KTLA News: "Hunger strike over treatment of Vietnamese refugees" (1980)

[Music] I'm why are you demonstrating here today well we are demonstrating against the Tha piracy and the in inhumane treatment of our people the both people in the South China Sea especially around Thailand could the Thai government do something about the Pirates well they are the one that would do everything they can if they wish to do everything what could they do well to stop the piracy first thing they can do is to have patrols going out and if they cannot stop a bunch of pirates like a few hundreds how can they expect to stop the Communist from Vietnam to take over to invade their country so I think they militarily the can do it but I don't think they have the will to do it or the wish to do it how serious is the problem it is very serious well like we have about 50% of the men was killed and thrown overboard and an estimate of 95% of the women were raped gang raped and they kept in an island just to uh be abused every time the Thai fishermen or Thai Pirates want to abuse of them and we have like a 3% of U the young girl that was kidnapped and taken somewhere nobody knows and we have a lot of family disruption because of that people goes crazy the husband got killed because he wants to protect his wife or his daughter and we have reports like a whole family the mother of 40 a daughter of 14 and another daughter of 12 all three of them are rape at the same time on the right on the beach on KRA Island and the tiger government did send a ship there but 12 days later and only 12 days later after the pressure from the United Nation High Commissioner in Thailand then they rescue those poor people 120 of them and things are very getting really worse because on U March the 30th five Pirates inv intrude into the S Cloud camp and the camp was guarded in the front and in the rear by policemen and if you and I want to go to that camp you can because you don't have any authorization from the from the tig government yet those 5 SC