish lynchings. (AP Photo/Neal Ulevich, File)&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;FILE - In this Oct. 6, 1976 file photo a member of a Thai political faction strikes at the lifeless body of a hanged student outside Thammasat University in Bangkok Oct. 6, 1976. For some Thais, the bloody events of October 6, 1976 are still a nightmare. On that day, heavily armed security forces shot up Bangkok's Thammasat University campus and killed scores of students, while right-wing vigilantes captured would-be escapees, subjecting them to ghoulish lynchings. (AP Photo/Neal Ulevich, File)&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Advertisement</div></td></tr> </table>

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<p></p> <table class="diff diff-contentalign-left" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #222; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #222; text-align: center;">Revision as of 04:10, 19 July 2018</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l1" >Line 1:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 1:</td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>BANGKOK (AP) - EDITOR'S NOTE: Associated Press Photographer Neal Ulevich won the Pulitzer Prize for his photos of the suppression of a left-wing student protest at Bangkok's Thammasat University on Oct. 6, 1976, and the brutal lynchings in its wake. Ulevich, then 30, arrived as a night of tension at the campus broke into a full-scale assault by paramilitary police on thousands of trapped and defenseless students.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Even with experience covering the Vietnam War- he was on one of the last helicopters out when <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline"> [http://www.vtr.org.vn/cam</del>-<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">nang-du-lich-bac-kinh-5-ngay-4-dem</del>.<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">html vtr.org.vn] </del>the <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">American presence ended </del>with the <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">communist takeover </del>in <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">April 1975 - Ulevich was stunned by </del>the <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">scale of the violence.&lt;br&gt;</del>&lt;br&gt;<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">After winning the Pulitzer</del>, <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">he said </del>his <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">happiness &quot;must be tempered with grim memories of the day. If there </del>is <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">any value in </del>the <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">pictures it is that they may have made </del>some <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">people pause and think about </del>the <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">wider issues such as hatred and violence.&quot;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;FILE - In this Oct. </del>6, 1976 <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">file photo blood streaming down his face</del>, <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">a leftist student, center, wounded and captured by police is helped to an ambulance at the </del>Thammasat University campus <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">in Bangkok, Thailand. For some Thais, the bloody events </del>of <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">October 6</del>, <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">1976 are still a nightmare</del>. <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">On that day, heavily armed security forces shot up Bangkok's Thammasat University campus and killed scores of students</del>, <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">while right-wing vigilantes captured would-be escapees, subjecting them to ghoulish lynchings. (AP Photo/Neal Ulevich,File)&lt;</del>br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Ulevich wrote this first-person account, which the AP published soon after the massacre.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;___&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;In a real riot no one knows you're there. So as gunfire <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[http://Www.Ehow.com/search.html?s=crackled crackled] over </del>the campus of Bangkok's Thammasat University Wednesday morning, I pushed my way through an angry sea of rightists and found a hole in the high metal fence surrounding the campus.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;I paused momentarily while Boy Scouts pushed through the fence the body of a soldier with a chest wound. I jumped through.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;The police were on the attack and the rightists were cheering their support. Troops armed with M-16 rifles were spraying wild fire across a quadrangle, shattering classroom windows and nicking holes in the walls.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;With some Indochina combat coverage behind me, I could hear that more than 90 percent of the fire was going in one direction - toward the students. Occasionally it seemed a round came back.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;On the quadrangle, troopers worked their way toward classrooms.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Some of the troopers tossed hand grenades through the windows. The &quot;garrumph&quot; of a grenade going off was followed by a puff of smoke and the tinkle of showering glass. Then the recoilless rifle crew moved up.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;It wasn't immediately clear why the border patrol police were there, or why they thought they needed an armor-piercing antitank weapon to conquer students. The two-man crew moved forward, followed by a shaggy right-winger carrying a box of ammunition. They blasted more classrooms.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;A few minutes later, about 9:30 a.m., <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">the battle seemed over</del>.<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Students began to pour out of campus buildings, some wounded</del>. <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">I began to move forward, 50 yards behind the soldiers</del>. <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">I </del>began to <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">feel apprehensive</del>, <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">just </del>as I did in Vietnam when crossing open ground. And with good reason. The shooting began again.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;The students threw themselves to the ground - I did, too - as the Thai police emptied more thousands of rounds into the classrooms. The fire slackened and the students got up.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;I reached the nearest classroom building.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;At the door, students were running out, diving to their hands and knees and crawling past soldiers who told them to take off their shirts, and coeds their blouses. Slow performance earned a kick.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;A grenade went off in a classroom above us, showering troops and their captives with glass and plaster. The students crawled toward the center of the quadrangle to lie in the hot sun.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;I was joined by a German reporter who speaks Thai, and we walked out through the gate.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Then we were out on the street - close by the pleasant green trees that surround the Pramaine Ground site of Bangkok's colorful weekend fair. But then we saw the angry swarm of Thais around two of those trees and their anger was white hot. I saw the body of a dead student hanging from one tree. The scene was being repeated just a few feet away.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;I don't know how much earlier the students had been lynched - probably just a few minutes - but enraged rightists felt robbed by death and continued to batter the bodies.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Other Thais who witnessed the 1973 student riots here said the earlier uprising, which left 70 dead, never evoked the brutality or hatred of Wednesday's attack on the students.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;No one had seen me. I had wandered throughout and taken pictures unmolested. But I had seen enough, and left.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;FILE - In this Oct. 6, 1976 file photo a member of a Thai political faction strikes at the lifeless body of a hanged student outside Thammasat University in Bangkok Oct. 6, 1976. For some Thais, the bloody events of October 6, 1976 are still a nightmare. On that day, heavily armed security forces shot up Bangkok's Thammasat University campus and killed scores of students, while right-wing vigilantes captured would-be escapees, subjecting them to ghoulish lynchings. (AP Photo/Neal Ulevich, File)&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;FILE - In this Oct. 6, 1976 file photo, police stand guard over leftist Thai students on a soccer field at Thammasat University, in Bangkok, Thailand. For some Thais, the bloody events of October 6, 1976 are still a nightmare. On that day, heavily armed security forces shot up Bangkok's Thammasat University campus and killed scores of students, while right-wing vigilantes captured would-be escapees, subjecting them to <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/ghoulish%20lynchings?s=ts ghoulish lynchings]</del>. (AP Photo/Gary Mangkorn, File)&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;FILE - In this Oct. 6, 1976 file photo leftist students who surrendered to police lie on the ground of the soccer field at Thammasat University in Bangkok, Thailand, awaiting orders from their captors. For some Thais, the bloody events of October 6, 1976 are still a nightmare. On that day, heavily armed security forces shot up Bangkok's Thammasat University campus and killed scores of students, while right-wing vigilantes captured would-be escapees, subjecting them to ghoulish lynchings. (AP Photo/Neal Ulevich, File)&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;FILE - In this Oct 6, <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">1976 file photo a policeman kicks a leftist student who surrendered moments before as police moved in on Thammasat University in Bangkok, Thailand</del>. <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">For some Thais, the bloody events of October 6, 1976 are still a nightmare. On that day, heavily armed security forces shot up Bangkok's Thammasat University campus and killed scores of students, while right</del>-<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">wing vigilantes captured would-be escapees, subjecting them to ghoulish lynchings. (AP Photo/Neal Ulevich</del>, <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">File)&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;FILE - In this Oct. </del>6, 1976, <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">file photo, police fire a shell as they storm the walls of </del>Thammasat University <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">in Bangkok, Thailand. For some Thais, the bloody events </del>of <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">October 6</del>, <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">1976</del>, <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">are still a nightmare</del>. <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">On that day</del>, <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">heavily armed security forces shot up Bangkok's Thammasat University campus and killed scores of students</del>, <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">while right-wing vigilantes captured would-be escapees</del>, <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">subjecting them to ghoulish lynchings. (AP Photo/Neal Ulevich</del>, <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">File)&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;FILE - In this Oct</del>. <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">6</del>, <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">1976 file photo a member </del>of a <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Thai political faction strikes at the lifeless body </del>of <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">a&#160; </del>[http://www.<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">vtr</del>.<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">org</del>.<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">vn</del>/<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">cam</del>-<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">nang-du-lich-bac-kinh</del>-<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">5-ngay-4-dem</del>.<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">html du lịch Bắc Kinh] </del>hanged student outside Thammasat University in Bangkok Oct. 6, 1976. For some Thais, the bloody events of October 6, 1976 are still a nightmare. On that day, heavily armed security forces shot up Bangkok's Thammasat University campus and killed scores of students, while right-wing vigilantes captured would-be escapees, subjecting them to ghoulish lynchings. (AP Photo/Neal Ulevich, File)&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Advertisement</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>BANGKOK (AP) - EDITOR'S NOTE: Associated Press Photographer Neal Ulevich won the Pulitzer Prize for his photos of the suppression of a left-wing student protest at Bangkok's Thammasat University on Oct. 6, 1976, and the brutal lynchings in its wake. Ulevich, then 30, arrived as a night of tension at the campus broke into a full-scale assault by paramilitary police on thousands of trapped and defenseless students.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Even with experience covering the Vietnam War- he was on one of the last helicopters out when <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">the American presence ended with the communist takeover in April 1975 </ins>- <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Ulevich was stunned by the scale of the violence</ins>.<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;After winning </ins>the <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Pulitzer, he said his happiness &quot;must be tempered </ins>with <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">grim memories of </ins>the <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">day. If there is any value </ins>in the <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">pictures it is that they may have made some people pause and think about the wider issues such as hatred and violence.&quot;</ins>&lt;br&gt;<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">&lt;br&gt;FILE - In this Oct. 6</ins>, <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">1976 file photo blood streaming down </ins>his <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">face, a leftist student, center, wounded and captured by police </ins>is <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">helped to an ambulance at </ins>the <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Thammasat University campus in Bangkok, Thailand. For </ins>some <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Thais, </ins>the <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">bloody events of October </ins>6, 1976 <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">are still a nightmare. On that day</ins>, <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">heavily armed security forces shot up Bangkok's </ins>Thammasat University campus <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">and killed scores </ins>of <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">students</ins>, <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">while right-wing vigilantes captured would-be escapees, subjecting them to ghoulish lynchings</ins>. <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">(AP Photo/Neal Ulevich</ins>,<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">File)&lt;</ins>br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Ulevich wrote this first-person account, which the AP published soon after the massacre.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;___&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;In a real riot no one knows you're there. So as gunfire <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">crackled over </ins>the campus of Bangkok's Thammasat University Wednesday morning, I pushed my way through an angry sea of rightists and found a hole in the high metal fence surrounding the campus.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;I paused momentarily while Boy Scouts pushed through the fence the body of a soldier with a chest wound. I jumped through.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;The police were on the attack and the rightists were cheering their support. Troops armed with M-16 rifles were spraying wild fire across a quadrangle, shattering classroom windows and nicking holes in the walls.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;With some Indochina combat coverage behind me, I could hear that more than 90 percent of the fire was going in one direction - toward the students. Occasionally it seemed a round came back.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;On the quadrangle, troopers worked their way toward classrooms.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Some of the troopers tossed hand grenades through the windows. The &quot;garrumph&quot; of a grenade going off was followed by a puff of smoke and the tinkle of showering glass. Then the recoilless rifle crew moved up.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;It wasn't immediately clear why the border patrol police were there, or why they thought they needed an armor-piercing antitank weapon to conquer students. The two-man crew moved forward, followed by a shaggy right-winger carrying a box of ammunition. They blasted more classrooms.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;A few minutes later, about 9:30 a.m., <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline"> [http://www</ins>.<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">vtr.org</ins>.<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">vn/cam-nang-du-lich-bac-kinh-5-ngay-4-dem</ins>.<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">html vtr.org.vn] the battle seemed over.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Students </ins>began to <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">pour out of campus buildings</ins>, <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">some wounded. I began to move forward, 50 yards behind the soldiers. I began to feel apprehensive, just </ins>as I did in Vietnam when crossing open ground. And with good reason. The shooting began again.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;The students threw themselves to the ground - I did, too - as the Thai police emptied more thousands of rounds into the classrooms. The fire slackened and the students got up.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;I reached the nearest classroom building.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;At the door, students were running out, diving to their hands and knees and crawling past soldiers who told them to take off their shirts, and coeds their blouses. Slow performance earned a kick.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;A grenade went off in a classroom above us, showering troops and their captives with glass and plaster. The students crawled toward the center of the quadrangle to lie in the hot sun.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;I was joined by a German reporter who speaks Thai, and we walked out through the gate.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Then we were out on the street - close by the pleasant green trees that surround the Pramaine Ground site of Bangkok's colorful weekend fair. But then we saw the angry swarm of Thais around two of those trees and their anger was white hot. I saw the body of a dead student hanging from one tree. The scene was being repeated just a few feet away.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;I don't know how much earlier the students had been lynched - probably just a few minutes - but enraged rightists felt robbed by death and continued to batter the bodies.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Other Thais who witnessed the 1973 student riots here said the earlier uprising, which left 70 dead, never evoked the brutality or hatred of Wednesday's attack on the students.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;No one had seen me. I had wandered throughout and taken pictures unmolested. But I had seen enough, and left.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;FILE - In this Oct. 6, 1976 file photo a member of a Thai political faction strikes at the lifeless body of a hanged student outside Thammasat University in Bangkok Oct. 6, 1976. For some Thais, the bloody events of October 6, 1976 are still a nightmare. On that day, heavily armed security forces shot up Bangkok's Thammasat University campus and killed scores of students, while right-wing vigilantes captured would-be escapees, subjecting them to ghoulish lynchings. (AP Photo/Neal Ulevich, File)&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;FILE - In this Oct. 6, 1976 file photo, police stand guard over leftist Thai students on a soccer field at Thammasat University, in Bangkok, Thailand. For some Thais, the bloody events of October 6, 1976 are still a nightmare. On that day, heavily armed security forces shot up Bangkok's Thammasat University campus and killed scores of students, while right-wing vigilantes captured would-be escapees, subjecting them to <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">ghoulish lynchings</ins>. (AP Photo/Gary Mangkorn, File)&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;FILE - In this Oct. 6, 1976 file photo leftist students who surrendered to police lie on the ground of the soccer field at Thammasat University in Bangkok, Thailand, awaiting orders from their captors. For some Thais, the bloody events of October 6, 1976 are still a nightmare. On that day, heavily armed security forces shot up Bangkok's Thammasat University campus and killed scores of students, while right-wing vigilantes captured would-be escapees, subjecting them to ghoulish lynchings. (AP Photo/Neal Ulevich, File)&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;FILE - In this Oct 6, <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline"> [http://www.vtr.org</ins>.<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">vn/cam-nang-du-lich-bac-kinh-5-ngay-4</ins>-<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">dem.html du lịch Bắc Kinh] 1976 file photo a policeman kicks a leftist student who surrendered moments before as police moved in on Thammasat University in Bangkok</ins>, <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Thailand. For some Thais, the bloody events of October </ins>6, 1976 <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">are still a nightmare. On that day</ins>, <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">heavily armed security forces shot up Bangkok's </ins>Thammasat University <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">campus and killed scores </ins>of <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">students</ins>, <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">while right-wing vigilantes captured would-be escapees</ins>, <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">subjecting them to ghoulish lynchings</ins>. <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">(AP Photo/Neal Ulevich</ins>, <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">File)&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;FILE - In this Oct. 6</ins>, <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">1976</ins>, <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">file photo</ins>, <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">police fire a shell as they storm the walls of Thammasat University in Bangkok, Thailand</ins>. <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">For some Thais</ins>, <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">the bloody events </ins>of <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">October 6, 1976, are still </ins>a <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">nightmare. On that day, heavily armed security forces shot up Bangkok's Thammasat University campus and killed scores </ins>of <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">students, while right-wing </ins>[http://www.<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Accountingweb</ins>.<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">co</ins>.<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">uk</ins>/<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">search/site/vigilantes%20captured vigilantes captured] would</ins>-<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">be escapees, subjecting them to ghoulish lynchings. (AP Photo/Neal Ulevich, File)&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;FILE </ins>- <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">In this Oct</ins>. <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">6, 1976 file photo a member of a Thai political faction strikes at the lifeless body of a </ins>hanged student outside Thammasat University in Bangkok Oct. 6, 1976. For some Thais, the bloody events of October 6, 1976 are still a nightmare. On that day, heavily armed security forces shot up Bangkok's Thammasat University campus and killed scores of students, while right-wing vigilantes captured would-be escapees, subjecting them to ghoulish lynchings. (AP Photo/Neal Ulevich, File)&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Advertisement</div></td></tr> </table>

