Lak-Si memorial

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Lak Si Monument (Bangkok)
Lak Si memorial
Lak Si memorial
Location of the Lak Si monument
Lak Si memorial

The Lak-Si-Monument ( Thai : อนุ สาว รี ย หลักสี่ , Anusawari Laksi ; also ' Anusawari Phithak Ratthathammanun , อนุสาวรีย์ พิทักษ์ รัฐธรรมนูญ , Engl .: Lak Si Monument ) serves the memory of 17 fallen soldiers who died during the armed counter-movement of the prince Boworadet died to overthrow the military government of General Phraya Phahon Phonphayuhasena between October 12 and 16, 1933 in Bangkok .

The Lak-Si monument stands in the middle of the Laksi intersection (Thai: วงเวียน หลักสี่ - Wong Wian Laksi , "Laksi roundabout") across from Wat Phra Sri Mahathat in the Bang Khen district in north Bangkok.

The names of the 17 soldiers are engraved on the memorial. On the wall there is a portrait of a peasant family, on the left there is a Sema wheel. On the back of the wall you can see the poem Siam Anusati by King Vajiravudh (Rama VI) . There is a replica of the Thai constitution on the top.

The monument was removed on December 28, 2018 and nothing is known about its whereabouts.

Individual evidence

  1. Pravit Rojanaphruk, Senior Staff Writer: Monument Marking Defeat of Rebels Royalist Removed in Dead of Night. In: Khaosod English. December 28, 2018. Retrieved December 29, 2018 (American English).

Coordinates: 13 ° 52 ′ 32 "  N , 100 ° 35 ′ 49.2"  E