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U Pyinya Zawta | ABMA

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October 20, 2010

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U Pyinya Zawta is Executive Director of the ABMA and was featured in the 2009 documentary Burma VJ. Ordained at the age of 20, he has been imprisioned multiple times for his support of the Burmese people against the government. His monastery in Yangon cared for many neglected HIV/AIDS patients from surrounding villages.

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