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<p></p> <table class="diff diff-contentalign-left" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #222; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #222; text-align: center;">Revision as of 22:45, 18 July 2018</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l1" >Line 1:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 1:</td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>BANGKOK (AP) - EDITOR'S NOTE: Associated Press Photographer Neal Ulevich won the Pulitzer Prize for his photos of the suppression of a left-wing student protest at Bangkok's Thammasat University on Oct. 6, 1976, and the brutal lynchings in its wake. Ulevich, then 30, <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline"> [http://www.vtr.org.vn/cam</del>-<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">nang</del>-du-lich-bac-kinh-5-ngay-4-dem.html vtr.org.vn] <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">arrived as a night of tension at </del>the <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">campus broke into a full</del>-scale <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">assault by paramilitary police on thousands </del>of <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">trapped and defenseless students</del>.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Even with experience covering </del>the <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Vietnam War- </del>he <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">was on one </del>of the <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">last helicopters out when </del>the <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">American presence ended with the communist takeover in April 1975 - Ulevich was stunned by the scale of </del>the violence.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">After winning the Pulitzer</del>, <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">he said </del>his <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">happiness &quot;must be tempered with grim memories of the day. If there </del>is <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">any value in </del>the <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">pictures it is that they may have made </del>some <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">people pause and think about </del>the <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">wider issues such as hatred and violence.&quot;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;FILE - In this Oct. </del>6, 1976 <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">file photo blood streaming down his face</del>, <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">a leftist student, center, wounded </del>and captured <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">by police is helped </del>to <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">an ambulance at the Thammasat University campus in Bangkok</del>, <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Thailand.&#160; [http://www.vtr.org</del>.<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">vn/cam-nang-du-lich-bac-kinh-5-ngay-4-dem.html tour bắc kinh từ hà nội] For some Thais, the bloody events of October 6, 1976 are still </del>a <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">nightmare</del>. <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">On that day, heavily armed security forces shot up Bangkok'</del>s <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Thammasat University </del>campus <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">and killed scores </del>of <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">students</del>, <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">while right-wing vigilantes captured would-be escapees, subjecting them to ghoulish lynchings</del>. <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">(AP Photo/Neal Ulevich,File)&lt;</del>br&gt;&lt;br&gt;<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Ulevich wrote this first-person account, which </del>the <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">AP published soon after </del>the <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">massacre</del>.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">___&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;In a real riot no one knows you're there</del>. <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">So as gunfire crackled over </del>the <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">campus of Bangkok's Thammasat University Wednesday morning, I pushed my way through an angry sea of rightists and found a hole in the high metal fence surrounding the campus</del>.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">I paused momentarily while Boy Scouts pushed through </del>the <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">fence the body of a soldier with </del>a <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">chest wound. I jumped through</del>.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">The police were on </del>the <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">attack and the rightists were cheering </del>their <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">support</del>. <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Troops armed with M-16 rifles were spraying wild fire across a quadrangle, shattering classroom </del>windows <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">and nicking holes in the walls</del>.<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;With some Indochina combat coverage behind me, I could hear that more than 90 percent </del>of <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">the fire </del>was <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">going in one direction - toward </del>the <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">students</del>. <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Occasionally it seemed a round came back</del>.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">On </del>the <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">quadrangle</del>, <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">troopers worked their way toward classrooms.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Some of the troopers tossed hand grenades through the windows</del>. The <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">&quot;garrumph&quot; of a grenade going off was </del>followed by a <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">puff </del>of <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">smoke and the tinkle of showering glass. Then the recoilless rifle crew moved up</del>.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">It wasn't immediately clear why </del>the <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">border patrol police were there, or why they thought they needed an armor-piercing antitank weapon </del>to <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">conquer students</del>. <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">The two-man crew moved </del>forward, <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">followed by a shaggy right-winger carrying a box of ammunition</del>. <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">They blasted more classrooms</del>.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">A few minutes later, about 9:30 a.m.</del>, the <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">battle seemed over</del>.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Students began to pour out of campus buildings, some wounded. </del>I <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">began to move forward, 50 yards behind </del>the <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">soldiers</del>. <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">I began to feel apprehensive</del>, <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">just as I did in Vietnam when crossing open ground. And with good reason</del>. <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">The shooting began again</del>.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">The students&#160; [http://www</del>.<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">vtr.org</del>.<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">vn/cam-nang-du-lich-bac-kinh-5-ngay-4-dem</del>.<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">html du lịch Bắc Kinh 5 ngày 4 đêm] threw themselves to </del>the <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">ground </del>- <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">I did, too - as </del>the <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Thai police emptied more thousands </del>of <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">rounds into the classrooms</del>. <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">The fire slackened </del>and the <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">students got up</del>.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;I <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">reached </del>the <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">nearest classroom building</del>.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">At </del>the <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">door</del>, <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">students were running out</del>, <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">diving to their hands </del>and <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">knees and crawling past soldiers who told them to take off their shirts</del>, and <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">coeds their blouses</del>. <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Slow performance earned a kick.&lt;</del>br&gt;&lt;br&gt;<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">A grenade went off in </del>a <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">classroom above us, showering troops and their captives with glass and plaster. The students crawled toward </del>the <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">center </del>of <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">the quadrangle to lie </del>in <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">the hot sun</del>.<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;I was joined by a German reporter who speaks Thai</del>, <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">and we walked out through </del>the <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">gate</del>.<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Then we were out on the street - close by the pleasant green trees </del>that <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">surround the Pramaine Ground site of </del>Bangkok's <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">colorful weekend fair. But then we saw the [http://www</del>.<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">ehow.com</del>/<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">search.html?s=angry%20swarm angry swarm] of Thais around two of those trees and their anger was white hot. I saw the body of </del>a <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">dead student hanging from one tree</del>. <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">The scene was being repeated just a few feet away</del>.<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;I don</del>'<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">t know how much earlier the </del>students <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">had been lynched </del>- <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">probably just a few minutes </del>- <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">but enraged rightists felt robbed by death and continued </del>to <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">batter the bodies</del>.<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">&lt;br</del>&gt;&lt;br&gt;<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Other Thais who witnessed </del>the <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">1973 student riots here said </del>the <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">earlier uprising</del>, <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">which left 70 dead</del>, <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">never evoked </del>the <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">brutality or hatred </del>of <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Wednesday</del>'s <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">attack on the students</del>.<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">&lt;br&gt;&lt;</del>br&gt;<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">No one had seen me. I had wandered throughout and taken pictures unmolested. But I had seen enough, and left.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;FILE - In this Oct. 6, 1976 </del>file photo a <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">member of </del>a <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Thai political faction strikes at the lifeless body of a hanged </del>student <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">outside </del>Thammasat University in Bangkok <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Oct. 6, 1976</del>. For some Thais, the bloody events of October 6, 1976 are still a nightmare. On that day, heavily armed security forces shot up Bangkok's Thammasat University campus and killed scores of students, while right-wing vigilantes captured would-be escapees, subjecting them to ghoulish lynchings. (AP Photo/Neal Ulevich, File)&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;FILE - In this Oct. 6, 1976 file photo, police <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">stand guard over leftist Thai students on </del>a <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">soccer field at </del>Thammasat University<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">, </del>in Bangkok, Thailand. For some Thais, the bloody events of October 6, 1976 are still a nightmare. On that day, heavily armed security forces shot up Bangkok's Thammasat University campus and killed scores of students, while right-wing vigilantes captured would-be escapees, subjecting them to ghoulish lynchings. (AP Photo/<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Gary Mangkorn</del>, File)&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;FILE - In this Oct. 6, 1976 file photo <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">leftist students who surrendered to police lie on </del>the <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">ground </del>of <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">the soccer field at Thammasat University in Bangkok, Thailand, awaiting orders from their captors</del>. <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">For some Thais, the bloody events of October 6, 1976 are still a nightmare. On that day, heavily armed security forces shot up Bangkok's Thammasat University campus and killed scores of students, while right</del>-<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">wing vigilantes captured would</del>-<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">be escapees, subjecting them to ghoulish lynchings</del>. <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">(AP Photo/Neal Ulevich, File)&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;FILE - In this Oct 6, 1976 file photo a policeman kicks a leftist student who surrendered moments before as police moved in on Thammasat University in Bangkok, Thailand. For some Thais, the bloody events of October 6, 1976 are still a nightmare. On that day, heavily armed security forces shot up Bangkok's Thammasat University campus and killed scores of students, while right-wing vigilantes captured would-be escapees, subjecting them to ghoulish lynchings. (AP Photo/Neal Ulevich, File)&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;FILE - In this Oct. 6, 1976, file photo, police fire a shell as they storm the walls of Thammasat University in Bangkok, Thailand. For some Thais, the bloody events of October 6, 1976, are still a nightmare. On that day, heavily armed security forces shot up Bangkok's Thammasat University campus and killed scores of students, while right-wing vigilantes captured would-be escapees, subjecting them to ghoulish lynchings. (AP Photo/Neal Ulevich, File)&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;FILE - In this Oct. 6, 1976 file photo a member of a Thai political faction strikes at the lifeless body of a </del>hanged student outside Thammasat University in Bangkok Oct. 6, 1976. For some Thais, the bloody events of October 6, 1976 are still a nightmare. On that day, heavily armed security forces shot up Bangkok's Thammasat University campus and killed scores of students, while right-wing vigilantes captured would-be escapees, subjecting them to ghoulish lynchings. (AP Photo/Neal Ulevich, File)&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Advertisement</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>BANGKOK (AP) - EDITOR'S NOTE: Associated Press Photographer Neal Ulevich won the Pulitzer Prize for his photos of the suppression of a left-wing student protest at Bangkok's Thammasat University on Oct. 6, 1976, and the brutal lynchings in its wake. Ulevich, then 30, <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">arrived as a night of tension at the campus broke into a full</ins>-<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">scale assault by paramilitary police on thousands of trapped and defenseless students.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Even with experience covering the Vietnam War- he was on one of the last helicopters out when&#160; [http://www.vtr.org.vn/cam-nang</ins>-du-lich-bac-kinh-5-ngay-4-dem.html vtr.org.vn] the <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">American presence ended with the communist takeover in April 1975 </ins>- <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Ulevich was stunned by the </ins>scale of <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">the violence</ins>.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">After winning </ins>the <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Pulitzer, </ins>he <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">said his happiness &quot;must be tempered with grim memories </ins>of the <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">day. If there is any value in </ins>the <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">pictures it is that they may have made some people pause and think about </ins>the <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">wider issues such as hatred and </ins>violence.<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">&quot;</ins>&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">FILE - In this Oct. 6</ins>, <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">1976 file photo blood streaming down </ins>his <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">face, a leftist student, center, wounded and captured by police </ins>is <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">helped to an ambulance at </ins>the <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Thammasat University campus in Bangkok, Thailand. For </ins>some <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Thais, </ins>the <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">bloody events of October </ins>6, 1976 <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">are still a nightmare. On that day</ins>, <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">heavily armed security forces shot up Bangkok's Thammasat University campus </ins>and <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">killed scores of students, while right-wing vigilantes </ins>captured <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">would-be escapees, subjecting them </ins>to <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">ghoulish lynchings. (AP Photo/Neal Ulevich</ins>,<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">File)&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Ulevich wrote this first-person account, which the AP published soon after the massacre</ins>.<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;___&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;In </ins>a <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">real riot no one knows you're there</ins>. <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">So as gunfire [http://Www.Ehow.com/search.html?</ins>s<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">=crackled crackled] over the </ins>campus of <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Bangkok's Thammasat University Wednesday morning</ins>, <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">I pushed my way through an angry sea of rightists and found a hole in the high metal fence surrounding the campus</ins>.<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">&lt;</ins>br&gt;&lt;br&gt;<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">I paused momentarily while Boy Scouts pushed through </ins>the <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">fence </ins>the <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">body of a soldier with a chest wound. I jumped through</ins>.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">The police were on the attack and the rightists were cheering their support</ins>. <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Troops armed with M-16 rifles were spraying wild fire across a quadrangle, shattering classroom windows and nicking holes in </ins>the <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">walls</ins>.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">With some Indochina combat coverage behind me, I could hear that more than 90 percent of </ins>the <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">fire was going in one direction - toward the students. Occasionally it seemed </ins>a <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">round came back</ins>.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">On </ins>the <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">quadrangle, troopers worked </ins>their <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">way toward classrooms</ins>.<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Some of the troopers tossed hand grenades through the </ins>windows. <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">The &quot;garrumph&quot; </ins>of <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">a grenade going off </ins>was <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">followed by a puff of smoke and </ins>the <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">tinkle of showering glass</ins>. <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Then the recoilless rifle crew moved up</ins>.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">It wasn't immediately clear why </ins>the <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">border patrol police were there</ins>, <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">or why they thought they needed an armor-piercing antitank weapon to conquer students</ins>. The <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">two-man crew moved forward, </ins>followed by a <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">shaggy right-winger carrying a box </ins>of <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">ammunition. They blasted more classrooms</ins>.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">A few minutes later, about 9:30 a.m., </ins>the <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">battle seemed over.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Students began </ins>to <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">pour out of campus buildings, some wounded</ins>. <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">I began to move </ins>forward, <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">50 yards behind the soldiers</ins>. <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">I began to feel apprehensive, just as I did in Vietnam when crossing open ground. And with good reason. The shooting began again</ins>.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">The students threw themselves to the ground - I did</ins>, <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">too - as </ins>the <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Thai police emptied more thousands of rounds into the classrooms. The fire slackened and the students got up</ins>.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;I <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">reached </ins>the <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">nearest classroom building</ins>.<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;At the door</ins>, <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">students were running out, diving to their hands and knees and crawling past soldiers who told them to take off their shirts, and coeds their blouses</ins>. <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Slow performance earned a kick</ins>.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">A grenade went off in a classroom above us, showering troops and their captives with glass and plaster</ins>. <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">The students crawled toward the center of the quadrangle to lie in the hot sun</ins>.<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;I was joined by a German reporter who speaks Thai, and we walked out through the gate</ins>.<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Then we were out on </ins>the <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">street </ins>- <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">close by the pleasant green trees that surround </ins>the <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Pramaine Ground site </ins>of <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Bangkok's colorful weekend fair</ins>. <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">But then we saw the angry swarm of Thais around two of those trees </ins>and <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">their anger was white hot. I saw </ins>the <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">body of a dead student hanging from one tree. The scene was being repeated just a few feet away</ins>.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;I <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">don't know how much earlier </ins>the <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">students had been lynched - probably just a few minutes - but enraged rightists felt robbed by death and continued to batter the bodies</ins>.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Other Thais who witnessed the 1973 student riots here said </ins>the <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">earlier uprising</ins>, <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">which left 70 dead</ins>, <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">never evoked the brutality or hatred of Wednesday's attack on the students.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;No one had seen me. I had wandered throughout </ins>and <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">taken pictures unmolested. But I had seen enough</ins>, and <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">left</ins>.<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">&lt;</ins>br&gt;&lt;br&gt;<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">FILE - In this Oct. 6, 1976 file photo </ins>a <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">member of a Thai political faction strikes at </ins>the <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">lifeless body </ins>of <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">a hanged student outside Thammasat University </ins>in <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Bangkok Oct</ins>. <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">6, 1976. For some Thais</ins>, the <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">bloody events of October 6, 1976 are still a nightmare</ins>. <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">On </ins>that <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">day, heavily armed security forces shot up </ins>Bangkok's <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Thammasat University campus and killed scores of students, while right-wing vigilantes captured would-be escapees, subjecting them to ghoulish lynchings</ins>. <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">(AP Photo</ins>/<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Neal Ulevich, File)&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;FILE - In this Oct. 6, 1976 file photo, police stand guard over leftist Thai students on </ins>a <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">soccer field at Thammasat University, in Bangkok, Thailand</ins>. <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">For some Thais, the bloody events of October 6, 1976 are still a nightmare</ins>. <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">On that day, heavily armed security forces shot up Bangkok</ins>'<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">s Thammasat University campus and killed scores of </ins>students<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">, while right</ins>-<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">wing vigilantes captured would</ins>-<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">be escapees, subjecting them </ins>to <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[http://dictionary.reference</ins>.