Word: songkhla
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Songkhla boat camp in southern Thailand, where nearly 5,000 Vietnamese live on a section of ant-infested beach, people use the privies when the water is high so that the falling tide will lessen the stench. On the island of Bidong, site of Malaysia's largest camp, conditions were considered critical six months ago when the camp's population was 15,000. Today 45,000 people are crowded into 30 acres. French doctors aboard a privately chartered hospital ship stationed offshore have asked Pope John Paul II to visit Bidong, adding: "On this island today beats...
...junk with 150 other people. When the ships near the Thai coast, Thai naval patrols sometimes climb aboard and rob the refugees of their remaining money and belongings. At least 1,000 boat people from Viet Nam are currently living in abject squalor on a stretch of beach in Songkhla, near the Malaysian border. These refugees have thus far survived on the 25? a day each receives from the U.N. and on food donated by the Vietnamese wife of the Dutch ambassador in Bangkok...