Child soldiers of the Mong Tai Army (MTA), former drug warlord Khun Sa.Photo © Thierry Falise All Rights Reserved
"For decades, the Golden Triangle, a large territory across Burma, Thailand and Laos, provided the bulk of the world’s opium and heroin. Chemists in Northern Burma’s secret laboratories were processing heroin “number 4″, a pure form of the drug. Today, most of the opium and heroin business has been taken over by Afghanistan and other countries." So begins Thierry Falise in his photo reportage Burma: The Narcotic Trade Goes On. The photographs are appearing on Gaia Photos, the new photography website that's being visited by people from around the globe.
Bangkok based Belgian photojournalist and writer Thierry Falise has covered South East Asia for more than twenty years. He is a regular contributor to magazines and dailies such as L'Express, Le Point, Paris-Match, Le Figaro, Marie-Claire, Marie France, VSD, Grands Reportages, Time, Newsweek, The New York Times and The Sunday Times among others.
He's published three books in French including a biography of Burmese pro- democracy opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, a document on the cyclone Nargis in Burma, and a novel.
While on a forbidden trip through the Laos jungle in 2003, Mr. Falise and his French colleague were arrested on their way back from an abandoned Hmong community. Since the Hmong were allies of the CIA during the Indochina war, both reporters were sentenced to 15 years in prison. Due to a vast international solidarity campaign, both men were released after five weeks in custody.
His pictures are distributed by Onasia agency.
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