Word: songkhla
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...then thrown overboard. Thuy was bartered, along with baskets of fish, to 14 other boats, where her ordeal continued. When the last pirates set her ashore, Thai authorities jailed her as an illegal immigrant. Two weeks later she was finally sent to a refugee holding camp in Songkhla in southern Thailand...
...front of their relatives; another 200 were carried off to other fishing vessels. The attackers, many of them carriers of venereal diseases, often left the women infected as well as brutalized. Many victims became pregnant. A report to the relief agency CARE by a doctor who worked at the Songkhla camp vividly described an attack on one group of young women: "All they could sense at the time was the stark fear of being faced by naked, sweating, foul-smelling men; the look on the rapists' faces as they laughed and leered; the shock of slappings and beatings...