<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">com/browse/ghoulish%20lynchings?s=ts ghoulish lynchings]. (AP Photo/Gary Mangkorn, File)&lt;br</ins>&gt;&lt;br&gt;<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">FILE - In this Oct. 6, 1976 file photo leftist students who surrendered to police lie on </ins>the <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">ground of </ins>the <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">soccer field at Thammasat University in Bangkok</ins>, <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Thailand, awaiting orders from their captors. For some Thais</ins>, the <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">bloody events </ins>of <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">October 6, 1976 are still a nightmare. On that day, heavily armed security forces shot up Bangkok</ins>'s <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Thammasat University campus and killed scores of students, while right-wing vigilantes captured would-be escapees, subjecting them to ghoulish lynchings</ins>. <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">(AP Photo/Neal Ulevich, File)&lt;br&gt;&lt;</ins>br&gt;<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">FILE - In this Oct 6, 1976 </ins>file photo a <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">policeman kicks </ins>a <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">leftist </ins>student <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">who surrendered moments before as police moved in on </ins>Thammasat University in Bangkok<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">, Thailand</ins>. For some Thais, the bloody events of October 6, 1976 are still a nightmare. On that day, heavily armed security forces shot up Bangkok's Thammasat University campus and killed scores of students, while right-wing vigilantes captured would-be escapees, subjecting them to ghoulish lynchings. (AP Photo/Neal Ulevich, File)&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;FILE - In this Oct. 6, 1976<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">, </ins>file photo, police <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">fire </ins>a <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">shell as they storm the walls of </ins>Thammasat University in Bangkok, Thailand. For some Thais, the bloody events of October 6, 1976<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">, </ins>are still a nightmare. On that day, heavily armed security forces shot up Bangkok's Thammasat University campus and killed scores of students, while right-wing vigilantes captured would-be escapees, subjecting them to ghoulish lynchings. (AP Photo/<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Neal Ulevich</ins>, File)&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;FILE - In this Oct. 6, 1976 file photo <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">a member of a Thai political faction strikes at </ins>the <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">lifeless body </ins>of <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">a&#160; [http://www.vtr.org</ins>.<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">vn/cam-nang-du-lich-bac-kinh-5</ins>-<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">ngay</ins>-<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">4-dem</ins>.<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">html du lịch Bắc Kinh] </ins>hanged student outside Thammasat University in Bangkok Oct. 6, 1976. For some Thais, the bloody events of October 6, 1976 are still a nightmare. On that day, heavily armed security forces shot up Bangkok's Thammasat University campus and killed scores of students, while right-wing vigilantes captured would-be escapees, subjecting them to ghoulish lynchings. 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<p></p> <table class="diff diff-contentalign-left" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #222; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #222; text-align: center;">Revision as of 19:29, 18 July 2018</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l1" >Line 1:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 1:</td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>BANGKOK (AP) - EDITOR'S NOTE: Associated Press Photographer Neal Ulevich won the Pulitzer Prize for his photos of the suppression of a left-wing student protest at Bangkok's Thammasat University on Oct. 6, 1976, and the brutal lynchings in its wake. Ulevich, then 30, arrived as a night of tension at the campus broke into a full-scale assault by paramilitary police on thousands of trapped and defenseless students.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Even with experience covering the Vietnam War- he was on one of the last helicopters out when the American presence ended with the communist takeover in April 1975 - Ulevich was <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/search/index.cfm?term=&amp;</del>stunned<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">&amp;loc=en_us&amp;siteSection=home stunned] </del>by the scale of the violence.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;After winning the Pulitzer, he said his happiness &quot;must be tempered with grim memories of the day. If there is any value in the pictures it is that they may have made some people pause and think about the wider issues such as hatred and violence.&quot;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;FILE - In this Oct. 6, 1976 file photo blood streaming down his face, a leftist student, center, wounded and captured by police is helped to an ambulance at the Thammasat University campus in Bangkok, Thailand. For some Thais, the bloody events of October 6, 1976 are still a nightmare. On that day, heavily armed security forces shot up <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[http://www.traveldescribe.com/?s=Bangkok%27s%20Thammasat </del>Bangkok's Thammasat<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">] </del>University campus and killed scores of students, while right-wing vigilantes captured would-be escapees, subjecting them to ghoulish lynchings. (AP Photo/Neal <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline"> [http://www.vtr.org.vn/cam-nang-du-lich-bac-kinh-5-ngay-4-dem.html tour bắc kinh từ hà nội] </del>Ulevich,File)&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Ulevich wrote this first-person account, which the AP published soon after the massacre.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;___&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;In a real riot no one knows you're there. So as gunfire crackled over the campus of Bangkok's Thammasat University Wednesday morning, I pushed my way through an angry sea of rightists and found a hole in the high metal fence surrounding the campus.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;I paused momentarily while Boy Scouts pushed through the fence the body of a soldier with a chest wound. I jumped through.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;The police were on the attack and the rightists were cheering their support. Troops armed with M-16 rifles were spraying wild fire across a quadrangle, shattering classroom windows and nicking holes in the walls.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;With some Indochina combat coverage behind me, I could hear that more than 90 percent of the fire was going in one direction - toward the students. Occasionally it seemed a round came back.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;On the quadrangle, troopers worked their way toward classrooms.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Some of the troopers tossed hand grenades through the windows. The &quot;garrumph&quot; of a <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline"> [http://www.vtr.org.vn/cam-nang-du-lich-bac-kinh-5-ngay-4-dem.html du lịch Bắc Kinh] </del>grenade going off was followed by a puff of smoke and the tinkle of showering glass. Then the recoilless rifle crew moved up.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;It wasn't immediately clear why the border patrol police were there, or why they thought they needed an armor-piercing antitank weapon to conquer students. The two-man crew moved forward, followed by a shaggy right-winger carrying a box of ammunition. They blasted more classrooms.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;A few minutes later, about 9:30 a.m., the battle seemed over.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Students began to pour out of campus buildings, some wounded. I began to move forward, 50 yards behind the soldiers. I began to feel apprehensive, just as I did in Vietnam when crossing open ground. And with good reason. The shooting began again.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;The students threw themselves to the ground - I did, too - as the Thai police emptied more thousands of rounds into the classrooms. The fire slackened and the students got up.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;I reached the nearest classroom building.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;At the door, students were running out, diving to their hands and knees and crawling past soldiers who told them to take off their shirts, and coeds their blouses. Slow performance earned a kick.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;A grenade went off in a classroom above us, showering troops and their captives with glass and plaster. The students crawled toward the center of the quadrangle to lie in the hot sun.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;I was joined by a German reporter who speaks Thai, and we walked out through the gate.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Then we were out on the street - close by the pleasant green trees that surround the Pramaine Ground site of Bangkok's colorful weekend fair. But then we saw the angry swarm of Thais around two of those trees and their anger was white hot. I saw the body of a dead student hanging from one tree. The scene was being repeated just a few feet away.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;I don't know how much earlier the students had been lynched - probably just a few minutes - but enraged rightists felt robbed by death and continued to batter the bodies.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Other Thais who witnessed the 1973 student riots here said the earlier uprising, which left 70 dead, never evoked the brutality or hatred of Wednesday's attack on the students.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;No one had seen me. I had wandered <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline"> [http://www.vtr.org.vn/cam-nang-du-lich-bac-kinh-5-ngay-4-dem.html vtr.org.vn] </del>throughout and taken pictures unmolested. But I had seen enough, and left.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;FILE - In this Oct. 6, 1976 file photo a member of a Thai political faction strikes at the lifeless body of a hanged student outside Thammasat University in Bangkok Oct. 6, 1976. For some Thais, the bloody events of October 6, 1976 are still a nightmare. On that day, heavily armed security forces shot up Bangkok's Thammasat University campus and killed scores of students, while right-wing vigilantes captured would-be escapees, subjecting them to ghoulish lynchings. (AP Photo/Neal Ulevich, File)&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;FILE - In this Oct. 6, 1976 file photo, police stand guard over leftist Thai students on a soccer field at Thammasat University, in Bangkok, Thailand. For some Thais, the bloody events of October 6, 1976 are still a nightmare. On that day, heavily armed security forces shot up Bangkok's Thammasat University campus and killed scores of students, while right-wing vigilantes captured would-be escapees, subjecting them to ghoulish lynchings. (AP Photo/Gary Mangkorn, File)&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;FILE - In this Oct. 6, 1976 file photo leftist students who surrendered to police lie on the ground of the soccer field at Thammasat University in Bangkok, Thailand, awaiting orders from their captors. For some Thais, the bloody events of October 6, 1976 are still a nightmare. On that day, heavily armed security forces shot up Bangkok's Thammasat University campus and killed scores of students, while right-wing vigilantes captured would-be escapees, subjecting them to ghoulish lynchings. (AP Photo/Neal Ulevich, File)&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;FILE - In this Oct 6, 1976 file photo a policeman kicks a leftist student who surrendered moments before as police moved in on Thammasat University in Bangkok, Thailand. For some Thais, the bloody events of October 6, 1976 are still a nightmare. On that day, heavily armed security forces shot up Bangkok's Thammasat University campus and killed scores of students, while right-wing vigilantes captured would-be escapees, subjecting them to ghoulish lynchings. (AP Photo/Neal Ulevich, File)&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;FILE - In this Oct. 6, 1976, file photo, police fire a shell as they storm the walls of Thammasat University in Bangkok, Thailand. For some Thais, the bloody events of October 6, 1976, are still a nightmare. On that day, heavily armed security forces shot up Bangkok's Thammasat University campus and killed scores of students, while right-wing vigilantes captured would-be escapees, subjecting them to ghoulish lynchings. (AP Photo/Neal Ulevich, File)&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;FILE - In this Oct. 6, 1976 file photo a member of a Thai political faction strikes at the lifeless body of a hanged student outside Thammasat University in Bangkok Oct. 6, 1976. For some Thais, the bloody events of October 6, 1976 are still a nightmare. On that day, heavily armed security forces shot up Bangkok's Thammasat University campus and killed scores of students, while right-wing vigilantes captured would-be escapees, subjecting them to ghoulish lynchings. (AP Photo/Neal Ulevich, File)&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Advertisement</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>BANGKOK (AP) - EDITOR'S NOTE: Associated Press Photographer Neal Ulevich won the Pulitzer Prize for his photos of the suppression of a left-wing student protest at Bangkok's Thammasat University on Oct. 6, 1976, and the brutal lynchings in its wake. Ulevich, then 30, <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline"> [http://www.vtr.org.vn/cam-nang-du-lich-bac-kinh-5-ngay-4-dem.html vtr.org.vn] </ins>arrived as a night of tension at the campus broke into a full-scale assault by paramilitary police on thousands of trapped and defenseless students.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Even with experience covering the Vietnam War- he was on one of the last helicopters out when the American presence ended with the communist takeover in April 1975 - Ulevich was stunned by the scale of the violence.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;After winning the Pulitzer, he said his happiness &quot;must be tempered with grim memories of the day. If there is any value in the pictures it is that they may have made some people pause and think about the wider issues such as hatred and violence.&quot;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;FILE - In this Oct. 6, 1976 file photo blood streaming down his face, a leftist student, center, wounded and captured by police is helped to an ambulance at the Thammasat University campus in Bangkok, Thailand. <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline"> [http://www.vtr.org.vn/cam-nang-du-lich-bac-kinh-5-ngay-4-dem.html tour bắc kinh từ hà nội] </ins>For some Thais, the bloody events of October 6, 1976 are still a nightmare. On that day, heavily armed security forces shot up Bangkok's Thammasat University campus and killed scores of students, while right-wing vigilantes captured would-be escapees, subjecting them to ghoulish lynchings. (AP Photo/Neal Ulevich,File)&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Ulevich wrote this first-person account, which the AP published soon after the massacre.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;___&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;In a real riot no one knows you're there. So as gunfire crackled over the campus of Bangkok's Thammasat University Wednesday morning, I pushed my way through an angry sea of rightists and found a hole in the high metal fence surrounding the campus.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;I paused momentarily while Boy Scouts pushed through the fence the body of a soldier with a chest wound. I jumped through.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;The police were on the attack and the rightists were cheering their support. Troops armed with M-16 rifles were spraying wild fire across a quadrangle, shattering classroom windows and nicking holes in the walls.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;With some Indochina combat coverage behind me, I could hear that more than 90 percent of the fire was going in one direction - toward the students. Occasionally it seemed a round came back.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;On the quadrangle, troopers worked their way toward classrooms.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Some of the troopers tossed hand grenades through the windows. The &quot;garrumph&quot; of a grenade going off was followed by a puff of smoke and the tinkle of showering glass. Then the recoilless rifle crew moved up.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;It wasn't immediately clear why the border patrol police were there, or why they thought they needed an armor-piercing antitank weapon to conquer students. The two-man crew moved forward, followed by a shaggy right-winger carrying a box of ammunition. They blasted more classrooms.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;A few minutes later, about 9:30 a.m., the battle seemed over.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Students began to pour out of campus buildings, some wounded. I began to move forward, 50 yards behind the soldiers. I began to feel apprehensive, just as I did in Vietnam when crossing open ground. And with good reason. The shooting began again.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;The students <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline"> [http://www.vtr.org.vn/cam-nang-du-lich-bac-kinh-5-ngay-4-dem.html du lịch Bắc Kinh 5 ngày 4 đêm] </ins>threw themselves to the ground - I did, too - as the Thai police emptied more thousands of rounds into the classrooms. The fire slackened and the students got up.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;I reached the nearest classroom building.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;At the door, students were running out, diving to their hands and knees and crawling past soldiers who told them to take off their shirts, and coeds their blouses. Slow performance earned a kick.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;A grenade went off in a classroom above us, showering troops and their captives with glass and plaster. The students crawled toward the center of the quadrangle to lie in the hot sun.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;I was joined by a German reporter who speaks Thai, and we walked out through the gate.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Then we were out on the street - close by the pleasant green trees that surround the Pramaine Ground site of Bangkok's colorful weekend fair. But then we saw the <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[http://www.ehow.com/search.html?s=angry%20swarm </ins>angry swarm<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">] </ins>of Thais around two of those trees and their anger was white hot. I saw the body of a dead student hanging from one tree. The scene was being repeated just a few feet away.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;I don't know how much earlier the students had been lynched - probably just a few minutes - but enraged rightists felt robbed by death and continued to batter the bodies.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Other Thais who witnessed the 1973 student riots here said the earlier uprising, which left 70 dead, never evoked the brutality or hatred of Wednesday's attack on the students.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;No one had seen me. I had wandered throughout and taken pictures unmolested. But I had seen enough, and left.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;FILE - In this Oct. 6, 1976 file photo a member of a Thai political faction strikes at the lifeless body of a hanged student outside Thammasat University in Bangkok Oct. 6, 1976. For some Thais, the bloody events of October 6, 1976 are still a nightmare. On that day, heavily armed security forces shot up Bangkok's Thammasat University campus and killed scores of students, while right-wing vigilantes captured would-be escapees, subjecting them to ghoulish lynchings. (AP Photo/Neal Ulevich, File)&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;FILE - In this Oct. 6, 1976 file photo, police stand guard over leftist Thai students on a soccer field at Thammasat University, in Bangkok, Thailand. For some Thais, the bloody events of October 6, 1976 are still a nightmare. On that day, heavily armed security forces shot up Bangkok's Thammasat University campus and killed scores of students, while right-wing vigilantes captured would-be escapees, subjecting them to ghoulish lynchings. (AP Photo/Gary Mangkorn, File)&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;FILE - In this Oct. 6, 1976 file photo leftist students who surrendered to police lie on the ground of the soccer field at Thammasat University in Bangkok, Thailand, awaiting orders from their captors. For some Thais, the bloody events of October 6, 1976 are still a nightmare. On that day, heavily armed security forces shot up Bangkok's Thammasat University campus and killed scores of students, while right-wing vigilantes captured would-be escapees, subjecting them to ghoulish lynchings. (AP Photo/Neal Ulevich, File)&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;FILE - In this Oct 6, 1976 file photo a policeman kicks a leftist student who surrendered moments before as police moved in on Thammasat University in Bangkok, Thailand. For some Thais, the bloody events of October 6, 1976 are still a nightmare. On that day, heavily armed security forces shot up Bangkok's Thammasat University campus and killed scores of students, while right-wing vigilantes captured would-be escapees, subjecting them to ghoulish lynchings. (AP Photo/Neal Ulevich, File)&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;FILE - In this Oct. 6, 1976, file photo, police fire a shell as they storm the walls of Thammasat University in Bangkok, Thailand. For some Thais, the bloody events of October 6, 1976, are still a nightmare. On that day, heavily armed security forces shot up Bangkok's Thammasat University campus and killed scores of students, while right-wing vigilantes captured would-be escapees, subjecting them to ghoulish lynchings. (AP Photo/Neal Ulevich, File)&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;FILE - In this Oct. 6, 1976 file photo a member of a Thai political faction strikes at the lifeless body of a hanged student outside Thammasat University in Bangkok Oct. 6, 1976. For some Thais, the bloody events of October 6, 1976 are still a nightmare. On that day, heavily armed security forces shot up Bangkok's Thammasat University campus and killed scores of students, while right-wing vigilantes captured would-be escapees, subjecting them to ghoulish lynchings. (AP Photo/Neal Ulevich, File)&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Advertisement</div></td></tr> </table>

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<p></p> <table class="diff diff-contentalign-left" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #222; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #222; text-align: center;">Revision as of 08:42, 18 July 2018</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l1" >Line 1:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 1:</td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>BANGKOK (AP) - EDITOR'S NOTE: Associated Press Photographer Neal Ulevich won the Pulitzer Prize for his photos of the suppression of a left-wing student protest at Bangkok's Thammasat University on Oct. 6, 1976, and the brutal lynchings in its wake. Ulevich, then 30, arrived as a night <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline"> [http://www.vtr.org.vn/cam</del>-<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">nang-du</del>-<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">lich-bac-kinh-5-ngay-4-dem.html du lịch Bắc Kinh 5 ngày 4 đêm từ Hà Nội] </del>of <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">tension at </del>the <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">campus broke into a full</del>-<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">scale assault by paramilitary police on thousands of trapped and defenseless students</del>.<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Even with experience covering </del>the <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Vietnam War- he was on one </del>of the <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">last helicopters out when the American presence ended with the communist takeover in April 1975 - Ulevich was stunned by the scale of the violence.&lt;br&gt;</del>&lt;br&gt;After winning the Pulitzer, he said his happiness &quot;must be tempered with grim memories of the day. If there is any value in the pictures it is that they may have made some people pause and think about the wider issues such as hatred and violence.&quot;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;FILE - In this Oct. 6, 1976 file photo blood streaming down his face, a leftist student, center, wounded and captured by police is helped to an ambulance at the Thammasat University campus in Bangkok, Thailand. For some Thais, the bloody events of October 6, 1976 are still a nightmare. On that day, heavily armed security forces shot up <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Bangkok'</del>s Thammasat University campus and killed scores of students, while right-wing vigilantes captured would-be escapees, subjecting them to ghoulish lynchings. (AP Photo/Neal <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Ulevich,File)&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Ulevich wrote this first</del>-<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">person account, which the AP published soon after the massacre</del>.<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">&lt;br&gt;&lt;br</del>&gt;<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">___</del>&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;In a real riot no one knows you're there. So as gunfire crackled over the campus of Bangkok's Thammasat University Wednesday morning, I pushed my way through an angry sea of rightists and found a hole in the high metal fence surrounding the campus.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;I paused momentarily while Boy Scouts pushed through the fence the body of a soldier with a chest wound. I jumped through.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;The police were on the attack and the rightists were cheering their support. Troops armed with M-16 rifles were spraying wild fire across a quadrangle, shattering <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline"> [http://www</del>.<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">vtr.org.vn/cam-nang-du-lich-bac-kinh</del>-<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">5-ngay-4-dem</del>.<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">html vtr.org.vn] classroom windows and nicking holes in the walls</del>.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">With some Indochina combat coverage behind me, I could hear that more than 90 percent </del>of the <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">fire was going in one direction - toward </del>the <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">students</del>. <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Occasionally it seemed </del>a <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">round came back.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;On the quadrangle, troopers worked their way toward classrooms</del>.