Pascal Khoo Thwe: Escaping the land of the green ghosts
He was born amongst the Padaung people, a small tribe from Shan State in southeastern Burma. The Padaung are best known to the outside world for the neck rings worn by some of their women, that stretch their necks high above their tiny shoulders.
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A strange correspondence began between the jungle fugitive and the ivory tower academic. While one hunted frogs and snakes for food and languished during ever-worsening malaria attacks, the other hatched a plan to get him out to safety.
Dheera Sujan/Radio Netherlands 10.12.03