A student leader in the 1988 democracy protests, Pyone Cho spent 20 years in prison, but he was now taking his seat in the ranks of the ruling party in the grandiose parliament built by the regime that jailed him.
Date: Feb 01, 2016
Category: World
Source: Google
Myanmar 'midnight inspections' show military still powerful
Pyone Cho, a pro-democracy activist who spent much of the last 20 years in jail, said the government uses the data when it needs to: "I know, because when I was in prison, they came to me with records of where I had been in this and that year."
Wa Wa Win remembers the knock at midnight from the police and military intelligence when they came to take her husband, Pyone Cho, away. An activist since 1988, he had first been detained within months of their marriage and spent six years in jail. Arrested again four years ago, and given an effecti