For those who recognised the 1973-1976 period as a democratic process, the victory of 1973 was memorable, and so worth celebrating, since it had made a great progressive contribution. They regarded the 1976 massacre as a tragic setback, the closure of three years of democratic experiment. From this point of view, then, the historical questions relating to the 1976 event were not merely the massacre and its enigmas, but more importantly what went wrong with the student movement after 1973. It is generally agreed that the massacre was the inevitable consequence of the isolation of leftist students from the middle class public. Radical students, in other words, were the victims of their own making to the extent that their activities gave the right-wing the pretext to strike back. This probably the most widely held view regarding the 1973-1976 period after the collapse of the radical movement (Morell and Chai-anan 1981 and Khanungnit 1987 represent this view). This interpretation of the two inseparable Oetober incidents is therefore a tragedy, beginning with a glorious hero who kills a giant in a highly celebrated battle but ending with the fall of the hero, who has apparently lost his virtue and magic. It is a like the Star Wars trio, without the last section. In this sense, October 1973 represents success, while the other October, the 1976 massacre, represents failure. Although most people holding this view support the notion that the monument should recognise both events.