Escape to Australia

This fictional short story is Thai author Pira Sudham's thank you to Australia for offering asylum to Thais fleeing the military massacres of students in 1973 and later. Pira's eyesight is now declining and he finds it extremely hard to write anymore. Some of those who helped him in Western Australia and New South Wales are praised in the story.

Pira describes the story this way. Escape to Australia - A story of a survivor of the massacre of students in revolt at Thammasat University in 1973