The Ugly in The Thai Tsumani Disater

After the Asian Tsumani has caused widespread devestation throughout parts of Asian, its only much later when the ugly started to rear its head during the time of extreme bleakness.

After reading reports that the Thai Police are planning to completely redo the DNA identification process, it just drops the credibility of the Police down another few notches from its incredibily dirt like creditily rating to muddy like proportions. If you have been covering the Thai Police scenes, you could notice that the spat between Khunying Pornthip Rojanasunand and the Police Department that dated back to the murder of Golden Sauce Baron - Hangthong Thammawattana in which Pornthip has debunked the Police's first autopsy on the long running feud. The Police Department decided to enter in a war of wording instead of allowing additional autopsy to be done by foreign experts. The second major event that caused a further rift, was the Bak Tok Uprising Investigation in Khunying Pornthip has unearthed facts that army neglience was much to be blamed for the abnormally high rate of deaths after the investigation which was odds at many sections of our government that includes the Police who seem to want to downplay the whole issue. Based on this long running feud, I believe to any casual observations, there is certainly no lost love.





During the early onset of the Asian Tsunami Crisis, we could see that one of the first to appear on the scene unselfishlessly was Khunying Pornthip who lead the DNA identification of victims in the Asian Tsunami disater in Southern Thailand. We have seen her worked over New Year, non-stop to help identify all of the victims here. We have seen the representatives from Police Department come and go, without much comment during the early period. It was just a few days ago, the Police Department decided to rear its ugly head once again and claim that the DNA identification process was flawed and the process has to be done completely again. Though I am not an expert on such matters, the timing of such event conventiently after so much work has been done, it just sounds more likely as an attempt by the Police Department to get back on their biggest detractor over the years disregarding all the work that has been done. Though there may be some merit on redoing the proces, one can't help but question, why didn't the Police Department told something if they think the early DNA identification was faulty? Why didn't they send their own experts to help early on the offset? It seems that by doing it now, it was just an orchestration of power in the later stages of disater which is shocking to know that some parts of our society are willing to stoop so low in times of dire need in order to settle a score.

Talking about another ugly in the disater, I want to point a finger at our PM. Our PM has steadfastedly refused all foreign momentary aid claiming that Thailand doesn't need any money and that we are no backwatered country. Talking about Aid in time of disater, I remember well how much the world did to help the victims of the Kobe devestating earthquake, where people from all over the world sent aid to the world's second largest economy - Japan - even with a number delegates and aid from our country! Now Aid that comes during disater is consider humanatary aid, and we are not subjected to repayment terms like Aid from institutes like WorldBank or IMF which expects the country that receive aid to change certain elements of their country. Now by refusing foreign aid, and using our own funding, one can't wonder how much more tax money an individual Thai must pay? We already have a blugeoning debt account per household - and coupled with our government's increasing high spending public policies, I wonder how much more debt can we run up? Somehow I do feel that the brave face that our PM is putting up is certainly not worth the longterm implications of what will happen. We are in need of aid, and why should we turn away aid?

It doesn't make sense...