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The People Can Live There

In 1970, His Majesty expressed his wish to visit the

people at a district in Pathalung Province, where the

communist terrorists infiltrated and operated in the

most ferocious manner in the far south. With so

much concern about the safety of HM the King, the

Ministry of Interior had recommended to HM the

King to wait until the situation is better. The answer

given to the Ministry was that “the people have been

in the risk of their safety several folds more than the

risk we face because they have to live there. If they

can live there, why we would become so coward

even to make a visit to see how bad or good

condition they are in?

Source: An excerpt from a panel discussion on “The

People’s Father”