Business drops in Krabi over 'rape' clip

Published: 9 Nov 2012 at 21.52
Online news: Tourism

Hotels at Thailand's Krabi beach resort have been hit by a rash of room cancellations after the release of a video airing a Dutch father's outrage over his daughter's assault there, tourism industry sources said Friday.

The "Evil Man from Krabi" video, which first aired on YouTube on Oct 23, showed a man with a rifle singing about the rape of his 19-year-old daughter in Jul, accusing a Thai tour guide of the crime and demanding justice.

The video had received more than 140,000 hits on the website by Friday and has started to hurt the tourism industry in Krabi, 650 kilometres south of Bangkok.

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jeanlouis
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Discussion 20 : 11 Nov 2012 at 22.5920
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It Is no fun Now to go vacation in this before nice and pleasant country, Thailand not anymore the same ???
Why??
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Discussion 19 : 11 Nov 2012 at 16.2819
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"The suspect confessed to the assault, but later, retracted his statement and was released." That just doesn't make sense. I can fully understand why the Dutch father is upset.
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Discussion 18 : 11 Nov 2012 at 07.4718
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Interesting idea @16 - A ‘culturally relativistic rape’ standard. Is that like Todd Akin’s theory on ‘legitimate rape’?
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Discussion 17 : 10 Nov 2012 at 16.4717
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#13. I haven't seen anyone looking for "lynch mob justice" on this forum. FYI, bail is not given in many parts of the world if the crime was severe and rape is generally considered severe. From another online news source"...the victim told police that she was beaten so badly that she had to stop resisting in order to survive." While you personally may not consider someone beating a fellow human so badly that they give into survive the ordeal such a bad thing, at least others here have something called compassion. No lynch mobs, only a call for justice which the woman has't received and probably won't looking at the Thai authorities reactions.
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Discussion 16 : 10 Nov 2012 at 14.2216
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@ Disc 14

Good points- but your diatribe is fraught with inaccuracies. To say that,the "Tourism Minister like many of his colleagues are so removed from reality [and] that he doesn't comprehend the meaning of "Rape ", is an obsequious comment. "Removed from reality"? What reality is that??? Yours???? The sexual proclivities of human beings are for the most part, culture bound with relative legal consequences. So things that happen within the country, between Thais and things that happen between people from abroad and the indigenous are in fact 2 separate issues- and should be addressed in this way.
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Discussion 15 : 10 Nov 2012 at 14.2015
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Khun BKK #11, it is not total lack of law per say, sine the rapist was arrested but allowed to slip away. I say it is rather the lack of justice, especially for foreign tourists, that is at the heart of the problem. It is a shame that one guy can do so much damage to our tourist industry, affecting livelihood of so many good and decent people. The guy ought to be prosecuted and sentenced to the full extent of the law, to ensure our prospective tourists that we don't condone raping, and take their safety seriously.
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Discussion 14 : 10 Nov 2012 at 14.0114
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Here we have a Tourism Minister that like many of his colleagues are so removed from reality that he doesn't comprehend the meaning of "Rape " and maybe he should ask some Thai families who have been affected by the repercussions to a daughter or son, for that matter, that it has happened to. Please Mr Silpa-Archa get out into the real world and try and inform Tourists that you will try to make Thailand safe for them and locals also, as without Tourism this country would suffer. If you could empathise with this Lady's family maybe even you could understand.
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Discussion 13 : 10 Nov 2012 at 13.1613
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The accused is out on bail and denying his guilt, and he has every right to both since he has not yet had a trial. Is Thailand supposed to ignore the rights of someone accused to be presumed innocent until convicted just because some ignorant Westerners want lynch mob justice?
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Discussion 12 : 10 Nov 2012 at 12.1512
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Thailand is the "Teflon" country. Bad news and reports of rising crimes against foreign tourists just don't stick ans I doubt that Krabi tourisim will actually suffer.

Tourists continue to visit and the thugs contine their criminal hehaviour...
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Discussion 11 : 10 Nov 2012 at 12.1011
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This is not all about the rape it's the total lack of law in krabi and phuket over all
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