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Opinion: Learning from Thailand’s Forgotten, Former National Day

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Inauguration of Democracy Monument on June 24, 1940. The ceremony was presided by Prime Minister Field Marshall Plaek Pibulsongkram. Photo: National Archive.

An old story not recounted is eventually forgotten. The same might be said of tomorrow, June 24 – once Thailand’s National Day, today many youth no longer know about, let alone remember, the day a bloodless revolt overthrew absolute monarchy in June 1932. For two decades between 1939 and 1960, June 24 was observed not […]

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