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Published on Monday, September 01, 2008
By LA Daily News Staff Writer
On a humid day in March last year, Ni Na Phung settled in for an afternoon nap inside her home in Danang, a bustling port city on the central coast of Vietnam.
As Phung drifted into a deep sleep, a drunken young man whose advances she had rejected at a party hours before entered her home. After finding the 17-year-old asleep, he poured gasoline from a bucket over her small frame and set her on fire.
"The first thing I saw when I woke up were the flames," Phung said recently through a translator in a phone interview with the Daily News from Vietnam.
"Then I passed out."
Later, Phung screamed for hours because of the intensity of the pain before she was given medication to help her sleep. Four days later, she finally realized the extent of what had happened.
Phung suffered second- and third-degree burns over 70 percent of her body. Her chin was seared to her chest and her lips nearly burned off
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