January 2015: drugs

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Saturday, January 24, 2015

Colombia

7 Dec 1580 – Recorded eruption of Galeras volcano. (Wikipedia Colombia timeline history).

1948 – Since 1948, when as a young student, Fidel Castro participated in the violence that rocked Colombia and distributed anti-US propaganda.

1968-75 – Castro began supporting and training M19, a Colombian group that captured the Dominican embassy and justice building in Bogota and assassinated several Colombian judges.

1970s – 2010 – Aunty. Australian cocaine imports. A Colombian woman in her 50s who moved to Australia in the 1970s. Tonnes of cocaine every 18 months, a syndicate. (Smack express. Clive Small ©2010 Australia).

1981 – Reuters. US drugs Mexico timeline 14 Jan 2010. Drug boss Pablo Escobar forms Medellin cartel with other Colombian traffickers, tonnes of cocaine into Miami Florida via the Caribbean

8 Feb 1982 – Miraflores Colombia, under aircraft explosion one person was killed and four wounded.

1983 – BCCI got 49% of Banco mercantile, a 24 branch Colombian bank, later renamed Banco de Credito y Comercio de Colombia. One of the board members was Rodrigo Llorente who was one of the richest politicians in Colombia.

1983 – BCCI got its Colombian bank and added seven new branches over the next four years while its assets grew to $213 million. Drug money in Colombia and BCCI one client was Jose Gonzalo Rodriguez Gadha, a cartel leader who stashed millions in BCCI.

31 March 1983 – 5,000 killed Popayan. Timeline of earthquakes.

1984 – By 1984 FARC and M19 got $150 million a year from the business of protecting drug smugglers and traffickers. Colombian terrorist groups.

1984 – Minister of Justice, Rodrigo Lara Bonilla, was shot dead by hitmen hired by the Medellin cartel. Byron de Jesus Velasquez was arrested. (Wikipedia Colombia timeline history).

10 March 1984 – Tranquiliandia a large cocaine processing lab in the jungles of Caqueta, for the Medellin cartel, is destroyed by Colombian police and DEA. (Wikipedia Colombia timeline history).

6 Nov 1985 – M19 guerillas, 100 victims and many more missing. He army is blamed for forced disappearances of civilians. (Wikipedia timeline history Colombia).

6 Nov 1985 – 35 M-19 guerrillas attacked the Colombian palace of justice in Bogota. They held 250 hostages, many justices of Colombia. When govt troops took over the site 25 hostages were dead and all the guerrillas. By 1990 more than 200 court officials and 40 Colombian judges had been murdered. (Drug barons. Paul Copperwaite ©2010 US UK).

13 Nov 1985 – Armero city in Tolima was destroyed, flooding, and the eruption of Nevado del Ruiz volcano. The Armeno tragedy. 20,000 dead and many made homeless. (Wikipedia Colombia timeline history).

4 Feb 1987 – Drug dealer Carlos Lehder was arrested at a farm near Medellin. Extradited to the US on a DEA plane. (Wikipedia Colombia timeline history).

13 Jan 1988 – A huge bomb exploded outside the Monaco 8 storey apartment building owned by Escobar in Medellin. The blast killed 2 nightwatchmen and dug a 13 foot hole in the street. The blast shattered windows in nearby buildings. The war of the cartels had begun. (Drug barons Paul Copperwaite ©2010 US UK).

1989 – People were arrested and detained without being charged with a crime. Bogota Colombia and the Medellin cartel. Fortune magazine listed the cartel’s leader as the richest man in the world. Jose Rodriguez Gacha, worth $5 billion. (Drug barons. Paul Copperwaite ©2010 US UK)

25 May 1989 – A 220 pound car bomb exploded near a convoy carrying Masa and his bodyguards travelling to Bogota. Killing 6 people and injuring more than 50. (Drug barons. Paul Copperwaite ©2010 US UK).

27 Nov 1989 – Avianca flight 203 exploded with 107 people on board. A bomb was planted by the Medellin cartel. No survivors. (Wikipedia Colombia timeline history).

1990s – Colombian drug trafficking in the early 1990s was a producer and distributor of heroin. By 1992 Colombia was producing heroin. Carli cartel drug heroin in the early 1980s. (Drug barons. Paul Copperwaite ©2010 US UK).

1990-92 – In Aug 1990 Cesar Gaviria became president of Colombia. 41 traffickers had been extradited from Colombia to the US. June 1992 Miguel Maza Marquez was chief of DAS, Colombian intel, implicated in trafficking. (Drug barons. Paul Copperwaite ©2010 US UK).

1991 – The height of Escobar’s fight with the Cali cartel. There were 7,081 murders in Colombia, the worlds murder capital for that year. More than 500 police were killed by poor youth. (Drug barons Paul Copperwaite ©2010 US UK).

March 1992 – April 1993 – The collapse of the Colombian national electricity generation system caused power blackouts, 18 hours a day with no power. (Wikipedia Colombia timeline history).

15 Feb 1993 – Bombings by Mafia druglords killed 14 people in Bogota. (Timeline internet).

1994 – Roberto Pannunzi Italian mafia was arrested in Colombia. He had links to Colombian cartels for trade in cocaine. He was extradited to Italy and released. Heart attack, and disappeared in 2009. (Timeline internet).

6 June 1994 – 6 quake Cualande Toez 1,000 killed Cauca. Timeline of earthquakes.

3 July 1994 – Pele and the mafia shoot of Colombia. Paul Wilson. The Observer. 1901-2003 UK.

8 Feb 1995 – 6.4 quake 46 killed. Timeline of earthquakes.

19 Jan 1999 – Armenia earthquake over 2,000 dead and 3,000 missing. Quarter of a million people homeless. (Wikipedia Colombia timeline history).

25 Jan 1999 – 6 quake Valle del Cauca 273 killed 900 injured 2,000 died in Armenia state. Timeline of earthquakes.

2000 – Australia, Juan Guillermo Diez Orozco and Australian Cornwell, Medellin Colombia. Adolpho Zapata and the cocaine trade. John Lawrence in Sydney Australia. Dominic Brokenshire. “Mr Carlos” was an alias for Orozco. (Smack express. Clive Small ©2010 Australia).

31 Oct 2001 – Colombia sends drug lord to US. Herald Sun Melbourne Vic. Cocaine.

2003 – Arms trafficking in Colombia. Kim Cragin. Bruce Hoffman. US DIA Santa Monica RAND Worldcat database.

2004 – Aerial spraying fails to reduce coca cultivation in Colombia. Washington office on Latin America. Coca and opium poppy production in South America ONSCP. 2004 coca and opium poppy Colombia and Andes. US office of national drug policy ONDLP.

April 2004 – In the first 10 months of 2004 Colombia extradited 250 people to the US for drug related crimes. In April 2004, 400 US military and 400 US contractors were operating in Colombia. (Drug barons. Paul Copperwaite ©2010 US UK).

2 Aug 2004 – US listed Colombian president Uribe Colombian drug trafficking in 1991. Medellin cartel and govt.

22 Oct 2004 – A bomb explosion at a government building injured six people.

28 March 2005 – Smugglers submarine caught in Colombian drug net. The Australian Canberra ACT.

21 Aug 2006 – Car bomb kills one person and wounds eight.

11 Oct 2006 – Major heroin shipment seized in Colombia. BBC London. 56.8 kilos of heroin.

18 Jan 2007 – Colombian ring smashed. The Australian Adelaide, Smuggling.

29 March 2007 – Implicated Colombian govt in Chiquita terror scandal. The Nation.

23 Dec 2007 – Colombian police seize 42 kilos of heroin in the biggest haul of 2007. BBC London.

30 Oct 2008 – Colombian army troops. Poor, unemployed and homeless people were taken to isolated areas and murdered. 3,350 cases recorded. (Wikipedia Colombia timeline history).