<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Some of the troopers tossed hand grenades through the windows. The &quot;garrumph&quot; of a </del>grenade going off was followed by a puff of smoke and the tinkle of showering glass. Then the recoilless rifle crew moved up.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;It wasn't immediately clear why the border patrol police were there, or why they thought they needed an armor-piercing antitank weapon to conquer students. The two-man crew moved forward, followed by a shaggy right-winger carrying a box of ammunition. They blasted more classrooms.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;A few minutes later, about 9:30 a.m., the battle seemed over.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Students began to pour out of campus buildings, some wounded. I began to move forward, 50 yards behind the soldiers. I began to feel apprehensive, just as I did in Vietnam when crossing open ground. And with good reason. The shooting began again.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;The students threw themselves to the ground - I did, too - as the Thai police emptied more thousands of rounds into the classrooms. The fire slackened and the students got up.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;I <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[http://Www.Paramuspost.com/search.php?query=reached&amp;type=all&amp;mode=search&amp;results=25 reached] the nearest classroom building</del>.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;At the door, students were running out, diving to their hands and knees and crawling past soldiers who told them to take off their shirts, and coeds their blouses. Slow performance earned a kick.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;A grenade went off in a classroom above us, showering troops and their captives with glass and plaster. The students crawled toward the center of the quadrangle to lie in the hot sun.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;I was joined by a German reporter who speaks Thai, and we walked out through the gate.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Then we were out on the street - close by the pleasant green trees that surround the Pramaine Ground site of Bangkok's colorful weekend fair. But then we saw the angry swarm of Thais around two of those trees and their anger was white hot. I saw the body of a dead student hanging from one tree. The scene was being repeated just a few feet away.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;I don't know how much earlier the students had been lynched - probably just a few minutes - but enraged rightists felt robbed by death and continued to batter the bodies.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Other Thais who witnessed the 1973 student riots here said the earlier uprising, which left 70 dead, never evoked the brutality or hatred of Wednesday's attack on the students.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;No one had seen me. I had wandered <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">throughout and taken pictures unmolested</del>. <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">But I had seen enough, and left</del>.<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;FILE </del>- <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">In this Oct</del>. <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">6, 1976 file photo a member of a Thai political faction strikes at the lifeless body of a hanged student outside Thammasat University in Bangkok </del>Oct. 6, 1976<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">. For some </del>Thais, the bloody events of October 6, 1976 are still a nightmare. On that day, heavily armed security forces shot up Bangkok's Thammasat University campus and killed scores of students, while right-wing vigilantes captured would-be escapees, subjecting them to ghoulish lynchings. (AP Photo/Neal Ulevich, File)&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;FILE - In this Oct. 6, 1976 file photo, police stand guard over leftist Thai students on a soccer field at Thammasat University, in Bangkok, Thailand. For some Thais, the bloody events of October 6, 1976 are still a nightmare. On that day, heavily armed security forces shot up Bangkok's Thammasat University campus and killed scores of students, while right-wing vigilantes captured would-be escapees, subjecting them to ghoulish lynchings. (AP Photo/Gary Mangkorn, File)&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;FILE - In this Oct. 6, 1976 file photo leftist students who surrendered to police lie on the ground of the soccer field at Thammasat University in Bangkok, Thailand, awaiting orders from their captors. For some Thais, the bloody events of October 6, 1976 are still a nightmare. On that day, heavily armed security forces shot up Bangkok's Thammasat University campus and killed scores of students, while right-wing vigilantes captured would-be escapees, subjecting them to ghoulish lynchings. (AP Photo/Neal Ulevich, File)&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;FILE - In this Oct 6, 1976 file photo a policeman kicks a leftist student who surrendered moments before as police moved in on Thammasat University in Bangkok, Thailand. For some Thais, the bloody events of October 6, 1976 are still a nightmare. On that day, heavily armed security forces shot up Bangkok's Thammasat University campus and killed scores of students, while right-wing vigilantes captured would-be escapees, subjecting them to <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[http://Www.Estateguideblog.com/?s=ghoulish%20lynchings ghoulish </del>lynchings<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]</del>. (AP Photo/Neal Ulevich, File)&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;FILE - In this Oct. 6, 1976, file photo, police fire a shell as they storm the walls of Thammasat University in Bangkok, Thailand. For some Thais, the bloody events of October 6, 1976, are still a nightmare. On that day, heavily armed security forces shot up Bangkok's Thammasat University campus and killed scores of students, while right-wing vigilantes captured would-be escapees, subjecting them to ghoulish lynchings. (AP Photo/Neal Ulevich, File)&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;FILE <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline"> [http://www.vtr.org.vn/cam-nang-du-lich-bac-kinh-5-ngay-4-dem.html tour bắc kinh từ hà nội] </del>- In this Oct. 6, 1976 file photo a member of a Thai political faction strikes at the lifeless body of a hanged student outside Thammasat University in Bangkok Oct. 6, 1976. For some Thais, the bloody events of October 6, 1976 are still a nightmare. On that day, heavily armed security forces shot up Bangkok's Thammasat University campus and killed scores of students, while right-wing vigilantes captured would-be escapees, subjecting them to ghoulish lynchings. (AP Photo/Neal Ulevich, File)&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Advertisement</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>BANGKOK (AP) - EDITOR'S NOTE: Associated Press Photographer Neal Ulevich won the Pulitzer Prize for his photos of the suppression of a left-wing student protest at Bangkok's Thammasat University on Oct. 6, 1976, and the brutal lynchings in its wake. Ulevich, then 30, arrived as a night <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">of tension at the campus broke into a full</ins>-<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">scale assault by paramilitary police on thousands of trapped and defenseless students.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Even with experience covering the Vietnam War</ins>- <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">he was on one </ins>of the <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">last helicopters out when the American presence ended with the communist takeover in April 1975 </ins>- <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Ulevich was [http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/search/index</ins>.<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">cfm?term=&amp;stunned&amp;loc=en_us&amp;siteSection=home stunned] by </ins>the <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">scale </ins>of the <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">violence.&lt;br&gt;</ins>&lt;br&gt;After winning the Pulitzer, he said his happiness &quot;must be tempered with grim memories of the day. If there is any value in the pictures it is that they may have made some people pause and think about the wider issues such as hatred and violence.&quot;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;FILE - In this Oct. 6, 1976 file photo blood streaming down his face, a leftist student, center, wounded and captured by police is helped to an ambulance at the Thammasat University campus in Bangkok, Thailand. For some Thais, the bloody events of October 6, 1976 are still a nightmare. On that day, heavily armed security forces shot up <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[http://www.traveldescribe.com/?s=Bangkok%27s%20Thammasat Bangkok'</ins>s Thammasat<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">] </ins>University campus and killed scores of students, while right-wing vigilantes captured would-be escapees, subjecting them to ghoulish lynchings. (AP Photo/Neal <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline"> [http://www.vtr.org.vn/cam-nang</ins>-<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">du-lich-bac-kinh-5-ngay-4-dem</ins>.<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">html tour bắc kinh từ hà nội] Ulevich,File)&lt;br</ins>&gt;<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">&lt;br&gt;Ulevich wrote this first-person account, which the AP published soon after the massacre.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;___</ins>&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;In a real riot no one knows you're there. So as gunfire crackled over the campus of Bangkok's Thammasat University Wednesday morning, I pushed my way through an angry sea of rightists and found a hole in the high metal fence surrounding the campus.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;I paused momentarily while Boy Scouts pushed through the fence the body of a soldier with a chest wound. I jumped through.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;The police were on the attack and the rightists were cheering their support. Troops armed with M-16 rifles were spraying wild fire across a quadrangle, shattering <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">classroom windows and nicking holes in the walls</ins>.<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;With some Indochina combat coverage behind me, I could hear that more than 90 percent of the fire was going in one direction </ins>- <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">toward the students</ins>. <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Occasionally it seemed a round came back</ins>.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">On the quadrangle, troopers worked their way toward classrooms.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Some </ins>of the <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">troopers tossed hand grenades through </ins>the <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">windows</ins>. <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">The &quot;garrumph&quot; of </ins>a <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline"> [http://www.vtr.org</ins>.<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">vn/cam-nang-du-lich-bac-kinh-5-ngay-4-dem.html du lịch Bắc Kinh] </ins>grenade going off was followed by a puff of smoke and the tinkle of showering glass. Then the recoilless rifle crew moved up.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;It wasn't immediately clear why the border patrol police were there, or why they thought they needed an armor-piercing antitank weapon to conquer students. The two-man crew moved forward, followed by a shaggy right-winger carrying a box of ammunition. They blasted more classrooms.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;A few minutes later, about 9:30 a.m., the battle seemed over.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Students began to pour out of campus buildings, some wounded. I began to move forward, 50 yards behind the soldiers. I began to feel apprehensive, just as I did in Vietnam when crossing open ground. And with good reason. The shooting began again.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;The students threw themselves to the ground - I did, too - as the Thai police emptied more thousands of rounds into the classrooms. The fire slackened and the students got up.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;I <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">reached the nearest classroom building</ins>.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;At the door, students were running out, diving to their hands and knees and crawling past soldiers who told them to take off their shirts, and coeds their blouses. Slow performance earned a kick.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;A grenade went off in a classroom above us, showering troops and their captives with glass and plaster. The students crawled toward the center of the quadrangle to lie in the hot sun.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;I was joined by a German reporter who speaks Thai, and we walked out through the gate.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Then we were out on the street - close by the pleasant green trees that surround the Pramaine Ground site of Bangkok's colorful weekend fair. But then we saw the angry swarm of Thais around two of those trees and their anger was white hot. I saw the body of a dead student hanging from one tree. The scene was being repeated just a few feet away.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;I don't know how much earlier the students had been lynched - probably just a few minutes - but enraged rightists felt robbed by death and continued to batter the bodies.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Other Thais who witnessed the 1973 student riots here said the earlier uprising, which left 70 dead, never evoked the brutality or hatred of Wednesday's attack on the students.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;No one had seen me. I had wandered <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline"> [http://www.vtr</ins>.<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">org</ins>.<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">vn/cam</ins>-<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">nang-du-lich-bac-kinh-5-ngay-4-dem.html vtr.org</ins>.<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">vn] throughout and taken pictures unmolested. But I had seen enough, and left.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;FILE - In this </ins>Oct. 6, 1976 <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">file photo a member of a Thai political faction strikes at the lifeless body of a hanged student outside Thammasat University in Bangkok Oct. 6, 1976. For some </ins>Thais, the bloody events of October 6, 1976 are still a nightmare. On that day, heavily armed security forces shot up Bangkok's Thammasat University campus and killed scores of students, while right-wing vigilantes captured would-be escapees, subjecting them to ghoulish lynchings. (AP Photo/Neal Ulevich, File)&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;FILE - In this Oct. 6, 1976 file photo, police stand guard over leftist Thai students on a soccer field at Thammasat University, in Bangkok, Thailand. For some Thais, the bloody events of October 6, 1976 are still a nightmare. On that day, heavily armed security forces shot up Bangkok's Thammasat University campus and killed scores of students, while right-wing vigilantes captured would-be escapees, subjecting them to ghoulish lynchings. (AP Photo/Gary Mangkorn, File)&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;FILE - In this Oct. 6, 1976 file photo leftist students who surrendered to police lie on the ground of the soccer field at Thammasat University in Bangkok, Thailand, awaiting orders from their captors. For some Thais, the bloody events of October 6, 1976 are still a nightmare. On that day, heavily armed security forces shot up Bangkok's Thammasat University campus and killed scores of students, while right-wing vigilantes captured would-be escapees, subjecting them to ghoulish lynchings. (AP Photo/Neal Ulevich, File)&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;FILE - In this Oct 6, 1976 file photo a policeman kicks a leftist student who surrendered moments before as police moved in on Thammasat University in Bangkok, Thailand. For some Thais, the bloody events of October 6, 1976 are still a nightmare. On that day, heavily armed security forces shot up Bangkok's Thammasat University campus and killed scores of students, while right-wing vigilantes captured would-be escapees, subjecting them to <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">ghoulish </ins>lynchings. (AP Photo/Neal Ulevich, File)&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;FILE - In this Oct. 6, 1976, file photo, police fire a shell as they storm the walls of Thammasat University in Bangkok, Thailand. For some Thais, the bloody events of October 6, 1976, are still a nightmare. On that day, heavily armed security forces shot up Bangkok's Thammasat University campus and killed scores of students, while right-wing vigilantes captured would-be escapees, subjecting them to ghoulish lynchings. (AP Photo/Neal Ulevich, File)&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;FILE - In this Oct. 6, 1976 file photo a member of a Thai political faction strikes at the lifeless body of a hanged student outside Thammasat University in Bangkok Oct. 6, 1976. For some Thais, the bloody events of October 6, 1976 are still a nightmare. On that day, heavily armed security forces shot up Bangkok's Thammasat University campus and killed scores of students, while right-wing vigilantes captured would-be escapees, subjecting them to ghoulish lynchings. (AP Photo/Neal Ulevich, File)&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Advertisement</div></td></tr> </table>

HermineFeaster http://iqbal.wiki/index.php?title=40_years_ago_young_Thai_protesters_massacred&diff=22415&oldid=prev 2018-07-18T02:54:07Z

<p></p> <table class="diff diff-contentalign-left" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #222; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #222; text-align: center;">Revision as of 02:54, 18 July 2018</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l1" >Line 1:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 1:</td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>BANGKOK (AP) - EDITOR'S NOTE: Associated Press Photographer Neal Ulevich won the Pulitzer Prize for his photos of the suppression of a left-wing student protest at Bangkok's Thammasat University on Oct. 6, 1976, and the brutal lynchings in its wake. Ulevich, then 30, arrived as a night <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">of tension at the campus broke into a full</del>-<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">scale assault by paramilitary police on thousands of trapped and defenseless students</del>.<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Even with experience covering </del>the <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Vietnam War</del>- <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">he was on one </del>of the <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">last helicopters </del>out when the American presence ended with the communist takeover in April 1975 - Ulevich was stunned by the scale of the violence.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;After winning the Pulitzer, he said his happiness &quot;must be tempered with grim memories of the day. If there is any value in the pictures it is that they may have made some people pause and think about the wider issues such as hatred and violence.&quot;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;FILE - In this Oct. 6, 1976 file photo blood streaming down his face, a leftist student, center, wounded and captured by police is helped to an ambulance at the Thammasat University campus in Bangkok, Thailand. For some Thais, the bloody events of October 6, 1976 are still a nightmare. On that day, heavily armed security forces shot up Bangkok's Thammasat University campus and killed scores of students, while right-wing vigilantes captured would-be escapees, subjecting them to ghoulish lynchings. (AP Photo/Neal Ulevich,File)&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Ulevich wrote this first-person account, which the AP published soon after the massacre.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;___&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;In a real riot no one knows you're there. So as gunfire crackled over the campus of Bangkok's Thammasat University Wednesday morning, I pushed my way through an angry sea of rightists and found a hole in the high metal fence surrounding the campus.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;I paused momentarily while Boy Scouts pushed through the fence the body of a soldier with a chest wound. I jumped through.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;The police were on the attack and the rightists were cheering their support. Troops armed with M-16 rifles were spraying wild fire across a quadrangle, shattering <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">classroom windows and nicking holes in the walls</del>.<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;With some Indochina combat coverage behind me, I could hear that more than 90 percent of the fire was going in one direction </del>- <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">toward the students</del>. <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Occasionally it seemed a round came back</del>.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">On the quadrangle</del>, <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">troopers worked their way toward classrooms.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Some </del>of the <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">troopers tossed&#160; [http://www</del>.<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">vtr</del>.<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">org.vn/cam-nang-du-lich-bac-kinh-5-ngay-4-dem.html du lịch Bắc Kinh] </del>hand grenades through the windows. The &quot;garrumph&quot; of a grenade going off was followed by a puff of smoke and the tinkle of showering glass. Then the recoilless rifle crew moved up.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;It wasn't immediately clear why the border patrol police were there, or why they thought they needed an armor-piercing antitank weapon to conquer students. The two-man crew moved forward, followed by a shaggy right-winger carrying a box of ammunition. They blasted more classrooms.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;A few minutes later, about 9:30 a.m., the battle seemed over.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Students began to pour out of campus buildings, some wounded. I began to move forward, 50 yards behind the soldiers. I began to feel apprehensive, just as I did in Vietnam when crossing open ground. And with good reason. The shooting began again.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;The students threw themselves to the ground - I did, too - as the Thai police emptied more thousands of rounds into the classrooms. The fire slackened and the students got up.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;I <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">reached the </del>[http://<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">dict</del>.<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">leo</del>.<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">org</del>/<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">?</del>search=<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">nearest%20classroom </del>nearest classroom<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">] </del>building.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;At the door, students were running out, diving to their hands and knees and crawling past soldiers who told them to take off their shirts, and coeds their blouses. Slow performance earned <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline"> [http://www</del>.<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">vtr.org</del>.<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">vn/cam-nang-du-lich-bac-kinh-5-ngay-4-dem.html vtr.org.vn] a kick.&lt;</del>br&gt;&lt;br&gt;<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">A grenade went off in </del>a <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">classroom above us</del>, <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">showering troops </del>and <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">their captives with glass and plaster</del>. <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">The students crawled toward the center of the quadrangle to lie in the hot sun.&lt;</del>br&gt;<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">&lt;br&gt;I was joined </del>by <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">a German reporter who speaks Thai, and we walked out through </del>the <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">gate</del>.<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Then </del>we <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">were out on </del>the <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">street - close by the pleasant green trees that surround the Pramaine Ground site of Bangkok's colorful weekend fair. But then we saw the angry swarm of Thais around two of those </del>trees and their anger was white hot. I saw the body of a dead student hanging from one tree. The scene was being repeated just a few feet away.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;I don't know how much earlier the students had been lynched - probably just a few minutes - but enraged rightists felt robbed by death and continued to batter the bodies.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Other Thais who witnessed the 1973 student riots here said the earlier uprising, which left 70 dead, never evoked the brutality or hatred of Wednesday's attack on the students.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;No one had seen me. I had wandered throughout and taken pictures unmolested. But I had seen enough, and left.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;FILE - In this Oct. 6, 1976 file photo a member of a Thai political faction strikes at the lifeless body of a hanged student outside Thammasat University in Bangkok Oct. 6, 1976. For some Thais, the bloody events of October 6, 1976 are still a nightmare. On that day, heavily armed security forces shot up Bangkok's Thammasat University campus and killed scores of students, while right-wing vigilantes captured would-be escapees, subjecting them to ghoulish lynchings. (AP Photo/Neal Ulevich, File)&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;FILE - In this Oct. 6, 1976 file photo, police stand guard over leftist Thai students on a soccer field at Thammasat University, in Bangkok, Thailand. For some Thais, the bloody events of October 6, 1976 are still a nightmare. On that day, heavily armed security forces shot up Bangkok's Thammasat University campus and killed scores of students, while right-wing vigilantes captured would-be escapees, subjecting them to ghoulish lynchings. (AP Photo/Gary Mangkorn, File)&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;FILE - In this Oct. 6, 1976 file photo leftist students who surrendered to police lie on the ground of the soccer field at Thammasat University in Bangkok, Thailand, awaiting orders from their captors. For some Thais, the bloody events of October 6, 1976 are still a nightmare. On that day, heavily armed security forces shot up Bangkok's Thammasat University campus and killed scores of students, while right-wing vigilantes captured would-be escapees, subjecting them to ghoulish lynchings. (AP Photo/Neal Ulevich, File)&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;FILE - In this Oct 6, 1976 file photo a policeman kicks a leftist student who surrendered moments before as police moved in on Thammasat University in Bangkok, Thailand. For some Thais, the bloody events of October 6, 1976 are still a nightmare. On that day, heavily armed security forces shot up Bangkok's Thammasat University campus and killed scores of students, while right-wing vigilantes captured would-be escapees, subjecting them to ghoulish lynchings. (AP Photo/Neal Ulevich, File)&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;FILE - In this Oct. 6, 1976, file photo, police fire a shell as they storm the walls of Thammasat University in Bangkok, Thailand. For some Thais, the bloody events of October 6, 1976, are still a <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[http://rt</del>.