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Winner
Fernando Moleres
Panos / Laif

"JUVENILE BEHIND BARS IN AFRICAN PRISONS"

Finalist
Jan Grarup
Noor Images

"Consequences! War & Climate refugees from the horn of Africa."

Finalist
Christian Holst
Reportage by Getty Images

"Half a Century Without Freedom - Life under the Military Regime of Burma"

Finalist
Richard Jones
Sinopix

"CHINA'S ONE CHILD POLICY"

Finalist
Altaf Qadri
Associated Press

"KASHMIR: PARADISE LOST"

Finalist
Andrea Star Reese
Freelance

"THE URBAN CAVE"

Finalist
Christian Holst
Reportage by Getty Images


"Half a Century Without Freedom - Life under the Military Regime of Burma"

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Karen Farmer Shot by Burmese Soldiers_ Saw Maung Pwe lost his eye when a Burmese government army patrol spotted him in his fields and started shooting at him from a distance. One bullet entered the back of his skull and took away his eye as it exited – another went through his shoulder. Miraculously he managed to crawl to safety in some nearby bushes, where the soldiers left him for dead.

He fled to E Tu Hta with his six children afterwards, but the urge to tend to his family’s cardamom and betel nut fields brought him and his oldest son back:
“I told my son to be careful, since there were soldiers all over, but they saw him and chased him down a mountain side. Later, friends of his took a picture of his dead body. His teeth were all broken and his head smashed. We just wanted to take care of our fields, but the soldiers beat him to death.”

 
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