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12 February 11
Neal Ulevich won the 1977 Pulitzer Prize for a “series of photographs of disorder and brutality in the streets of Bangkok, Thailand”   The Thammasat University Massacre took place on October 6, 1976. It was a very violent attack on students who were demonstrating against Field Marshall Thanom Kittikachorn. F. M. T. Kittikachorn was a dictator who was planning to come back to Thailand. The return of the military dictator from exile provoked very violent protests. Protestors and students were beaten, mutilated, shot, hung and burnt to death.

Neal Ulevich won the 1977 Pulitzer Prize for a “series of photographs of disorder and brutality in the streets of Bangkok, Thailand”  

The Thammasat University Massacre took place on October 6, 1976. It was a very violent attack on students who were demonstrating against Field Marshall Thanom Kittikachorn.

F. M. T. Kittikachorn was a dictator who was planning to come back to Thailand. The return of the military dictator from exile provoked very violent protests. Protestors and students were beaten, mutilated, shot, hung and burnt to death.

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25 January 11
haterina: Far right: King Chulalongkorn (Rama V) look at what appears to be a row of Thai students, dressed up in identical shirt fronts, ties, jackets/great coats, trousers and top hats. This monarch established Samaggi Samagom, a Thai Student’s Association in the UK, as a way of homesick and culture-shocked Thai students to connect with each other and also a base from which to share Thai culture with the rest of the world. People say, “Don’t stick to your own kind, don’t self-segregate!” but I think these people have never had to tough it out where they are just profoundly out of place. The bigotry, mockery, isolation you feel is indescribable, even more so when you cannot go back. Well if you dress like that you can expect to be mocked and isolated! Jokes aside, a serious point and interesting that it was addressed perhaps better at the end of the 19th century than it is today.

haterina:

Far right: King Chulalongkorn (Rama V) look at what appears to be a row of Thai students, dressed up in identical shirt fronts, ties, jackets/great coats, trousers and top hats.

This monarch established Samaggi Samagom, a Thai Student’s Association in the UK, as a way of homesick and culture-shocked Thai students to connect with each other and also a base from which to share Thai culture with the rest of the world.

People say, “Don’t stick to your own kind, don’t self-segregate!” but I think these people have never had to tough it out where they are just profoundly out of place. The bigotry, mockery, isolation you feel is indescribable, even more so when you cannot go back.

Well if you dress like that you can expect to be mocked and isolated! Jokes aside, a serious point and interesting that it was addressed perhaps better at the end of the 19th century than it is today.

(Source: torayot)

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