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Ecuador update
ECUADOR
1400s to mid 1500s - Giant 7 to 8 feet
in height, human skeletons were uncovered in Ecuador and sent for
testing. They were found in 2013. Human skeletons from the 1400s or
mid 1500s. (Care2. Marty. 9 Oct 2015. Cuenca news).
4 Feb 1797 – In Quito 40,000 people
were killed. Riobamba destroyed. Timeline of earthquakes.
4 Feb 1797 – Earthquake in Quito
kills 41,000 people. (Chch Star NZ. Today in history. 4 Feb 2015).
13 May 1830 – The republic of Ecuador
was founded with Juan Jose Flores as president. (HistoryOrb.com Today
in history 13 May 2015).
1877 – The Volcano Cotopaxi erupted
in Aug 2015 after being dormant for 138 years. Cotopaxi is one of 8
active volcanos in Ecuador. It last erupted in 1877. (The big wobble.
Gary Walton 8 Oct 2015).
31 Jan 1906 – 8.8 earthquake.
Timetoast.
31 Jan 1906 – 8.6 earthquake. 1,000
people died. The Ecuador Colombia border. Wikipedia.
31 Jan 1906 – Off the coast
Esmeraldes Ecuador an 8.8 earthquake. 1,000 people died. USGS
historic world earthquakes.
5 Aug 1949 – Ambato Ecuador a 6.8
earthquake. 5,050 people died. USGS historic world earthquakes.
10 Dec 1970 – Earthquake 7.6. 72
people were killed.
1979 –2002 – Jaime Roldos Aguilera
became Ecuador’s president in 1979, helping the poor. On 24 May
1981 he died in a airplane crash, a CIA assassination was suspected.
Cucio Gutierreznwas was elected President in Nov 2002. (The secret
history of the American empire. John Perkins. ©2007 US).
24 May 1981 – Ecuador’s President
died in a plane crash, a CIA assassination was suspected. Two key
witnesses had been killed in car accidents, before they were to
testify about the plane crash. Omar Torrijos died in a plane crash,
two months after Jaime Roldos on 31 July 1981. (The secret history of
the American empire. John Perkins. ©2007 US).
1987 – The assassination of Gen
Carlos Prat, Commander of the Chile army, soon after that of Pres
Allende’s, 'Operation Condor'. Torrijos of Panama and Roldo of
Ecuador, these two leaders died in plane crashes. CIA assassination
before mid year 1981. (The secret history of the American empire.
John Pekins. ©2007 US).
1987 – Politics and petroleum in
Ecuador by John D Martz.
6 March 1987 – A 6.8 earthquake
killed 100 people. (Today in history. Chch Star NZ. 6 March 2015).
29 March 1996 – 29 people were
killed. Timeline of earthquakes.
4 Aug 1998 – Near coast of Ecuador a
7.2 earthquake. USGS historic world earthquakes.,
12 October 2000 – Helicopter
hijacking in Sucumbios province Ecuador. A group of armed kidnappers,
led by former members of Colombian terror group, the Popular
Liberation Army EPL. They took hostage ten employers of Spanish
energy consortium REPSOL. Those kidnapped included one New Zealander,
five US citizens, one Argentine, one Chilean and two French pilots,
who escaped four days later. On 30 January 2001 the kidnappers
murdered American hostage Ronald Sander. The remaining hostages were
released on 23 February following the payment of $13 million in
ransom by the oil companies.
2003 – Indians, oil and politics. A
recent history of Ecuador. A Gerlach. SR books.
2007 – Sydney, fake drowning for
insurance scam. Paul Terroni age 28, A fake drowning in Ecuador in
2007. He was found alive in Sydney Australia in June 2009. Terroni
applied for an Ecuador passport with a false name to travel back to
Australia. (How to disappear. Frank M Ahearn. Eileen C Horan.
Australia (c)2009).
22 February 2007 – Ecuador plans to
rejoin the OPEC countries, La Hora reported, citing Ecuador’s
energy minister. Ecuador will seek OPEC’s endorsement for its oil
plans. Including financial issues, and a report for Algerian council
on matters related to natural gas. Ecuador is the fifth largest
producer of oil in South America. Exporting 69% of its oil
production. (Stratfor Intel summary).
April 2011 – Ecuador expeled the US
ambassador, after Wikileaks published diplomatic cables, alleging
widespread corruption in Ecuador’s police force. (Timelines BBC
Internet).
9 February 2012 – Ecuador’s Foreign
Minister said, police in Italy found nearly 90 pounds (40 kilos) of
cocaine in January. It was in diplomatic mail sent to Italy. Two
suspects were arrested. Crates inspected by police dogs before
leaving Ecuador, travelled to Italy through a third country. (AP
2/9/12. Timelines Internet).
16 November 2012 – Body on yacht.
Pacific’s largest cocaine haul was found on a yacht in Vava’u
Tonga. the Pacific. It went from Ecuador and was bound for Australia,
according to the US DEA in August. Organised crime syndicates were
involved. (Matangi Tonga online).
18 Nov 2012 – Luz Adriana Calderon
Siervo missing person.
20 November 2012 – Chevron seeks
probe over Ecuador case. By Ed Crooks in New York. Oil and gas.
Financial Times.
2013 – Giant 7 to 8 feet in height,
human skeletons were uncovered in Ecuador and sent for testing. They
were found in 2013. Human skeletons from the 1400s or mid 1500s.
(Care2. Marty. 9 Oct 2015. Cuenca news)..
14 Aug 2014 – An earthquake killed 4
people in Ecuador. Saudi Press agency SPA. At least 3 people are
missing in a landslide north of Quito.
3 March 2015 – Panam Post. Ecuador
hospital mafia unearthed in Guayaquin. Secret tunnels, cellars found
amid squalor at state run clinics. Rebeca Morla. Guayaquil Teodoro
Maldonado Carbo hospital HTMC. More than a dozen tunnels for
smuggling and trafficking. Cellars, a pharmacy and organs?
17 March 2015 – The cousin of
Ecuador’s President is convicted of embezzlement.
8 Oct 2015 – The world's most
dangerous volcano, the Cotopaxi erupted ash 2km into the sky. It
erupted in Aug 2015 after being dormant for 138 years. Cotopaxi is
one of 8 active volcanos in Ecuador. It last erupted in 1877. A State
of emergency was declared in Aug 2015. (The big wobble. Gary Walton).
29 Oct 2015 – Chevron witness and a
$9.5 billion Ecuador oil pollution claim. Chevron busted. Care2 Cal.
The Ecologist.org.
Brazil research
BRAZIL
1532 – Brazil’s slavery and bondage
plantation economies. Sugar was the main crop in colonial Brazil in
1532. Sugar plantations or “fazendas” in Rio de Janero (timeline
internet).
1550 – African slaves were
transported to Brazil for sugar plantations.
16th to 18th
centuries – High demand for sugar production resulted in the import
of vast numbers of slaves from west. (21 Sept 2012).
1662-1807 – Between 1662 and 1807
British ships carried 3.25 million Africans across the Atlantic. 70%
of them destined for the sugar economies of Brazil and the Caribbean.
(The trader, the owner, the slave. James Walvin ©2007 UK).
Jan 1748 – Brazil and back to the UK.
The “Greyhound” with African slaves. (The trade, the owner, the
slaves. James Walvin (c)2007 UK).
1811-43 – About 50,000 slaves arrived
at Valongo. This was Brazils main landing stage for African slaves.
