Thai university massacre casts forty year shadow In October 1976 Thai security forces, aided by royalist mobs, ended a pro-democracy protest with an attack that saw possibly scores of students shot, battered or stabbed to death -- with others hung from trees inside the campus, the violence ended a brief three-year flirtation with democracy and ushered in another 16-years of military-led rule. A natural sound version of an AFPTV report + REFILE to correct aspect ratio in one shot +