October 6, 1973, the military dictatorship arrested eleven people peacefully distribute a petition on the establishment of a market in Bangkok. Nothing much seems strange in a country subject to the regime of martial law. And now this is the spark that will blow a long accumulated discontent. Ten days later, the three dictators, Marshal Prapass Charusathiara, Thanom Kittikajorn Narong and his son will be forced to flee under pressure from a popular uprising whose scale has no precedent in the history of Thailand .
That claim the men arrested? The promulgation of the Constitution so many times promised and always deferred.