1822-89 – Period of the Brazilian
monarchy (timeline internet).
7 Sept 1822 – Brazil declared
independence from Portugal (AP 9/7/97 timeline internet).
1839 – Italian revolutionary
Garibaldi arrived in Brazil to help rebels there (timeline internet).
1865 – After the American civil war
some southerners moved to Brazil where slavery was still permitted.
1874 – The “Adamant” ship arrived
in Nelson New Zealand on 8 Aug 1874. On one voyage it ran aground off
the coast of Brazil, but was refloated and continued its voyage. The
voyage of the “Adamant” from Plymouth UK to Nelson NZ took 93
days. There were nine voyages to NZ altogether. (NZ genealogist. Jan
Feb 2009).
13 May 1888 – Slavery was abolished
in Brazil. About 4 million slaves were imported, the most of any
country in the west.
13 May 1888 – Princess Isabel of
Brazil signed 'Lei Aurea' abolishing slavery. (HistoryOrb.com Today
in history 13 May 2015).
11 Feb 1935 – Johann “Jonny”
Heinrich de Graff was sent to Brazil. Luis Carlos Prestes
revolutionary movement wanted to overthrow the right wing government
of Pres Getulio Vargas who had seized power in 1930. There was no SIS
station in Brazil but the UK had business there. Canadian owned
Brazilian Traction light and power company was the Rio utility
company. (M16 SIS Keith Jeffery ©crown 2010 UK).
29 June 1943 –Reading Eagle. Former
Nazi envoy in Brazil jailed. 19 suspected as German spies. Rio de
Janeiro, Kurt Preuffer, former German ambassador to Brazil and 18
others as Nazi spies.
May 1944 – In Brazil there were many
arrests and 86 convictions, Abwehr Germans in Brazil. (FBI
a history. Rodri Jefferys Jones ©2007 US).
1950’s – A Norwegian who had fought
in the forests during the resistance of World War Two, and went to
Harvard business school, landed in Brazil. Erling Lorentzen, was
seeking pulp from Eucalyptus trees in Brazil. (The emerging market
century. ©2007 Antoine van Agtmael).
1954-87 – Alfreedo Stroessner an army
general ruled Paraguay since 1954 when he seized power in a coup.
Smuggling was a pillar of the economy, cigarettes, liquor and cars
imported into Paraguay found their way to Brazil. Another racket was
the laundering of stolen cars. Thousands of stolen cars from Brazil
were taken to Paraguay and legalised on payment of a fee. The
Stroessner regime was also linked to the drug trade. During the
1980’s Paraguay was importing chemicals used for coca paste into
cocaine. Paraguay was one of the first Latin American countries where
BCCI set up a branch. Ghaith Pharaon flew to Paraguay in late 1987.
3 September 1969 – The US ambassador
to Brazil was kidnapped. Charles Burke Elbrick was kidnapped by the
Marxist revolutionary group MR-8.
1970’s – Germany and a $5 billion
contract with Brazil to build some power reactors and a reprocessing
plant for spent nuclear fuel. President Carter vetoed the program
because Brazil would have been able to produce enough plutonium to
build an atomic bomb a month. The Germans eventually backed down.
1970’s German nuclear technology Helmut Schmidt and Jimmy Carter.
German exports of advanced nuclear technology. (Last days of America.
©1981 PE Erdman).
1973 – John FW Dulles. Anarchists and
Communists in Brazil. Austin Texas.
June 1973 – Order for 42 Northrop
Tiger fighters worth $120 million Brazil (Arms bazaar. ©1977
Sampson).
30 October 1978 – LDS President
Kimball dedicates the Sao Paulo Brazil temple. (President LDS ©2006).
1980-2002 – Luiz Inaco Lula da Silva
2002 election in Brazil. A member of the progressive welfare party in
1980 helping the poor. Oil and gas reserves. (The secret history of
the American empire. John Perkins ©2007 US).
1988 – Antonio Bardellino and Mario
Iovine, fish flour and cocaine business and murder. Interpol
tracking. Bardellino’s body was never found. (Gomorrah, the other
mafia. Roberto Saviano (c)2007 Italy).
1990s – In Brazil the Cali cartel
worked closely with Italy’s organised crime groups there from
Cyprus to launder drug money. (Drug barons. Paul Copperwaite ©2010
US UK).
1994 – Orphans and the transition
from slave to free labour in northeast Brazil. John Meznar. Journal
of social history.
1 May 1997 – Christopher Colombo
missing person.
1998-Nov 2005 – China’s President
visited in Nov 2005, Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Cuba, Mexico and Peru.
Chinese business, a satellite program in 1998. (The secret of the
American empire. John Perkins. ©2007 US).
1999 – A concise history of Brazil.
Boris Fausto. Google books.
2000-2001 – Illicit trafficking in
firearms. Rio de Janeiro Brazil. Pericles Gasparini Alves. UN
institute. New York UN Worldcat database.
24 July 2002 – Ukraine and Brazil
launch construction of a new booster rocket. Development of Tsiklom4
SLV for use from Brazils Alcantara facility. $180 million project
equally shared by Ukraine involves more than 50 Ukraine firms.
(Interfax FBIS doc CEP)
Feb 2004 – Cupola leader Fabio Franco
was pulled out of the boot of a car by Brazil’s police after his
arrest in Sao Paulo. (The history of organised crime. David Southwell
©2006 UK).
25 August 2004 – Brazil police seize
black market uranium ore, taken from a secret mine. 1,320 pods of ore
containing radioactive metals in a pick up truck was seized.
Jan 2005 – World Socialist forum in
Brazil. (The secret of the American empire. John Perkins. ©2007 US).
2006 – Smuggling charges as organs
are harvested from street children in Brazil. Costa Nostra. (The
history of organised crime. David Southwell ©2006).
13 May 2006 – Sao Paulo violence, a
rebellion in several prisons in Brazil. (HistoryOrb.com Today in
history 13 May 2015).
9 August 2006 – Violence in Sao
Paulo, suspected gang members exchanged gunfire with police, and
hurled Molotov cocktails at banks, and burned buses in and around Sao
Paulo, for a second day. A Brazilian died when he opened a grenade
with a sledgehammer. Rios armed drug gangs who raid military bases.
27 November 2006 – Fake suicide
bomber threaten to blow up Sao Paulo stock exchange. A masked man
threatened to blow up the building of the Sao Paulo Stock exchange.
Later it was discovered he was carrying a fake bomb.
2007 – A Brazilian CEO became head of
Inbev Ambev, the world largest beer company, in a merger. (The
emerging markets century. ©2007 Antoine van Agtmael).
2007 – Brazil’s CVRD made a $17.6
billion takeover bid for Canadian nickel giant Inco ltd. (The
emerging market century. ©20076 Antoine van Agtmael).
2007 – The regional jets you fly are
made by Embraer in Brazil. (The emerging markets century. ©2007
Antoine van Agtmael).
16 Feb 2007 – Brazil’s air force
chief, major general Pedro Rafael Pena Antonio said on 15 Feb 2007.
The Brazil government has offered to sell eight combat airplanes to
the Dominican republic, Estadao reported. The transaction would
include a funding plan for 100% of the aircrafts value. (Stratfor
intel summary 16 Feb 2007).
2010 – UNICEF says 18% of children
under five in Latin America and the Caribbean have not been legally
registered. In Brazil 25 million people do not have a birth
certificate. Three million babies in Colombia have not been legally
registered. In Mexico’s Chiapas 25,000 boys and girls do not have
a birth certificate. A person with no ID is not able to identify
themselves. Those who “do not exist”. (Slavery inc. Lydia Cacho
©2010 UK).
