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Nic Dunlop | |
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| Born | 1969 Ireland |
| Occupation(s) | Photographer, Author |
| Known for | The Lost Executioner: A Story of the Khmer Rouge |
| Awards | 2011 News & Documentary Emmy Award nomination |
Nic Dunlop (born 1969) is a photographer and author.
Dunlop was born in Ireland, lives in Bangkok, Thailand. He was educated in Ireland and later England (Bedales School). He studied at the Central School of Art and Design in London.[ citation needed ]
Dunlop co-directed the HBO film Burma Soldier [1] [ better source needed ] (with Anne Sundberg [2] and Ricki Stern,[ citation needed ] produced by Julie le Brocquy [ citation needed ]). The film was awarded the "Grand Jury Prize for Best Documentary" at the 2011 United Nations Association Film Festival, [3] and Dunlop received a 2011 News & Documentary Emmy Award nomination for "Outstanding Individual Achievement in a Craft: Writing" for his writing. [2]
Dunlop co-authored War of the Mines (1994) with Paul Davies, about the devastation caused by landmines. His book The Lost Executioner: A Story of the Khmer Rouge (Bloomsbury, UK 2005; Walkerbooks, US 2006) was the result of a research supported by the Fund for Investigative Journalism. Dunlop exposed Kaing Guek Eav a.k.a. Comrade Duch, the former head of Democratic Kampuchea's dreaded special branch: the Santebal. Duch disappeared after the fall of the Khmer Rouge regime in 1979. In 1999, Dunlop tracked Duch to Samlaut, Cambodia, where Duch had been transferred as Director of Education. Several months later, Nate Thayer, who had previously interviewed Pol Pot and Ta Mok, accompanied Dunlop where they interviewed Duch for the Far Eastern Economic Review. Duch surrendered to the authorities in Phnom Penh following the publication of his interview. Duch was later tried and found guilty of War Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity becoming the first former Khmer Rouge to be tried and sentenced by the UN-backed tribunal in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Dunlop received an award from the Johns Hopkins University for Excellence in International Journalism for exposing Duch. [4] Dunlop spent 20 years photographing Burma's military regime (1992–2012). His book, Brave New Burma, a portrait of the country in pictures and words, was published in 2013. [5]
He is currently[ when? ] working on a long-term project about the Battle of Aughrim (1691) in Galway, Ireland. A short version appeared in Granta magazine. [6]
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The Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum or simply Tuol Sleng is a museum chronicling the Cambodian genocide. Located in Phnom Penh, the site is a former secondary school which was used as Security Prison 21 by the Khmer Rouge regime from 1975 until its fall in 1979. From 1976 to 1979, an estimated 20,000 people were imprisoned at Tuol Sleng and it was one of between 150 and 196 torture and execution centers established by the Khmer Rouge and the secret police known as the Santebal. On 26 July 2010, the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia convicted the prison's chief, Kang Kek Iew, for crimes against humanity and grave breaches of the 1949 Geneva Conventions. He died on 2 September 2020 while serving a life sentence.
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"First they shot my wife, who was marching in front with the other women," he said. "She screamed to me, 'Please run, they are killing me now'. I heard my son crying and then they fired again, killing him. When I sleep, I still see their faces, and every day I still think of them".
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