I was in prison for 17 years, 6 months and 16 days.
At university, I started reading underground communist propaganda, which was dangerous. At that time in Burma, there was a one-party military dictatorship, and if you were caught with a communist paper, it was a 10 year sentence. Later, I read papers about liberal democracy, smuggled to us by a contact in the US embassy. Little by little my classmates and I started to understand the situation in our country, and we became politicised.
Then one day, I was part of a student . . .