The lands of charm and cruelty  -  Stan Sesser

Travels in Southeast Asia

KORTE INHOUD

Stan Sesser (a freelance writer) portrays five repressed lands. He begins with the contradictions of Singapore, properous and tidy, whose competent, incorruptible leaders rule by fear. In desperately poor Laos, where the U.S. dropped more bombs than on Nazi Germany, villagers fashion daily essentials from remnant munitions and the wreckage of downed planes. A chilling report on Cambodia warns of the political re-emergence of the murderous Khmer Rouge. A portrait of Burma limns how that republic's form of Bu...
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1993 Uitgever: Picador 306 paginas Taal: Engels