Thanks to Richard Sambrook's blog for pointing me in the directio of a great interview from the International Herald and Tribune with a monk who has escaped Burma.

Here is a snippet

In a six-hour interview in this border town, he painted a picture of a bare-bones organization, a group of 15 monks in their 20s who organized the September demonstrations. He said he had been elected leader of the group and had been inspired by videos of the popular uprisings in Yugoslavia against the government of Slobodan Milosevic.