Man arrested for selling tsunami VCDs

Fri, 14 Jan 2005, 00:00 WIB | Source: AP

THAILAND: Police in the tsunami-devastated Thai resort town of
Phuket arrested a man on Thursday for selling video compact disks
(VCDs) of the disaster.

The killer waves on Dec. 26 killed about 5,300 people in
Thailand, and left another 3,600 people missing. Survivors of the
disaster have been enraged by reports that sidewalk vendors have
been peddling VCDs of the tsunami for about 100 baht (US$2.58)
each.

In response, police have ordered a crackdown on vendors
selling the VCDs.

"We detained one man for distributing the tsunami video and
charged him with distribution of an illegally produced feature,"
said police Col. Theeraphol Thipchareon in Phuket.

Much or all of the footage of the disaster on the VCDs is
copied from material broadcast on television. -- AP

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