Excerpt from a new ebook Burma My Mother: And Why I Had to Leave

Abstract

(Sao Khemawadee Mangrai married Sao Hso Hom in 1959 in a big wedding attended by all the chiefs of the Shan states in the north of the country, called Burma at that time. Here she describes what it was like for her, a young mother of two, when her husband was taken away to prison without warning, for a period which would last five years.)