Zoya Phan’s Account of Surviving Burma

A review of 'Little Daughter: A Memoir of Survival in Burma and the West' by Zoya Phan with Damien Lewis

by David Calleja

July 1, 2009

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David Calleja graduated with a Bachelor of Social Science and Master of Social Science from RMIT University in his home city of Melbourne, Australia. He has taught English in China, Thailand, South Korea and Cambodia, where he worked for a local NGO, Sorya, based in Tropang Sdok village. In addition he has also volunteered as a kindergarten English teacher, tutor and a football coach to male orphan students in Loi Tailang, Shan State. He has narrated and produced a video biography of Cambodian students learning English entitled I Like My English Grilled. His video documenting life at Stung Meanchey, Cambodia, A Garbage Life, can be viewed online. Contact him at david_calleja@foreignpolicyjournal.com. Read more articles by David Calleja.

3 Responses to Zoya Phan’s Account of Surviving Burma

grandmaster Frank
July 1, 2009 at 8:07 am
nice story David similar stories to lots of people in Basilan, Tawitawi, Philippines
people failed to be educated instead they live to survive, born in war and grew up learned how to fire a gun could not even read the label of the guns, could even signed instead they use thumb mark. The way to escape is to cross the sea out of the country to neighborhood ended arrested living without I.D. and passport.
David Calleja
July 6, 2009 at 2:32 pm
Grandmaster Frank, that is tragic. Which countries do these people end up fleeing to? There must be plenty of horror stories arising from such experiences.
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