152:). Leslie was born one of twins in Bandung, Indonesia, under Japanese occupation, to his mother Lydia. He had an elder brother, sister and two aunts. At the time, his father William was interned in a POW camp in West central Java and would not see the twins until the Japanese surrender three and a half years later. His father was from
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William Leslie was a manager for a large Anglo-Dutch export company. An idyllic life ended abruptly with the Japanese Imperial Army's invasion in February 1942. For his first three years, Ian and his family spent life behind bamboo as POWs in a separate
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Australian Academy of Dramatic Arts. She runs her own business coaching company. Son Peter is an accomplished television cameraman, covering major sporting events in Australia and overseas, including the
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He interviewed many other world leaders, including Indian Prime
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camp to his father. Despite the ravages of prison life and starvation, disease, and lack of medical aid, the
Leslies survived. In August 1945, at the end of the Pacific War, the Leslies were evacuated back to Scotland.
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Leslie covered conflicts in most of the world's major trouble spots: Uganda, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Lebanon, Thailand, Cambodia, Philippines, Burma, Korea, Indonesia, Afghanistan and
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waged a war of independence. Indonesia was no longer a safe place to raise a family, with politically motivated attacks on
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