"Profiles of '88 Generation Students: The '88 Generation Students group is comprised of Burma's most prominent human rights activists after Nobel Peace Prize recipient Aung San Suu Kyi. After Burma's military regime drastically raised the price of fuel in August 2007, the '88 Generation Students organized a non-violent protest walk in which they were joined by hundreds of everyday Burmese people. The '88 students were immediately arrested and have been held ever since. Anger at the arrests and the Burmese regime's treatment of Buddhist monks spiraled into last September's "Saffron Revolution" that saw hundreds of thousands of Buddhist monks marching peacefully for change. In late August 2008, in a blunt rejection of the United Nations Security Council and just days after two UN envoys traveled to Burma seeking democratic change and improvements in human rights, the country's military regime hauled dozens of the '88 Generation Students from prison cells into court in order to begin "sham" trials that will likely result in over 150 years of incarceration. List of '88 Generation Students..." "The Burma Fund published this report on 22 November, 2008 — the 88th Anniversary of the first historic boycott against British colonial rule by Rangoon University students (The day is now designated as the National Day of Burma). This report honors all members of the 88 Generation Students Group who had already served long prison terms but are once again being detained by the Burmese military regime since August 2007. It salutes these modern heroines and heroes for their selfless struggle for democracy and human rights and for their courage in upholding the legacy of those who had staged the historic University Boycott of 1920 as well as the ?Spirit of the Fighting Peacock” to bring an end to the unjust military rule in Burma."