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KNLA guerrillas prepare for an attack against a
Burma Army base on the Salween River
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Machine gunner waits for the attack to begin
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An odd little boy in a strange land...Karen students
line up before entering their classroom
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A tangle of Karen babies wait their turn for innoculations
at a displaced persons camp in the Burmese jungle
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A Thai soldier speaks softly and offers a cigarette
to a Karen boy-soldier who just walked out of hell. Some 800 Karen soldiers
had moments before abandonned their base, Wankha, to the victorious
Burmese and fled across the Thai border. This boy had endured months
of heavy shelling.
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Karen soldier guards a chained prisoner...in a
rather casual manner
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Karen National Liberation Army mortar crew lob
shells into a Burma Army position
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A widow dying of AIDS in a Phnom Penh slum ponders
her daughter's future
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Cham man at prayer
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Cast-net fishing, Cambodia
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Muslim girls from Cambodia's Cham community
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Cambodia's famed "flying boy" on a low
altitude pass near the coast
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A working elephant gets a well-earned drink after
a day of laboring in the forest of rebel-held Burma
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Cambodian classical dance students revive an art
that was nearly destroyed by the Khmer Rouge, Phnom Penh
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Kick-boxers train on a Thai beach
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Rohingya refugees, Bangladesh
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One of the world's great faces
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A young Cambodian man returning from night school
finds his mother dead on the street, one of five people killed in a
bloody grenade attack, Phnom Penh
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A San Francisco cop tries to break up a fight while
an onlooker seemingly ignores the mayhem
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A five-year-old boy begins his first day at work
as a garbage picker, Phnom Penh, Cambodia
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Chinese street theater, Taipei, Taiwan
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Vigilante "justice," Chittagong, Bangladesh
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Shantytown dweller flees from police after a beating
for protesting being evicted from his home, Phnom Penh, Cambodia
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Indonesian shopkeeper tries to put out flames on
looted goods during anti-Chinese rioting in Ujung Pandang, Sulawesi
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Pro-Democracy demonstrator removed from the streets
by police in Taipei, Taiwan
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Karen National Liberation Army guerrillas prepare
to confront the Burmese Army during the battle of Sleeping Dog Mountain
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A young boy toils as a garbage picker in Phnom
Penh's city dump, Cambodia
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Rohingya refugee children, just two of 250,000
Muslims who fled to Bangladesh to escape persecution in Burma
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This page has nothing
to do with sailing, or Belfast, or Maine...just a small selection of
images - not all of them pleasant - from my journeys.
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| Photojournalism-Stephen O'Connell |
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