YANGON -- If anyone personified the idealism and heroism of the nationwide uprising in August 1988 in Burma, as Myanmar was then known, it was Paw Oo Tun, a 25-year-old ethnic Mon zoology student at Rangoon University. He went by the nom de guerre of "Min Ko Naing" -- Conqueror of Kings.
Min Ko Naing, now 55, spent much of his life in prison for his pro-democracy activism. (Photo by Dominic Faulder)
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