In a just world, the names Min Ko Naing and Ko Ko Gyi would be as well known as Steve Biko and Adam Michnik. These two leaders of Burma’s 88 Generation students, now in their forties, have spent ...

As Min Ko Naing ascended the steps of the 2013 Human Rights Cities stage at the Kim Dae-jung Convention Center in Gwangju last May 17, the scars of the war he fought against Myanmar's military regime ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. FILE - Min Ko Naing, a leader of Myanmar prominent 88 Generation Student Group, stands up during an inauguration ceremony of a ...

PYAY, Myanmar >> Few convicts leave prison with their heads held high. Political detainees, like the several hundred released Friday under a presidential pardon in Myanmar, are a different matter.

The Gwangju Human Rights Committee named Min Ko Naing, a prisoner of conscience from Myanmar, as the winner of its 2009 human rights prize for his contributions to his country's democratization. He is ...

Ko Naing, who lives in Thailand, says he feels helpless and depressed reading the news about the quake The last time Soe Ko Ko Naing saw his great-uncle was in July, at his home by the banks of the ...

On Oct. 18, Burmese student leader Min Ko Naing spent his 12th consecutive birthday behind bars in Burma's infamous Insein Prison, where he has been tortured, starved, and held in solitary confinement ...

Min Ko Naing, a towering figure in Burma’s pro-democracy movement, made a defiant stand when he appeared in court at Rangoon’s notorious Insein Prison last week. “You can sentence us to a thousand ...

The last time Soe Ko Ko Naing saw his great-uncle was in July, at his home by the banks of the Irrawaddy River. Ko Naing, a supporter of Myanmar's resistance against the military junta, was about to ...