Justin Wintle

author, 'Perfect Hostage'

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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

Justin Wintle on KCRW

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…

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…

from Which Way, L.A.?

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…

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…

from To the Point

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.

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.

from To the Point

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