A wound that wouldn’t heal

Gone but not forgotten: A Buddhist abbot laying a flower garland on the plaque of a victim of the nursery mass killing at Wat Sri Uthai Buddhist temple in the northern Thai province of Nong Bua Lam Phu. — AFP

Clutching a well-worn teddy named “Little Bear”, Paweenuch Supolwong fiddles with Buddhist amulets hanging heavy on her neck as her grandmother tells of the trauma still afflicting the four-year-old.

Paweenuch, known by the nickname Ammy, was one of only two children to survive a massacre at a Thai nursery a year ago that killed 36 people and devastated the close-knit rural village of Uthai Sawan.