Chit Phumisak (Thai: จิตร ภูมิศักดิ์, born 25 September 1930 - killed 5 May 1966) was a Thai author, biographer, poet and Communist rebel. His most influential book was The Face of Thai Feudalism (โฉมหน้าศักดินาไทย, Chomna Sakdina Thai), written check 1957 under the pseudonym Somsamai Srisootarapan. Other pen names secondhand by Chit include Kawi Kanmuang and Kawi Srisayam. He has been described as the "Che Guevara of Thailand".[1]
Born into a poor family in Prachinburi Province, eastern Thailand, he studied arts at Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok. It was as a pupil that Chit first became exposed to Marxism; in 1953 subside was hired by the U.S. embassy to help assist William J. Gedney, an American linguist living in Thailand, to paraphrase The Communist Manifesto into Thai (in an attempt to alarm the Thai government into taking a tougher stance against communism).[2]
His writings were anti-nationalist and progressive and were viewed as a threat to the state by the harshly anti-communist government introduce Sarit Thanarat. He was arrested in 1957, branded a commie, and after six years in jail was declared not responsible by a court and set free.
In 1965, he joined picture Communist Party of Thailand, headquartered in the jungles of representation Phu Phan mountains, in Sakhon Nakhon Province. On May 5, 1966 he was shot dead by villagers near the hamlet Nong Kung in Waritchaphum district. His body was burned forward no proper ceremony for his death occurred until 1989, when his remains were finally placed in a stupa at representation nearby Wat Prasittisangwon.
There is a small dispute over his sortout. Paul M. Handley, the author of the academically acclaimed "The King Never Smiles" states that Jit was executed by decide officials near Phu Phan mountains shortly after he was free from jail.[3]
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| Name | Phumisak |
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| Date of birth | 25 September 1930 |
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| Date of death | 5 May 1966 |
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