U Gambira

Quick Facts

Full Name	U Gambira
Occupation	Monk
Date Of Birth	Jun 19, 1979(1979-06-19)
Age	45
Birthplace	Pauk Township
Country	Myanmar
Horoscope	Gemini

U Gambira Biography

U Gambira is one of the most popular and richest Monk who was born on June 19, 1979 in Pauk Township, Myanmar.

Gambira started attending school at age five, but the 1988 pro-democracy protests caused school closings that interrupted Gambira’s schooling. According to the Assistance Association for Political Prisoners (AAPP), he ran away from home at age 12 and was recruited as a child soldier by a military unit in Yangon. Once his brother and his friend located him, they removed him from the unit and returned with him to their home in Pauk Township. When the authorities came to investigate, Gambira’s parents enrolled him in a local monastery to protect him from arrest or conscription into further military service.

The city’s Buddhist monks took on a leadership role in these demonstrations, forming the All-Burma Monks’ Alliance and lending the uprising its nickname of “the Saffron Revolution”, after the colour of the monks’ robes. Gambira, then a 29-year-old monk, became one of the new organisation’s leaders. He later stated that the monks had been planning an uprising since 2003 or 2004. Because monks are revered in Burma’s Buddhist-majority society, the government at first appeared reluctant to suppress their demonstrations.

U Gambira Net Worth

U Gambira is one of the richest Monk from Myanmar. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, U Gambira 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

U Gambira (Burmese: ရှင်ဂမ္ဘီရ ; born 19 June 1979) is a former Buddhist monk, activist and a leader of the All-Burma Monks’ Alliance, a group which helped lead the 2007 protests against Burma’s military government. Following the protests, he went into hiding and published two editorials critical of the Burmese government in the Washington Post and The Guardian on 4 November 2007. He was arrested the same day.

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In April 2008, Gambira’s sister reported that he was leading a mettā chanting campaign among other imprisoned monks of Insein Prison to protest against their being issued “layperson” identification cards for the upcoming constitutional referendum. He was subsequently placed in solitary confinement. In speaking later of conditions in the prison, Gambira stated that he had malaria for seven of his eight months there. Tomas Ojea Quintana, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Human Rights for Burma, visited Gambira and four other political prisoners at Insein in August.

Facts & Trivia

Rick Ranked on the list of most popular Monk. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Myanmar. U Gambira celebrates birthday on June 19 of every year.

In November, Gambira was sentenced to 68 years in prison, at least 12 years of which would be hard labour. In early 2009, five years were taken off his total sentence, reducing it to 63 years. Both Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International protested his sentence, calling for his immediate release. Aung Ko Ko Lwin, Gambira’s brother who had sheltered him from authorities, was sentenced to twenty years in prison, and Moe Htet Hlyan, Gambira’s brother-in- law, was also imprisoned. Aung Ko Ko Lwin and Moe Htet Hlyan were sent to Arakan State and Mon State, respectively, to serve their sentences.