Apart from committing acts of violence, the Nawapon also had an important role in making propaganda against the Left, both in a religious and secular context. The ruling class used the media, especially the Tank Corps Radio Station and Dao Sayam newspaper, to propagate a continuous campaign of lies about anyone to the left of Adolph Hitler. Even Chuan Leekpai (later to become Democrat Party Prime Minister) was called a “Communist”. In the months before 6th October, the Tank Corps Radio suggested that tens of thousands of students ought to be killed “for the good of the country” and the Nawapon priest, Kittiwuto, announced that killing Communists was not a sin. Kittiwuto was out performing his "Buddhist" duties on the morning of 6th October 1976. He moved through the compound of Wat Mahatat, next door to Thammasat, clearing out students who had taken refuge from the violence there. They were then arrested.