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Tag: Saffron Revolution

The Fire This Time: Religious Violence in Burma

Hatred is never appeased by hatred in this world; by non-hatred only is hatred appeased. This is an unending truth.
— Dhammapada, 5

On February 27, Doctors Without Borders (MSF) was ordered to close all its long-established clinics in Myanmar/Burma. … Read more

Good Day Sunshine — Elections in Burma

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 1 April 2012

The good news from Burma keeps coming in after regional by-elections there in 45 districts. It is not an April Fools joke.  According to the Mizzima news service, Aung San Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy looks … Read more

A Change is Gonna Come… But Slowly — Speaking with Burma’s Monks

Maggin monastery, in Yangon’s eastern Thingangyun Township, was a refuge for hundreds of dissident Burmese monks during 2007’s “Saffron Revolution.”  The Saffron Revolution began with local demonstrations against arbitrary and immediate price increases, which quickly became a national movement for … Read more

Burma’s Opening Door

This piece can also be found on Shambhala SunSpace.

The news from Burma this week is encouraging.  The doors of freedom continue to open.  On January 12, the government of Myanmar and ethnic rebels of the Karen National Union signed

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Burma Back at the Crossroads

18 November 2011

At the Asia-Pacific summit in Indonesia last week, U.S. President Barack Obama said he had spoken with iconic Burmese democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi, who supports increased engagement with Burma/Myanmar. Seeing “flickers of progress” in a … Read more

Saffron Revolution Monk U Pyinya Zawta in the Bay Area

Over this last weekend Clear View Project hosted senior Saffron Revolution monk U Pyinya Zawta in the Bay Area. U Pyinya Zawta is the Executive Director in Exile of the All Burma Monks’ Alliance ABMA).  He was a leader of … Read more

The Last of the Saffron Monks

Here is a PDF of a wonderful article by Susie Poppick about our good friends in Brooklyn, the exiled Saffron Revolution monks of the All Burma Monks’ Alliance. This was published in the January 2011 issue of First Things, … Read more

Aung San Suu Kyi is free — but what happens now?

“Whatever they do to me, that’s between them and me; I can take it. What’s more important is what they are doing to the country.”— Aung San Suu Kyi, 1994

The images of Aung San Suu Kyi greeting thousands of … Read more

Leading Saffron Revolution monk’s memoir

Article by U Pyinya Zawta, first published in Mizzima. U Pyinya Zawta spent almost 11 years in prison. He is now living in exile.

Burmese monks are known to have played an important role in their nation’s politics throughout its … Read more

On the One-Year Anniversary of the Saffron Revolution — A Revolution of the Spirit

They may control the streets and monasteries, but they will
never be able to control our hearts and our determination.
— U Gambira (imprisoned monk)

One year ago, last September, 100,000 Buddhist monks and nuns poured into streets of Burma, … Read more