It was Jan. 12, the night before they were freed.
Pyone Cho, a leading member of the 88 Generation Students group detained in the remote Kawthaung Prison in southern Burma's Tenasserim Division, was immersed in a weekly journal when a prison guard he hadn't noticed standing in front of his cell asked him what he was reading.
Then the guard, speaking to him through the iron bars of Cell No. 6, told him the news: “You will be freed tomorrow.”
Pyone Cho, a leading member of the 88 Generation Students group detained in the remote Kawthaung Prison in southern Burma's Tenasserim Division, was immersed in a weekly journal when a prison guard he hadn't noticed standing in front of his cell asked him what he was reading.
Then the guard, speaking to him through the iron bars of Cell No. 6, told him the news: “You will be freed tomorrow.”
