A team of local artists have proposed a design for a memorial commemorating the “Holy Man Rebellion” in Ubon Ratchathani province. They want to promote the area to become a historical tourist destination and symbolize a kind of a public apology to those slaughtered.
By Ardchawit Inha
UBON RATCHATHANI – Ubon Agenda, an artist group in Ubon Ratchathani province, has proposed a design for a monument commemorating the deadly crackdown on the Holy Man’s Rebellion at Non Pho at Ban Saphue in Trakan Phuet Phon district. The design was posted on the group’s Facebook page last month, following events in the local area and the city district in early April.
The group says the effort is to make a record of a 123-year-old suppressed piece of the region’s “forgotten history” and to continue the mission of the late artist practitioner Thanom Chapakdee who sought to shed light…
