Saving Fish from Drowning - Heal Burma

AMY TAN
last year reported on the systematic rape of ethnic women by the mili­
tary. Equally horrific abuses occur in unseen areas of the country—
from the abduction of men, women, and children who are then
forced to carry loads for the military until they die of exhaustion, to
the outright razing of entire villages suspected of hiding supporters
of the National League for Democracy.” Footage of boy monks and
smiling girls appeared.
“This is the atmosphere in which the missing Americans find
themselves. The Burmese military and U.S. Embassy officials in Ran­
goon say they have no leads. But some speculate the tourists may
have been imprisoned for unknown offenses to the regime. One of
the missing is suspected of being an activist and supporter of Nobel
Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi, the popular leader of the Na­
tional League for Democracy, who is now under house arrest. In the
meantime, tourists in Burma are leaving the country as fast as they
can. One man, however, remains optimistic that the Americans will
be found—Dr. Harry Bailley of the popular TV show The Fido Files.
He is a member of the tour group whose other members are missing.
Because of illness on that fateful day, Dr. Bailley stayed behind, while
his friends left for a sunrise boat ride just before dawn on Christmas
Day. GNN spoke with him firsthand in an exclusive report filmed at
an undisclosed location in Burma. Coming up next on World Hot
Spots with GNN—making news in how we report the news.”
I N THE ANTIPODEAN WORLD of San Francisco, Mary Ellen
Brookhyser Feingold Fong was awakened one morning by a tele­
phone call from someone with the U.S. State Department, informing
her that her daughter, Wendy, was missing.
Thinking the male voice was Wendy’s landlord, Mary Ellen said,
“She’s not missing. She’s in Burma. But if she’s behind on her rent,
I’m happy to handle it.” It had happened before.
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