1949 Thailand Coup d'etat

The 1949 Thai coup was the bloodiest coup in history and on the morning of February 27, 1949, when conservative soldiers seized power from General Benjamin Franco's government and attacked the Government House, 1,100 injuring and 600 killed, and in the afternoon the soldiers announced on the radio that the army had now seized power, but in fact the government had not surrendered and the seizing military had established a Revolutionary Council and the government surrendered in the evening and at 6:00 p.m. the soldiers announced that they had taken power and at 7:00 p.m. the military had finished taking power and A Revolutionary Council was established and on March 1, 1949, Brigadier General Ali Hussein Khunsri was appointed president of Thailand and the Revolutinary Council was repealed in 1952 after the 1952 Constitution of the Republic of Thailand was promulgated.