<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">com/search/everywhere/term/nightmare/ nightmare]. On that day</del>, heavily armed security forces shot up Bangkok's Thammasat University campus and killed scores of students, while right-wing vigilantes captured would-be escapees, subjecting them to ghoulish lynchings. (AP Photo/Neal Ulevich, File)&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;FILE - In this Oct. 6, 1976 file photo a member of a Thai political faction strikes at the lifeless body of a hanged student outside Thammasat University in Bangkok Oct. 6, 1976. For some Thais, the bloody events of October 6, 1976 are still a nightmare. On that day, heavily armed security forces shot up Bangkok's Thammasat University campus and killed scores of students, while right-wing vigilantes captured would-be escapees, subjecting them to ghoulish lynchings. (AP Photo/Neal Ulevich, File)&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Advertisement</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>BANGKOK (AP) - EDITOR'S NOTE: Associated Press Photographer Neal Ulevich won the Pulitzer Prize for his photos of the suppression of a left-wing student protest at Bangkok's Thammasat University on Oct. 6, 1976, and the brutal lynchings in its wake. Ulevich, then 30, arrived as a night <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline"> [http://www.vtr.org.vn/cam-nang</ins>-<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">du-lich-bac-kinh-5-ngay-4-dem</ins>.<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">html du lịch Bắc Kinh 5 ngày 4 đêm từ Hà Nội] of tension at </ins>the <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">campus broke into a full</ins>-<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">scale assault by paramilitary police on thousands </ins>of <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">trapped and defenseless students.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Even with experience covering </ins>the <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Vietnam War- he was on one of the last helicopters </ins>out when the American presence ended with the communist takeover in April 1975 - Ulevich was stunned by the scale of the violence.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;After winning the Pulitzer, he said his happiness &quot;must be tempered with grim memories of the day. If there is any value in the pictures it is that they may have made some people pause and think about the wider issues such as hatred and violence.&quot;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;FILE - In this Oct. 6, 1976 file photo blood streaming down his face, a leftist student, center, wounded and captured by police is helped to an ambulance at the Thammasat University campus in Bangkok, Thailand. For some Thais, the bloody events of October 6, 1976 are still a nightmare. On that day, heavily armed security forces shot up Bangkok's Thammasat University campus and killed scores of students, while right-wing vigilantes captured would-be escapees, subjecting them to ghoulish lynchings. (AP Photo/Neal Ulevich,File)&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Ulevich wrote this first-person account, which the AP published soon after the massacre.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;___&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;In a real riot no one knows you're there. So as gunfire crackled over the campus of Bangkok's Thammasat University Wednesday morning, I pushed my way through an angry sea of rightists and found a hole in the high metal fence surrounding the campus.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;I paused momentarily while Boy Scouts pushed through the fence the body of a soldier with a chest wound. I jumped through.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;The police were on the attack and the rightists were cheering their support. Troops armed with M-16 rifles were spraying wild fire across a quadrangle, shattering <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline"> [http://www.vtr</ins>.<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">org.vn/cam-nang-du-lich-bac-kinh-5-ngay-4</ins>-<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">dem</ins>.<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">html vtr.org.vn] classroom windows and nicking holes in the walls</ins>.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">With some Indochina combat coverage behind me</ins>, <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">I could hear that more than 90 percent </ins>of the <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">fire was going in one direction - toward the students</ins>. <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Occasionally it seemed a round came back</ins>.<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;On the quadrangle, troopers worked their way toward classrooms.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Some of the troopers tossed </ins>hand grenades through the windows. The &quot;garrumph&quot; of a grenade going off was followed by a puff of smoke and the tinkle of showering glass. Then the recoilless rifle crew moved up.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;It wasn't immediately clear why the border patrol police were there, or why they thought they needed an armor-piercing antitank weapon to conquer students. The two-man crew moved forward, followed by a shaggy right-winger carrying a box of ammunition. They blasted more classrooms.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;A few minutes later, about 9:30 a.m., the battle seemed over.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Students began to pour out of campus buildings, some wounded. I began to move forward, 50 yards behind the soldiers. I began to feel apprehensive, just as I did in Vietnam when crossing open ground. And with good reason. The shooting began again.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;The students threw themselves to the ground - I did, too - as the Thai police emptied more thousands of rounds into the classrooms. The fire slackened and the students got up.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;I [http://<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Www</ins>.<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Paramuspost</ins>.<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">com</ins>/search<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">.php?query=reached&amp;type=all&amp;mode=search&amp;results</ins>=<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">25 reached] the </ins>nearest classroom building.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;At the door, students were running out, diving to their hands and knees and crawling past soldiers who told them to take off their shirts, and coeds their blouses. Slow performance earned <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">a kick</ins>.<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;A grenade went off in a classroom above us, showering troops and their captives with glass and plaster</ins>. <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">The students crawled toward the center of the quadrangle to lie in the hot sun.&lt;</ins>br&gt;&lt;br&gt;<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">I was joined by </ins>a <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">German reporter who speaks Thai</ins>, and <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">we walked out through the gate</ins>.<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">&lt;br&gt;&lt;</ins>br&gt;<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Then we were out on the street - close </ins>by the <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">pleasant green trees that surround the Pramaine Ground site of Bangkok's colorful weekend fair</ins>. <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">But then </ins>we <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">saw </ins>the <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">angry swarm of Thais around two of those </ins>trees and their anger was white hot. I saw the body of a dead student hanging from one tree. The scene was being repeated just a few feet away.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;I don't know how much earlier the students had been lynched - probably just a few minutes - but enraged rightists felt robbed by death and continued to batter the bodies.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Other Thais who witnessed the 1973 student riots here said the earlier uprising, which left 70 dead, never evoked the brutality or hatred of Wednesday's attack on the students.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;No one had seen me. I had wandered throughout and taken pictures unmolested. But I had seen enough, and left.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;FILE - In this Oct. 6, 1976 file photo a member of a Thai political faction strikes at the lifeless body of a hanged student outside Thammasat University in Bangkok Oct. 6, 1976. For some Thais, the bloody events of October 6, 1976 are still a nightmare. On that day, heavily armed security forces shot up Bangkok's Thammasat University campus and killed scores of students, while right-wing vigilantes captured would-be escapees, subjecting them to ghoulish lynchings. (AP Photo/Neal Ulevich, File)&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;FILE - In this Oct. 6, 1976 file photo, police stand guard over leftist Thai students on a soccer field at Thammasat University, in Bangkok, Thailand. For some Thais, the bloody events of October 6, 1976 are still a nightmare. On that day, heavily armed security forces shot up Bangkok's Thammasat University campus and killed scores of students, while right-wing vigilantes captured would-be escapees, subjecting them to ghoulish lynchings. (AP Photo/Gary Mangkorn, File)&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;FILE - In this Oct. 6, 1976 file photo leftist students who surrendered to police lie on the ground of the soccer field at Thammasat University in Bangkok, Thailand, awaiting orders from their captors. For some Thais, the bloody events of October 6, 1976 are still a nightmare. On that day, heavily armed security forces shot up Bangkok's Thammasat University campus and killed scores of students, while right-wing vigilantes captured would-be escapees, subjecting them to ghoulish lynchings. (AP Photo/Neal Ulevich, File)&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;FILE - In this Oct 6, 1976 file photo a policeman kicks a leftist student who surrendered moments before as police moved in on Thammasat University in Bangkok, Thailand. For some Thais, the bloody events of October 6, 1976 are still a nightmare. On that day, heavily armed security forces shot up Bangkok's Thammasat University campus and killed scores of students, while right-wing vigilantes captured would-be escapees, subjecting them to <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[http://Www.Estateguideblog.com/?s=ghoulish%20lynchings </ins>ghoulish lynchings<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]</ins>. (AP Photo/Neal Ulevich, File)&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;FILE - In this Oct. 6, 1976, file photo, police fire a shell as they storm the walls of Thammasat University in Bangkok, Thailand. For some Thais, the bloody events of October 6, 1976, are still a <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">nightmare</ins>. <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">On that day</ins>, heavily armed security forces shot up Bangkok's Thammasat University campus and killed scores of students, while right-wing vigilantes captured would-be escapees, subjecting them to ghoulish lynchings. (AP Photo/Neal Ulevich, File)&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;FILE <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline"> [http://www.vtr.org.vn/cam-nang-du-lich-bac-kinh-5-ngay-4-dem.html tour bắc kinh từ hà nội] </ins>- In this Oct. 6, 1976 file photo a member of a Thai political faction strikes at the lifeless body of a hanged student outside Thammasat University in Bangkok Oct. 6, 1976. For some Thais, the bloody events of October 6, 1976 are still a nightmare. On that day, heavily armed security forces shot up Bangkok's Thammasat University campus and killed scores of students, while right-wing vigilantes captured would-be escapees, subjecting them to ghoulish lynchings. (AP Photo/Neal Ulevich, File)&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Advertisement</div></td></tr> </table>

KirstenAlvarado http://iqbal.wiki/index.php?title=40_years_ago_young_Thai_protesters_massacred&diff=22412&oldid=prev 2018-07-18T02:38:58Z

<p></p> <table class="diff diff-contentalign-left" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #222; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #222; text-align: center;">Revision as of 02:38, 18 July 2018</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l1" >Line 1:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 1:</td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>BANGKOK (AP) - EDITOR'S NOTE: Associated Press Photographer Neal Ulevich won the Pulitzer Prize for his photos of the suppression of a left-wing student protest at Bangkok's Thammasat University on Oct. 6, 1976, and the brutal lynchings in its wake. Ulevich, then 30, arrived as a night of tension at the campus broke into a full-scale assault by paramilitary police on thousands of trapped and defenseless students.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Even with experience covering the Vietnam War- he was on one of the last helicopters out when the American presence ended with the communist takeover in April 1975 - Ulevich was stunned by the scale of the violence.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;After winning the Pulitzer, he said his happiness &quot;must be tempered with grim memories of the day. If there is any value in the pictures it is that they may have made some people pause and think about the wider issues such as hatred and violence.&quot;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;FILE - In this Oct. 6, 1976 file photo blood streaming down his face, a leftist student, center, wounded and captured by police is helped to an ambulance at the Thammasat University campus in Bangkok, Thailand. For some Thais, the bloody events of October 6, 1976 are still a nightmare. On that day, heavily armed security forces shot up Bangkok's Thammasat University campus and killed scores of students, while right-wing vigilantes captured would-be escapees, subjecting them to ghoulish lynchings. (AP Photo/Neal Ulevich,File)&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Ulevich wrote this first-person account, which the AP published soon after the massacre.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;___&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;In a real riot no one knows you're there. So as gunfire crackled over the campus of Bangkok's Thammasat University Wednesday morning, I pushed my way through an angry sea of rightists and found a hole in the high metal fence surrounding the campus.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;I paused momentarily while Boy Scouts pushed through the fence the body of a soldier with a chest wound. I jumped through.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;The police were on the attack and the rightists were cheering their support. Troops armed with M-16 rifles were spraying wild fire across a quadrangle, shattering classroom windows and nicking holes in the walls.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;With some Indochina combat coverage behind me, I could hear that more than 90 percent of the fire was going in one direction - toward the students. Occasionally it seemed a round came back.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;On the quadrangle, troopers worked their way toward classrooms.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Some of the troopers tossed hand grenades through the windows. The &quot;garrumph&quot; of a grenade going off was followed by a puff of smoke and the tinkle of showering glass. Then the recoilless rifle crew moved up.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;It wasn't immediately clear why the border patrol police were there, or why they thought they needed an armor-piercing antitank weapon to conquer students. The two-man crew moved forward, followed by a shaggy right-winger carrying a box of ammunition. They blasted more classrooms.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;A few minutes later, about 9:30 a.m., the battle seemed over.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Students began to pour out of campus buildings, some wounded. I began to move forward, 50 yards behind the soldiers. I began to feel apprehensive, just as I did in Vietnam when crossing open ground. And with good reason. The shooting began again.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;The students threw themselves to the ground - I did, too - as the Thai police emptied more thousands of rounds into the classrooms. The fire slackened and the students got up.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;I reached the nearest classroom building.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;At the door, students were running out, diving to their hands and knees and crawling past soldiers who told them to take off their shirts, and coeds their blouses. Slow performance earned a kick.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;A grenade went off in a classroom above us, showering troops and their captives with glass and plaster. The students crawled toward the center of the quadrangle to lie in the hot sun.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;I was joined by a German reporter who speaks Thai, and we walked out through the gate.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Then we were out on the street - close by the pleasant green trees that surround the Pramaine Ground site of Bangkok's colorful weekend fair. But then we saw the angry swarm of Thais around two of those trees and their anger was white hot. I saw the body of a dead student hanging from one tree. The scene was being repeated just a few feet away.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;I don't know how much earlier the students had been lynched - probably just a few minutes - but enraged rightists felt robbed by death and continued to batter the bodies.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Other Thais who witnessed the 1973 student riots here said the earlier uprising, which left 70 dead, never evoked the brutality or hatred of Wednesday's attack on the students.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;No one had seen me. I had wandered throughout and taken pictures unmolested. But I had seen enough, and left.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;FILE - In this Oct. 6, 1976 file photo a member of a Thai political faction strikes at the lifeless body of a hanged student outside Thammasat University in Bangkok Oct. 6, 1976. For some Thais, the bloody events of October 6, 1976 are still a nightmare. On that day, heavily armed security forces shot up Bangkok's Thammasat University campus and killed scores of students, while right-wing vigilantes captured would-be escapees, subjecting them to ghoulish lynchings. (AP Photo/Neal Ulevich, File)&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;FILE - In this Oct. 6, 1976 file photo, police stand guard over leftist Thai students on a soccer field at Thammasat University, in Bangkok, Thailand. For some Thais, the bloody events of October 6, 1976 are still a nightmare. On that day, heavily armed security forces shot up Bangkok's Thammasat University campus and killed scores <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline"> [http://www.vtr.org.vn/cam-nang-du-lich-bac-kinh-5-ngay-4-dem.html vtr.org.vn] </del>of students, while right-wing vigilantes captured would-be escapees, subjecting them to ghoulish lynchings. (AP Photo/Gary Mangkorn, File)&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;FILE - In this Oct. 6, 1976 file photo leftist students who surrendered to police lie on the ground of the soccer field at Thammasat University in Bangkok, Thailand, awaiting orders from their captors. For some Thais, the bloody events of October 6, 1976 are still a nightmare. On that day, heavily armed security forces shot up Bangkok's Thammasat University campus and killed scores of students, while right-wing vigilantes captured would-be escapees, subjecting them to ghoulish lynchings. (AP Photo/Neal Ulevich, File)&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;FILE - In this Oct 6, 1976 file photo a policeman kicks a leftist student who surrendered moments before as police moved in on Thammasat University in Bangkok, Thailand. For some Thais, the bloody events of October 6, 1976 are still a nightmare. On that day, heavily <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline"> [http://www.vtr.org.vn/cam-nang-du-lich-bac-kinh-5-ngay-4-dem.html du lịch Bắc Kinh] </del>armed security forces shot up Bangkok's Thammasat University campus and killed scores of students, while <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/public/sitesearch.do?querystring=right-wing%20vigilantes </del>right-wing vigilantes<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">] </del>captured would-be escapees, subjecting them to ghoulish lynchings. (AP Photo/Neal Ulevich, File)&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;FILE - In this Oct. 6, 1976, file photo, police fire a shell as they storm the walls of Thammasat University in Bangkok, Thailand. For some Thais, the bloody events of October 6, 1976, are still a nightmare. On that day, heavily armed security forces shot up Bangkok's Thammasat University campus and killed scores of students, while right-wing vigilantes captured would-be escapees, subjecting them to ghoulish lynchings. (AP Photo/Neal Ulevich, File)&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;FILE - In this Oct. 6, 1976 file photo a member of a Thai political faction strikes at the lifeless body of a hanged student outside Thammasat University in Bangkok Oct. 6, 1976. For some Thais, the bloody events of October 6, 1976 are still a nightmare. On that day, heavily armed security forces shot up Bangkok's Thammasat University campus and killed scores of students, while right-wing vigilantes captured would-be escapees, subjecting them to ghoulish lynchings. (AP Photo/Neal Ulevich, File)&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Advertisement</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>BANGKOK (AP) - EDITOR'S NOTE: Associated Press Photographer Neal Ulevich won the Pulitzer Prize for his photos of the suppression of a left-wing student protest at Bangkok's Thammasat University on Oct. 6, 1976, and the brutal lynchings in its wake. Ulevich, then 30, arrived as a night of tension at the campus broke into a full-scale assault by paramilitary police on thousands of trapped and defenseless students.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Even with experience covering the Vietnam War- he was on one of the last helicopters out when the American presence ended with the communist takeover in April 1975 - Ulevich was stunned by the scale of the violence.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;After winning the Pulitzer, he said his happiness &quot;must be tempered with grim memories of the day. If there is any value in the pictures it is that they may have made some people pause and think about the wider issues such as hatred and violence.&quot;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;FILE - In this Oct. 6, 1976 file photo blood streaming down his face, a leftist student, center, wounded and captured by police is helped to an ambulance at the Thammasat University campus in Bangkok, Thailand. For some Thais, the bloody events of October 6, 1976 are still a nightmare. On that day, heavily armed security forces shot up Bangkok's Thammasat University campus and killed scores of students, while right-wing vigilantes captured would-be escapees, subjecting them to ghoulish lynchings. (AP Photo/Neal Ulevich,File)&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Ulevich wrote this first-person account, which the AP published soon after the massacre.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;___&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;In a real riot no one knows you're there. So as gunfire crackled over the campus of Bangkok's Thammasat University Wednesday morning, I pushed my way through an angry sea of rightists and found a hole in the high metal fence surrounding the campus.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;I paused momentarily while Boy Scouts pushed through the fence the body of a soldier with a chest wound. I jumped through.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;The police were on the attack and the rightists were cheering their support. Troops armed with M-16 rifles were spraying wild fire across a quadrangle, shattering classroom windows and nicking holes in the walls.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;With some Indochina combat coverage behind me, I could hear that more than 90 percent of the fire was going in one direction - toward the students. Occasionally it seemed a round came back.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;On the quadrangle, troopers worked their way toward classrooms.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Some of the troopers tossed <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline"> [http://www.vtr.org.vn/cam-nang-du-lich-bac-kinh-5-ngay-4-dem.html du lịch Bắc Kinh] </ins>hand grenades through the windows. The &quot;garrumph&quot; of a grenade going off was followed by a puff of smoke and the tinkle of showering glass. Then the recoilless rifle crew moved up.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;It wasn't immediately clear why the border patrol police were there, or why they thought they needed an armor-piercing antitank weapon to conquer students. The two-man crew moved forward, followed by a shaggy right-winger carrying a box of ammunition. They blasted more classrooms.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;A few minutes later, about 9:30 a.m., the battle seemed over.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Students began to pour out of campus buildings, some wounded. I began to move forward, 50 yards behind the soldiers. I began to feel apprehensive, just as I did in Vietnam when crossing open ground. And with good reason. The shooting began again.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;The students threw themselves to the ground - I did, too - as the Thai police emptied more thousands of rounds into the classrooms. The fire slackened and the students got up.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;I reached the <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[http://dict.leo.org/?search=nearest%20classroom </ins>nearest classroom<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">] </ins>building.