Saturday, August 09, 2008

The infamous "pounzan" or stance prisoners in Burma are forced to assume for long periods of time --

http://www.aappb.org/pounzan.html

Echos of Abu Ghraib --

How do the prison wardens

of all the world's countries

learn from each other?

By telepathy.

Poem Copyright Kyi May Kaung.

Place names I came across in reading DGE Hall--Mainly a history of the rivalry between the French, the British and the Dutch in S and SE Asia from the 16th century onwards.

I'm only reading the reigns of Naresuan,his brother Ekathasarot and his great grandson Narai-- Narai was very progressive and sent the ...