Nuamthong Praiwan isn't insane, he's just a human who can't accept the coup d'état
Let's get to know him, the taxi driver who crash his own car against the tank, resisting the 2006 coup
🔥What Where When Why?
Who owns the purple taxi?
- Nuamthong Praiwan (also the driver)
What happened earlier?
- There was a coup d'état in 2006 by General Sonthi Boonyaratglin, leader of the Council for Democratic Reform (CDR)
Why crash it into the tank
- To defy the coup d'état, he crash his taxi into M41 Walker Bulldog tank. It's known today as a symbolic act against the coup
What happen next? How injured is Nuamthong?
- Nuamthong was rushed to Vajira Hospital, where he's injured with 3 broken ribs. Later he would be investigated by polices from Dusit Police Station
Spirit of Democracy
- He would later get interviewed by Jom Petchpradab, where he
"I want to do something to tell those [leaders of CDR] that some people will resist. I want to make history that in this coup d'état, there's a taxi driver crashing his own taxi into the tank until he died, because, and I will be straight to you...
...I don't want to live under dictatorship"
📌It's a depressed story
When a soldier come out to insult the people after the event that...
"Nobody have enough spirit that they will die for it" - Colonel Akara Thipharot
This is one of the reason that lead to a tragic event in October 31, 2006
We, KKC Pakee Students shall salute Nuamthong Praiwan, who resist the coup and died to prove the insult wrong
We would like to express our condolences on his passing