Naturally when the ex-dictator Tanom returned to Thailand, there were legitimate protests against him. Then on the 4th October the forces of reaction managed to find a perfect excuse for the mass mobilisation of the Village Scouts, Krating-Daeng and Nawapon. There were also mobilisations of various police units, including the heavily armed Border Patrol Police from Hua Hin. The “excuse” was a play put on by the students in order to condemn the murder and hanging of the two trade unionists in Nakorn Patom by police. A deliberate campaign of misinformation was a carried out by the newspaper Dao Sayam and the Tank Corps Radio in order to claim that the students had staged a play where they pretended to hang the Crown Prince. A photograph from the English language newspaper, the Bangkok Post, was used in this campaign of misinformation. The editorial board of the Bangkok Post today maintain that they had no part in the campaign of misinformation and that they were merely used by right-wing elements. This is very likely to be true. Nevertheless, the paper never had the courage, nor enough commitment to printing the truth, to deny the false reports about the students, either in early October 1976, or during the trial of innocent student leaders in the following two years. To this day the paper has yet to print an honest and factual account of the events.