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Khao
Lak is Thailand Muslim
county,
Khao Lak is a tragic place
in southern Thailand,
extremely hit by the
tsunami, currently a ghost
town - actually its not a
real town but a stretch
along the beach over a
couple of kilometers. The
skeletons of the badly hit
hotels and other houses
still stand between the road
and the beach in Khao Lak,
rubble is still spread
around and only on one place
in Khao Lak a sign of hope
is visible, new house on
stilts form a new village
for the fishing community of
Khao Lak, in front of the
houses the new boats are
parked.
The problem for the
native people in Khao Lak is,
even if the fishermen have a
catch, there is no one who
buys since the main
customers, tourists, are all
gone. It somehow looks like
the idling around the area
is because there are lots of
land disputes after the Khao
Lak tsunami hit. Many local
people who lived there for
years or even for decades
are gone for ever. Many
others luckily not, but due
to the situation with
landownership this people
who want to redo their
environment have no paper
showing they owned this
land. It is common practice
here that when one stay on a
piece of land for a long
time it become virtually his
but not on paper. Now a lot
of people - in Thailand they
call them, influential
figures - are trying to
exploit this. |
