Nice thread
Its about time someone reminded us.
Being involved at the time with relief work at Rawai I was disgusted by the convoys of police escorted "fact finding" missions from various international charities that arrived - did a 5 minute 'whistle stop" tour, complaining about the general disorder,smell and debris - before retiring to their 5* hotels to discuss what they were going to do.
They were accompanied by local officials in new Mercs, with red plates, that appeared only 4 days after it was announced that the relief organisations had released a shit-load of baht to Rawai for immediate local needs!!!

Nice one E.G.