LOS ANGELES TIMES, Oct. 11, 1976

• Communist Party of Thailand coup
• re. Thammasat University massacre

The front page has a one column heading: "Thai Regime Tries to Blame Coup Brutality on Reds" and related photo. (see images) 
Complete 1st section only with all 24 pages, nice condition.

Background: The 1976 Thailand Coup stands as one of the most violent and starkly ideological turning points in modern Southeast Asian history, distinguished by its sudden termination of Thailand's brief three-year democratic era through state-sanctioned bloodshed. What makes the event exceptionally rare and historic was the unprecedented level of brutality unleashed in October of 1976, when state police and royalist paramilitary groups (such as the Red Gaurs and Village Scouts) stormed Thammasat University, utilizing war-grade weaponry—including grenade launchers and anti-tank weapons—against unarmed student protesters. The massacre culminated in public lynchings, immolations, and desecrations fueled by ultra-right-wing radio propaganda accusing students of lèse-majesté (insulting the monarchy), creating a horrific visual spectacle that remains deeply traumatizing and heavily sanitized in Thai public memory. By that evening, Admiral Sangad Chaloryu and the National Administrative Reform Council seized power, abolished the 1974 constitution, and installed Thanin Kraivichien’s ultra-conservative dictatorship. Uniquely, rather than pacifying the nation, this hardline crackdown backfired, driving thousands of Bangkok’s top student intellectuals and activists into rural jungles to join the armed insurgency of the Communist Party of Thailand—an exodus that inadvertently fueled the very communist threat the military had sought to eradicate.