7 Jan 2009 – Body count. Colombian scandal declassified history of abuses by Colombian army.

2010 – UNICEF says 18% of children under 5 in Latin America and the Caribbean have not been legally registered. In Brazil 25 million people do not have birth certificate. Three million babies in Colombia have not been registered. In Mexico’s Chiapas 25,000 children do not have birth certificates. A person with no ID, those who “do not exist”. (Slavery inc. Lydia Cacho (c)2010 UK)

2012 – Colombia Catholic church records 1600-2012. Deaths and child recognition. Family search LDS Wiki. Missing people in Colombia.

3 Oct 2012 – CBS news. Italian prosecutors say Canada is too lax on the Mafia. Ndrangeta has a presence in Toronto Thunder bay. Money laundering and Colombian drugs.

5 Nov 2012 – Insight organised crime in the Americas. Colombia detains major heroin trafficker. By Laura Gomez. Carlos Mario Agudelo. Colombia had 3,950 hectares of poppy cultivation in 2004. Heroin into the US from Colombia.

26 Nov 2012 – Samanti Andrade Vanegas missing. Interpol.

21 Dec 2012 – Lifting the veil on Colombia’s Emerald Czar. Documents Victor Carruza 1997 Miraflores massacre.

27 Dec 2012 – Carlos Ernesto Arango Laguado. Missing Interpol.

24 March 2013 – Carmen Arleth Arias Solipa. Missing Interpol.

8 April 2013 – Chiquita block release of files on Colombia’s terror. Banana giant.

22 May 2013 – Danni Alejandro Bedoya Castaneda missing. Interpol.

4 June 2013 – Carolina Ballen Martinez missing. Interpol.

16 June 2013 – Nicolas Andres Avellaneda Rodriguez. Missing. Interpol.

20 June 2013 – Paula Alejandra Cifuentes Florian missing. Interpol.

9 July 2013 – Juan Carlos Alvarez Calle. Missing. Interpol.

11 Nov 2013 – Luz America Alfardo Diaz. Missing. Interpol.

15 Dec 2013 – Mario Arismendi Izquierdo. Missing. Interpol.

27 Dec 2013 – Jose Angel Alon Misa. Missing. Interpol.

19 Feb 2014 – Maria Nancy Anaya. Missing. Interpol.

24 April 2014 – Maria Lucerno Alvarado Sanabria. Missing. Interpol.

18 July 2014 – Who controls Medellin fragile peace in Colombia’s model city. James Bargent. Christian Science monitor.

19 July 2014 – Gina Victoria Arias Canacho. Missing. Interpol.

29 Aug 2014 – What happened to 92,000 disappeared in Colombia? Newsweek. Bogota. Reuters. More than 92,000 Colombians disappeared over 50 years of war at the hands of drug. ICRC.

1 Sept 2014 – Deadly silence. 92,000 Colombians named as missing. Catholic online. Tens of thousands of people missing in Colombia.

17 Sept 2014 – 97,000 disappeared in Colombia 70,000 still missing. Colombia reports.

19 Sept 2014 – Virgins for sale in Colombia. Worlds biggest brothel. Channel 4 news. Criminal organisation “The office”.

20 Sept 2014 – Medellin world largest brothel. Sex trade in Pablo Escobar. Fox news Latino.

23 Sept 2014 – Police. Mexican cartels trafficking cocaine directly from Colombia. VOA Bogota. Trustlaw.

26 Sept 2014 – Colombia needs more prosecutors for human trafficking. Reuters. Bogota. Identify and investigate human trafficking crimes. Low conviction rates, an invisible problem.

23 Oct 2014 – Nestle workers in Colombia protest with unions. Colombia reports. Edgar Paez leader of the national food industry union. Sinaltreinal.

29 Oct 2014 – Santos, ongoing corruption battle. Colombia Reports. Pres Juan Manuel Santos.

11 Nov 2014 – 20 girls held as sex slaves by Bogota by human traffickers. Colombia Reports. 3 police raids in the city centre. Police find drugs and alcohol.

14 Nov 2014 – Bogota police shut down human trafficking operation. Colombia reports. Three people were arrested in Bogota. Underage girls were raped by paedophiles.

21 Nov 2014 – 15 Colombian police were arrested in internal corruption crimes. Colombia reports.

21 Dec 2014 – NZ Herald. Dominican republic seized half a ton of cocaine. Santo Domingo republic. 1,000 pounds (454kg) of cocaine. 12 people were arrested including a police officer. Drugs found on a fishing boat. The cocaine was from Colombia. The police officer arrested had $10,000 cash. AP.

Singapore

SINGAPORE

1830-1945 – E Nathan. The history of the Jews in Singapore 1986.

9 April 1939 – Chinese Jack Choo was born in Singapore. A member of the Mr Asia drug syndicate, importing heroin and buddha sticks into Australia and New Zealand from Thailand. Japanese occupation of Singapore during the Second World War. Burma and Thailand, supplying heroin. He was related by marriage to Khun Sa, the opium war lord who controlled most of the heroin in the Golden Triangle, between Thailand and Burma. For 40 years. Heroin on credit. Most of the heroin Clark got was on credit. (Mr Asia. Jim Diamond Shepherd ©2010 Australia)

Jan 1941-May 1941 – The British SOE branch in the far east was named Oriental mission OM. AE Jones was sent to Singapore in Jan 1941 to set up HQ and a regional organisation, responsible for northern China. Japan occupied Shanghai, Japanese invasion of China in 1937. Japanese across Suzhou in Hong Kong. In May 1941 a head of OM was appointed, Valentine Killery, office of Singapore. (Japans Gestapo Mark Felton ©2009 UK).

1942 – 26 Sept 1942 seven months after the British surrendered Singapore to the Japanese. The Japanese Kempeitai special investigation branch in Singapore was run by Lieutenant Colonel Haruzo Sumida. POWs at Changi jail under command of Kempeitai in Singapore was Lieutenant Colonel Oishi. There were 200 Kempeitai in Singapore. The main Kempeitai prison was Outram road jail. (Japans Gestapo. Mark Felton ©2009 UK).

Feb 1942 – Outside China, Unit 731, Raffles medical university in Singapore, Unit 9420 Kono unit, for research into malaria. Umeoka unit for plagues. Unit 9420 had a unit in Thailand during the war. Japan destroyed records and medical research before the Allied war crimes in Sept 1945. (Japans Gestapo. Mark Felton. ©2009 UK).

15 Feb 1942 – Other Indian troops were captured at the fall of Singapore on 15 Feb 1942 and moved to Borneo as slave labour alongside British and Australian prisoners. (Japans Gestapo. Mark Felton ©2009 UK)

26 Sept 1942 – Seven months after the British surrendered Singapore to the Japanese. The Kempeitai special investigation branch in Singapore was headed by lieutenant colonel Haruzo Sumida. POWs in Changi jail. Overall command Kempeitai in Singapore was lieutenant colonel Vishi. There were about 200 Kempeitai in Singapore. Main jail was Outram road jail. (Japan’s Gestapo. Mark Felton. ©2009 UK).

1946 – Colonel Howard Ellis returned to M16 in London in 1944. In 1946 he was posted to M16, controller responsible for south east Asia and the Far east, based in Singapore. (Too secret too long. C Pincher. ©1984 US).

1950-56 – From the early 1950s there were demands for Singapore self govt. British and defence for Australia, New Zealand, Fiji and Hong Kong. 10,000 British troops were in Singapore. Aug 1956 British defence and Singapore. M15 role in the future. Singapore population was about 1.5 million, three quarters of them ethnic Chinese. (Empire of secrets. Calder Walton ©2013).

