Authorities ordered Request all public New Year 's Eve events cancelled Preventing_or_letting , including the countdown at the CentralWorld shopping center and the alms-giving at Sanam Luang .

The Thammasat University massacre ( in Thailand known simply as the 6 October event , ) was an attack Attack by Thai state forces and far-right paramilitaries on student protesters on the campus of Thammasat University and the adjacent Sanam Luang Square in Bangkok , Thailand , on 6 October 1976 .