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;At the door, students were running out, diving to their hands and knees and crawling past soldiers who told them to take off their shirts, and coeds their blouses. Slow performance earned <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline"> [http://www.vtr.org.vn/cam-nang-du-lich-bac-kinh-5-ngay-4-dem.html vtr.org.vn] </ins>a kick.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;A grenade went off in a classroom above us, showering troops and their captives with glass and plaster. The students crawled toward the center of the quadrangle to lie in the hot sun.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;I was joined by a German reporter who speaks Thai, and we walked out through the gate.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Then we were out on the street - close by the pleasant green trees that surround the Pramaine Ground site of Bangkok's colorful weekend fair. But then we saw the angry swarm of Thais around two of those trees and their anger was white hot. I saw the body of a dead student hanging from one tree. The scene was being repeated just a few feet away.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;I don't know how much earlier the students had been lynched - probably just a few minutes - but enraged rightists felt robbed by death and continued to batter the bodies.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Other Thais who witnessed the 1973 student riots here said the earlier uprising, which left 70 dead, never evoked the brutality or hatred of Wednesday's attack on the students.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;No one had seen me. I had wandered throughout and taken pictures unmolested. But I had seen enough, and left.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;FILE - In this Oct. 6, 1976 file photo a member of a Thai political faction strikes at the lifeless body of a hanged student outside Thammasat University in Bangkok Oct. 6, 1976. For some Thais, the bloody events of October 6, 1976 are still a nightmare. On that day, heavily armed security forces shot up Bangkok's Thammasat University campus and killed scores of students, while right-wing vigilantes captured would-be escapees, subjecting them to ghoulish lynchings. (AP Photo/Neal Ulevich, File)&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;FILE - In this Oct. 6, 1976 file photo, police stand guard over leftist Thai students on a soccer field at Thammasat University, in Bangkok, Thailand. For some Thais, the bloody events of October 6, 1976 are still a nightmare. On that day, heavily armed security forces shot up Bangkok's Thammasat University campus and killed scores of students, while right-wing vigilantes captured would-be escapees, subjecting them to ghoulish lynchings. (AP Photo/Gary Mangkorn, File)&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;FILE - In this Oct. 6, 1976 file photo leftist students who surrendered to police lie on the ground of the soccer field at Thammasat University in Bangkok, Thailand, awaiting orders from their captors. For some Thais, the bloody events of October 6, 1976 are still a nightmare. On that day, heavily armed security forces shot up Bangkok's Thammasat University campus and killed scores of students, while right-wing vigilantes captured would-be escapees, subjecting them to ghoulish lynchings. (AP Photo/Neal Ulevich, File)&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;FILE - In this Oct 6, 1976 file photo a policeman kicks a leftist student who surrendered moments before as police moved in on Thammasat University in Bangkok, Thailand. For some Thais, the bloody events of October 6, 1976 are still a nightmare. On that day, heavily armed security forces shot up Bangkok's Thammasat University campus and killed scores of students, while right-wing vigilantes captured would-be escapees, subjecting them to ghoulish lynchings. (AP Photo/Neal Ulevich, File)&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;FILE - In this Oct. 6, 1976, file photo, police fire a shell as they storm the walls of Thammasat University in Bangkok, Thailand. For some Thais, the bloody events of October 6, 1976, are still a <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[http://rt.com/search/everywhere/term/nightmare/ </ins>nightmare<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]</ins>. On that day, heavily armed security forces shot up Bangkok's Thammasat University campus and killed scores of students, while right-wing vigilantes captured would-be escapees, subjecting them to ghoulish lynchings. (AP Photo/Neal Ulevich, File)&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;FILE - In this Oct. 6, 1976 file photo a member of a Thai political faction strikes at the lifeless body of a hanged student outside Thammasat University in Bangkok Oct. 6, 1976. For some Thais, the bloody events of October 6, 1976 are still a nightmare. On that day, heavily armed security forces shot up Bangkok's Thammasat University campus and killed scores of students, while right-wing vigilantes captured would-be escapees, subjecting them to ghoulish lynchings. (AP Photo/Neal Ulevich, File)&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Advertisement</div></td></tr> </table>

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<p></p> <table class="diff diff-contentalign-left" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #222; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #222; text-align: center;">Revision as of 17:16, 17 July 2018</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l1" >Line 1:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 1:</td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>BANGKOK (AP) - EDITOR'S NOTE: Associated Press Photographer Neal Ulevich won the Pulitzer Prize for his photos of the suppression of a left-wing student protest at Bangkok's Thammasat University on Oct. 6, 1976, and the brutal lynchings in its wake. Ulevich, then 30, arrived as a night of tension at the campus broke into a full-scale assault by paramilitary police on thousands of trapped and defenseless students.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Even with experience covering the Vietnam War- he was on one of the last helicopters out when the American presence ended with the communist takeover in April 1975 - Ulevich was stunned by the scale of the violence.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;After winning the Pulitzer, he said his happiness &quot;must be tempered with grim memories of the day. If there is any value in the pictures it is that they may have made some people pause and think about the wider issues such as hatred and violence.&quot;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;FILE - In this Oct. 6, 1976 file photo blood streaming down his face, a leftist student, center, wounded and captured by police is helped to an ambulance at the Thammasat University campus in Bangkok, Thailand. For some Thais, the bloody events of October 6, 1976 are still a nightmare. On that day, heavily armed security forces shot up Bangkok's Thammasat University campus and killed scores of students, while right-wing vigilantes captured would-be escapees, subjecting them to ghoulish lynchings. (AP Photo/Neal Ulevich,File)&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Ulevich wrote this first-person account, which the AP published soon after the massacre.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;___&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;In a real riot no one knows you're there. So as gunfire crackled over the campus of Bangkok's Thammasat University Wednesday morning, I pushed my way through an angry <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline"> [http://www.vtr.org.vn/cam-nang-du-lich-bac-kinh-5-ngay-4-dem.html du lịch Bắc Kinh] </del>sea of rightists and found a hole in the high metal fence surrounding the campus.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;I paused momentarily while Boy Scouts pushed through the fence the body of a soldier with a chest wound. I jumped through.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;The police were on the attack and the rightists were cheering their support. Troops armed with M-16 rifles were spraying wild fire across a quadrangle, shattering classroom windows and nicking holes in the walls.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;With some Indochina combat coverage behind me, I could hear that more than 90 percent of the fire was going in one direction - toward the students. Occasionally it seemed a round came back.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;On the quadrangle, troopers worked their way toward classrooms.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Some of the troopers tossed hand grenades through the windows. The &quot;garrumph&quot; of a grenade going off was followed by a puff of smoke and the tinkle of showering glass. Then the recoilless rifle crew moved up.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;It wasn't immediately clear why the border patrol police were there, or why they thought they needed an armor-piercing antitank weapon to conquer students. The two-man crew moved forward, followed by a shaggy right-winger carrying a box of ammunition. They blasted more classrooms.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;A few minutes later, about 9:30 a.m., the battle seemed over.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Students began to pour out of campus buildings, some wounded. I began to move forward, 50 yards behind the soldiers. I began to feel apprehensive, just as I did in Vietnam when crossing open ground. And with good reason. The shooting <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline"> [http://www.vtr.org.vn/cam-nang-du-lich-bac-kinh-5-ngay-4-dem.html tour bắc kinh từ hà nội] </del>began again.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;The students threw themselves to the ground - I did, too - as the Thai police emptied more <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline"> [http://www.vtr.org.vn/cam-nang-du-lich-bac-kinh-5-ngay-4-dem.html vtr.org.vn] </del>thousands of rounds into the classrooms. The fire slackened and the students got up.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;I reached the nearest classroom building.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;At the door, students were running out, diving to their hands and knees and crawling past soldiers who told them to take off their shirts, and coeds their blouses. Slow performance earned a kick.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;A grenade went off in a classroom above us, showering troops and their captives with glass and plaster. The students crawled toward the center of the quadrangle to lie in the hot sun.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;I was joined by a German reporter who speaks Thai, and we walked out through the gate.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Then we were out on the street - close by the pleasant green trees that surround the Pramaine Ground site of Bangkok's colorful weekend fair. But then we saw the angry swarm of Thais around two of those trees and their anger was white hot. I saw the body of a dead student hanging from one tree. The scene was being repeated just a few feet away.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;I don't know how much earlier the students had been lynched - probably just a few minutes - but enraged rightists felt robbed by death and <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[http://news.sky.com/search?term=</del>continued <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">continued] </del>to batter the bodies.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Other Thais who witnessed the 1973 student riots here said the earlier uprising, which left 70 dead, never evoked the brutality or hatred of Wednesday's attack on the students.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;No one had seen me. I had wandered throughout and taken pictures unmolested. But I had seen enough, and left.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;FILE - In this Oct. 6, 1976 file photo a member of a Thai political faction strikes at the lifeless body of a hanged student outside Thammasat University in Bangkok Oct. 6, 1976. For some Thais, the bloody events of October 6, 1976 are still a nightmare. On that day, heavily armed security forces shot up Bangkok's Thammasat University campus and killed scores of students, while right-wing vigilantes captured would-be escapees, subjecting them to ghoulish lynchings. (AP Photo/Neal Ulevich, File)&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;FILE - In this Oct. 6, 1976 file photo, police stand guard over leftist Thai students on a soccer field at Thammasat University, in Bangkok, Thailand. For some Thais, the bloody events of October 6, 1976 are still a nightmare. On that day, heavily armed security forces shot up Bangkok's Thammasat University campus and killed scores of students, while right-wing vigilantes captured would-be escapees, subjecting them to ghoulish lynchings. (AP Photo/Gary Mangkorn, File)&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;FILE - In this Oct. 6, 1976 file photo leftist students who surrendered to police lie on the ground of the soccer field at Thammasat University in Bangkok, Thailand, awaiting orders from their captors. For some Thais, the bloody events of October 6, 1976 are still a nightmare. On that day, heavily armed security forces shot up Bangkok's Thammasat University campus and killed scores of students, while right-wing vigilantes captured would-be escapees, subjecting them to ghoulish lynchings. (AP Photo/Neal Ulevich, File)&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;FILE - In this Oct 6, 1976 file photo a policeman kicks a leftist student who surrendered moments before as police moved in on Thammasat University in Bangkok, Thailand. For some Thais, the bloody events of October 6, 1976 are still a nightmare. On that day, heavily armed security forces shot up Bangkok's Thammasat University campus and killed scores of students, while right-wing vigilantes captured would-be escapees, subjecting them to ghoulish lynchings. (AP Photo/Neal Ulevich, File)&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;FILE - In this Oct. 6, 1976, file photo, police fire a shell as they storm the walls of Thammasat University in Bangkok, Thailand. For some Thais, the bloody events of October 6, 1976, are still a nightmare. On that day, heavily armed security forces shot up Bangkok's Thammasat University campus and killed scores of students, while right-wing vigilantes captured would-be escapees, subjecting them to ghoulish lynchings. (AP Photo/Neal Ulevich, File)&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;FILE - In this Oct. 6, 1976 file photo a member of a Thai political faction strikes at the lifeless body of a hanged student outside Thammasat University in Bangkok Oct. 6, 1976. For some Thais, the bloody events of October 6, 1976 are still a nightmare. On that day, heavily armed security forces shot up Bangkok's Thammasat University campus and killed scores of students, while right-wing vigilantes captured would-be escapees, subjecting them to ghoulish lynchings. (AP Photo/Neal Ulevich, File)&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Advertisement</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>BANGKOK (AP) - EDITOR'S NOTE: Associated Press Photographer Neal Ulevich won the Pulitzer Prize for his photos of the suppression of a left-wing student protest at Bangkok's Thammasat University on Oct. 6, 1976, and the brutal lynchings in its wake. Ulevich, then 30, arrived as a night of tension at the campus broke into a full-scale assault by paramilitary police on thousands of trapped and defenseless students.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Even with experience covering the Vietnam War- he was on one of the last helicopters out when the American presence ended with the communist takeover in April 1975 - Ulevich was stunned by the scale of the violence.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;After winning the Pulitzer, he said his happiness &quot;must be tempered with grim memories of the day. If there is any value in the pictures it is that they may have made some people pause and think about the wider issues such as hatred and violence.&quot;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;FILE - In this Oct. 6, 1976 file photo blood streaming down his face, a leftist student, center, wounded and captured by police is helped to an ambulance at the Thammasat University campus in Bangkok, Thailand. For some Thais, the bloody events of October 6, 1976 are still a nightmare. On that day, heavily armed security forces shot up Bangkok's Thammasat University campus and killed scores of students, while right-wing vigilantes captured would-be escapees, subjecting them to ghoulish lynchings. (AP Photo/Neal Ulevich,File)&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Ulevich wrote this first-person account, which the AP published soon after the massacre.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;___&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;In a real riot no one knows you're there. So as gunfire crackled over the campus of Bangkok's Thammasat University Wednesday morning, I pushed my way through an angry sea of rightists and found a hole in the high metal fence surrounding the campus.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;I paused momentarily while Boy Scouts pushed through the fence the body of a soldier with a chest wound. I jumped through.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;The police were on the attack and the rightists were cheering their support. Troops armed with M-16 rifles were spraying wild fire across a quadrangle, shattering classroom windows and nicking holes in the walls.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;With some Indochina combat coverage behind me, I could hear that more than 90 percent of the fire was going in one direction - toward the students. Occasionally it seemed a round came back.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;On the quadrangle, troopers worked their way toward classrooms.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Some of the troopers tossed hand grenades through the windows. The &quot;garrumph&quot; of a grenade going off was followed by a puff of smoke and the tinkle of showering glass. Then the recoilless rifle crew moved up.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;It wasn't immediately clear why the border patrol police were there, or why they thought they needed an armor-piercing antitank weapon to conquer students. The two-man crew moved forward, followed by a shaggy right-winger carrying a box of ammunition. They blasted more classrooms.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;A few minutes later, about 9:30 a.m., the battle seemed over.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Students began to pour out of campus buildings, some wounded. I began to move forward, 50 yards behind the soldiers. I began to feel apprehensive, just as I did in Vietnam when crossing open ground. And with good reason. The shooting began again.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;The students threw themselves to the ground - I did, too - as the Thai police emptied more thousands of rounds into the classrooms. The fire slackened and the students got up.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;I reached the nearest classroom building.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;At the door, students were running out, diving to their hands and knees and crawling past soldiers who told them to take off their shirts, and coeds their blouses. Slow performance earned a kick.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;A grenade went off in a classroom above us, showering troops and their captives with glass and plaster. The students crawled toward the center of the quadrangle to lie in the hot sun.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;I was joined by a German reporter who speaks Thai, and we walked out through the gate.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Then we were out on the street - close by the pleasant green trees that surround the Pramaine Ground site of Bangkok's colorful weekend fair. But then we saw the angry swarm of Thais around two of those trees and their anger was white hot. I saw the body of a dead student hanging from one tree. The scene was being repeated just a few feet away.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;I don't know how much earlier the students had been lynched - probably just a few minutes - but enraged rightists felt robbed by death and continued to batter the bodies.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Other Thais who witnessed the 1973 student riots here said the earlier uprising, which left 70 dead, never evoked the brutality or hatred of Wednesday's attack on the students.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;No one had seen me. I had wandered throughout and taken pictures unmolested. But I had seen enough, and left.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;FILE - In this Oct. 6, 1976 file photo a member of a Thai political faction strikes at the lifeless body of a hanged student outside Thammasat University in Bangkok Oct. 6, 1976. For some Thais, the bloody events of October 6, 1976 are still a nightmare. On that day, heavily armed security forces shot up Bangkok's Thammasat University campus and killed scores of students, while right-wing vigilantes captured would-be escapees, subjecting them to ghoulish lynchings. (AP Photo/Neal Ulevich, File)&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;FILE - In this Oct. 6, 1976 file photo, police stand guard over leftist Thai students on a soccer field at Thammasat University, in Bangkok, Thailand. For some Thais, the bloody events of October 6, 1976 are still a nightmare. On that day, heavily armed security forces shot up Bangkok's Thammasat University campus and killed scores <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline"> [http://www.vtr.org.vn/cam-nang-du-lich-bac-kinh-5-ngay-4-dem.html vtr.org.vn] </ins>of students, while right-wing vigilantes captured would-be escapees, subjecting them to ghoulish lynchings. (AP Photo/Gary Mangkorn, File)&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;FILE - In this Oct. 6, 1976 file photo leftist students who surrendered to police lie on the ground of the soccer field at Thammasat University in Bangkok, Thailand, awaiting orders from their captors. For some Thais, the bloody events of October 6, 1976 are still a nightmare. On that day, heavily armed security forces shot up Bangkok's Thammasat University campus and killed scores of students, while right-wing vigilantes captured would-be escapees, subjecting them to ghoulish lynchings. (AP Photo/Neal Ulevich, File)&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;FILE - In this Oct 6, 1976 file photo a policeman kicks a leftist student who surrendered moments before as police moved in on Thammasat University in Bangkok, Thailand. For some Thais, the bloody events of October 6, 1976 are still a nightmare. On that day, heavily <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline"> [http://www.vtr.org.vn/cam-nang-du-lich-bac-kinh-5-ngay-4-dem.html du lịch Bắc Kinh] </ins>armed security forces shot up Bangkok's Thammasat University campus and killed scores of students, while <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/public/sitesearch.do?querystring=right-wing%20vigilantes </ins>right-wing vigilantes<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">] </ins>captured would-be escapees, subjecting them to ghoulish lynchings. (AP Photo/Neal Ulevich, File)&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;FILE - In this Oct. 6, 1976, file photo, police fire a shell as they storm the walls of Thammasat University in Bangkok, Thailand. For some Thais, the bloody events of October 6, 1976, are still a nightmare. On that day, heavily armed security forces shot up Bangkok's Thammasat University campus and killed scores of students, while right-wing vigilantes captured would-be escapees, subjecting them to ghoulish lynchings. (AP Photo/Neal Ulevich, File)&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;FILE - In this Oct. 6, 1976 file photo a member of a Thai political faction strikes at the lifeless body of a hanged student outside Thammasat University in Bangkok Oct. 6, 1976. For some Thais, the bloody events of October 6, 1976 are still a nightmare. On that day, heavily armed security forces shot up Bangkok's Thammasat University campus and killed scores of students, while right-wing vigilantes captured would-be escapees, subjecting them to ghoulish lynchings. 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<p></p> <table class="diff diff-contentalign-left" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #222; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #222; text-align: center;">Revision as of 08:02, 17 July 2018</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l1" >Line 1:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 1:</td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>BANGKOK (AP) - EDITOR'S NOTE: Associated Press Photographer Neal Ulevich won the Pulitzer Prize for his photos of the suppression of a left-wing student protest at Bangkok's Thammasat University on Oct. 6, 1976, and the brutal lynchings in its wake. Ulevich, then 30, arrived as a night of tension at the campus broke into a full-scale assault by paramilitary police on thousands of trapped and defenseless students.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Even with experience covering the Vietnam War- he <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline"> [http://www.vtr.org.vn/cam</del>-<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">nang-du-lich-bac-kinh-5-ngay-4-dem.html du lịch Bắc Kinh 5 ngày 4 đêm từ Hà Nội] was on one of </del>the <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">last helicopters out when the American presence ended </del>with the <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">communist takeover in April 1975 - Ulevich was stunned by </del>the <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">scale of </del>the violence.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">After winning the Pulitzer</del>, <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">he said </del>his <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">happiness &quot;must be tempered with grim memories of the day. If there </del>is <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">any value </del>in <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">the pictures it is that they may have made </del>some <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">people pause and think about </del>the <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">wider issues such as hatred and violence.&quot;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;FILE - In this Oct. </del>6, 1976 <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">file photo blood streaming down his face, </del>a <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">leftist student</del>, <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">center, wounded and captured by police is helped to an ambulance at the </del>Thammasat University campus <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">in Bangkok, Thailand. For some Thais, the bloody events </del>of <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">October 6</del>, <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">1976 are still a nightmare</del>. <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">On that day, heavily armed security forces shot up Bangkok's Thammasat University campus and killed scores of students</del>, <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">while right-wing vigilantes captured would-be escapees, subjecting them to ghoulish lynchings. (AP Photo/Neal Ulevich,File)&lt;br&gt;</del>&lt;br&gt;Ulevich wrote this first-person account, which the AP published soon after the massacre.