1956-59 – Sept Oct 1956 meeting. Gov of Singapore was Sir Robert Black. M15 in Singapore. 1959 govt Lee Kuan Yew as PM with British control of defence and foreign policy. (Empire of secrets. Calder Walton ©2013).

1975 – Since 1975 Martin Johnstone was setting himself up in Singapore where he lived and controlled his business. He had numerous companies in Singapore. Cross and Mercer in Singapore, Hong Kong and Australia. (Mr Asia. ©2010 J Shepherd Aust NZ).

1975-80 – Since 1975 Martin Johnstone was in Singapore with companies, Cross and Mercer, wife Bronwyn Davies. Oct 1976 the Marco Polo hotel 9 Oct 1979.Martin Johnstone got a half share in John Chedderton’s ex-Taiwanese fighting trawler the Konpira Maru. Timor international marine and oceanographic research called ‘Timor’ Dec 1980 Debts of $480,000, 26 Nov 1976 (Mr Asia. Jim Diamond Shepherd (c)2010 Australia).

1984 – Heroin trafficking. Ho Chin Hoon alias Vincent Ho, Chinese Triads. Heroin and Danny Chubb Australia. False passports from Indonesia. Sydney, heroin trafficking and couriers. (Smack express. Clive Small ©2010 Australia).

2003 – Chin Peng. My side of history. Singapore. Meda nations.

2005 – Colin Smith. Singapore burning. Heroism and surrender in World war II. London Penguin books ltd.

18 April 2005 – Singapore gives green light to development of two casinos. BBC London.

28 April 2005 – Singapore ASEAN to act on child sex trafficking. BBC. Child prostitution.

28 Oct 2005 – Feds, Singapore drugs, Sydney Morning Herald. Drugs from Cambodia.

11 Sept 2006 – Barricades on roads for IMF meeting in Singapore.

9 Aug 2010 – Singapore says golden triangle opium increased production. BBC London.

26 Feb 2011 – Crown steps up push Singapore casinos lure high rollers. Damon Kitney. Weekend Australian Canberra ACT. Two news casinos in Singapore Burswood casino in Penh.

2 March 2011 – Casinos boom in strait laced Singapore. NZ Herald Auckland. Marina by Sands casino.

20 Oct 2014 – New Zealand’s Auckland Pakuranga plaza was sold to Singapore business. One of the years biggest New Zealand business property sales. $96 million to Stanley Tan, chief exec of Global yellow pages and Pang Yoke Min of Gyp, a subsidiary of Global yellow pages, based in Singapore. (Stuff.co.nz. Catherine Harris).

4 Nov 2014 – Singapore government to hold major share in Auckland NZ waterfront property. TVNZ. Multi million dollar deal.

6 Nov 2014 – Joint venture with GIC in five New Zealand shopping malls. Scoop.co.nz. Scentre group ASX SCG with GIC Singapore wealth fund, five shopping malls in New Zealand. $NZ 2.1 billion.

7 Nov 2014 – Singapore fund buys into NZ Westfield shopping centre. Stuff.co.nz. $1 billion stake in some of NZ top shopping malls. Herald Sun.

8 Nov 2014 – New Zealand sale of malls. The Australian. Westfields, government investment group of Singapore $930 million deal.

Thailand

1853 – Elder Elam Luddington was the first LDS missionary to Thailand. Then called Siam. (LDS Sept 1995).

1950s – The Chinese nationalist KMT efforts in the Golden triangle also involve 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).

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).

Sept 1972 – Recipes from Thailand. Vicki H Budge. Friend LDS.

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).

April 1975 – The LDS church in Thailand. Friend. Thailand land of living waters.

1976 – Australian Murray Riley and Michael Hand. Nugan Hand bank. Heroin trafficking and the US mafia. Branch in Chiang Mai Thailand. Thai based drug trafficking, George Pierce Contis from San Francisco. 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 Terry Clark the money to buy hundreds of kilos of high grade heroin in Asia. Martin Johnstone was Mr Asia, maybe? (Mr Asia ©2010 Aust NZ. J Shepherd).

Jan 1977 – Ensign LDS Thai translation of the Book of Mormon.

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).

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 Church welcomes Thai Royalty.

1984 – Paul and Elaine Lewis. People’s of the Golden triangle. Thames and Hudson. ISBN 0-509-7314-8.

Aug 1989 – Ensign LDS 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.

Jan 1991 – In an FBI undercover op code named 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

May 1993 – The saints of Thailand. David Mitchell. Liahona LDS.

1994 – It was a Hezbollah cell in Thailand that in 1994, almost, drove a truck laden with explosives into the Israeli embassy in Bangkok.

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 drug trade. Golden Triangle routes. Independent UK. Heroin trafficking and the Thai parliament.

1996 – Bangkok’s Chulalongkorn university estimated that $28.5 billion went through Thailand’s money laundering system, the equivalent to 15% of Thai GDP.

20 June 1998 – Arrest foreign paedophiles in Thailand. Craig Skehan. The Age Melbourne Vic. Thai children and foreign paedophiles living in Thailand.

28 Nov 1998 – US embassy closes amid 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.

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).

Sept 2002 – Tony Davis. The complexities of unrest in southern Thailand. Janes intel review vol 14 no 9.

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).

2009 – A history of Thailand. Christopher John Baker. Pasuk Phongpaichit. Google books.

2009 – Merchants of madness. The meth explosion in the Golden triangle. Bertil Lintner. Michael Black. Sikwow books. ISBN 978-974-9511-59-6.

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 tourist, 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.

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.

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 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.

25 Nov 2014 – Thai police corruption. The Guardian UK. Police corrupt patronage.

1 Dec 2014 – Thailand, crown prince strips wife’s family of royal name amid corruption. Fox news. 31 Aug 2007 photo. Thailand’s crown prince Vajiralongkorn and royal consort princess Srirasm in Mardeka in Kuala Lumpur Malaysia.

26 Dec 2014 – Kiwi New Zealander, busted with drugs in Phuket. Newstalk ZB. In a Thai jail, Taylor Grainger aged 41. 1.2grams of meth and 0.95 gams of cocaine.

26 Dec 2014 – New Zealander accused of drug possession in Thailand. TVNZ Meth, a Kiwi in his 40s in Patong. 1.2 grams of meth in 2 packs and one gram of cocaine.

30 Dec 2014 – A New Zealander, Kiwi, was arrested in Phuket for drug dealing, he is wanted for fraud in NZ. Phuket Gazette. Grainge Taylor and credit card fraud, Westpac. Archives on paper.

30 Dec 2014 – NZ Herald. 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.

8 Jan 2015 – Thailand wants refugees back. NZ Herald. Ekaphop Luera aka Tang Acheewa. Shown with NZ passports on facebook.

Cambodia

CAMBODIA

25 Dec 1978 – Vietnam invaded Cambodia seized the capital Phnom Penh on 7 Jan 1979 and next day established the peoples republic of Kampuchea PRK under Heng Samryn.

Early 1980 – About 6% of Cambodia was held by Vietnamese PRK forces.

Jan 1982 – The Vietnamese PRK forces attacked the Khmer Rouge guerrillas with 155mm guns in the mountains south west border with Thailand, punishing the area the frontier where they were and the Thai army and drove them back.

25 Dec 1985 – Vietnamese forces manning T-54 tanks and 155mm guns attacked Nong Samet a camp in the Thai border, they seized part of it and blew up what remained.

May 1994 – LDS church recognised in Cambodia

June 1995 – Cambodian saints in southern California, Suzanne Lois Kimbal.l Ensign LDS.

Jan 1997 – Gospel gains foothold in Cambodia Leland and Joyce B White. Ensign LDS.

