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Aung San Suu Kyi

by Nic Dunlop

Aung San Suu Kyi Nobel Laureate and general secretary of the National League for Democracy, the party that won the Burmese election of 1990. Despite the election results the Burmese military regime placed her under house arrest and persecuted many of her comrades. She has spent 11 of the past 17 years under house arrest in Rangoon where she remains today as the world best known political prisoner of concience. She is pictured here at her home in Rangoon in 1996

Photographer

Nic Dunlop is a Bangkok-based photographer represented by Panos Pictures in London. His work has been published world-wide (The New York Times, The Daily Telegraph, The Guardian). He is co-author of a book on landmines in Cambodia entitled War of the Mines (London 1994). In 1999, he won an award from the John Hopkins University for Excellence in International Journalism for exposing Pol Pot’s chief executioner, Comrade Duch, a story detailed in his book, The Lost Executioner (Bloomsbury 2006). As a result, Duch is the only Khmer Rouge leader to be held in prison awaiting trial. Nic is currently completing a major photo-book on Burma’s dictatorship.

For more of Nic Dunlop's work, see: www.thebppa.com/Nic-Dunlop

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