By Richard Clutterbuck
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In 1985 for example, out of about 450 incidents of international terrorism worldwide, a quarter (111) were against American targets - over four times as many as there were inside the USA (24). * * Bruce Hoffman, Terrorisrn in the United States during 1985 (Santa Monica, Rand Corporation, 1986).
The worst area is the Gulf of Thailand, especially against the defenceless boat people from Vietnam. In 1984, for example, about 35 000 people left Vietnam under the UN 'orderly departure programme' but another 17 000 fled independently in small boats. About half of their boats were attacked, some several times, at least 61 people were killed, 110 women raped and many hundreds kidnapped. In the Straits of Singapore the government has kept piracy under control in Singaporean waters but the Indonesian side remains extremely hazardous, especially amongst the Riau Islands and in the eastbound lane of the Philip Channel.
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