Published April 17, 2008

OneWorld.net featured the Pulitzer Center's "Terror in the Golden Land" reporting project in the April 14 Today's News section of their website. For the project reporter Jacob Baynham investigates the pervasive poverty and human rights abuses occuring in Burma.

Click here to view the articles, photographs and blog that resulted from the project.

Related Event: In New York on Wednesday, April 16? Stop by the Pulitzer Center's "Reporting Global Crises" event at Columbia University where Jacob and four other Pulitzer Center grantees will speak on their international reporting experiences.

Project

Terror in the Golden Land

Repressed and mismanaged by a cadre of generals since 1962, Burma erupted last September in the country's largest pro-democracy demonstrations in two decades. But when government troops opened fire into crowds of monks and students and detained thousands in nighttime raids, fear sent people into hiding and swept defiance from the streets.
February 3, 2009 / Slate

Come Hell or High Water, the Burmese Junta Endures

by Jacob Baynham
In a rare outing from the Rangoon home in which she is imprisoned, democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi met wi
October 15, 2008 /

Georgetown students hold Burma Film Screening and Photo Exhibit

by Nathalie Applewhite
As part of Pulitzer Center's Global Gateway Georgetown students have undertaken awareness campaigns around their campus community based on issues covered by Pulitzer Center journalists.
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