Oct 1997 – The gospel takes hold in Cambodia. Leland and Joyce White. Liahona LDS.

1998 – Annuska Derks. Trafficking of Vietnamese women and children to Cambodia. Geneva int org migration.

2003 – Sex trafficking in Cambodia. Leviseda Douglas. Victoria Australia Monash uni Worldcat database.

July 2006 – Cambodia a land of developing peace. Marissa A Widdison. Liahona and Ensign LDS.

11 June 2007 – Thai army suspects Cambodian casinos on border of laundering money and storing drugs. BBC London. Wassna Nanuam report. Casinos as drug storage points, traffickers smuggling via casinos.

April 2008 – Church increasing self reliance in Cambodia. Lynda Hansen. Ensign LDS.

1 Sept 2009 – Sex tourism operations nets three. Justice department says. LA Calif CNN Cambodian children.

2010 – Nada world is run by the Malaysian multi millionaire Dr Tan Shri Chen Lip, with $195 million from gambling. He has money in the Cayman islands. Involved in sex trafficking. The mafia’s control the sex trafficking of women and children. Traffickers look for younger and younger girls. It is the corruption of the governments that’s the real mafia, it is the corruption the does not stop. (Slavery inc. Lydia Cacho ©2010 UK).

2010 – The international network of the Iglesia Restaurado de los Perfectos led by millionaire Jorge Erdely, trafficking children for illegal adoption, for families within the church. (Slavery inc. Lydia Cacho ©2010 UK).

2010 – 50,000 girls under 18 are sex trafficked from Vietnam and enslaved, starved, also girls under 10. The sex exploitation of 50,000 Vietnamese girls in Cambodia, while police are paid and corrupt. (Slavery inc. Lydia Cacho ©2010 UK)

2010 – The human slave trade is about money. A sex trafficker can deposit money in a Las Vegas casino, and a few weeks later withdraw in Naga world in Cambodia, moving money to London. (Slavery inc. Lydia Cacho ©2010 UK).

2010 – Male tourists in Cambodia are 50 to 60 years old. Accompanied by girls 12 years old. Foreign paedophiles. Sex tourism in Cambodia. Girls and boys are trafficked for sex. As in Thailand child sex trafficking as sex slaves, their own families sold them and are part of a system of rape and used for child porn. (Slavery inc Lydia Cacho ©2010 UK).

June 2010 – Cambodian latter day saints moving in a new direction. Chad E Phares. Liahoina and Ensign LDS.

26 July 2010 – A timeline of the Khmer Rouge regime and its aftermath by Miranda Leitsinger CNN.

June 2011 – Episode 30 Brother and sister Winegar. Cambodia Mormon channel rapid.

21 Nov 2011 – Khmer Rouge trial Cambodia awaits answers. By Guy Delauney BBC Phnom Penh.

26 March 2012 – Police had sights on Cambodian drug trade. Nick McKenzie. The Canberra Times. ACT.

2013 – The Cambodian book of the dead. Ebook Oxford Osprey publishing ltd Worldcat database.

20 Sept 2013 – The Cambodian daily Saing Soenthrith. Two king of heroin on their way to Phnom Penh int airport to fly to Australia. Foreigners arrested for smuggling heroin. A firmer government advisor. Child sex abuse and exploitation. Fake orphanages. Sex trafficking of orphans. Western paedophiles. Asian girls under ten years old, poverty prevents them from getting lawyers or justice.

2014 – Human trafficking in Cambodia. Chanda Keo. London New York Routledge Taylor group Worldcat database.

21 May 2014 – Meth on rise in kingdom. The Phnom Penh Post. Meth and ecstacy seizures tied to labs in Cambodia.

2 July 2014 – Cambodian police arrest two suspects for human organ trafficking. Xinhuanet China. Kidneys sold in Thailand, forged documents and hospitals.

9 July 2014 – Poverty and abuse in Cambodia’s virginity trade. The ‘Virgin trade’ in Cambodia. ITV news. The Independent UK. Lucy Watson. British paedophiles, sold by her family and raped by a sex offender. Convicted abuser, and a former government advisor. Child sex abuse and exploitation. Fake orphanages, sex trafficking of orphans. Western paedophiles. Asian girls under ten years old. Poverty prevents victims from getting lawyers or justice.

18 Aug 2014 – Cop caught in drug raid. The Phnom Penh Post. Dealing and the meth drug ice.

18 Sept 2014 – Film Ultimate betrayl. Cambodian orphanage scandal. IRIN news.org. Paedophiles sex tourism and children.

19 Sept 2014 – The New York Times The Khmer Rouge archives courts of Cambodia. Archives of Pol Pot regime. David Scheffer UN.

22 Sept 2014 – Buddhist Cambodian monk arrested for meth. Anadolu agency AA.

4 Oct 2014 – Cambodian police chief charged with corruption, embezzling $650,000 (2.11 million) of public funds. AFP Astro Avani Phnom Penh.

31 Oct 2014 – Court places two more union leaders under supervision. The Indonesian Daily. Five of the six leaders, criminal activity. Worker strike.

Burma Myanmar

BURMA MYANMAR

1920s – By the time George Orwell arrived in Burma in the early 1920s. The Delta was leading Burmese exports of over 3 million tons of rice. Half the worlds supply. Burma 2004 exports only 20,000 tons of rice. (Secret histories Burma. ©2004 UK Emma Larkin).

1920s – 90 British officers and 13,000 Burmese police oversaw the land of 13 million people. Corruption was rampant among magistrates, and criminals were seldom convicted. (Secret histories Burma. ©2004 UK Emma Larkin).

1920s – George Orwell lived in Burma in the 1920s, as an officer in the imperial police force of the British empire. His real name was Eric Arthur Blair. (Secret histories Burma. ©2004 UK Emma Larkin).

1935 – George Orwell Burmese days Gollance London UK.

1943 – Lionel White, Air Force transports into Burma. He and his crew were the only Allied military presence there? (NZ Memories Dec Jan 2012 2013 p65).

Feb 1945 – An RAF liberator bomber was shot down in southern Burma near Pypon. Six crew bailed out and were picked up by the Japanese Kempeitai and taken to Myanaung and tortured. (Japans Gestapo. Mark Felton ©2009 UK).

1947 – Broadlands archives, university of Southampton UK has 250,000 papers and 50,000 photos of Earl Mountbatten of Burma 1947. (Practical family history Feb 2010 p7).

1947-50s – Burma, British Jan 1948 exit of a colony. General Aung San military leader, father of Aung San Suu Kyi, was assassinated in July 1947. In the early 1950s M15 had a post in Rangoon Burma run by M15 and SIS. (Empire of secrets. Calder Walton ©2013).

1952 – In Burma the CIA gave support to the Chinese warlord General Li Mi, from Yuman province, KMT loyal to Chiang Kai Shek. Returning to Burma at the end if the Chinese civil war. Shan states in northern Burma, Li Mi kingdom. 1952 with 10,000 troops, northern Burma, opium and smuggling. (The hidden hand. Richard J Aldrich ©2001 UK).

31 July 1956 – The Deseret news. Burma plays down China troop reports. Rangoon UP. Chinese troops and border with Burma.

1962-2002 – Burma’s experiment with Socialism began in 1962 when the leader of the army Ne Win seized power. He set up a revolutionary council. Ne Win died in December 2002 aged 91 in his villa in Rangoon. (Secret histories Burma. ©2004 UK Emma Larkin).

1973 – Khun Sa was jailed in 1969 released in 1973 after the kidnapping of two Soviet doctors at a hospital in Taunggyi. He retuned to the Thai border. (Merchants of madness. B Lintner M Black. ©2009 Thailand).

