緬甸

Expat lives: Nordic epic
一個緬甸人的流亡生涯


孩提時代的帕斯卡做夢都沒有想到有朝一日,自己也會步祖母的後塵來到歐洲。但1988年,他參加了反抗軍人獨裁政府的示威運動,沒想到情況卻朝預想的相反方向發展。

Pascal Khoo Thwe is not the only member of his family to have left the jungles of Burma for Europe. In the 1930s, his two grandmothers were coerced into travelling to England. “They were to be taken to Europe by a circus and exhibited as freaks,” writes the 44-year-old in his book, From the Land of Green Ghosts.

帕斯卡(Pascal Khoo Thwe)並非整個家族中離開緬甸叢林去歐洲的唯一一人,上世紀30年代,他的兩位祖母曾被脅迫至英國。「一個馬戲團把她們帶到歐洲,充當稀奇古怪的展覽品,」44歲的帕斯卡在《逃離美麗極權國家緬甸》(From the Land of Green Ghosts)一書中這樣寫道。

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