February 2011 – LDS Church history in
Brazil facts Ensign p70.
June 2012 – LDS President Dieter F
Uchtdorf dedicated the temple in Manaus Brazil. Ensign. Nov 2012 ).
19 November 2012 – Brazil’s sex
traffickers target Switzerland. Human trafficking a code of silence
in Switzerland.
1 Jan 2013 – Mushtaq Ahmed. Missing.
Interpol.
12 May 2013 – Tammy Emanuele Alves
Caldeira. Missing.
13 March 2014 – NZ police look for
cocaine smuggling suspect. Waikato Times Hamilton. Brazilian $1
million cocaine bust. South America. Cocaine supply route between
Auckland and Christchurch New Zealand.
5 June 2014 – Daniel Stuckey. Andrew
Blake. How FBI informant Sabu helped Anonymous hack Brazil.
Motherboard Vice.
6 June 2014 – Two Brazilians admit
supplying cocaine. David Clarkson. The Press Christchurch NZ.
Possession of cocaine for supply 2.35 kilograms of cocaine worth 3.5
million was hidden.
23 June 2014 – FIFA world cup forces
homelessness on thousands of children. Sick and elderly too. Liberty
voice. Rebecca Savastio. Forced evictions by government.
8 July 2014 – Brazil torture
techniques revealed in declassified US documents.
6 Aug 2014 – Latino Fox news EFE.
Four Brazil police officers arrested on rape charges. in a poor area.
slums and police units.
18 Sept 2014 – NZ Herald. Holly Ryan.
Tait expands in South America. NZ communications company buys Brazil
giant SGM telecommunicacoei. Christchurch New Zealand based Tait
communications. A digital wireless business. Sao Paulo military and
police riots and anti poor people. Military police in Panama too.
28 Sept 2014 – Senator dismissed for
corruption in Brazil now behind bars. Fox news Latino. Banker
construction magnate Luiz Estrevao.
4 Oct 2014 – Brazil elections. Wall
street journal. Rio de Janeiro Rochinha slums. Reuters Sao Paulo.
6 Oct 2014 – The persistence of
corruption in Brazil’s politics. Deusche Welle Germany.
Embezzlement and corruption. Brazil politics.
16 Oct 2014 – 51 arrested for child
porn in Brazil. Brazil Business Today. Paedophiles.
22 Oct 2014 – Brazil corruption. New
York Times. Presidential voting, the evil of corruption is spreading
like an epidemic.
29 Oct 2014 – Lucas Lindemann
Aagesen. Missing 9 year old boy. Interpol. San Paulo Brazil.
29 Oct 2014 – Brazil Socialist. The
New Yorker. Dilma Rousseff. Brazil’s Socialist elected pres. The
world’s fifth most populous country. Socialism and corruption. The
Guardian.
31 Oct 2014 – Petrobras, law firms,
corruption investigation., Petrobras is Brazil’s biggest company.
Corruption scandals, money laundering and manipulation
investigations.
31 Oct 2014 – Socialism and
corruption in Brazil. Rouseff. The Guardian UK. embezzlement.
4 Nov 2014 – Petrobras int CEO. Wall
Street Journal. Rio de Janero. Brazil State run company Petroleo
Brasileko SA. Seattle SP.
4 Nov 2014 – Intelnews.org. Joseph
Fitsanakis. Brazil to Portugal internet cable to avoid US intel
agencies.
5 Nov 2014 – Brazil police and deaths
in Belem. Police revenge attacks. BBC UK. Reports of off duty police
killing nine people in Belem.
5-6 Nov 2014 – Nine people are killed
in Brazil. Police vigilantes. Wall Street Journal. San Paulo. The
poor port city of Belem. Police killed nine people. Int business
Times.
9 Nov 2014 – US opens investigation
into Brazil’s Petrobras. Nasdaq. US dept of justice. CNBC.
10 Nov 2014 – US turns up heat on
investigation into Petrobras. Financial Times. Brazils biggest
company, corruption case. Pres Dilma Rousseff.
10 Nov 2014 – Phillip Smith now in
Brazil. Brazil business news. Interpol.
11 Nov 2014 – Killer and paedophile
from NZ now in Brazil. Stuff.co.nz. Daniel Galvin. Passport Phillip
John Traynor.
11 Nov 2014 – NZ murderer and prison
escaper, paedophile may have joined up with an international
paedophile ring in Brazil. NZ Herald. John Weekes.
11 Nov 2014 – Gherkin brought by
Brazil’s banking rich for 700 million. Telegraph UK. Joseph Safra,
Brazils second richest man is worth $12.2 billion. Bloomberg
billionaires index.
11 Nov 2014 – The Gherkin, sold to
Brazil’s Joseph Safra. The Guardian UK. The Gherkin is a London
skyscraper.
11 Nov 2014 – Trail of escaped killer
and paedophile leads to Brazil. Interpol spokesman Ricardo Quiroz.
11 Nov 2014 – Police talk to pair
over Smith’s escape. A US based police officer is on his way to
Brazil. Interpol alerts.
12 Nov 2014 – Skynews. Australia.
International hunt for New Zealand paedophile killer. AAP.
13 Nov 2014 – Brazil police kill six
people a day says report. The Guardian UK. Brazil forum on public
safety. Police killed 11,197 people over the past 5 years.
13 Nov 2014 – Let Brazils homeless
speak for themselves. Citylab. Removal of minors on the streets.
Treatment of homeless by government is harsh.
13 Nov 2014 – Brazil’s police
captured New Zealand murderer and paedophile Smith. Wellington Nick
Perry. Brad Brooks in Rio de Janeiro.
15 Nov 2014 – Petrobras scandal
widens, earning delayed. Wall Street Journal. Sao Paulo, federal
police arrested former executive.
15 Nov 2014 – Brazil police arrest 18
in Petrobras corruption raids. BBC UK. State run oil firm Petrobras.
29 Nov 2014 – Skanska quits South
America over corruption. He local sc. 20 senior managers with a
construction company in Brazil have been arrested for corruption. P
aying bribes.
14 Dec 2014 – Corruption allegations.
Telegraph UK. Costa and moneylender Alberto Youssef among the first
20 to be arrested in March 2014. Corruption in Brazil.
17 Jan 2015 – Stuff.co.nz. Brazil and
Tait. Tess McClure. Christchurch New Zealand tech company Tait
communications. Brazil hub in Sao Paulo, Garry Diack. Contracts with
the Sao Paulo police. Military police of the state of Parema and
Petrobras. The press Chch NZ
22 Jan 2015 – A Brazilian surfer was
shot dead by a police officer who was drunk. The Guardian UK. Funeral
for the surfer with thousands of mourners.
27 March 2015 – Audrey Young. NZ
Herald. GCSB spying report. Brazil demands an explanation from New
Zealand. Brazil diplomat Roberto Azevedo. The New Zealand GCSB spied
on Brazil at the WTO.
28 March 2015 – Corruption currents.
Brazil new bribery scandal. Wall Street Journal. Petrobras state
owned oil company.
28 March 2015 – Brazil police say
massive tax fraud scheme. NZ Herald. Sao Paulo AP Federal police say
companies fraud amounts to $2 billion in unpaid fines and taxes.
12 May 2015 – A mega city runs dry.
Brazil's largest city is the focus of the worst water crisis.