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;___&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;In a real riot no one knows you're there. So as gunfire crackled over the campus of Bangkok's Thammasat University Wednesday morning, I pushed my way through an angry <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">sea of rightists and found a hole in the high metal fence surrounding the campus</del>.<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;I paused momentarily while Boy Scouts pushed through the fence the body </del>of a <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">soldier with a chest wound. I jumped through</del>.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">The police were on </del>the <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">attack and </del>the <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">rightists were cheering </del>their support. Troops armed with M-16 rifles were spraying wild fire across a quadrangle, shattering classroom windows and nicking holes in the walls.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;With some Indochina combat coverage behind me, I could hear that more than 90 percent of the fire was going in one direction - toward the students. Occasionally it seemed a round came back.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;On the quadrangle, troopers worked their way toward classrooms.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Some of the troopers tossed hand grenades through the windows. The &quot;garrumph&quot; of a grenade going off was followed by a puff of smoke and the tinkle of showering glass. Then the recoilless rifle crew moved up.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;It wasn't immediately clear why the border patrol police were there, or why they thought they needed an armor-piercing antitank weapon to conquer students. The two-man crew moved forward, followed by a shaggy right-winger carrying a box of ammunition. They blasted more classrooms.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;A few minutes later, about 9:30 a.m., the battle seemed over.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Students began to pour out of campus buildings, some wounded. I began to move forward, 50 yards behind the soldiers. I began to feel apprehensive, just as I did in Vietnam when crossing open ground. And with good reason. The shooting <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">began again</del>.<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;The students threw themselves to the ground </del>- <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">I did, too </del>- <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">as the Thai police emptied more thousands of rounds into the classrooms</del>. <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">The fire slackened and the students got up</del>.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;I <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">reached the nearest classroom building.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;At </del>the <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">door, students were running out, diving to their hands and knees and crawling past soldiers who told them to take off their shirts, and coeds their blouses</del>. <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[http://Www</del>.<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Techandtrends</del>.<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">com/?s=Slow%20performance Slow performance</del>] <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">earned a kick</del>.<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">&lt;</del>br&gt;&lt;br&gt;<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">A grenade went off in a </del>classroom <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">above us, showering troops and their captives with glass and plaster. The students crawled toward the center of the quadrangle to lie in the hot sun.</del>&lt;br&gt;<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">&lt;br&gt;I was joined by a German reporter who speaks Thai</del>, and <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">we walked out through the gate</del>.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Then we were out on </del>the <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">street - close by </del>the <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">pleasant green trees that surround </del>the <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Pramaine Ground site of Bangkok's colorful weekend fair</del>. <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">But then </del>we <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">saw </del>the <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">angry swarm of Thais around two of those </del>trees <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">and their anger was white hot</del>. <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">I </del>saw the <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">body </del>of <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">a dead student&#160; [http://www</del>.<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">vtr</del>.<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">org</del>.<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">vn/cam-nang-du-lich-bac</del>-<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">kinh</del>-<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">5-ngay-4-dem</del>.<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">html du lịch Bắc Kinh 5 ngày 4 đêm từ Hà Nội] hanging from one tree</del>. <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">The scene was being repeated just a few feet away</del>.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">I don't know how much earlier </del>the <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">students had been lynched - probably just a few minutes - but enraged rightists felt robbed by death and continued to batter </del>the <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">bodies.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Other Thais who witnessed the 1973 student riots here said the earlier uprising</del>, which left 70 dead, never evoked the brutality or hatred of Wednesday's attack on the students.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;No one had seen me. I had wandered throughout and taken pictures unmolested. But I had seen enough, and left.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;FILE - In this Oct. 6, 1976 file photo a member of a Thai political faction strikes at the lifeless body of a hanged student outside Thammasat University in Bangkok Oct. 6, 1976. For some Thais, the bloody events of October 6, 1976 are still a nightmare. On that day, heavily armed security forces shot up Bangkok's Thammasat University campus and killed scores of students, while right-wing vigilantes captured would-be escapees, subjecting them to ghoulish lynchings. (AP Photo/Neal Ulevich, File)&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;FILE - In this Oct. 6, 1976 file photo, police stand guard over leftist Thai students on a soccer field at Thammasat University, in Bangkok, Thailand. For some Thais, the bloody events of October 6, 1976 are still a nightmare. On that day, heavily armed security forces shot up Bangkok's Thammasat University campus and killed scores of students, while right-wing vigilantes captured would-be escapees, subjecting them to ghoulish lynchings. (AP Photo/Gary Mangkorn, File)&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;FILE - In this Oct. 6, 1976 file photo leftist students who surrendered to police lie on the ground of the soccer field at Thammasat University in Bangkok, Thailand, awaiting orders from their captors. For some Thais, the bloody events of October 6, 1976 are still a nightmare. On that day, heavily armed security forces shot up Bangkok's Thammasat University campus and killed scores of students, while right-wing vigilantes captured would-be escapees, subjecting them to ghoulish lynchings. (AP Photo/Neal Ulevich, File)&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;FILE - In this Oct 6, 1976 file photo a policeman kicks a leftist student who surrendered moments before as police moved in on Thammasat University in Bangkok, Thailand. For some Thais, the bloody events of October 6, 1976 are still a nightmare. On that day, heavily armed security forces shot up Bangkok's Thammasat University campus and killed scores of students, while right-wing vigilantes captured would-be escapees, subjecting them to ghoulish lynchings. (AP Photo/Neal Ulevich, File)&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;FILE - In this Oct. 6, 1976, file photo, police fire a shell as they storm the walls of Thammasat University in Bangkok, Thailand. For some Thais, the bloody events of October 6, 1976, are still a nightmare. On that day, heavily armed security forces shot up Bangkok's Thammasat University campus and killed scores of students, while right-wing vigilantes captured would-be escapees, subjecting them to ghoulish lynchings. (AP Photo/Neal Ulevich, File)&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;FILE - In this Oct. 6, 1976 file photo a member of a Thai political faction strikes at the lifeless body of a hanged student outside Thammasat University in Bangkok Oct. 6, <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline"> [http://www.vtr.org.vn/cam-nang-du-lich-bac-kinh-5-ngay-4-dem.html vtr.org.vn] </del>1976. For some Thais, the bloody events of October 6, 1976 are still a nightmare. On that day, heavily armed security forces shot up Bangkok's Thammasat University campus and killed scores of students, while right-wing vigilantes captured would-be escapees, subjecting them to ghoulish lynchings. (AP Photo/Neal Ulevich, File)&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Advertisement</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>BANGKOK (AP) - EDITOR'S NOTE: Associated Press Photographer Neal Ulevich won the Pulitzer Prize for his photos of the suppression of a left-wing student protest at Bangkok's Thammasat University on Oct. 6, 1976, and the brutal lynchings in its wake. Ulevich, then 30, arrived as a night of tension at the campus broke into a full-scale assault by paramilitary police on thousands of trapped and defenseless students.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Even with experience covering the Vietnam War- he <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">was on one of the last helicopters out when the American presence ended with the communist takeover in April 1975 </ins>- <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Ulevich was stunned by the scale of the violence.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;After winning </ins>the <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Pulitzer, he said his happiness &quot;must be tempered </ins>with <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">grim memories of </ins>the <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">day. If there is any value in </ins>the <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">pictures it is that they may have made some people pause and think about </ins>the <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">wider issues such as hatred and </ins>violence.<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">&quot;</ins>&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">FILE - In this Oct. 6</ins>, <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">1976 file photo blood streaming down </ins>his <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">face, a leftist student, center, wounded and captured by police </ins>is <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">helped to an ambulance at the Thammasat University campus </ins>in <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Bangkok, Thailand. For </ins>some <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Thais, </ins>the <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">bloody events of October </ins>6, 1976 <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">are still </ins>a <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">nightmare. On that day</ins>, <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">heavily armed security forces shot up Bangkok's </ins>Thammasat University campus <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">and killed scores </ins>of <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">students</ins>, <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">while right-wing vigilantes captured would-be escapees, subjecting them to ghoulish lynchings</ins>. <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">(AP Photo/Neal Ulevich</ins>,<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">File)&lt;br&gt;</ins>&lt;br&gt;Ulevich wrote this first-person account, which the AP published soon after the massacre.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;___&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;In a real riot no one knows you're there. So as gunfire crackled over the campus of Bangkok's Thammasat University Wednesday morning, I pushed my way through an angry <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline"> [http://www.vtr.org</ins>.<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">vn/cam-nang-du-lich-bac-kinh-5-ngay-4-dem.html du lịch Bắc Kinh] sea </ins>of <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">rightists and found </ins>a <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">hole in the high metal fence surrounding the campus</ins>.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">I paused momentarily while Boy Scouts pushed through </ins>the <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">fence </ins>the <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">body of a soldier with a chest wound. I jumped through.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;The police were on the attack and the rightists were cheering </ins>their support. Troops armed with M-16 rifles were spraying wild fire across a quadrangle, shattering classroom windows and nicking holes in the walls.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;With some Indochina combat coverage behind me, I could hear that more than 90 percent of the fire was going in one direction - toward the students. Occasionally it seemed a round came back.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;On the quadrangle, troopers worked their way toward classrooms.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Some of the troopers tossed hand grenades through the windows. The &quot;garrumph&quot; of a grenade going off was followed by a puff of smoke and the tinkle of showering glass. Then the recoilless rifle crew moved up.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;It wasn't immediately clear why the border patrol police were there, or why they thought they needed an armor-piercing antitank weapon to conquer students. The two-man crew moved forward, followed by a shaggy right-winger carrying a box of ammunition. They blasted more classrooms.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;A few minutes later, about 9:30 a.m., the battle seemed over.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Students began to pour out of campus buildings, some wounded. I began to move forward, 50 yards behind the soldiers. I began to feel apprehensive, just as I did in Vietnam when crossing open ground. And with good reason. The shooting <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline"> [http://www.vtr.org</ins>.<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">vn/cam</ins>-<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">nang-du-lich-bac-kinh-5-ngay</ins>-<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">4-dem</ins>.<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">html tour bắc kinh từ hà nội] began again</ins>.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">The students threw themselves to the ground - </ins>I <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">did, too - as </ins>the <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Thai police emptied more&#160; [http://www.vtr.org.vn/cam-nang-du-lich-bac-kinh-5-ngay-4-dem</ins>.<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">html vtr</ins>.<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">org</ins>.<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">vn</ins>] <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">thousands of rounds into the classrooms</ins>. <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">The fire slackened and the students got up.&lt;</ins>br&gt;&lt;br&gt;<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">I reached the nearest </ins>classroom <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">building.&lt;br&gt;</ins>&lt;br&gt;<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">At the door, students were running out</ins>, <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">diving to their hands </ins>and <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">knees and crawling past soldiers who told them to take off their shirts, and coeds their blouses. Slow performance earned a kick</ins>.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">A grenade went off in a classroom above us, showering troops and their captives with glass and plaster. The students crawled toward </ins>the <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">center of </ins>the <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">quadrangle to lie in </ins>the <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">hot sun</ins>.<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;I was joined by a German reporter who speaks Thai, and </ins>we <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">walked out through </ins>the <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">gate.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Then we were out on the street - close by the pleasant green </ins>trees <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">that surround the Pramaine Ground site of Bangkok's colorful weekend fair</ins>. <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">But then we </ins>saw the <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">angry swarm of Thais around two </ins>of <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">those trees and their anger was white hot</ins>. <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">I saw the body of a dead student hanging from one tree</ins>. <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">The scene was being repeated just a few feet away</ins>.<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;I don't know how much earlier the students had been lynched </ins>- <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">probably just a few minutes </ins>- <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">but enraged rightists felt robbed by death and [http://news</ins>.<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">sky</ins>.<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">com/search?term=continued continued] to batter the bodies</ins>.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Other Thais who witnessed </ins>the <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">1973 student riots here said </ins>the <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">earlier uprising</ins>, which left 70 dead, never evoked the brutality or hatred of Wednesday's attack on the students.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;No one had seen me. I had wandered throughout and taken pictures unmolested. But I had seen enough, and left.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;FILE - In this Oct. 6, 1976 file photo a member of a Thai political faction strikes at the lifeless body of a hanged student outside Thammasat University in Bangkok Oct. 6, 1976. For some Thais, the bloody events of October 6, 1976 are still a nightmare. On that day, heavily armed security forces shot up Bangkok's Thammasat University campus and killed scores of students, while right-wing vigilantes captured would-be escapees, subjecting them to ghoulish lynchings. (AP Photo/Neal Ulevich, File)&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;FILE - In this Oct. 6, 1976 file photo, police stand guard over leftist Thai students on a soccer field at Thammasat University, in Bangkok, Thailand. For some Thais, the bloody events of October 6, 1976 are still a nightmare. On that day, heavily armed security forces shot up Bangkok's Thammasat University campus and killed scores of students, while right-wing vigilantes captured would-be escapees, subjecting them to ghoulish lynchings. (AP Photo/Gary Mangkorn, File)&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;FILE - In this Oct. 6, 1976 file photo leftist students who surrendered to police lie on the ground of the soccer field at Thammasat University in Bangkok, Thailand, awaiting orders from their captors. For some Thais, the bloody events of October 6, 1976 are still a nightmare. On that day, heavily armed security forces shot up Bangkok's Thammasat University campus and killed scores of students, while right-wing vigilantes captured would-be escapees, subjecting them to ghoulish lynchings. (AP Photo/Neal Ulevich, File)&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;FILE - In this Oct 6, 1976 file photo a policeman kicks a leftist student who surrendered moments before as police moved in on Thammasat University in Bangkok, Thailand. For some Thais, the bloody events of October 6, 1976 are still a nightmare. On that day, heavily armed security forces shot up Bangkok's Thammasat University campus and killed scores of students, while right-wing vigilantes captured would-be escapees, subjecting them to ghoulish lynchings. (AP Photo/Neal Ulevich, File)&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;FILE - In this Oct. 6, 1976, file photo, police fire a shell as they storm the walls of Thammasat University in Bangkok, Thailand. For some Thais, the bloody events of October 6, 1976, are still a nightmare. On that day, heavily armed security forces shot up Bangkok's Thammasat University campus and killed scores of students, while right-wing vigilantes captured would-be escapees, subjecting them to ghoulish lynchings. (AP Photo/Neal Ulevich, File)&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;FILE - In this Oct. 6, 1976 file photo a member of a Thai political faction strikes at the lifeless body of a hanged student outside Thammasat University in Bangkok Oct. 6, 1976. For some Thais, the bloody events of October 6, 1976 are still a nightmare. On that day, heavily armed security forces shot up Bangkok's Thammasat University campus and killed scores of students, while right-wing vigilantes captured would-be escapees, subjecting them to ghoulish lynchings. (AP Photo/Neal Ulevich, File)&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Advertisement</div></td></tr> </table>

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<p></p> <table class="diff diff-contentalign-left" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #222; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #222; text-align: center;">Revision as of 03:11, 17 July 2018</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l1" >Line 1:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 1:</td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>BANGKOK (AP) - EDITOR'S NOTE: Associated Press Photographer Neal Ulevich won the Pulitzer Prize for his photos of the suppression of a left-wing student protest at Bangkok's Thammasat University on Oct. 6, 1976, and the brutal lynchings in its wake. Ulevich, then 30, arrived as a night of tension at the campus broke into a full-scale assault by paramilitary police on thousands of trapped and defenseless students.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Even with experience covering the Vietnam War- he <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">was on one of the last helicopters out when the American presence ended with the communist takeover in April 1975 </del>- <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Ulevich was stunned by the scale of the violence.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;After winning </del>the <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Pulitzer, he said his happiness &quot;must be tempered </del>with <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">grim memories of </del>the <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">day. If there is any value </del>in the <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">pictures it is that they may have made some people pause and think about </del>the <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">wider issues such as hatred and </del>violence.<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">&quot;</del>&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">FILE - In this Oct. 6</del>, <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">1976 file photo blood streaming down </del>his <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">face, a leftist student, center, wounded and captured by police </del>is <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">helped to an ambulance at </del>the <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Thammasat University campus in Bangkok, Thailand. For </del>some <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Thais, </del>the <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">bloody events of October </del>6, 1976 <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">are still a nightmare. On that day</del>, <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">heavily armed security forces shot up Bangkok's Thammasat University campus </del>and <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">killed scores of students, while right-wing vigilantes </del>captured <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">would-be escapees, subjecting them </del>to <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">ghoulish lynchings</del>. <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">(AP Photo/Neal Ulevich</del>,<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">File)&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Ulevich wrote this first-person account</del>, <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">which the AP published soon after the massacre.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;___&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;In a real riot no one knows you</del>'<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">re there. So as gunfire crackled over the </del>campus of <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Bangkok's Thammasat University Wednesday morning</del>, <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">I pushed my way through an angry sea of rightists and found a hole in the high metal fence surrounding the campus.</del>&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">I paused momentarily while Boy Scouts pushed through </del>the <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">fence </del>the <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">body of a soldier with a chest wound. I jumped through</del>.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">The police were on the attack and </del>the <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">rightists were cheering their support. Troops armed with M-16 rifles were spraying wild fire across a quadrangle</del>, <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">shattering classroom windows </del>and <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">nicking holes </del>in the <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">walls</del>.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">With some Indochina combat coverage behind me, I could hear that more than 90 percent of </del>the <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">fire was going in one direction - toward </del>the <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">students</del>. <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Occasionally it seemed a round came back</del>.