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sense of the Royal Court would eventually take the whole
country down with it, this made him realized the fact on his
own, and decided to join in the insurgency.”
And eventually, “…with my intention to serve all
countrymen, in order to attain the true independency and
sovereignty of the country, as well as to achieve the true
economic and democratic prosperity, some of my fellow
Siamese students and I had found the secret leadership of
Khana Ratsadon. As we intend to evolve democracy in our
country, all those revolution theories and all the knowledge
on required actions that we’ve accumulated from France had
greatly helped us afterward…”

The Great Revolution of Siam,
between 1932 and 1933

At dawn of June 24 1932, which was on Friday, of the
th
6 Waning Moon, of the 7 Month, in the Year of Monkey, in the 8
th
th
th
years under the reign of King Prajadhipok (King Rama VII), a group
of people, which comprised military personnel (army and navy),
civilians and citizens, who came together under the name of Khana
Ratsadon, had taken over the country’s government in order to
change the country’s regime to democracy under the parliamentary
system, and declared the Constitution, as the country’s master rule
of government, as any other democratic countries.

Declaration of Khana Ratsadon

Mr. Pridi, as a civilian leader of the movement, was
responsible for drafting the Declaration of Khana Ratsadon, and
therefore, he was an important f gure in such an unprecedented
incident of the Great Revolution, that had never happened in the
political history of Siam.
Firstly, in political terms, the Declaration of Khana
Ratsadon described the rationality and profound intention of

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