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Article: AIDS RAVAGING ASIA, BUT LITTLE DONE TO PREVENT IT.(News)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
- Article date:
- January 26, 1996
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A ribbon of acrid, pale yellow smoke rose from the crematory as a Buddhist monk approached, clutching one end of his saffron robe in a bony, withered hand.
His skin was mottled, his body wasting away from the disease that would soon take his life, just as it had killed two other Thai men whose corpses had been committed to the fire only hours before.
``I know that my body will end up here,'' said Phra Kamthorn Kitisalo, who has AIDS, as he led his visitors into the crematory, the still-warm ovens at one end of a high-ceilinged reception room. ``Of course I accept that.''
In a corner, set beneath a gilded statue of the Buddha, were piled ...