The Case for Visiting Ko Lipe Despite Its Troubled Past Ko Lipe, a tiny island in southern Thailand's Satun Province, has been marred by controversy and violence for decades.
Yet, as I stepped off the ferry onto its sun kissed shores, I was struck by the resilience of this once troubled place.
The island's turbulent past is well documented: the brutal insurgency that drove out the indigenous people in the 1970s, backed by separatist groups from neighboring Malaysia; the military occupation that followed; and the subsequent years of relative calm punctuated by occasional outbreaks of violence.