8 July 1975 – An earthquake struck Pagan (Bagan) and destroyed many monuments in Burma. (Timeline internet).

1980s – Women were seen as possessions to be disposed of. Manipulate and control. Refugee camps on the Thai Burma border where two million people migrated from Burma in the early 1980s. Sex slaves. (Sex slaves. Louise Brown ©2000 UK).

Late 1980s – A $2 million reward US was offered for Khun Sa’s capture. (31 Oct 2007 Vancouver Sun Canada).

1987 – Mary Anne Stanislaw. Kalagas, the wall hangings of south east Asia. Ainslei California ISBN 0-9618-4450-7.

1988-1990 – In 1988 anti-government uprising and troops were sent to kill thousands of people in 1990. In 2007 there were more protests in Burma. Black market, fake passports, girls and boys for adoption. Trafficking and sex, identified as a business run by the state and military, sex slaves, kidnapped hundreds of girls. (Slavery inc. Lydia Cacho ©2010 UK).

1989 – Drugs the US and Khun Sa by Francis W Belanger Thailand published Worldcat database.

1989-2004 – High ranking generals and drug lords from Burma’s we state were buying up land and houses in Myanma. The heroin that paid for their retirements. After Afghanistan Burma is the worlds largest producer of heroin. Much of the opium used in heroin production is grown in Wa state northeast mountains. The business is … the United Wa state army described by the US state dept as the world most heavily armed narco traffickers. The government in Burma benefits from the illegal trade in drugs 1989. (Secret histories Burma. ©2004 UK Emma Larkin).

1990-91 – General Khun Sa, a warlord in Burma who controlled 80% of the regions opium trade. In 1990 he was indicted in the US on federal drug charges, but remained a fugitive. In mid 1991 he had deposited about $300 million in BCCI. The accounts were fed from Taiwan and Hong Kong.

1991 – Sex trafficking in Burma and Thailand. Sex ezine slavery Trafficking of Burmese women girls in brothels in Thailand (Internet).

1992 – Khun Sa his own story and his thoughts. Published in Thailand. Worldcat database.

1995 – The proceeds of the heroin trade were invested in casinos, hotels, bars and a drug eradication museum, sex slavery from Russia and Ukraine. (Merchants of madness. B Lintner M Black. ©2009 Thailand).

9 Aug 1998 – Burmese officials seized over 341 kg of opium in Kachin. BBC London. Arrested Thein Tun alias Aik Toe aged 31.

20 April 1999 – Burma seized raw opium in Kunlong township. BBC London.

1 Oct 1999 – Burmese embassy seizure. Burmese dissidents seized the Burmese embassy in Bangkok Thailand taking 89 people hostage including 1 US citizen.

Nov 2001 – Two Pakistani nuclear scientists under investigation by the US. Links to Al Qaeda arrived in Burma in early November 2001.

15 Nov 2001 – Burmese authorities raid a refinery in Kokang Shan State. BBC London. Opium refinery in Lamkkai a town in Kokang.

2002 – License to rape. The rape and killing of more than 600 women and girls, some as young as 4 by the Burmese military. Rape as a weapon of war. Same as the Japanese military did to the “comfort women” during World War Two. (Slavery inc. Lydia Cacho ©2010 UK).

2002 – The Thailand based Shan human rights foundation filed a report, saying the Myanmar government military force, raped at least 625 girls and women in Shan states from 1996-2001 (Timeline internet).

March 2002 – Rahul Bedi. Nuclear scientists in Myanmar. Janes intel review vol 14 no 3.

4 April 2002 – Burma seized 290kg of raw opium. BBC London.

8 May 2002 – Burmese authorities seized 156.16kg of raw opium. BBC London.

9 May 2002 – Police Burma heroin. Layla Tucak. The Australian Canberra ACT.

29 May 2002 – Burma says Thai police, syndicates for terrorist groups. BBC. Drug and human trafficking.

24 Dec 2002 – Burma, Thai allegations of soldiers involvement in drug production. BBC.

8 March 2003 – Burmese authorities seized 31kgs of raw opium. BBC London.

5 May 2003 – Burmese military seize raw opium, arms and ammunition in north Shan State. BBC London. Tonai Mawhtaik area, raw opium.

18 June 2003 – Burmese radio reports heroin opium in Shan State. BBC London. 10.7kg of raw opium seized.

2004 – Under British rule Christian missionaries were able to preach in Burma. In 2004 there were 2.2 million Christians 5% of the population..In 2004 missionary Christians were forbidden from entering Burma. (Secret histories Burma. ©2004 UK Emma Larkin).

3 Jan 2004 – Burmese officials seized 2.816kg of opium. BBC London.

23 Jan 2004 – Burmese opium, heroin, arrested in Shan State. BBC London.

19 May 2004 – A cyclone swept through western Myanmar. More than 140 people dead or missing about 18,000 people homeless. (AP 28 May 2004).

19 July 2005 – Burma arrests Malaysian in meth seizure. BBC. Arrest of Mr Chan.

29 Nov 2006 – Red cross closing field offices in Myanmar. Up to 1,000 political prisoners being held. (Wed 29 Nov 2006 1.15am 9645khz VOA).

12 Feb 2007 – A report issued by a human rights group accused Myanmar’s military of killing, raping and torturing ethnic Karen women over the past 25 years. (AP 12 Feb 2007).

5 May 2007 – Burma, an anti insurgent with opium and counterfeit notes was arrested. BBC London. Raw opium and counterfeit notes.

24 May 2007 – Burma seized raw opium in Northern Shan State. BBC London.

July 2007 – The Irrawaddy. Burma plays nuclear card, 10 megawatt nuclear reactor atomic energy agency Rosaton by Aung Zaw.

12 Oct 2007 – UN body reports two fold increase in opium production in Burma and Laos. BBC London. A resurgence of opium production in the Golden Triangle.

31 Oct 2007 – Warlords death evokes CIAs golden days in the heroin trade. Death of Burmese warlord Khun Sa. The Vancouver sun Canada.

May 2008 – Cyclone Nargis devastated large parts of Burma, killing about 130,000 people, millions of people were affected. (Timeline internet).

3 May 2008 – A tropical cyclone slammed into Myanmar city of Yangon. About 138,000 people died or went missing. A deadly storm. (AP 4 May 2008).

4 Feb 2009 – The Advertiser Adelaide. Rising prices for opium in south east Asia. Burma is the worlds second biggest producer of opium.

2010 – In the Philippines, Cambodia and Thailand, rich families made their fortunes from sex slavery, monopolies in industries. Hey have never been held accountable. Thousands of women, sex slaves for the military in Burma, China, Japan, Philippines and the Balkans etc. Sex violence and military training. (Slavery inc. Lydia Cacho ©2010 UK).

2010 – Sex slave camps in Burma. Organized crime groups who traffick in human beings, sex trafficking. Kidnapping children to be sold in brothels. Opium production and heroin. Burma produces 80% of the heroin in Asia. Child slaves. (Slavery inc. Lydia Cacho ©2010 UK).

18 Oct 2010 – Drug trafficking in Burma. Dylan Walch. Sydney Morning Herald.

20 Oct 2010 – UN drugs chief warms Burma, opium production is rising. BBC London. Dan Withers. Opium production increasing.

2011 – The hunt for Khun Sa, drug lord of the golden triangle. Ron Felber Waterville OR Trine day Worldcat database.

24 March 2011 – 6.8 quake 73 killed 111 injured. Timeline of earthquakes.

11 Nov 2012 – 6.8 quake 12 killed Timeline of earthquakes.

23 June 2014 – Fall in Myanmar drug seizures causes concern rather than relief. Michael Peel. FT.com

21 Sept 2014 – 7 dead 3 missing in Burmese flash floods. Democratic voice of Burma Mandalay and Sagaing.

7 Nov 2014 – Myanmar government, emails in Rohingya human trafficking. Int Business Times UK. UN says persecution of minority Rohingya.

