 The 200 litre red drums had an iron grille divider with a fire below, and the suspect above.On 6 October 1976, amid rising fears of a communist takeover similar to the one that had taken place in Vietnam, anti-communist police and paramilitaries attacked a leftist student demonstration at Thammasat University in Bangkok, during an incident that became known as the Thammasat University massacre.According to official estimates, 46 students were killed and 167 wounded.