author, 'Perfect Hostage'
Journalist and historian, who has written extensively on Asia, and author of Perfect Hostage: A Life of Aung San Suu Kyi, Burma's Prisoner of Conscience
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Justin Wintle
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Back to House Arrest for Aung San Suu Kyi In Burma, also called Myanmar, Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi was sentenced today to three years at hard labor for illegally harboring an American tourist. But the Chairman of the ruling junta then commuted that to an additional 18 months under house arrest. Journalist-historian Justin Wintle, who specializes in Southeast Asia, is author of Perfect Hostage : A Life of Aung San Suu Kyi, Burma's Prisoner of Conscience.
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Back to House Arrest for Aung San Suu Kyi In Burma, also called Myanmar, Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi was sentenced today to three years at hard labor for illegally harboring an American tourist. But the Chairman of the ruling junta then commuted that to an additional 18 months under house arrest. Journalist-historian Justin Wintle, who specializes in Southeast Asia, is author of Perfect Hostage : A Life of Aung San Suu Kyi, Burma's Prisoner of Conscience.
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Aung San Suu Kyi Faces Another Year of House Arrest When a silver gray Toyota with tinted windows pulled up in front of the home of Burmese Nobel Peace Prize Winner Aung San Suu Kyi today, no one expected good news. Officials of the military goverment had arrived to read out an extension of Su Khi's house arrest, which was scheduled to expire this Sunday. She now faces her fifth straight year of house arrest, and has in fact spent eleven of the past seventeen years confined to her home despite calls from leaders and organizations around the world for her release.
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