Asian Missions

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Asian Missions
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This collection consists of photographs documenting visits made by Palestinian-Salvadoran revolutionary leader Schafik Hándal to China and Vietnam in the 1980s and 1990s. The visits were arranged through Hándal's position as leader of the Communist Party of El Salvador and one of the central commanders of the FMLN during the Salvadoran war of the 1980s. Hándal had a long history of connections with East Asia having carried out his first visit to Vietnam in the 1960s as part of efforts to build solidarity between anti-imperialist, Third World struggles. The photographs in the collection show Hándal and other FMLN leaders meeting various officials, as well as touring local sites.

The photographs have been donated to the Planet Bethlehem Archive by the Instituto Schafik Hándal in San Salvador, El Salvador. Descriptions of the images have been provided in both English and Spanish.

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