7 Nov 2014 – Burma’s government state security forces profit from trafficking in Rohingya muslims. Kate Holal. The Guardian UK.

11 Nov 2014 – Burma’s government are involved in human trafficking says human rights group. Karen now. Fortify rights. Burma’s security forces are part of a transnational crime ring.

21 Nov 2014 – What happened to Burma’s missing 9 million people? Counterpunch. Guy Horton. The Ecologist.

22 Jan 2015 – US calls for Myanmar to investigate the killing of two Kachin women. NZ Herald. Washington AP. The women were raped and murdered by government forces.

Pacific

PACIFIC

1826 – Methodist missionaries arrived in Tonga from Australia (Timeline internet).

1860 – Natives of Vanuatu were kidnapped to work on sugar and cotton plantations in Queensland Australia and Fiji. (8 July 2011).

10 Oct 1874 – Fiji became a British possession. (Chch Star NZ 10 Oct 2014 p11).

1876 – The log of Thomas Andrews govt agent on the five month labour voyage of the “Jessie Henderson” from Fiji to the Solomon islands to New Hebridies in 1876 has survived. Fiji archives. (NZ genealogist March April 2012 p64).

1879-1906 – About 60,000 south sea islanders were brought to Queensland Australia by “Blackbirders” as slaves on sugar plantations. 7 Dec 2012 ABC net.au Tony Eastley. Sugar cane farmer seeks recognition for buried slaves.

1879-1919 – Indo Fijian history. Indians in Fiji 1879-2004. Sugarcane plantations from 1879-1919. (NZ genealogist May June 2011).

1893-1898 – In 1893 American sugar planters with the US minister in Honolulu. US marines and sailors toppled Hawaiian Queen Lilinokalani, and installed American Sanford Dole, a cousin of the pineapple magnate James Dole as president, the US annexed Hawaii in 1898. (The untold story of the US. Oliver Stone ©2012 US)

1 Nov 1952 – The US reconstructed a small part of the earths surface, by detonating the first thermonuclear device, on a Pacific atoll, which did not survive the blast. (We know now. John Lewis Gaddis ©1997 US).

1 Nov 1952 – The first US thermonuclear test, on the Pacific atoll of Eniwetok. The blast incinerated birds in flight for miles around, singed feathers and burned birds. (We know now. John Lewis Gaddis ©1997 US).

1 March 1954 – The US detonated its largest thermonuclear device, over bikini atoll on the 1 March 1954. The BRAVO test. 15 megatons, it caused a 250 feet deep crater a mile cross, and a fireball for two miles from the test site. Radiation fallout spread hundreds of miles, causing the first human casualties from the H bomb era. 28 Americans, 236 Marshall islanders and the crew of a Japanese fishing boat were exposed. The boat was the Fukuryu maru, fishermen got ill and died. Radiation levels. Nov 1952 test, BRAVO explosion. (We know now. John Lewis Gaddis ©1997 US).

1976 – Roger Dingman. Power in the Pacific. The origins of naval armed limitation 1914-22. Chicago uni of Chicago press.

March 1978 – Terry Clark, Maria Muhary, sister Angelique and Jim Shepherd went to Fiji, March 1978. Before Rabuka’s military takeover. The Fiji island of Taveuni. The Fiji trip, they met up with Chinese Jack Choo and Martin Johnstone at the Regent hotel in Nadi. The NZ police rugby team was at the hotel so they moved to the Hyatt hotel. (Mr Asia. Jim Diamond Shepherd ©2010 Australia).

March April 1978 – A meeting in Fiji in March or April 1978 at the Roget hotel in Nadi. Terry Clark, Chinese Jack Choo, Martin Johnstone and Jim Shepherd. Chinese Jack Choo was related by marriage to Khun Sa. (Mr Asia. Jim Diamond Shepherd ©2010 Australia).

Late June 1981 – Michael Hand fled Australia under a false identity, that of a butcher, Alan Glenn Winter, on a flight to Fiji in late June 1981. He spent a week in Fiji, false beard and mustache, then went to New York City, Nugan Hand bank, money laundering for the CIA. (Wiki. Nugan Hand bank). (The anals of unsolved crime. EJ Epstein ©2012 US).

1985 – East Timor violations of human rights. extrajudicial executions.. disappearances. torture and political imprisonment 1975-1984. book. Worldcat database Amnesty int. London UK.

1987 – Lagaga. A short history of western Samoa. Malama Meleisea. Penelope Schoeffel Meleisea. Google books.

1995 – The French government continues testing of nuclear devices at Moruroa Atoll. On 20 July 1995, 6 Aug 1995 PM NZ Jim Bolger. Boats to Rarotonga 18 Aug 1995. Cook islands Moruroa Tahiti. Previous nuclear tests. French boats, planes and helicopters. An orange hue tainted the sky over Moruroa atoll, the French had exploded a nuclear device. (Peter Williams QC ©1997 NZ)

17 July 1998 – New Guinea 2,100 killed 7 quake Rapture Ready.

17 July 1998 – Papua New Guinea tidal wave. 7 quake. Solomon islands 3,000 killed Malol Arop Otto Sissano. Timeline of earthquakes.

2000 – 357kg heroin was found in Suva Fiji, worth $100 million. One of the worlds largest ever drug seizures. Trans shipment through Fiji. (Stuff.co.nz 22 Dec 2014).

24 Oct 2000 – Fiji asks New Zealand to warn of visits by paedophiles. Leah Haines. Dominion Wellington NZ. Paedophiles travel to Fiji, travel and extradite.

30 Oct 2000 - $100m heroin haul. Drugs destined for Australia, in Fiji. Illawarra. Wollongong. NSW. Fiji on drugs charges.

16 Nov 2000 – Papua New Guinea tidal wave. 8 quake. one died and 5,000 homeless. Timeline of earthquakes.

8 March 2001 – Fiji a Pacific for organised crime, police. Neil Mercer. Sydney Morning Herald. Drugs and people smuggling. Mr Mick Palmer.

8 March 2001 – Fiji a Pacific paradise for organised crime, police. Neil Mercer Adelaide. Sydney Morning Herald NSW Organised crime groups are targeting the south Pacific, trans national crime syndicates.

4 July 2001 – East Timor militia leaders. Timorese Socialist party. BBC London UK. Political party Timorese Socialist party PST.

28 Sept 2001 – Australian police, Vanuatu for heroin cache. Ben Bohane. Port Villa. Sydney Morning Herald. Peter Bong. AFP. Bob Lehman.

9 Sept 2002 – Papua New Guinea 3 killed tidal wave 40 homes washed away. Timeline of earthquakes.

31 Oct 2002 – Vanbdhana Pritika Jeet disappearance in Fiji. She disappeared when she was 18 years old.

17 December 2002 – Fears of a coup and renewed violence, sparked by disgruntled police who fired on the PM’s home in Honiara. New Zealand born … Lloyd Powell and others fled the country on a chartered plane. (Christchurch Press AFP Kiwis flee Solomon islands.)

23 December 2002 – PM pays extortionists. Australia criticised Solomon islands PM Sir Allen Kemakeza for using public service money to pay more than $A 360,000 to police who were extorting him. We have made the point that the Solomon islands government cannot give in to the extortion deals. New Zealand and Australian police trying to restore law and order. (Christchurch Press AFP)

11 Oct 2003 – Samoa warns no leniency for foreign paedophiles. BBC London. Lilu Vaomalo Kini, paedophiles.

2004 – Suva Fiji a factory, chemicals to make $1 billion worth of meth. Hong Kong and Malaysians were arrested. Exporting meth. Six New Zealand police officers went to Suva Fiji. (Stuff.co.nz. 22 Dec 2014).

