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The priest was the unofficial guarding of the Remains of the Martyrs of the early missionaries who set out from Macau to Christianise China. They were not successful: the Chinese swiftly executed the ones that kept quiet. The rowdy, they hung by their ankles in public urinals and urged men to aim down their nostrils until they choked to death. Their bodies were returned to Macau as a warning. 1978

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MALAYSIA. At the Pulau Bidong camp set on an island off the east coast of Malaysia, would-be immigrants to America were first photographed. The camp on a tiny island became a bustling mini Sai Gon. A quarter of a million refugees passed through this camp before it was eventually closed in 1991.

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VIETNAM. Hmong (Meo). Poppy fields.

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