Dandelion Care2. The largest city in a country, that holds 20% of the
earth's fresh water supply ends up without any.
8 June 2015 – Two people are dead
after a prison riot erupted in south east Brazil's overcrowded jail.
Two prisoners died. TVNZ. CTV news.
12 June 2015 – HSBC and Citigroup,
Socgen foreign banks in Brazil. Bloomberg. HSBC holdings pic. Scaling
back in Bazil.
26 June 2015 – Italy's mafia and
cocaine trafficking. The Guardian UK. Calabrian crime syndicate
Ndrangheta, drugs going through Brazil. 80% of all cocaine entering
Europe goes through Santos port. Brazil.
29 July 2015 – Brazil businessman
Odebrecht charged in corruption scandal. BBC UK.
29 July 2015 – CEO from Brazil
Electonuclear was arrested in corruption probe. Wall Street Journal.
Electrobras unit. Bribes from construction companies between 2009 and
2014.
1 Aug 2015 – HSBC nears $4 billion
sale with Brazil. Financial Times. Bradesco is Brazil's second
largest private bank, in talks with HSBC. Reuters UK.
19 Oct 2015 – Petrobras
corruption. UK taxpayers pay millions, Brazil oil company. The
Independent UK. Chris Green.
22 Oct 2015 – The horrors of Brazil's
prisons. Jorges story. No matress to sleep on. State of Pernambuco,
over crowded east Brazil. Human rights watch. The week in rights.
23 Oct 2015 – Killings
of street children by police in Brazil, leading up to the 2016
Olympics. Twitter. CSC.
23 Oct 2015 – Street
children are being killed in Brazil. Twitter. CSC.
Thailand research
Thailand
1534 – The King of Siam (Thailand)
died of smallpox. (Timelines of history. Siam Thailand).
1700s – Thailand controlled most of
Laos and divided Laos into 3 states. Luang Prabang in the north,
Vientiane in the center and Champassak in the south.(Worldatlas.com
Laos timeline).
1828 – Siam Thai forces invaded Laos.
(Timelines of history. Siam Thailand).
1853 – Elder Elam Luddington was the
first LDS Mormon missionary to Thailand. Then called Siam. (LDS Sept
1995).
June 1943 – Tens of thousands of
British POWs, slavery for Japan in Thailand, Malaysia and Borneo.
(Japans Gestapo. Mark Felton ©2009 UK).
1944 – The Bangkok bank was founded.
(Timelines of history. Siam Thailand).
1946 – Thailand’s King Ananda
Mahidol was found shot dead in his bed at the Bangkok Royal palace.
(The annals of unsolved crime. EJ Epstein ©2012 US).
9 June 1946 – King Ananda was
assassinated. Bhumibol Adulyadej (born in 1927), took the throne as a
teen king, after his older brother's death. (Timelines of history.
Siam Thailand).
11 May 1949 – Siam changed its name
to Thailand. (Timelines of history. Siam Thailand).
1950s – The Chinese nationalist KMT
efforts in the Golden triangle also involved the CIA. Colonel Paul
Helliwell operated the Transport company that flew supplies from
Thailand to the KMT in Monghsat. (Merchants of madness. B Lintner M
Black ©2009 Thailand).
1950-60s – Since the 1950s the Golden
Triangle of Burma, Thailand and Laos was a global source of heroin.
Corsican mafia and American mafia. The CIA backed a small army of
Laos and Vietnamese heroin dealing mercenaries. CIA and local heroin
warlords. (The mafia killed JFK. David E Scheim (c)1988 US).
1951 – Paul Helliwell and BCCI.
Castle bank was set up and controlled by Paul Helliwell. In 1951 Paul
Helliwell set up and ran Sea Supply corp, a CIA front for ten years.
Sea Supply was used to supply KMT in Burma and Thailand, police,
opium trafficking. (Global research.Peter Dale Scott 6 Sept 2008).
April 1951 – Thai border and
Kuomuntang KMT. Thai Bangkok CIA front company Sea supply corp. Took
control of local opium trade in Burma and Yunnan China. (Air America.
Christopher Robins (c)1979 UK).
1952 – Opium, the cash crop of the
Hmong hill tribes in Laos and Tonkin in 1952. The (Communist), Viet
Minh confiscated almost the entire crop, then sold it on the open
market in Bangkok Thailand, to fund arms from China.
1952 – Thailand was never colonized
by a European power. A system of Royal legal cultural archives, of
palm leaf manuscripts and bark paper. National archives were set up
in 1952. Preserving historical records of the government. (Archives
(c)2005 Sue McKemmish Australia).
1957-64 – In 1957 at the start of the
Vietnam war, there were at least 19,000 sex slaves in Thailand, seven
military bases, the US navy invested $16,000,000 in the Thai economy
each year. In 1964 sex exploitation. 300,000 American brothels.
“comfort women” in war zones. Korea and Japan military brothels,
created by the Japanese military during World War Two. (Slavery inc
Lydia Cacho ©2010 UK).
17 Sept 1957 – The Thai army seized
power in Bangkok. (Timelines of history. Siam Thailand).
Mid 1960s – In Laos, in Thailand
heroin refineries. Labs where raw opium was refined into morphine and
heroin. (Merchants of madness. D Lintner M Black ©2009 Thailand).
11 May 1962 – The US sent troops to
Thailand. (Timelines of history. Siam Thailand).
Sept 1972 – Recipes from Thailand.
Vicki H Budge. Friend LDS Mormon.
3 June 1974 – The last Air America
aircraft left Laos. American forces left behind 36,000 Laos hill
tribes who had been fighting the North Vietnamese troops. The Hmong
and Iu Mien hill tribes fled to Thai refugee camps. (Timelines of
history. Siam Thailand).
Late 1970's – Robert Jantzen was the
CIA station chief in Thailand. Nugan Hand bank in Australia. Drug
trafficking between Thailand and Australia. Money laundering.
1975 – Vasily Ivanovich Timofeyev
Thailands KGB agent intel service. Journalist cover in Bangkok 1975.
Returned in 1993. Nikolai Petrovich a KGB resident in Thailand. In
1975 in Bangkok the Vietnam war had ended. The US had some military
bases in Thailand after the war. The KGB were interested in these
bases. Pentagon documents in Thailand and the KGB describing the
administration of US military bases in Thailand. Bases was closing
and the US personel were being scaled down. The KGB brought documents
for $5,000 (Under cover lives ©1998 H Womak).
1975 – Voyage of a NZ yaucht the
Valkay, went to Thailand to bring back drugs to NZ. National party
MP's and lawyers. (The paradise conspiracy. Ian Wishart (c)1995 NZ).
April 1975 – The LDS Mormon church in
Thailand. Friend. Thailand land of living waters.
15 May 1975 – US aerial evacuation of
2,500 Hmong to Thailand from Laos.
1976 – Australian Murray Riley and
Michael Hand. Nugan Hand bank. Heroin trafficking and the US mafia.
Had a branch in Chiang Mai Thailand. Thai based drug trafficking,
George Pierce Contis from San Francisco. Michael Hand, Stephen Hill
and Mayer of Nugan Hand bank, Las Vegas. South East Asian drugs
business. (Smack express. Clive Small ©2010 Australia).
March 1976 – 450,000 Thai buddha
sticks were smuggled into New Zealand on the yacht “Brigadoon” in
March 1976. This gave Mr Asia's Terry Clark the money to buy hundreds
of kilos of high grade heroin in Asia. Martin Johnstone was Mr Asia.
