A Thai court is currently holding hearings on a petition to reopen the case of King Ananda Mahidol's death in 1946. The death of the 20-year-old king has been a subject of controversy, with official investigations and court verdicts concluding it was a murder. Three palace officials were executed for their involvement, but no one else stood trial. The current hearings aim to reexamine the case and potentially uncover new evidence.
A Thai court is holding hearings on a petition seeking to reopen one of the most controversial case s in the country’s modern history, the death of King Ananda Mahidol who was found shot dead in his bedroom in 1946 at the age of 20.Thai monarch Maha VajiralongkornOne of the last pictures of the late King Amanda, left, taken in Thailand in 1945. His brother and successor, Bhumibol Adulyadej, is on the right. King Bhumibol reigned until his death in 2016.
The funeral procession behind the carriage taking the remains of King Ananda Mahidol moves through the streets of Bangkok.Hearings on the petition to reopen the case were held at the Bangkok criminal court on Thursday and Friday. It is the first time an attempt is being made to revive the investigation directly through a court order.
“New evidence I bring will show differently,” he said, referring to new findings that include ballistic tests he conducted in December with a retired police forensic expert that he says prove the king shot himself with his own gun. The four judges who presided over the hearing have scheduled May 3 for another session to question Kungwal before they send the case to the appeals court which will decide whether or not to reopen the case, said Kongsak Dejkoonmak, its presiding lawyer.Over two dozen books have been written over the decades about the death of King Ananda, with several scholars challenging the official narrative on the grounds that the investigation was not transparent and was mired by the politics of the day.
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