"The booming voice of a young student leader, Ko Ba Hein, standing on the roof of Magwe prison during the ?1300 Peoples Uprising? ignited the fire of student activism in the pages of recent Burmese history. At this important juncture in the struggle for independence from the British in 1938, students joined hand in hand with young Buddhist monks, workers, farmers and the general public in the Burmah Oil Company strike. This type of alliance became the model for mass movements whenever the country faced political and economic crises."...