He got drugs on credit.(Mr Asia ©2010 Aust NZ. J Shepherd).
20 July 1976 – US Air Force brig gen
Harry Aderholt lowered the US flag for the last time at military HQ
in Bangkok. (Timelines of history. Siam Thailand).
Jan 1977 – Ensign LDS Thai
translation of the Book of Mormon.
1978 – British teacher John Dewhurst
aged 25 was arrested by the Khmer Rouge in 1978 in the Gulf of
Thailand on holiday. (Nic Dunlop. The lost executioner (c)2005 US).
April 1978 – Khun Sa was the opium
warlord whose troops controlled most of the Golden triangle, which
lies between Thailand and Burma. Khun Sa controlled the heroin trade
for 40 years. Mr Asia drug syndicate connections. (Mr Asia ©2010
Aust NZ J Shepherd).
1979 – The government in Laos was
forced to change. Food shortages and hundreds of thousands of people
fled to Thailand. (Worldatlas.com Laos timeline).
1979 – UN refugees 90,000 Khmer Rouge
camps inside Thailand Sakeo camp, starvation. Camp controlled by the
Thai military UNHCR starving refugees. Sakeo camp a place of control
the Khmer Rouge commander Phak Lim. After the Khmer Rouge collapsed
in 1979 Cambodia. A third of the population were dead. Temples were
destroyed. Mass graves were found in every province. (Nic Dunlop. The
lost executioner (c)2005 US).
1979 – Refugee camps on the Thai
Cambodian border. The Khmer Rouge crisis. (Nic Dunlop. The lost
executioner (c)2005 US).
1979-80 – The Khmer Rouge, the
killing fields, archives and documents at the prisons. Mass graves. A
museum opened to the public in 1980. The cold war was at its height.
In Thailand, ragged starving refugees. The Thai military alert. In
Jan 1979 a meeting in Ut Apao air base Thailand. Black market,
smuggling, sex slavery. Thai, Chinese, American, CIA. (Nic Dunlop.
The lost executioner (c)2005 US).
3 July 1979 – Money laundering of
$US3 million for corrupt officials of the Thai govt. Nugan Hand and
Deak links. (The paradise conspiracy. Ian Wishart (c)1995 NZ).
1980s – Refugee camp on the Thai
Cambodian border run by the Khmer Rouge. Khao I Dang camp in Thailand
registered with the UNHCR for repatriation to Australia. Many Khmer
Rouge responsible for killings slipped through the net. More than
230,000 relocated to the US, Europe, Canada and Australia. Khmer
Rouge refugees. (Nic Dunlop. The lost executioner (c)2005 US).
1981 – A Regional conference of CIA
station chiefs was held in Bangkok Thailand. Attending was Howard
Hart who wanted weapons for the Afghan Mujahadeen from Pakistan.
1981-82 – Drug smuggling in Asia
Pacific in the 1970s. 1981 the Cape Elizabeth boat. Thailand drugs,
marijuana made into waterproof bricks. From Thailand to Singapore
then onto America. 1981 The American drug market. Thai went for
$1,200 to $1,700 per pound. $9 million. Singapore branch of an
international bank. The Far East Trading centre in Hong Kong 1982.
(Drug barons. Paul Copperwaite ©2010 US UK)).
Jan 1982 – Ensign LDS Mormon Church
welcomes Thai Royalty.
1983 – Thailand experienced severe
flooding. (Timeline of history. Siam Thailand).
1983 – Cambodian Khmer Rouge archives
fell into the hands of the Vietnamese. Thai border protected by Thai
soldiers. Bangkok int airport Khmer Rouge. Thai border town of
Aranyaprathet unit 838, set up by the Thai military for the Khmer
Rouge. (Nic Dunlop. The lost executioner (c)2005 US).
1983-92 – June 1986 China, Beijing
Khmer Rouge and Vietnam. Cambodian refugees in Thailand. China, the
Soviet Union and US, politics of the cold war. On the Thai side of
the border early 1992 refugee camps Khmer Rouge village Chinese 1991
1983 1986. Thailand Sisakat province refugee camp Thai military and
Khmer Rouge. (Nic Dunlop. The lost executioner (c)2005 US).
1984 – Paul and Elaine Lewis.
People’s of the Golden triangle. Thames and Hudson. ISBN
0-509-7314-8.
1984 – Thai military protection of
Khmer Rouge from Cambodia. Thai Cambodia border 1984 Nong Samet, a
camp 60,000 people. Thai soldiers, bombing by Vietnam, shells 10,000
shells fell on the camps in the attacks, refugeee camps set up by the
UN Khao I Dang. (Nic Dunlop. The lost executioner (c)2005 US).
1985-86 – The Khmer Rouge in
Thailand. Thousands of people in these camps. In 1985, 5,000 people
were moved by the Khmer Rouge from Site 8 across the Thai border into
Cambodia. In 1986 1,500 people were taken to Natrao and Ta Mok camps.
Disappearances, control of captive people. Khmer Rouge control inside
Thailand Borai 4,000 people. (Nic Dunlop. The lost executioner
(c)2005 US).
1985-86 – Khmer Rouge leaders at
Borai refugee camp UN supplied. Thai soldiers guarded the camp Site 2
the largest camp 152,000 people. Cambodia's second largest city after
Phnom Penh, it was in Thailand. People under control, refugees
trapped in these camps, rapes and murders at Site 2. Stephane
Rousseau worked for UNBRO at Site 2. (Nic Dunlop. The lost executoner
(c)2005 US).
1987 – Tony Jackson. Just waiting to
die. Cambodian refugees in Thailand. Oxfam.
1988 – Largest opium seizure made in
Bangkok, the 2,400 pound shipment of heroin was bound for New York.
It originated with Khun Sa in Burma. PBS frontline.
1989 – N Tapp. Sovereinty and
rebellion.The white Hmong of northern Thailand. Oxford uni press.
1989 – Josephine Reynell. Political
pawns, refugees on the Thai Kampuchean border. Refugee studies
program Oxford.
1989 – Bob Maat. The sad times end of
mission. The Thai Cambodian border UNBRO.
Aug 1989 – Ensign LDS Mormon Thai
officials visit church leaders and sites.
1991 - Sex trafficking in Burma and
Thailand. Sex Ezine. Slavery. Trafficking of Burmese women and
children in brothels in Thailand. Internet.
1991 – Arrest of a Thai intel
official at Heathrow airport with 49 kilos of heroin, human
trafficking. (The new spy masters. Stephen Grey (c)2015 UK).
Jan 1991 – In an FBI undercover op
code named 'Operation Dragon Chase', the FBI in New York seized 28
pounds of China white heroin and got indictments on ten people in the
US and Thailand, with the main subject arrested in Bangkok for drug
trafficking
Nov 1991 – Norah Niland. The politics
of suffering. The Thai Cambodian border. Use and abuse of
humanitarian aid. Uni of Dublin Ireland UK.
1992 – The Hmong began living at the
Tham Krolbok Buddhist monastery . 2,000 Hmong opium addicts.
(Timelines of history. Siam Thailand).
May 1993 – The saints of Thailand.
David Mitchell. Liahona LDS Mormon.
July 1993 – In Nakhon Ratchasima, a
six story building collapsed, killing 102 people. (Timelines of
history. Siam Thailand).
1994 – Sex in Thailand and southeast
Asia. Justin Hall. Brothels and soldiers. (Slavery inc. Lyda Cacho
©2010 UK).
