Terror in the Golden Land
In a rare outing from the Rangoon home in which she is imprisoned, democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi met wi
It's midmorning, and Thein Soe is hard at work on a new canvas. A leader of Burma's underground art movement, he has been an artist for more than four decades.
My search for truth in Burma began in a sleepy embassy in Vientiane, Laos, where I sat sweating on a patent leather sofa in a crumpled silk shirt and tie, pulling phony business cards from my wall
Jacob Baynham, for the Pulitzer Center
Vientiane, Laos
It's only mid-morning, and sitting in his simple studio in the shadow of some of Rangoon's wealthiest mansions, Thein Soe is already exhausted.
"In your country, you work two days and you have food for a week," says Maung Lwin, a welder taking a break for tea after lunch.
During its 46-year rule, Burma's military government has turned one of the wealthiest countries of Southeast Asia into one of the poorest and most isolated nations in the world.
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The frontline of Burma's largest rebel army is a lonely hilltop ringed by a land mine-littered jungle, mountains controlled by the Burmese military and a patchwork of poppy fields visible through a
Lung Lawn walked for 17 nights to get here, through heavily mined forests, past Burmese military battalions and over the mountainous battlefields where rebel guerillas ambush them.
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Jacob Baynham is a freelance journalist who has spent much of his life in Asia. He is a graduate of the University of Montana School of Journalism, and has filed stories from Afghanistan, Laos, Hong...