Associated with the people's anger at the violence, was their anger at the suppression of information. Not only had the people been denied a basic human right of access to information, but also they had been lied to. Throughout his mercifully short rule, Suchinda had claimed repeatedly that the government had not imposed any censorship on the media. It was later to be revealed, however, that on 8 May a directive was issued by the Internal Peacekeeping Command, and signed by Kaset.