1994 – It was a Hezbollah cell in
Thailand that in 1994, almost, drove a truck laden with explosives
into the Israeli embassy in Bangkok.
1994-98 – 1994 Refugee camps in
Thailand. Cambodian and Burmese. Aug 1996 Khmer Rouge in Thailand
refugee camps Ban Ma Muang. More than 60,000 refugees in Thailand.
1998 Ban Ma Muang camp UN refugees. Thai Catholic releif agency in
Borai camp. (Nic Dunlop. The lost executioner (c)2005 US).
17 March 1994 – Hezbollah terrorists
tried to bomb the Israeli embassy in Bangkok. The attack failed
because the terrorists got in a car accident and fled the scene. The
government later found C4 explosives in the car. Hezbollah has a long
record of plotting terrorist attacks in south east Asia. (The
Australian 9 June 2003)
12 June 1994 – US blacklist links
Thai MPs to the drug trade. Golden Triangle routes. Independent UK.
Heroin trafficking and the Thai parliament.
1995 – Thailand closed all its
refugee camps. Forcing 4,500 refugees living in the camps to either
go to the US or Laos. Also in 1995 Thailand experienced severe
flooding. (Timelines of history. Siam Thailand).
1996 – Bangkok’s Chulalongkorn
university estimated that $28.5 billion went through Thailand’s
money laundering system, the equivalent to 15% of Thai GDP.
.
June 1997 – Thailand devaluated its
currency. Foreign exchange. Thailand got a $17 billion loan. (The
money mafia. World in crisis. Paul T Hellyer (c)2014 US).
20 June 1998 – The arrest of foreign
paedophiles in Thailand. Craig Skehan. The Age Melbourne Vic. Thai
children and foreign paedophiles living in Thailand.
20 June 1998 – New arrest in war on
foreign paedophiles in Thailand. Craig Skehan. The Age Melbourne.
Thai children and foreign paedpophiles living in Thailand.
28 Nov 1998 – The US embassy closes
amid a security alert. Bangkok Post.
1 Oct 1999 – Burmese embassy seizure.
Burmese dissidents seized the Burmese embassy in Bangkok, taking 89
people hostage including one US citizen.
15 Jan 2000 – Nawaf Alhazmi and
Khalid Almidhar fly into Los Angeles from Bangkok Thailand. Both
became suicide hijackers on 9/11.
2 April 2000 – 100,000 Karen refugees
from Burma (Myanmar) were living along the Thai border. (Timelines of
history. Siam Thailand).
June 2000 – A Thai said the
relocation led to about 50 new meth labs along the border, Yaba
pills, police corruption in Thailand. (Merchants of madness. B
Lintner M Black ©2009 Thailand).
11 Sept 2001 – The al Qaeda network
in Thailand from where two of the 9/11 hijackers were launched, after
a meeting in Malaysia in Jan 2000, remained uninterrupted. (Inside al
Qaeda ©2002 R Gunaratna).
2002 – Sean Parlaman, an American who
suspiciously fell from a high rise window in Pattaya Thailand in 2002
and died. He was an anti paedophile activist, who was investigating
child trafficking across the Burmese border and sex slavery of
children.
13 Jan 2002 – Sex trafficking. Sunday
Star Times Washington. Bangkok paedophiles and Thai police.
Sept 2002 – Tony Davis. The
complexities of unrest in southern Thailand. Janes intel review vol
14 no 9.
13 Feb 2003 – Thailand arrested
financier Thomas Frank White, on a request from the Mexican
government. Rape of a teen boy. In 2004 he was indicted on two counts
of sex tourism. (Timelines of history. Siam Thailand).
2 May 2003 – Chuwit Kamolvisit, a
brothel owner. In Bangkok was destroying homes and shops to start
another brothel. Called the Taj Mahal. He spent at least $289,156
paying corrupt police. (Timelines of history. Siam Thailand).
Aug 2003 – Arrest of Riduan
Isamudddin aka Hambali in Thailand. The link between al Qaeda and the
south east Asian, Bali Indonesia attack. (The 9/11 wars. Jason Burke
©2011).
2004 – Thailand's biggest lender, the
Bangkok bank, the Sophonpanich family, patriarch who founded the
bank, still owned up to 20%. (Timelines of history. Siam Thailand).
26 Dec 2004 – A size 9 Earthquake and
tidal wave. 9,000 dead, 230,000 in 14 countries. 9 quake. The 5th
largest since 1900. 5,322 dead in Thailand but migrants were not
included. (Timelines of history. Siam Thailand).
7 Jan 2005 – Bodies line trenches in
Thailand. In Chelsea a makeshift morgue. The London Evening Standard.
26 May 2005 – In Tham Krabokthe,
largest refugee camp for Hmong who had fled from Laos, was closed.
(Timelines of history. Siam Thailand).
5 July 2005 – Thousands of poor Hmong
refugees from Laos. 6,500 people were evicted from their bamboo
shacks. (Timelines of history. Siam Thailand AP).
April 2006 – Thai tragedy shooting by
hit men. 12 June 2006. NZ news weekly. Jonica Bray. Anouska Beukman.
Steve Miller of Tauranga NZ was killed by hit men in Thailand in
April 2006. Natlib.govt.nz journals homocide.
21 Nov 2006 – The Moroccan govt
reported that a key aide to Ayman al Zawahiri recently travelled to
Morocco, using a Thai passport, pretending to be an Asian antiques
dealer. His object was to coordinate the activities of a number of
terrorist groups in North Africa. Western oil companies operating in
Algeria, Libya and tourist sites in Tunisia and Morocco are all seen
as targets. (Sratfor terror intel report. 21 Nov 2006).
20 may 2008 – Ian Shuttleworth aged
42, a British policeman, was arrested in Bangkok. Sex trafficking. He
was providing security and bodyguards for Thai. Sex slavery and
forcing women into brothels. (Timelines of history. Siam Thailand).
2009 – A history of Thailand.
Christopher John Baker. Pasuk Phongpaichit. Google books.
2009 – Thailand sent more than 4,000
ethnic Hmong asylum seekers back to Laos. (Worldatlas.com Laos
timeline).
2009 – Merchants of madness. The meth
explosion in the Golden triangle. Bertil Lintner. Michael Black.
Sikwow books. ISBN 978-974-9511-59-6.
12 Dec 2009 – A New Zealand
registered aircraft was detained in Thailand. Arms trafficking. A New
Zealand shell company, SP trading, the plane. Simon Powers responded.
(Timelines of history. Siam Thailand).
2010 – Thailand gets 5.1 million sex
tourists each year. EC VAT says 500,000 local men pay for sex with
adults and minors. Despite laws against sex trafficking. (Slavery
inc. Lydia Cacho ©2010 UK).
2010 – The Thai population was about
67 million. (Timelines of history. Siam Thailand).
2011 – Global human smuggling.
Comparative perspectives. David Kyle. Roy Koslovski. Smuggling in
south east Asia. History south east Asia sex slavery.
27 Nov 2011 – A mental and physical
hell. Sex slavery in Thailand. Aljazeera teatunes.
27 Nov 2011 – Scand Asia.com. Owners
of 11 Thai brothels suspected of human trafficking. Police in Lahiti.
Victims.
29 Nov 2011 – Scoop NZ. Thailand
forced labour and child labour discrimination. Press release ITUC
Brussels Belgium. Rape is not work.
6 Dec 2011 – Cheryl Pereras one child
fails to break the chains of child sex slavery. Samarith. Steve
McLean. Toronto.
