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When soldiers marched into her village in Shan state and took away her mother and father, Nang Nang was 4 years old?too young to understand that her parents had been dragooned as military porters, who are routinely worked to death or executed by their captors. But later, when the locals retrieved her parents' bodies from the forest, she was old enough to realize they were dead, and that Burmese soldiers had killed them. Nang Nang is 6 now. "She's still heartbroken," says her teacher, Hku Hseng Lu. "She cries a lot. Sometimes she gets angry and talks about...
...Today, Nang Nang lives on the rugged Thailand-Burma border in the hamlet of Loi Tai Leng, the headquarters of the Shan State Army (S.S.A.) and the refuge for hundreds of families fleeing the Burmese army's long-running campaign of terror against ethnic minorities such as the Shan. They include more than 200 orphans: Nang Nang, a shyly smiling girl in a grubby tracksuit, shares a tin-roofed dormitory with dozens of other girls who sleep on a wooden platform over a mud floor. For many, this has been home for five years, but not for much longer...
Started in 1948, World has teetered on the edge of financial ruin several times. It made its name flying refugees during the 1956 Hungarian Revolution and U.S. troops during the Vietnam War. A World aircraft was the last commercial airplane to leave Da Nang in 1975--overloaded with so many Vietnamese that eight turned up in the wheel wells. After an unsuccessful attempt at becoming a regularly scheduled carrier in the 1980s, World focused on military flying in the 1990s...
...ornate state dining hall of Malacańnang Palace, the Rev. Jerry Falwell rose to salute President Ferdinand Marcos for standing tall against the specter of Communism, a compliment the right-wing U.S. evangelist had a few weeks earlier bestowed on South Africa's State President P.W. Botha. "Had it not been for the Marcos family," Falwell told an audience that included the First Couple, government supporters and officials, "the chances are that the freedoms you enjoy today would not be here." Falwell later shook his finger at the Reagan Administration for "bellyaching" about the need for financial and military reform...
...Harvard International Relations Council, future screenings include “King of the Garbage Dumps” this upcoming Saturday with director Do Minh Tuan, and a third screening on March 14, with guest T. T. Nhu, of 2002 Sundance winner “Daughter from Da Nang...