Releases in Asia and Africa
It’s wonderful news that Nobel prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi has been released from many years of house arrest in Burma and that the British couple Paul & Rachel Chandler have been released from a year as hostages in Somalia.
It must be everyone’s nightmare to be detained against one’s will for an indeterminate time and it was a theme which I attempted to explore in my short story “The Hostage”.