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Dissident Thunder

By Delphine Schrank, Photography by Christopher Bartlett

How an insurgent movement of pro-democracy activists—from underground, in exile, or in prison—returned to take Burma’s military junta by political storm.

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Issue: Summer 2012 / Volume 88/3

Published: July 31, 2012

Delphine Schrank

Delphine Schrank is a contributing editor to VQR and The Washington Post’s former correspondent in Burma. She is currently writing a book, The Rebel of Rangoon. Her reporting and photography from southeast Asia, Europe, and Africa has also appeared in VQR, The Atlantic, Mother Jones, and Time...

Christopher Bartlett

Christopher Bartlett worked for many years as a photographer for major fashion publications including Vogue, British Vogue, Teen Vogue, Men’s Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar, Town & Country, and InStyle. His recent work is part of the Moving Walls 15 Documentary Photography exhibit at the Open Society Institute in New York City.

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