I met the Burmese monk Ashin Kesara in Mae Sot. We traveled together the strenuous six-hour tour to No Phu refugee camp in Umphang District, Tak Province, where he is living as the abbot of a small monastery since more than two years now. He escaped to Thailand in December 2007. Two months after Burma’s [...]

“Massenverhaftungen, Mord, Folter und Inhaftierung durch das burmesische Regime konnten unsere Sehnsucht nach der Freiheit, die uns vor so vielen Jahren gestohlen wurde, nicht nehmen. Wie haben ihren stärksten Schlag verkraftet. Nun sind es die Generäle, die die Folgen ihrer Taten fürchten müssen. Wir halten uns an gewaltlosen Widerstand, aber unser Rückrad ist aus Stahl.” [...]

Ashin Isssariya, aka King Zero, aka Minthunya was born in 1975 in Kungyangon Township, Yangon Division. This is his story. Told at the end of February 2010 in Mae Sot, Thailand.

At 8.00 am on 26th September 2007, when the monks arrived for gathering at the Shwedagon pagoda, there were about 60 military vehicles. Many of members of USDA, Lords of the Power, former prisoners many unknown were already at the pagoda.

U Agga Nya Na, now 27 years old joined the sangha at age 5. He moved to a monastery in Rangoon in 2001 to study foreign languages and was fully ordained as a monk there. He is one of the monks who expirienced the Saffron Revolution in 2007 first hand. After more than 1 month [...]