9 Dec 2011 – The Irrawaddy. Lawi
Weng. Burmese migrants sent for deportation trafficked in Thailand.
Brothels in Thailand.
31 March 2012 – Thailand arrests Vito
Roberto Palazzolo, South African Mafia banker wanted in Italy. Global
Post Adverice the guted.
1 April 2012 – Interpol, capture of
mafia boss in Bangkok Thailand wanted in Italy. Vito Roberto
Palazzolo aged 64. Money laundering and drug trafficking. Royal Thai
police.
17 Nov 2012 – Safe world for women.
Thailand’s officials blame tourists, rape victim. Reuters Trustlaw.
19 Nov 2012 – Southeast Asia women
face increase of sex trafficking. Bikya Masr. Bangkok Thailand
police, women are forced into the sex trafficking
13 Dec 2012 – Economic Times. DRI
cracks down on gold smuggling from Thailand. New Delhi India.
7 June 2013 – Thailand battles
escalating drug trade. CCTV news. Drug trafficking in Myanmar, Laos
and Thailand is a threat.
18 July 2013 – Thailand fights drug
gangs in Golden Triangle with help from China. Huffington post.
General Manop Senakun.
17 Aug 2013 – Tourists as targets of
Bangkok bombers The Guardian UK. A Taiwanese man was in intensive
care, Mr Xu. Terrorists second Bangkok bombing. Khaosod English.
27 Sept 2013 – Mirror UK. Christopher
Bucktin. British drug barons accused of missing one of the worlds
biggest smuggling operations being established from Thailand trial in
New York.
17 Oct 2013 – Thailand must do more
to end human trafficking. New Internationalist blog. Iris C Gonzales.
Sex slaves and begging.
16 Dec 2013 – Kiwi on meth charges.
Olivia Wannan. Dominion Post Wellington. Tried to sell crystal meth
in Thailand. Life in jail. Halpin Thailand for crystal meth.
5 May 2014 – 6.3 earthquake.
(Timelines of history. Siam Thailand).
6 May 2014 – Thai meth bust nets
Cambodian. The Phnom Penh Post.
26 June 2014 – Russian mafia boss
arrested in Thailand. Anadolu agency. Alexander Matusov aged 52.
Chelkovo mafia members kidnappings in Russia.
5 July 2014 – Two held for kidney
trafficking scam. Bangkok Post. Two Cambodians arrested for
trafficking in human kidneys, sent organ donors to Thailand for
operations.
15 July 2014 – Stuff.co.nz. The Press
Christchurch New Zealand.. Kiwi (New Zealand), tourist Casey Hanson
aged 21. Thai police station. Possession of counterfeit US currency.
Myles Hume.
23 July 2014 – Anti drug cop arrested
in Thailand over meth. The Phnom Penh Post. Cambodia.
10 Aug 2014 – Thailand clamps down on
surrogates. Sunday Times London. Thai police investigate surrogate
baby trafficking network with ties to organised crime in Japan and
China.
2 Sept 2014 – Fears paedophiles
targeting Thai surrogacy. 3 news NZ. Tom McRae Australia.
18 Oct 2014 – Trafficking of
Rohingyas. Terrified victims of human trafficking face uncertain
future. Thai police and army guilty of trafficking. Thai police and
military sell Rohinghas to human traffickers, for abuses. Thailand is
downgraded to the lowest on a US report on human trafficking.
Organised slave trade. (Jonathan Head. BBC UK).
19 Oct 2014 – Trafficking captives in
Thailand tell. Behind bars. Families fight to be free. Phuketun. Men,
women and children held captive for seven. Report by Chutima
Sidasatian in Hat Yak and Alan Morison in Phuket. Phuket wan tourism
news.
20 Oct 2014 – Phuket wan tourism
news. Thailand’s secret trade in people creates divisions between
police and trafficking experts. Chutima Sidesathiam and Alan Morisen.
3 Nov 2014 – Thailand’s trafficking
trade grows as officials avoid the truth. Phuketwan Tekuapa. Human
trafficking the world’s destitute people.
13 Nov 2014 – New Zealand’s Wynyard
and Thai drug crime. Stuff.co.nz. Software company Wynyard group and
the Royal Thai government, drug trafficking signed a contract.
Thailand drugs agency.
17 Nov 2014 – In Thailand about
quarter of a million children were held in sex slavery in brothels.
(Aangirfan).
25 Nov 2014 – Thai police corruption.
Police corrupt patronage. The Guardian UK.
1 Dec 2014 – Thailand, crown prince
strips wife’s family of royal name amid corruption. Thailand’s
crown prince Vajiralongkorn and royal consort princess Srirasm in
Mardeka in Kuala Lumpur Malaysia. Fox news.31 Aug 2007 photo.
26 Dec 2014 – Kiwi New Zealander,
busted with drugs in Phuket. In a Thai jail, Taylor Grainger aged 41.
1.2grams of meth and 0.95 gams of cocaine. Newstalk NZ.
26 Dec 2014 – New Zealander accused
of drug possession in Thailand. Meth, a Kiwi in his 40s in Patong.
1.2 grams of meth in 2 packs and one gram of cocaine. TVNZ.
30 Dec 2014 – A New Zealander, Kiwi,
was arrested in Phuket for drug dealing, he is wanted for fraud in
NZ. Grainge Taylor and credit card fraud, Westpac. Archives on paper.
Phuket Gazette.
30 Dec 2014 – James Ihaka. Arrested
in Thailand also wanted in NZ. A Kiwi on drugs charges. Grainger
Madgwik. 1g of cocaine and 1.2g of meth. Taylor Grainger 41 years old
aka Grange Taylor. NZ Herald.
8 Jan 2015 – Thailand wants refugees
back. NZ Herald. Ekaphop Luera aka Tang Acheewa. Shown with New
Zealand passports on facebook.
9 Jan 2015 – Thailand’s senior
police officers were sacked for corruption. Gambling dens, sex
slavery, smuggling and trafficking. Ancient Buddhist relics and
statues were also taken from Cambodia. (Private Eye mag UK).
28 Jan 2015 – UK tourists in New
Zealand, Jameison aged 47 with 52,000 child porn images. He was a
teacher who had child porn. The Northern Echo UK . Middlebourgh news.
Andrew White. He worked at a school in Thailand, he was deputy head
teacher and head child protection officer.
29 Jan 2015 – Cosmopolitan. Kiwi New
Zealanders mystery death in a Thai hotel. NZ man went to the UK, to
ask about his sister, who was found dead in a Thai hotel. TVNZ.
31 Jan 2015 – A New Zealander was
shot was injured in Thailand. NZ Herald
2 Feb 2015 – Two bombs exploded in
Bangkok in shopping malls. Explosions in shopping malls. Siam Paragon
shopping mall. Sydney Morning Herald.
2 Feb 2015 – Thai rich train on fire.
Stuff.co.nz. The river Kwai in Kanchanaburi, 200 European tourists.
5 Feb 2015 – Murdered, found dead in
New Zealand. Ivan Peter Kapluggin aged 76 British with a UK passport.
He got a New Zealand visa to live in Thailand. Suspected Paedophile.
Sun Live.
5 Feb 2015 – US Santa Cruz county
deputy, going to fight human trafficking in Thailand. Santa Cruz
Sentinel US.
2 May 2015 – More than 30 graves,
migrants from Myanmar and Bangladesh. Found in southern Thailand.
