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King Bhumibol woke up with a jolt from a dream in which a black
sun struggle to get out of the aerial roots of a Buddha bo tree and
the White Ravens wings glinted like metal as they flapped across
the pond toward the study where, when he was in residence at
Chtiralada, he had been lately preparing for his ordination as a
monk and pondering Buddhist laws. He remembered the law that every
action generates a force of energy that returns to us in like kind.
He had been told nothing about the executions. The public heard
first through marketplace gossip. This allowed Phao a final touch
of cruelty. The unsuspecting families continued their usual early
morning routine of making the rounds to plead for their mens lives.
The dragged-out fight had beggared them. The bureaucratic processes
required them to go on foot or bicycle from office to office.
Finally they made their way to revisit the prisoners.
The man at the gate said, Its too early to pick them up. Senator
Chaleos daughter misunderstood. She thought she had come too early
to escort her father once more to freedom. The man corrected her:
Youre too early to pick up the bodies. Then she knew that all
morning she had been trying to save the lives of the already dead.
No official notification was issued. The king hurried back from
Far-From-Worry when the rumours reached him. He had let the months
pass without interfering with the due process of law, thinking he
had won his demand for a strong and independent judiciary. In his
silent rage, he saw how powerless he really was. He had insisted
that every citizen had the right to petition him
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directly. Now he discovered that attempts to reach him by the
scapegoats families had been stopped by courtiers subverted by
Phaos police.
Phao circulated reports that the king had approved the
executions because he wanted to end speculation about his part in
the murder. On Phaos desk remained the last written appeals from
the dead men for a kings pardon.
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