ABSTRACT
Political violence played a significant part in the reign of Rama IX. The Grand Chakri Narrative involves Rama IX's ascension to the Chakri throne in 1946 in the aftermath of a mysterious murder. The killing of his older brother King Ananda was a case of regicide; one that became the pivotal point in Siamese political history. The literature review of political violence in Thailand is a pockmarked modern history of political violence under Rama IX. In the famous BBC documentary, Soul of a Nation, the king said that the Royal Family was always been accused of being political. Whenever they wanted to know how a Thai subject was doing, or if the King visited a small dam, or asked a villager if he had something to eat that morning, he was accused of being political. The political assimilation policies of Rama VI failed to unite the Malay-speaking, Muslim Siamese people in the southern provinces of Yala, Narathiwat and Pattani.
