The BPP , together with the Ministry of Interior , backed and sponsored the 1971 establishment of the " Village Scouts " , a right-wing rural vigilante group and paramilitary militia . The village scouts were to counter the communist insurgency and the pro-democracy movement of the 1970s . Soon after its creation , five million Thais ( 10 percent of the population ) went through the organisation 's initiation rite and took its five-day training course . The Village Scouts conducted the anti-leftist rally that led to the Thammasat University massacre and bloody coup d'état on 6 October 1976 . The Village Scouts disappeared around 1981 , but were revived around 2004 against the backdrop of the Muslim separatist conflict in south Thailand . The village scout concept was extended to ( ' Village Scouts on the Internet ' ) internet activities with the creation of the " cyber scouts "
Thammasat University massacre
Thammasat University massacre
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