A riveting IHT interview with
one of the main organizers of the September protest marches in Myanmar, Ashin Kovida, a 24-year-old Buddhist monk, who escaped to Thailand last week by carrying a false identification card, dying his hair blond and wearing a crucifix.
The failed revolution was organized by a handful of monks in their twenties. Kovida escaped. Others are missing or in hiding.
This article available online at:
http://www.theatlantic.com/daily-dish/archive/2007/10/a-profile-in-courage/224126/
