Tuesday, 12 July 2011

Tsunami - Thailand 2004

After watching this documentary movie, the first word appears in my mind is “shock”. Tsunami, a natural disaster for the humanity, was happened in Khao Lak, Thailand in 2004. This movie showed that humans had no chance to stop it and slow it down. The reason is our knowledge is limited, our equipment is not enough to defend the destruction from tsunami or an earthquake.

When it was happened in Khao Lak, no warning system activated, no transport system to help the survivors, media was shut down and over 700 victims were missing, included foreigners and Thai citizens. These people loss members of families, they injured and need help immediately. But what is the solution of the government for this emergency problem? They shut the phone lines and turn the media off, forbidden reporters to avoid foreign impression on the country. Is it more important than the life of hundred, maybe thousand survivors who needed foods, water and medical help outside there?

This is unbelievable and cruel in my view point about this problem. A father lose his son, a couple lose these little daughter and a father’s death came to his wife. Painful, they cried and asked for help. Although they expected on the government and non-government organizations to find missing people, kids and bodies, no one respond that mission.

The ambassador was lack of responsibility and machinist. His action was slowly and useless. It proved that he had no accessibility to this disaster-tsunami. It also showed that the importance of education system. People need to know what they must do when the disaster happened and how to survive. At the beginning of the movie, both foreigners and Thais had no idea ‘what’ was come and how its coming. They didn’t aware about the dangerous thing will be happen when birds flew away, the earth shaken and the lower level of the sea. This mistake belongs to the government

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