Finally the bound prisoners were thrown into the backs of open-top army lorries,and made to lie, layer upon layer, on top of each other. Troops stood on top of their human cargo occasionally stamping on those who cried out for water or air and telling them that soon they would “know what real hell was like”. Many hours later the first lorry arrived at its destination, Inkayut Army Camp. A number of prisoners who had been at the bottom of this lorry were found to have died in transit, probably from suffocation and kidney damage. Six hours later the last lorry arrived with almost all those on the bottom layers found to be dead. During those six hours between the arrival of the first lorry and the last one, no attempt was made by the authorities to change the methods of transporting prisoners. In total nearly 80 prisoners died. We must agree with a senate report on the incident which concluded that this amounted to “deliberate criminal actions likely to cause deaths” by the security forces. Prime Minister Taksin’s first response to the incident was to praise the security forces for their “good work”. Later the Government claimed that the deaths of over 80 demonstrators were a regretful “accident”. Four years later on 9th February 2008 Prime Minister Samak Suntarawej told Al Jazeera television that the men who died at Takbai “just fell on top of each other”. Later in the same interview he lied about the 6th October 1976 massacre, saying that “Only one guy died”.