9 Aug 2004 – Chinese Communist party invites Vanuatu PM to Beijing. BBC London UK. Central committee of the Chinese Communist party vice minister Mr Zhang Zhijun.

22 or 27 November 2004 – Vanuatu stolen aid. Australia has expressed concern about trans-national crime in Vanuatu and the implications for regional security, lawlessness and deeply entrenched corruption. PM Serge Vohor visited Taiwan to sign a military agreement to grant Taiwan official diplomatic recognition in spite of Vanuatu’s recognition of China. Australian aid to Vanuatu is being stolen by the government. No money was going to the people. Australia threatened to cut aid. Pm Serge Vohor refused to take part in Australian diplomatic talks in Port Vila. (AFP Christchurch Press).

27 November 2004 – Takiveikato was found guilty on three charges of inciting a mutiny. On 2 November 2000 in which rebel soldiers tried to kill military commander Voreque Bainimarama. (The Fiji Times Christchurch Press AFP).

2 December 2004 – A report the Pacific is viable written by Australian national university professor Helen Hughs was released by the centre for independent studies. The report suggests policy changes including abandoning communal land ownership for individual property rights and freeing up labour markets. Aid to the Pacific region was more than $1.5 billion a year. (Christchurch Press NZPA).

10 Dec 2004 – Paedophiles top online crime threat. Papua New Guinea Post Courier Port Morsbey. Online paedophiles threat on internet, British.

21 April 2005 – Illegal fisheries part of organised crime. Papua New Guinea Post Courier Port Morsbey. Organised Asian crime syndicates ring.

12 May 2006 – Organised crime claim. Sheila Lasibori. Papua New Guinea Post Courier port Morsbey. Asian organised crime transnational crime int TNCU.

15 Sept 2006 – Officials confirm threats. Papua New Guinea Post Courier Port Morseby. Malaysian and Chinese triads operating in the country.

18 October 2006 – Fiji PM warns of a coup threat.

1 November 2006 – Commodore Bainimarama is in Iraq. He told the Fiji Sun newspaper, the EU, Australian, NZ and US. Governments had been deeply corrupt and unconstitutional practises by the Qarase led government. (Stuff NZ news Michael Field).

20 November 2006 – International criminal gangs are reported to have laundered billions in the island of Nauru in the past ten years. The US accused Nauru of selling large numbers of false passports. (VOA Phil Mercer Sydney).

27 November 2006 – Tension grows with coup alert. There was clear evidence that the military chief was planning to stage a coup within two weeks. (Fiji Pacific).

19 Feb 2007 - US to stage biggest anti-terrorist exercise on Guam. The worlds biggest anti-terrorism exercise will be held this year on Guam. Underscoring the Pacific islands groups importance to Washington. Exercise TopOff4 is part of a series of large scale moves established to strengthen the US ability to respond to terrorist attacks involving WMD. William Marhoffer the US coast guard commander in Guam said the TopOff4 exercise would be bigger than last years Valiant shield war game in which the US, 30 ships 280 aircraft and 22,000 military personnel. (Washington Times 19 Feb 2007. Cable gram. Agence France presse)

6 March 2007 - Vanuatu PM Ham Lini state of emergency. Port Vila ethnic clashes left two men dead and eight others in hospital. Armed police arrested more than 100 people. Dozens of armed personnel from the Vanuatu mobile forces made arrests for unlawful assembly, assault and property damage said police spokesman Willie Ben (Christchurch Press AP).

2 May 2007 – Papua New Guinea parliament votes to allow casinos and internet gambling. BBC London.

3 May 2007 – PNG bets on casinos The Daily Telegraph Surry hills NSW. Passed a law allowing casinos and internet gambling PNG.

7 Feb 2008 – Foreign drugs now on the streets in PNG. Pearson Kolo. Papua New Guinea Port Morsby, cocaine.

28 March 2008 – Organised crime business in the city. Papua New Guinea Post. Courier. Port Moresby. Organised crime international.

15 April 2008 – Asian mafia has grip on PNG. Daniel Kumbon. Papua New Guinea Post. Port Morsbey. Chinese mafia, Triads, already in PNG. Canada and Australia.

5 June 2008 – Fiji forum, Pacific transnational crime. BBC London. Cocaine and heroin.

6 June 2008 – Transnational crime a threat. Verenaisi Raicola. The Fiji Times Suva. Cocaine and heroin.

17 June 2008 – Sophisticated crime shows triads. Papua New Guinea Courier Port Morseby. Chinese triads entering country.

19 Aug 2008 – Niue meeting told transnational crime a threat in Pacific. BBC London Cocaine heroin.

29 Sept 2009 – Samoa islands 8.3 quake tsunami (Aljazeera 15 Oct 2013).

29 Sept 2009 – 8.3 quake tsunamis Samoa 136 killed dozens missing. Timeline of earthquakes.

30 Nov 2009 – State Human trafficking. Timoci Valu The Fiji Times Suva. International human tafficking.

23 Dec 2009 – Paedophile Roderick Robinson aka MacDonald was due to face trail in NZ on 3 counts of sex attacks on 2 girls under 12. 3 to 8 Nov 2008 in Hamilton. Trial was due 31 May 2010. He fled to Fiji before 23 Dec 2009. False passport? (TVNZ 23 Oct 2014).

2010 – Palermo in the Pacific Organised crime offences in the Asia Pacific region. Andreas Schloenhardt ebook Martinus Nijhoff pub (Worldcat database).

4 Jan 2010 – Tsunami Solomon islands 1,000 homeless 8 quakes since 3 Jan 7.2 quake Gizo. Timeline of earthquakes.

5 Jan 2010 – Triads after PNG shooting. The Australian national. Organised crime, triads Chinese migrants.

25 March 2010 – Chinese stunned. PNG Post Courier. Papua New Guinea. Chinese triads are sponsoring candidates in the 2012 election.

25 March 2010 – Triads in PNG politics. The Australian national. Asian triads are sponsoring candidates for next election.

19 May 2010 – Loopholes allow trafficking. Shareen Chand. The Fiji Times Suva. Trafficking of children for sex. Exploitation. Iris McKenzie. Sex trafficking called prostitution.

22 June 2010 – US demands action on child trafficking. The Fiji Times Suva Child trafficking in Fiji.

February 2011 – Elder Perry creates the first LDS stake in Guam. (Ensign p78).

30 March 2011 – AFP Fiji police operation results in cocaine bust. PAC news Suva. Importing cocaine into Australia from Fiji.

26 May 2011 – NZ detective Mark Franklin was arrested and charged with drug dealing in Rarotonga. (Political kiwi).

5 July 2011 – Sex trafficking a huge problem in northern Marianas. Pacnews Suva. Sex trafficking victims in Pacific countries.

16 July 2011 – Two casinos have opened in Samoa. Kate Chapman The Press Christchurch. First casinos to be built in Samoa, license one on each of Samoa’s main islands.

18 July 2011 – Samoan casinos forbidden for locals. Pacnews Suva.

21 Oct 2011 – 7.6 quake Tonga. Timeline of earthquakes.

9 Feb 2012 – Ecuador. Police in Italy found nearly 90 pounds (40 kilos) of cocaine in January 2012 in diplomatic mail sent to Italy. Two suspects were arrested. Crates inspected by police dogs before leaving Ecuador, travel to Italy through a third country (AP 2/9/12 timeline internet).

17 April 2012 – 7 quake Papua New Guinea. Timeline of earthquakes.

7 November 2012 – Big gold and silver find in the waters off Tonga. Nautilus mineral mining company. (TVNZ Stuff.co.nz Michael Field)

16 Nov 2012 – Body, cocaine haul find on yaught, 200kg cocaine destined for Australia. Found on yaught on a Pacific atoll. ABC Sydney.

