Kris Dietrich is a writer and journalist born in NYC and raised in Connecticut. When in 2004 Ukraine burst into the world spotlight he joined protestors of Kiev in the “Orange Revo...ver másKris Dietrich is a writer and journalist born in NYC and raised in Connecticut. When in 2004 Ukraine burst into the world spotlight he joined protestors of Kiev in the “Orange Revolution”; the overthrow in 2014 of the Yanukoych regime makes TABOO GENOCIDE: HOLODOMOR 1933 & THE EXTERMINATION OF UKRAINE most relevant.
After graduating from Yale (Philosophy and Political Science), Kris pursued advanced studies at Johns Hopkins School of International Studies (SAIS), in Washington DC. At 24, he led a coalition to restore democracy in Nepal.
In 1985 he joined the Editorial Dept. at International Herald Tribune (Paris), where the next year he launched Tech Images Internationales, a leader in the nascent CG animation industry. He returned to his passion for human rights when, in 1996, under the alias Dawn Star of EuroBurmanet – with a million hits a month – to promote freedom and democracy in support of Burmese Nobel Peace laureate Daw Aung San Suu Kyi against military repression, and staged a world boycott against the French oil company, recounted in his book Total, l’Etat et la Nouvelle Economie (2000).
A keen sailor, he lives aboard his 60-foot racing trimaran somewhere in warm and safe waters.ver menos