At first taste of freedom, dreams of a new path
Three of the country's most prominent former political inmates recount the night before their release, the hopes they have for reform and the people they left behind
- Published: 29/01/2012 at 03:03 AM
- Newspaper section: Spectrum
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 Myanmar'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.
CRY FREEDOM: Pyone Cho waves to supporters at Yangon airport following his release from Kawthaung Prison.
Then the guard, speaking to him through the iron bars of Cell No6, told him the news: "You will be freed tomorrow."
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- Writer: Kyaw Zwa Moe
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