16 November 2012 – Cocaine and a corpse found on an Australian bound yacht. In Tongan waters. (Lisa Martin AAP.The Australian).

16 November 2012 – Corpse and cocaine worth $120 million was found on a shipwrecked boat in Tonga. Suspected to be from Ecuador. (The Vancouver Sun AP Sydney).

16 November 2012 – The Pacific’s largest cocaine haul was found on a yacht in Vava’u Tonga. From Ecuador bound for Australia, the US DEA said in August 2012. Organised crime syndicate and a body was on the boat too. (Matangi Tonga online).

16 November 2012 – Nauru police charged 15 Iranian asylum seekers with doing damage on the island. (Herald Sun).

16 Nov 2012 – Tonga police uncover massive cocaine haul. TVNZ yacht in Tonga with a dead body on board a cargo of cocaine.

19 Nov 2012 – World bank approves $US1.8 million grant for Tonga. Matangi Tonga online.

23 Nov 2012 – Australia defends tough media detention centre restrictions. VOA Sydney Papua New Guinea and Nauru media are banned.

6 Feb 2013 – 8 quake Solomon islands tsunami 9 killed houses destroyed. Timeline of earthquakes.

17 April 2013 – 6.8 quake Papua New Guinea. Timeline of earthquakes.

22 August 2013 – Australia police seize huge cocaine haul in Pacific. Fox news. 750kg yachts trafficking drugs in the south Pacific.

23 August 2013 – Vanuatu police snare record cocaine haul in Port Vila harbour. 600kgs of cocaine with the Australian federal police. Radio NZ int.

23 August 2013 – AFP probe Australian links to Vanuatu drug boat 750kg. news.com.au.

23 August 2013 - $425 million in cocaine seized from Vanuatu yacht NZ Herald US and Australian agents. Stuff.co.nz, 750kg cocaine yacht Vanuatu hidden under concrete

24 Aug 2013 – Vanuatu, huge drug haul. Dominion Post Wellington NZ p4.

16 Oct 2013 – 7.1 quake Papua New Guinea. Timeline of Earthquakes.

2014 – Solomon islands flooding and earthquakes, disaster.

1 April 2014 – PNG transnational crime. PNG Papua New Guinea. Crystal meth worth $US 20 million was taken to.

2 July 2014 – Radio NZ. Alleged interference in Vanuatu citizenship.

2 July 2014 – Radio NZ. Malnutrition Pacific poverty. Severe malnutrition in the Pacific region especially children

21 Aug 2014 – Truth of shooting still murkey. Fiji police investigation shows a video of men shot at sea, a Somali pirate hijacking.

23 Aug 2014 – Human trafficking UN. Uni of Guam sex trafficking. Pacific daily news www.unwht.org

30 Aug 2014 – Radio NZ. Unemployment and poverty are major factors in the Pacific. IMF. Fiji Times reports.

17 Sept 2014 – TVNZ One news. 6.7 earthquake hits Guam. Minor damage and power cuts.

17 Sept 2014 – Reuters 7.1 earthquake strikes Guam. Manuel Mogato and Nick Macfie.

17 Sept 2014 – Guam quake 6.7 Lalate St Louis ABC news.

19 Sept 2014 – Guam police officer charged with sexual assault. San Francisco Chronicle Hagatna Guam AP. Charged the officer with misconduct and sexual assault.

30 Sept 2014 – Sydney Morning Herald. Sex abuse and rape threats. Nauru asylum seekers. Threats by guards. Sarah White. Michael Gordon. Detention centre.

12 Oct 2014 – Unions in Tonga threaten strikes over cost of living. Radio NZ. Trade unions public servants, Tonga strikes.

20 Oct 2014 – Crime syndicate busted, 9 charged for drugs and a gun. Involved in a drug syndicate which imported drugs from Papua New Guinea. Drug ice. Australian police, crime ring linked to cannabis in Queensland. (ABC Australia).

22 Oct 2014 – New Zealander Labour MP Shane Jones Nauru new high commissioner to the small island state. Waatea news.com.

22 Oct 2014 – Papua New Guinea Bouganville government adopts missing persons policy. ICRC press release. Port Morsbey Red Cross, missing person cases.

23 Oct 2014 – NZ union backs charity educating Fiji workers. Radio NZ. A charity backed by NZ unions in Fiji workers struggle.

30 Oct 2014 – UN hears Fiji police brutality is not new. Radio NZ. Assault in police custody is not new in Fiji. Police corruption brutality.

31 Oct 2014 – Corruption in Papua New Guinea. Crawford school of public policy. Australia national university.

31 Oct 2014 – Billy Ginger Hanson aged 9 who disappeared from Seattle US with his father is found. Daily Mail. Found on a remote island in the South Pacific 5,500 miles from home.

1 Nov 2014 – Australia to invest $8.8 million in Fiji. The Australian. Funds over 4 years. Australia new aid policy. Foreign minister Julie Bishop.

2 Nov 2014 – Quake hits off Fiji. Stuff.co.nz. 5.3 quake.

2 Nov 2014 – 6.9 quake off Tonga. ABC online. South Pacific west northwest of Tonga north east of Ndoi island in Fiji.

8 Nov 2014 – Earthquake Papua New Guinea 6.4 or 6.6 or 6.9. ABC Australia widely felt.

10 Nov 2014 – Australian riot police in the Solomon islands for elections. Radio NZ. More than 90 police flown in to cover next weeks election.

12 Nov 2014 – PNG police say corruption is widespread. Radio NZ. Papua New Guinea.15 MPs are currently under investigation.

13 Nov 2014 – Military news in the Pacific and Ukraine show Russia is back. The Australian. Convoy of Russian warships in international waters north of Australia. Jared Owens The Times UK. AFP.

17 Nov 2014 – Independent commission needed in Solomon islands to tackle endemic corruption. ABC Australia.

1 Dec 2014 – Armed men held passengers captive, ransacked the offices of Papua New Guinea’s second largest airport. ABC Australia. Liam Cochrane. Nadzab airport, broke into a safe, the Air Niugini safe. The men escaped.

13 Dec 2014 – Missing people. Fiji Times. Increase in the number of people reported missing in Fiji in recent days.

22 Dec 2014 – Heroin found in Fiji $20 to $30 million worth of heroin found in quad bike tyres. A man was arrested. Stuff.co.nz. Heroin found in quad bike tyres.

22 Dec 2014 – The Fiji Times online. Police FRCA raid uncovers $30 million worth of heroin. Timoci Vulc. Heroin hidden in a container. Tyres of a quad bike, heroin consignment from China.

23 Dec 2014 – Fiji’s biggest heroin bust. Radio NZ $25 million worth at Fiji’s Latoka wharf, the largest heroin seizure in Fiji. One person was arrested. Fiji Sun online. Fiji Times. Businessman to appear in court, a 40 year old.

28 Dec 2014 – Democrat Akilisi Pohiva is Tonga’s new PM. Radio NZ. He was elected by the parliament in Tonga.

30 Dec 2014 – Big volcanic eruption near Tonga’s capital. Michael Field. Stuff.co.nz.

31 Dec 2014 – New eruption at Hunga Tonga Hunga Ha’apei. Wired. Erik Klemetti.

8 Jan 2015 – 11 people are missing at sea in Papua New Guinea. PNG Today. Three children are included. A search is underway.

23 Jan 2015 – Vanuatu 7 quake reported on Twitter.

24 Jan 2015 – Thousands protest in PNG over the police shooting of young man. Radio NZ. Hanuabada police HQ in PNG, police shooting of a young man.