Monday 8 July 2019

Gerry Abbott interview in The Guardian


I didn't know Gerry Abbott had passed away until I got an email from Khin Thant Han, his wife.

I know Khin Thant Han via correspondence.

We are all getting old and passing from the scene.

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Tuesday 2 July 2019

Having to flee one's own country is not a piece of cake--

DHS inspector finds dangerous overcrowding in Border facilities (detention centers)

https://www.npr.org/2019/07/02/738179391/dhs-inspector-general-finds-dangerous-overcrowding-in-border-patrol-facilities

Really immigration jails.

Some of my friends have been in such jails after fleeing Burma to Thailand.

That's why I want you to read my novel Wolf, see below.

Having to flee one's country is not a piece of cake.

7-2-2019

Another border, similar problems--My novel Wolf--about a 1988 Burmese student leader who flees across the Burma-Thai Border--

https://www.amazon.com/Wolf-Novel-Betrayal-Burma-Myanmar/dp/1479203882/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=

Now available in e book and print formats.

 Oil painting by K M Kaung

UN envoy will ring alarm bell if no progress on Rohingya refugee crisis

https://time.com/5618797/un-rohingya-bangladesh-refugee-crisis-alarm/

Congressman posts video of appalling conditions inside Border facilities

https://abcnews.go.com/US/rep-joaquin-castro-posts-videos-purportedly-texas-migrant/story?id=64079177