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...government's claim that it has insufficient funds and manpower to stop the piracy against the Vietnamese boat people [Nov. 9] is fallacious. Bangkok simply lacks the will to do anything about it. Perhaps it considers piracy an effective means to deter the flow of Vietnamese refugees into Thailand...
...Thai citizen, I feel sorrow and regret for what happened to the Viet Nam boat girls in the Thai Sea. However, I am uneasy about the fact that Thailand, which has many serious problems of its own, must now care for some 300,000 Indochinese refugees...
Gradually they became sophisticates in international finance. For one deal, says Steinberg, they siphoned money through a yacht broker in Miami to a bank in the Caymans, thence to Hong Kong, and ultimately to Thailand. Later Steinberg dispatched cash and trusted aides to start a multimillion-dollar agricultural operation in Kenya. The crop: marijuana...
Nguyen Phuong Thuy is not alone. According to the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), women on 81 % of the boats reaching Thailand in the first nine months of 1981 were raped, most of them many times over. A total of 552 were attacked in 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...
...plight of the boat people began after the fall of Saigon in 1975, when increasing numbers of South Vietnamese began fleeing the oppressive Hanoi regime in rickety fishing craft. By 1980, Thailand was overwhelmed by nearly 300,000 refugees from Viet Nam, Laos and Cambodia. Government policy in Bangkok shifted, and Thai fishermen, who once came to the aid of the refugees, were given three-day jail sentences if they towed a leaking refugee boat to shore...