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Esther Htusan was born on 1987 in Phakant, Hpakan, Myanmar (Burma), is an Esther Htusan is journalist from Myanmar journalist from Myanmar. Discover Esther Htusan's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 37 years old?

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Birthplace Phakant, Hpakan, Myanmar (Burma)
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Esther Htusan (pronounced TOO-sahn), is a journalist from Myanmar.

She is a former Foreign Correspondent for the Associated Press based in Yangon, Myanmar.

1987

Esther Htusan was born in 1987 in Phakant, Kachin State, Myanmar to ethnic Kachin parents Hkangda Dut La, Bawmli Hkawn Shawng.

She finished her primary and secondary education in Myitkyina, Kachin State.

2000

The series was the product of over a year of investigative reporting, and led to the rescue of over 2000 slaves in the fishing trade.

The stories covered enslaved fishermen and the ordeal they lived through; some were locked in a cages, some of the dead were buried without their family's knowledge, and the inhumane conditions they suffered through.

2008

She studied Mathematics at the University of Myitkyina where she earned her bachelor's degree in Science in 2008.

""My parents had watched Maung Thura, a well-known blogger and comedian, being sentenced to 35 years’ imprisonment for criticizing the military in 2008.

2009

After graduating from the university she moved to the country's biggest city, Yangon in 2009 to study English and political science.

A year later, in 2009, Hla Hla Win, a journalist with the Democratic Voice of Burma was sentenced to 27 years in prison for investigating the military’s violent crackdown on Buddhist monks during the 2007 Saffron Revolution.

They were worried that if I became a journalist, I would end up in prison too.""

2012

Htusan began her journalism career in 2012, working as a freelance fixer and producer for different international news agencies.

she was an editor for Kaung Thant Press, from 2012 to August 2013, before joining the Associated Press in September, 2013.

2013

In 2013, after investigating confiscation of more than 500 acres of farmland by the Navy, a military intelligence officer visited her apartment to interrogate her.

When she learned about the visit, she fled to Shan State in the east of Burma for two weeks.

2014

In 2014, Htusan and Margie Mason embarked on a 30-hour journey to investigate enslaved Burmese fishermen in the remote island village of Benjina in eastern Indonesia.

Htusan, and other members of the Associated Press team, spent over a year of investigations leading up to publication of what they learned.

2015

In 2015, the Associated Press began publishing a series of stories that Htusan, Margie Mason, Robin McDowell, and Martha Mendoza, had been working on.

The series of stories began running in March, 2015, as listed below.

The reporting led to coverage in numerous US newspapers as well as international coverage and the U.S. State Department began their own investigation and new legislation was passed to help close loopholes that allowed sales of products produced with slave labor.

Htusan and the staff of the Associated Press won multiple awards for the coverage of slave-labor in the fishing industry and are listed below.

2016

In 2016, she was the first person from Myanmar to win the Pulitzer Prize.

2017

In 2017, Htusan was forced to flee from her country after reporting on Aung San Suu Kyi's policies toward Rohingya refugees.

Htusan is now a freelance journalist, living in the United States.

Eventually, her fear of imprisonment and prosecution was realized, and Htusan was forced to flee from her home because of her 2017 reporting on Aung San Suu Kyi's policies toward Rohingya refugees and the ongoing "clearance operations" surrounding the Rohingya conflict.

2019

In 2019, looking back at her decision to become a journalist, Htusan wrote about her choice to become a journalist and her parents fear for her safety.