If you enjoyed the read, please feel free to share itThose of us that work with mirrors start to see them everywhere. It’s oddly comforting; there are mirror-like messages everywhere we look. You don’t have to look too deep. This from a ‘travelogue’ by a Calcutta writer, Amitav Ghosh , describing the murderous riots after India’s partition and the formation of Pakistan and ‘East Pakistan’ (soon to become Bangladesh): “There had been flames dancing around the walls of our house in Dhaka (Bangladesh) and there had been a riot in Calcutta too, similar in every respect except that there it had been Muslims who had been attacked by Hindus. But equally, in both cities – and this must be said, it must always be said, for it is the incantation that redeems our sanity – in both Dhaka and Calcutta, there were exactly mirrored stories of Hindus and Muslims coming to each others’ rescue, so that many more people were saved than killed.” In the end, it seems, we come to each others’ ...
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Hey Nick,
Okay, so region by region:
LAO : I’ve been once before and there is PLENTY still to do. Lao is quite a bit more backward than Cambodia and possibly even more traumatized. Lao is also, as you likely know, a totally different tragedy. No land mines in Lao because the chicken-ass Americans never sent ground forces in and Lao was anyhow a covert aggression. They never sided with the N Vietnamese or Viet Cong yet a portion of the so-called ‘Ho Chi Minh Trail’ ran through Lao and for our American friends that was enough to bomb them into the stone-age. It’s one of the dirtiest stories of modern war.
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Read MoreIf you enjoyed the read, please feel free to share itSotheng est un étudiant de 23 ans vivant à 80 kilomètres de Phnom Penh. Amputé de la jambe droite suite à une malformation de naissance, il souffre régulièrement de douleurs fantômes. Aujourd’hui, il va participer à une formation dispensée par un Canadien. Une méthode basée sur un jeu de miroir. Cette rencontre va-t-elle changer sa vie...
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