Kay Danes’ Nightmare in Laos: The True Story of a Woman Imprisoned in a Communist Gulag is her harrowing personal account of being locked up for a crime she didn’t commit, in a country where human rights are pure fiction. Danes and her husband Kerry, a former Australian SAS officer, established Lao Securicor Company in […]
Entries from August 2006
Kay Danes – Nightmare in Laos
August 28th, 2006 · No Comments
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Sirin Pathanothai – The Dragon’s Pearl
August 15th, 2006 · No Comments
In 1967, as the insanity of the Cultural Revolution surged through China, Sirin Pathanothai was hauled up in front of the Red Guards and the Thai Patriotic Front and denounced for being a bourgeois diehard, a capitalist “roader,” and an imperialist lackey. She could not reveal the fact that both she and her elder brother […]
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Debbie Singh – You’ll Never Walk Alone
August 1st, 2006 · No Comments
In 1997, Debbie Singh received a phone call from her mother that would change her life forever. It concerned a letter from Debbie’s adopted brother John, who was in Thailand. “Dear Mum, Sorry it’s taken so long to write but I’ve been putting it off until it had been so long I didn’t know where […]
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