Grief hangs over the frail face of Bui Thi Me, a communist intellectual contemplating the deaths of three of her sons.
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From Vietnam Prison to Six Senses Paradise
I once met an old Vietnamese revolutionary in Hanoi by the name of Le Quynh Van. “My sight is poor,” he told me, “because Frenchmen shone bright lights into my eyes during interrogations.” It turned out that Van led a jailbreak from Con Son island 62 years ago.