Nic Dunlop

Nic Dunlop

Nic Dunlop (born 1969) is a photographer and author of The Lost Executioner, a book about how he tracked down Khmer Rouge leader Comrade Duch.

Dunlop was born in Ireland and is now based in Bangkok, Thailand. He attended the Central School of Art and Design in London.

He co-authored War of the Mines (1994) with Paul Davies, about the devastation caused by landmines.

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 was in hiding since the Khmer Rouge's fall in 1979, and was wanted for his crimes in personally overseeing the systematic torture of more than 15,000 prisoners.

Dunlop tracked Duch to Samlaut, Cambodia, where Duch had been transferred as Director of Education. In 1999, Nate Thayer, who had previously interviewed Pol Pot and Ta Mok, and Dunlop interviewed Duch for the Far Eastern Economic Review. Duch surrendered to the authorities in Phnom Penh following the publication of his interview. (Photo reference [1]).

Dunlop received an award from the Johns Hopkins University for Excellence in International Journalism, for exposing Duch.

Dunlop has been active in Burma for the last 15 years and is currently working on a photographic investigation project Burma - Betrayal about the Burmese dictatorship.

References

  1. ^ Photo: Leaders/Kaing-Guek-Eav

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