Phuket’s Tamil Tigers
April 22nd, 2009
The accusations are not new – they’re known since years and were also heard during Indonesia’s war in Aceh, not to mention Cambodia’s Khmer Rouge …: Thailand serving as a regional hub for arms smuggling.
Ian Williams’ TV report below is a nice piece of investigative journalism, visiting a small shipyard in southern Phuket assembling a scrap metal, purpose-built mini submarine for the Tamil Tigers.
The vid is slightly dated as a reader commented. Still, judge for yourself. The Tigers, facing a final onslaught, are more than ever in need of such foreign havens:
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That report is fairly old.
Oooeerrr Thai boat yard builds boats … whatever next.
Seems like another Thai rumour to me – the place thrives on them. Maybe one boat builder trying to put another out of business??
Thanks Fonzi, missed to check the date, video was uploaded only recently on YouTube. Anyway, still worth a revisit.
BangkokDan
This is a message to the Thai government, if it is perceived that a suicide boat or sub entered Sri Lankan territorial waters, deriving from the shores of Phuket or any other shore withing demarcated Thailand, we the people of Sri Lanka will perceive this as an act of terrorism done not by the Tamil terrorists, but the government of Thailand against the people of Sri Lanka, hence the request to halt and destruct all military hardware owned or created by the Diaspora and its various arms within ur shores.