https://www.australianforeignaffairs.com/articles/review/2018/07/myanmars-enemy-within/julia-wallace
I met Francis Wade once, about 20 years ago, when he was working with Irrawaddy magazine.
A very calm and well-motivated person, very grounded. Not the typical "journalistic type" at all.
I suggested that our non-profit invite him to talk on panel about Burma.
This
was well before the Rohingya crisis and genocide erupted, but I had
been hearing an army version of this since the mid 1970s, from my only
unreliable narrator at that time, a work colleague, "Puffy Hair", who
liked to boast of her relationship to General Ne Win.
That was one horrifying small-minded superstitious xenophobe.
Enough
said. I guess I and others sat around this person at lunch because we
got a lot of (rather warped) info that way, in a strictly controlled
country.
Whenever I think of this, the smell of the clogged lavatories comes back to me.
As it does when I undergo stressful situations here.
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5-13-2019
