Peace Campaign & Saffron Revolution Ashin Sopaka at the Discussion after the Burma VJ Screening in Berlin on June 25th 2010

Burmese monks Ashin Kovida and Ashin Sopaka attendet the “Dictatorship NOW – Democracy HOW?” debate in Amsterdam on Saturday 3 July. The interesting questions where about the elections, their peaceful struggle for freedom and the monks uprisings of 2007. The Best Friend Project Burma Voices was launched on this day too.

From June 16th till June 20th Ashin Sopaka attended the Birthday Celebrations for Daw Aung San Suu Kyi in Barcelona. The program included a photographic exhibition- “Burma Delivery Room” by Irene Laxmi, a screening of the movie “Beyond Rangoon” by John Boorman, a meeting of Friends of l’Office of Viure. Words of PEACE, a speech [...]

Around 40 people attended our Burma VJ screening and discussion with Ashin Kovida and Ashin Sopaka on Friday in Berlin. People were very moved and it arouse a very interesting discussion about the situation in Burma afterwards. The evening was rounded off with delicious Burmese food.

Ashin Sopaka visited the JFK Friendship center Hort today to give the children and teacher a update on the Relocation Project and thank all for their effort to support the project.

Imagine a life were you would choose to rather live on a garbage dump in a foreign country than in your home village in your own country.