It's ten years ago that Tomo and were in Burma, where we met the student rebels in the refugee camps on the Thai border, dissidents in Rangoon tea houses, where we saw roads built by slave labor, talked to monks in Theravada monestaries, partied with opium war lords in Lashio and hung with the Palaung rebel army in their liberated territories. After we arrived at the Lashio hotel with tourist license plates and left the next day with plates for Burmese nationals we had SLORC's secret service on our tail. We split up. I pulled a Forrest Gump at the airport and got the first batch of films past security without X-rays by acting stupid and confused. Tomo got the seconds batch a few days later smuggled on board with the meal service. It was rough then. It got dangerously rough today.
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9/26/07
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2 comments:
So permanently on vacation that I damn near missed a revolution. Sounds like the jackbooted thugs have by now squelched the saffron robed monks, at least to judge by NYT headlines. Hopefully the pot will continue to simmer. I believe I remember the AK / Muscionico Burma outing. Whew.
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