Today,I went to read some books at Kinokuniya and I came across a book about this journalist who lived in Vietnam,Laos,Cambodia and Bangkok.It was written way back in the 60's and 70's.I read across many stories which really moved me.They are stories where it cuts to the deepest and is much sensitive.But I would like to talk about this one first.After the war between the North Vietnamese and the Americans ended,many of those who are from Saigon left to fled in dreams of living in America.There was one ship,named Dubuque that was about to set sail for Malaysia when unexpectedly,a storm broke out,destroying the parts of the ship.Food was getting more scarce as well.There were probably around 100 people on that ship.From that point onwards,the ship then ended up heading to Philipines in chance of survival.But the journey took for more than a week to reach there.One man in particular,named Minh and his companions were growing sick of hunger and plans to kill a man named Cuong to eat him.Yeah,you read it.Even before these thoughts arrived,people onboard were already eating left-over corpse that died out of hunger. Cuong overheard the conversation and was afraid.Before his passing,he requested a private time to one of his friends telling him that his dream of leaving Vietnam was to be a Catholic.There,he was given a Bible and was baptized before they drowned him.There was also on instances when they plot to kill a boy.The poor boy was weeping and shouting "Don't kill me!" .He could not set himself free even how hard he tried and it took 3 minutes for him to be drowned to death before they chop and ate him.Driven by hunger for days caused them to loose their sanity.This probably the hardest thing for the Judge to sort it out since it was a rare case of murder.The boat reach to a total of 52 deaths out of hunger when they landed in Philipines.It even came to a point when they would gladly exchange a gold ring for an apple.How desperate is that?!I have no picture or whatsoever evidence.Maybe when i check out the book title again,I write it down and read more to post more stories.=)