Word: chaliew
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Dates: during 1955-1955
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...best to remove the skeleton from Ananda's closet by executing three Siamese vaguely convicted of "complicity" in his murder. The three were the late King's pages, Busya Patamasirind, 50, and Chit Singhaseni, 44, who discovered the body, and the King's former secretary, Chaliew Pathumros, who had been fired a month before the King's death. At 5 o'clock one morning last week, fortified with a final bottle of orange squash apiece, the three were led into the execution pavilion at Bangkwang Prison. Their hands were clasped together in the traditional Buddhist...
That morning Police Chief General Phao Srihanond had dropped by for a last chat with Private Secretary Chaliew, his comrade-in-arms during an anti-government coup back in 1932. "Good-bye, old comrade," said the general as machine-gun slugs tore into his friend. After ten rounds, Chaliew was dead. It took ten more rounds before the prison doctor pronounced Chit dead, and 20 full rounds for Busya. But at last the execution was done, the closet was tidy, and only one question remained unanswered: Who killed King Ananda...