For almost 50 years, since 1962, Myanmar was ruled by a military dictatorship.

Between 1975 and 1979, the Khmer Rouge killed almost two million people, up to a quarter of Cambodia’s population.

Nic Dunlop’s long term project on Burma offers a timely in-depth investigation into one of the world’s most brutal regimes.

Burma is one of the most ethnically diverse countries in the world with more than 35 distinct races.

In June of 2008, a 46-year-old man named Myo Myint walked through the gates of a Burmese refugee camp and travelled by bus to Bangkok airport, where his first ever plane-ride took him 12,000 miles to the USA.