From the forces of darkness, too, came the military cabal led by General SuchindaKraprayoon, which had dozens if not hundreds of democracy protesters gunned down on the streets of Bangkok in May 1992.
His image perhaps reaches its zenith in 1992, after the army shoots dozens of pro-democracy protesters in Bangkok, when television shows both the army leader (and prime minister) SuchindaKraprayoon and the protest leader, Chamlong Srimuang (now a PAD stalwart), kneeling in an audience with him.