Sasithorn, Prasopchai

Prasopchai was born in Thailand, on the banks of a tributary of the Mei Kong river, not far from the border to Burma and Cambodia, in a part sometimes described as the 'GoldenTriangle', not because it is a great place to live in, but rather because of the money traffickers and gangsters can make by buying and selling drugs, gemstones and gold, smuggled across the river in small boats during the night. Her family were poor, their subsistence coming mainly from fishing, and from farming small plots of land. They owned buffalo, and Prasopchai remembers riding on them when they were taken for regu...