The mass grave site was found in the Sadao district of Songkhla
province. Int Business Times.
9 May 2015 – More than 100 migrants
from Bangladesh and Myanmar were found in Thailand's south. Reuters.
Bangkok. More than 100 Rohingya migrants from Myanmar and Bangladesh
were found in Thailand's southern Songkhla province. 111 migrants in
the jungle.
17 May 2015 – More officials
suspected of corruption to be suspended. ThaiVisa news Bangkok. Civil
servants face investigation for corruption and fraud. Suspended from
work.
19 May 2015 – Thailand arrests a
kingpin of human trafficking network, amid boat arrivals in
Indonesia. People smuggling crisis in the region. ABC online.
20 May 2015 – Arrested Thai, alleged
human trafficking kingpin has connections to Thai political party.
Straits Times.
20 Aug 2015 -Terrorists target
tourists. 10 of the dead at Erawan in Bangkok were tourists.
Telegraph UK.
21 Aug 2015 – Two missing tourists
have been found safe in Phuket. Thai visa news. Two tourists went
missing during a trip to Koh Racha Noi.
25 Aug 2015 – Man accused of killing
British tourists in Thailand. The Guardian UK. Two Burmese men have
been accused of the murder of two British tourists in Thiland in Sept
2014.
1 Sept 2015 – French tourist Florian
Bourdla,a fatal fall down a Thai waterfall. Five tourists. Daily
Mail.
19 Oct 2015 – Bomb explosion in
southern Thailand. Two soldiers were killed and five wounded.
Twitter. Sputnik.
23 Oct 2015 – Anonymous hacked the
Thai govt telecom website and exposed data. Techworm. Bangkok Post.
Vijay Prabu.
Wednesday, October 28, 2015
Tuesday, October 27, 2015
Monday, October 26, 2015
Ecuador research
ECUADOR
4 Feb 1797 – In Quito 40,000 people
were killed. Riobamba destroyed. Timeline of earthquakes.
4 Feb 1797 – Earthquake in Quito
kills 41,000 people. (Chch Star NZ. Today in history. 4 Feb 2015).
13 May 1830 – The republic of Ecuador
was founded with Juan Jose Flores as president. (HistoryOrb.com Today
in history 13 May 2015).
1877 – The Volcano Cotopaxi erupted
in Aug 2015 after being dormant for 138 years. Cotopaxi is one of 8
active volcanos in Ecuador. It last erupted in 1877. (The big wobble.
Gary Walton 8 Oct 2015).
31 Jan 1906 – 8.8 earthquake.
Timetoast.
31 Jan 1906 – 8.6 earthquake. 1,000
people died. The Ecuador Colombia border. Wikipedia.
10 Dec 1970 – Earthquake 7.6. 72
people were killed.
1979 –2002 – Jaime Roldos Aguilera
became Ecuador’s president in 1979, helping the poor. On 24 May
1981 he died in a airplane crash, a CIA assassination was suspected.
Cucio Gutierreznwas was elected President in Nov 2002. (The secret
history of the American empire. John Perkins. ©2007 US).
24 May 1981 – Ecuador’s President
died in a plane crash, a CIA assassination was suspected. Two key
witnesses had been killed in car accidents, before they were to
testify about the plane crash. Omar Torrijos died in a plane crash,
two months after Jaime Roldos on 31 July 1981. (The secret history of
the American empire. John Perkins. ©2007 US).
1987 – The assassination of Gen
Carlos Prat, Commander of the Chile army, soon after that of Pres
Allende’s, 'Operation Condor'. Torrijos of Panama and Roldo of
Ecuador, these two leaders died in plane crashes. CIA assassination
before mid year 1981. (The secret history of the American empire.
John Pekins. ©2007 US).
1987 – Politics and petroleum in
Ecuador by John D Martz.
6 March 1987 – A 6.8 earthquake
killed 100 people. (Today in history. Chch Star NZ. 6 March 2015).
29 March 1996 – 29 people were
killed. Timeline of earthquakes.
12 October 2000 – Helicopter
hijacking in Sucumbios province Ecuador. A group of armed kidnappers,
led by former members of Colombian terror group, the Popular
Liberation Army EPL. They took hostage ten employers of Spanish
energy consortium REPSOL. Those kidnapped included one New Zealander,
five US citizens, one Argentine, one Chilean and two French pilots,
who escaped four days later. On 30 January 2001 the kidnappers
murdered American hostage Ronald Sander. The remaining hostages were
released on 23 February following the payment of $13 million in
ransom by the oil companies.
2003 – Indians, oil and politics. A
recent history of Ecuador. A Gerlach. SR books.
2007 – Sydney, fake drowning for
insurance scam. Paul Terroni age 28, A fake drowning in Ecuador in
2007. He was found alive in Sydney Australia in June 2009. Terroni
applied for an Ecuador passport with a false name to travel back to
Australia. (How to disappear. Frank M Ahearn. Eileen C Horan.
Australia (c)2009).
22 February 2007 – Ecuador plans to
rejoin the OPEC countries, La Hora reported, citing Ecuador’s
energy minister. Ecuador will seek OPEC’s endorsement for its oil
plans. Including financial issues, and a report for Algerian council
on matters related to natural gas. Ecuador is the fifth largest
producer of oil in South America. Exporting 69% of its oil
production. (Stratfor Intel summary).
April 2011 – Ecuador expeled the US
ambassador, after Wikileaks published diplomatic cables, alleging
widespread corruption in Ecuador’s police force. (Timelines BBC
Internet).
9 February 2012 – Ecuador’s Foreign
Minister said, police in Italy found nearly 90 pounds (40 kilos) of
cocaine in January. It was in diplomatic mail sent to Italy. Two
suspects were arrested. Crates inspected by police dogs before
leaving Ecuador, travelled to Italy through a third country. (AP
2/9/12. Timelines Internet).
16 November 2012 – Body on yacht.
Pacific’s largest cocaine haul was found on a yacht in Vava’u
Tonga. the Pacific. It went from Ecuador and was bound for Australia,
according to the US DEA in August. Organised crime syndicates were
involved. (Matangi Tonga online).
18 Nov 2012 – Luz Adriana Calderon
Siervo missing person.
20 November 2012 – Chevron seeks
probe over Ecuador case. By Ed Crooks in New York. Oil and gas.
Financial Times.
2013 – Care2 Marty 9 Oct 2015. Giant
7 to 8 foot human skeletons were uncovered in Ecuador and sent for
testing. Cuenca news. Found in 2013. Human skeletons from the 1400s
or mid 1500s. 7 to 8 feet in height.
14 Aug 2014 – An earthquake killed 4
people in Ecuador. Saudi Press agency SPA. At least 3 people are
missing in a landslide north of Quito.
3 March 2015 – Panam Post. Ecuador
hospital mafia unearthed in Guayaquin. Secret tunnels, cellars found
amid squalor at state run clinics. Rebeca Morla. Guayaquil Teodoro
Maldonado Carbo hospital HTMC. More than a dozen tunnels for
smuggling and trafficking. Cellars, a pharmacy and organs?
17 March 2015 – The cousin of
Ecuador’s President is convicted of embezzlement.
8 Oct 2015 – The world's most
dangerous volcano, the Cotopaxi erupted ash 2km into the sky. It
erupted in Aug 2015 after being dormant for 138 years. Cotopaxi is
one of 8 active volcanos in Ecuador. It last erupted in 1877. A State
of emergency was declared in Aug 2015. (The big wobble. Gary Walton).
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