Praying for Salvation

Bhun Si's leg still weeps from a 12-year-old wound sustained in a rocket attack
PHOTOGRAPH FOR TIME BY PHILIP BLENKINSOP/AGENCE VU

Wounds Which Never Heal Bhun Si's leg still weeps from a 12-year-old wound sustained in a rocket attack; one side of his face is a mask of melted flesh. Even after 30 years, the communist government of Laos has not forgotten the Hmong's complicity with the Americans; in October 2002 Bhun's wife and children were killed—executed, say the Hmong, by government troops

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