Now in their 40s, most of the group’s founders were first rounded up as hotheaded university students who helped steer a failed pro-democracy uprising in 1988. Bound for professions in medicine, engineering or law, many never graduated. The prisons became their university.
- Extracted from “Burma’s Prisons a Caldron of Protest Fury”, The Washington Post, 3 August 2008.
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