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“Whenever we entered a village, you could say that village had a problem,” he said. “There was fighting and shooting. The commander ordered us to kill every man in the village and burn it down. We had to follow his orders. Some people didn’t know anything at all. They were only 15-year-old boys. We killed them all.”
But at sea, working illegally aboard a Thai fishing boat, with false Thai papers and only a vague promise of wages, Min entered a world as brutal as the one he had fled.
He recalled the murder of a friend at sea.. .
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