Salient. Official Newspaper of Victoria University of Wellington Students Association. Vol. 40 Number 4. March 21 1977

Lessons of blood on the tortuous path

Lessons of blood on the tortuous path.

Yet on the road of progress, there had never been full sail, it was full of obstacles and tortuousities. The path of the Thai student movement, was also stained with blood. Since Oct. 1973, nearly every meeting has been met with sabotage from the extreme rightists. They threw bombs into the masses or hired assassins to kill student leaders. In the rallies of March and July, 1976, there were also disturbances by the rightist rioters. At the beginning of last year, one of the vice-presidents of the Students' Union of the Mahidol Medical University was killed by the Red Guars (rightist gang). Yet every bloody incident only unveiled the repulsiveness of the reactionaries and taught the Thai students to stand firm in their pursuit of truth. The coup d'etat of Oct. 1976 was another bloody lesson on the tortuous road of struggle.