The Rider of Crocodiles
Dr. Kaung was traveling
in Thailand when a colleague told her his great great grandfather was not
killed in Ayuthia in 1767 when the Burmese invaded, as he knew how to ride
crocodiles.
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Burma, America, The World, Art, Literature, Political Economy through the eyes of a Permanent Exile. "We must take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the oppressed. Sometimes we must interfere. . . There is so much injustice and suffering crying out for our attention . . . writers and poets, prisoners in so many lands governed by the left and by the right." Elie Wiesel, Nobel Peace Prize Speech, 1986, Oslo. This entire site copyright Kyi May Kaung unless indicated otherwise.