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">On </del>the <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">quadrangle, troopers worked </del>their <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">way toward classrooms</del>.<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Some of the troopers tossed hand grenades through </del>the <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">windows</del>. <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">The &quot;garrumph&quot; </del>of <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">a grenade </del>going <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">off was followed by a puff of smoke and </del>the <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">tinkle of showering glass</del>. <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Then the recoilless rifle crew moved up</del>.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">It wasn't immediately clear why </del>the <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">border patrol police were there</del>, <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">or why they thought they needed an armor-piercing antitank weapon to conquer students</del>. The <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">two-man crew moved forward, </del>followed by a <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">shaggy right-winger carrying a box </del>of <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">ammunition</del>. <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">They blasted more classrooms</del>.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">A few minutes later</del>, <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">about 9:30 a.m</del>., <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">the battle seemed over</del>.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Students began to </del>pour out of campus buildings, some wounded. I began to move forward, 50 yards behind the soldiers. I began to feel apprehensive, just as I did in Vietnam when crossing open ground. And with good reason. The shooting began again.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;The students threw themselves to <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline"> [http://www.vtr.org.vn/cam</del>-<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">nang</del>-<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">du-lich-bac-kinh-5-ngay-4-dem</del>.<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">html vtr</del>.<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">org</del>.<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">vn] </del>the <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">ground - I did</del>, <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">too - as the Thai police emptied more thousands of rounds into the classrooms. The fire slackened </del>and <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">the students got up</del>.<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;I reached the nearest classroom building</del>.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">At the door</del>, students <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">were running out, diving&#160; [http://www</del>.<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">vtr.org.vn/cam-nang-du-lich-bac-kinh-5-ngay-4-dem</del>.<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">html tour bắc kinh từ hà nội] to their hands and knees and crawling past soldiers who told them to take off their shirts, </del>and <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">coeds </del>their <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">blouses</del>. <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Slow performance earned </del>a <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">kick</del>.<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;A grenade went off in a classroom above us, showering troops and their captives with glass and plaster</del>. The <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">students crawled toward the center of the quadrangle to lie in the hot sun</del>.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;I <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">was joined by a German reporter who speaks Thai, and we walked out through </del>the <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">gate.&lt;br&gt;&lt;</del>br&gt;<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Then we were out on </del>the <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">street - close by </del>the <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">pleasant green trees that surround </del>the <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Pramaine Ground site </del>of <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Bangkok</del>'s <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">colorful weekend fair</del>. <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">But then we saw the angry swarm of Thais around two of those trees </del>and <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">their anger was white hot</del>. I <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">saw the body of a dead student hanging from one tree. The scene was being repeated just a few feet away</del>.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">I don't know how much earlier the students had been lynched - probably just </del>a <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">few minutes - but enraged rightists felt robbed by death and continued to batter </del>the <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">bodies</del>.<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Other </del>Thais <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">who witnessed </del>the <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">1973 student riots here said the earlier uprising</del>, <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">which left 70 dead</del>, <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">never evoked the brutality or hatred of Wednesday</del>'s <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">attack on the </del>students.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">No one had seen me</del>. <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">I had wandered throughout and taken pictures unmolested. But I had seen enough</del>, <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">and left.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;FILE - In this Oct</del>. 6, 1976 <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">file photo </del>a <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">member of a Thai political faction strikes at the lifeless body of a hanged student outside Thammasat University in Bangkok Oct</del>. <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">6</del>, <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">1976. For some Thais, the bloody events of October 6, 1976 are still a nightmare. On that day, heavily armed </del>security forces shot up Bangkok's Thammasat University campus and killed scores of students, while right-wing vigilantes captured would-be escapees, <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[http://www.houzz.com/?search=subjecting subjecting] them </del>to ghoulish lynchings. (AP Photo/<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Neal Ulevich</del>, File)&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;FILE - In this Oct. 6, 1976 file photo<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">, police stand guard over </del>leftist <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Thai </del>students <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">on a </del>soccer field at Thammasat University<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">, </del>in Bangkok, Thailand. For some Thais, the bloody events of October 6, 1976 are still a nightmare. On that day, heavily armed security forces shot up Bangkok's Thammasat University campus and killed scores of students, while right-wing vigilantes captured would-be escapees, subjecting them to ghoulish lynchings. (AP Photo/<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Gary Mangkorn</del>, File)&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;FILE - In this Oct<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">. </del>6, 1976 file photo leftist <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">students </del>who surrendered <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">to </del>police <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">lie </del>on <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">the ground of the soccer field at </del>Thammasat University in Bangkok, Thailand<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">, awaiting orders from their captors</del>. For some Thais, the bloody events of October 6, 1976 are still a nightmare. On that day, heavily armed security forces shot up Bangkok's Thammasat University campus and killed scores of students, while right-wing vigilantes captured would-be escapees, subjecting them to ghoulish lynchings. (AP Photo/Neal Ulevich, File)&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;FILE - In this Oct 6, 1976 file photo a <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">policeman kicks a leftist student who surrendered moments before as police moved in on </del>Thammasat University in Bangkok, Thailand. For some Thais, the bloody events of October 6, 1976 are still a nightmare. On that day, heavily armed security forces shot up Bangkok's Thammasat University campus and killed scores of students, while right-wing vigilantes captured would-be escapees, subjecting them to ghoulish lynchings. (AP Photo/Neal Ulevich, File)&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;FILE - In this Oct. 6, 1976<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">, </del>file photo<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">, police fire </del>a <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">shell as they storm the walls </del>of Thammasat University in Bangkok<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">, Thailand</del>. <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">For some Thais, the bloody events of October </del>6, <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">1976, are still a nightmare</del>. <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">On that day, heavily armed security forces shot up Bangkok's Thammasat University campus and killed scores of students, while right</del>-<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">wing vigilantes captured would</del>-<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">be escapees, subjecting them to ghoulish lynchings</del>. <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">(AP Photo/Neal Ulevich, File)&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;FILE - In this Oct</del>. <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">6, 1976 file photo a member of a Thai political faction strikes at the lifeless body of a hanged student outside Thammasat University in Bangkok Oct</del>. <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">6, </del>1976. For some Thais, the bloody events of October 6, 1976 are still a nightmare. On that day, heavily armed security forces shot up Bangkok's Thammasat University campus and killed scores of students, while right-wing vigilantes captured would-be escapees, subjecting them to ghoulish lynchings. (AP Photo/Neal Ulevich, File)&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Advertisement</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>BANGKOK (AP) - EDITOR'S NOTE: Associated Press Photographer Neal Ulevich won the Pulitzer Prize for his photos of the suppression of a left-wing student protest at Bangkok's Thammasat University on Oct. 6, 1976, and the brutal lynchings in its wake. Ulevich, then 30, arrived as a night of tension at the campus broke into a full-scale assault by paramilitary police on thousands of trapped and defenseless students.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Even with experience covering the Vietnam War- he <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline"> [http://www.vtr.org.vn/cam-nang-du-lich-bac-kinh</ins>-<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">5-ngay-4-dem.html du lịch Bắc Kinh 5 ngày 4 đêm từ Hà Nội] was on one of </ins>the <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">last helicopters out when the American presence ended </ins>with the <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">communist takeover </ins>in <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">April 1975 - Ulevich was stunned by </ins>the <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">scale of </ins>the violence.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">After winning the Pulitzer</ins>, <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">he said </ins>his <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">happiness &quot;must be tempered with grim memories of the day. If there </ins>is <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">any value in </ins>the <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">pictures it is that they may have made </ins>some <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">people pause and think about </ins>the <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">wider issues such as hatred and violence.&quot;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;FILE - In this Oct. </ins>6, 1976 <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">file photo blood streaming down his face, a leftist student, center</ins>, <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">wounded </ins>and captured <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">by police is helped </ins>to <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">an ambulance at the Thammasat University campus in Bangkok, Thailand</ins>. <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">For some Thais, the bloody events of October 6</ins>, <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">1976 are still a nightmare. On that day</ins>, <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">heavily armed security forces shot up Bangkok</ins>'<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">s Thammasat University </ins>campus <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">and killed scores </ins>of <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">students</ins>, <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">while right-wing vigilantes captured would-be escapees, subjecting them to ghoulish lynchings. (AP Photo/Neal Ulevich,File)</ins>&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Ulevich wrote this first-person account, which </ins>the <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">AP published soon after </ins>the <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">massacre</ins>.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">___&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;In a real riot no one knows you're there. So as gunfire crackled over </ins>the <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">campus of Bangkok's Thammasat University Wednesday morning</ins>, <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">I pushed my way through an angry sea of rightists </ins>and <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">found a hole </ins>in the <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">high metal fence surrounding the campus</ins>.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">I paused momentarily while Boy Scouts pushed through </ins>the <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">fence </ins>the <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">body of a soldier with a chest wound</ins>. <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">I jumped through</ins>.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">The police were on the attack and </ins>the <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">rightists were cheering </ins>their <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">support</ins>. <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Troops armed with M-16 rifles were spraying wild fire across a quadrangle, shattering classroom windows and nicking holes in </ins>the <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">walls</ins>.<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;With some Indochina combat coverage behind me, I could hear that more than 90 percent </ins>of <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">the fire was </ins>going <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">in one direction - toward </ins>the <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">students</ins>. <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Occasionally it seemed a round came back</ins>.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">On </ins>the <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">quadrangle</ins>, <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">troopers worked their way toward classrooms.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Some of the troopers tossed hand grenades through the windows</ins>. The <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">&quot;garrumph&quot; of a grenade going off was </ins>followed by a <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">puff of smoke and the tinkle </ins>of <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">showering glass</ins>. <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Then the recoilless rifle crew moved up</ins>.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">It wasn't immediately clear why the border patrol police were there</ins>, <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">or why they thought they needed an armor-piercing antitank weapon to conquer students</ins>. <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">The two-man crew moved forward</ins>, <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">followed by a shaggy right-winger carrying a box of ammunition. They blasted more classrooms</ins>.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">A few minutes later, about 9:30 a.m., the battle seemed over.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Students began to </ins>pour out of campus buildings, some wounded. I began to move forward, 50 yards behind the soldiers. I began to feel apprehensive, just as I did in Vietnam when crossing open ground. And with good reason. The shooting began again.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;The students threw themselves to <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">the ground </ins>- <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">I did, too </ins>- <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">as the Thai police emptied more thousands of rounds into the classrooms</ins>. <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">The fire slackened and the students got up</ins>.<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;I reached the nearest classroom building</ins>.<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;At </ins>the <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">door</ins>, <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">students were running out, diving to their hands and knees </ins>and <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">crawling past soldiers who told them to take off their shirts, and coeds their blouses</ins>. <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[http://Www.Techandtrends.com/?s=Slow%20performance Slow performance] earned a kick</ins>.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">A grenade went off in a classroom above us</ins>, <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">showering troops and their captives with glass and plaster. The </ins>students <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">crawled toward the center of the quadrangle to lie in the hot sun</ins>.<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;I was joined by a German reporter who speaks Thai, and we walked out through the gate</ins>.<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Then we were out on the street - close by the pleasant green trees that surround the Pramaine Ground site of Bangkok's colorful weekend fair. But then we saw the angry swarm of Thais around two of those trees </ins>and their <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">anger was white hot</ins>. <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">I saw the body of </ins>a <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">dead student&#160; [http://www.vtr.org</ins>.<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">vn/cam-nang-du-lich-bac-kinh-5-ngay-4-dem.html du lịch Bắc Kinh 5 ngày 4 đêm từ Hà Nội] hanging from one tree</ins>. The <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">scene was being repeated just a few feet away</ins>.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;I <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">don't know how much earlier </ins>the <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">students had been lynched - probably just a few minutes - but enraged rightists felt robbed by death and continued to batter the bodies.&lt;br&gt;&lt;</ins>br&gt;<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Other Thais who witnessed </ins>the <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">1973 student riots here said </ins>the <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">earlier uprising, which left 70 dead, never evoked </ins>the <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">brutality or hatred </ins>of <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Wednesday</ins>'s <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">attack on the students</ins>.<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;No one had seen me. I had wandered throughout </ins>and <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">taken pictures unmolested</ins>. <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">But </ins>I <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">had seen enough, and left</ins>.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">FILE - In this Oct. 6, 1976 file photo a member of </ins>a <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Thai political faction strikes at </ins>the <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">lifeless body of a hanged student outside Thammasat University in Bangkok Oct</ins>. <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">6, 1976. For some </ins>Thais<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">, </ins>the <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">bloody events of October 6</ins>, <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">1976 are still a nightmare. On that day</ins>, <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">heavily armed security forces shot up Bangkok</ins>'s <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Thammasat University campus and killed scores of </ins>students<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">, while right-wing vigilantes captured would-be escapees, subjecting them to ghoulish lynchings</ins>. <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">(AP Photo/Neal Ulevich, File)</ins>&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">FILE - In this Oct</ins>. <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">6, 1976 file photo</ins>, <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">police stand guard over leftist Thai students on a soccer field at Thammasat University, in Bangkok, Thailand</ins>. <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">For some Thais, the bloody events of October </ins>6, 1976 <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">are still </ins>a <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">nightmare</ins>. <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">On that day</ins>, <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">heavily armed </ins>security forces shot up Bangkok's Thammasat University campus and killed scores of students, while right-wing vigilantes captured would-be escapees, <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">subjecting them </ins>to ghoulish lynchings. (AP Photo/<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Gary Mangkorn</ins>, File)&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;FILE - In this Oct. 6, 1976 file photo leftist students <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">who surrendered to police lie on the ground of the </ins>soccer field at Thammasat University in Bangkok, Thailand<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">, awaiting orders from their captors</ins>. For some Thais, the bloody events of October 6, 1976 are still a nightmare. On that day, heavily armed security forces shot up Bangkok's Thammasat University campus and killed scores of students, while right-wing vigilantes captured would-be escapees, subjecting them to ghoulish lynchings. (AP Photo/<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Neal Ulevich</ins>, File)&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;FILE - In this Oct 6, 1976 file photo <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">a policeman kicks a </ins>leftist <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">student </ins>who surrendered <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">moments before as </ins>police <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">moved in </ins>on Thammasat University in Bangkok, Thailand. For some Thais, the bloody events of October 6, 1976 are still a nightmare. On that day, heavily armed security forces shot up Bangkok's Thammasat University campus and killed scores of students, while right-wing vigilantes captured would-be escapees, subjecting them to ghoulish lynchings. (AP Photo/Neal Ulevich, File)&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;FILE - In this Oct<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">. </ins>6, 1976<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">, </ins>file photo<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">, police fire </ins>a <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">shell as they storm the walls of </ins>Thammasat University in Bangkok, Thailand. For some Thais, the bloody events of October 6, 1976<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">, </ins>are still a nightmare. On that day, heavily armed security forces shot up Bangkok's Thammasat University campus and killed scores of students, while right-wing vigilantes captured would-be escapees, subjecting them to ghoulish lynchings. (AP Photo/Neal Ulevich, File)&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;FILE - In this Oct. 6, 1976 file photo a <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">member </ins>of <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">a Thai political faction strikes at the lifeless body of a hanged student outside </ins>Thammasat University in Bangkok <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Oct</ins>. 6, <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline"> [http://www.vtr.org</ins>.<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">vn/cam-nang-du-lich</ins>-<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">bac</ins>-<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">kinh-5-ngay-4-dem</ins>.<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">html vtr</ins>.<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">org</ins>.<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">vn] </ins>1976. For some Thais, the bloody events of October 6, 1976 are still a nightmare. On that day, heavily armed security forces shot up Bangkok's Thammasat University campus and killed scores of students, while right-wing vigilantes captured would-be escapees, subjecting them to ghoulish lynchings. (AP Photo/Neal Ulevich, File)&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Advertisement</div></td></tr> </table>

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