The Green Room at the Orillia Opera House will be open from 10:00am until 12:00 noon for coffee, tea cold drinks and biscuits.
Speeches and the ceremony of the flag raising to begin at 11:00 am.
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Canadian Flag and Karen National Union flag flying over Orillia last year.
This year Project Umbrella Burma will again be raising the Karen Flag to fly proudly over the City of Orillia from July 10th to July 31st.
In Burma today, the Karen people are undergoing the most savage attacks on civilian villagers, an ethnic cleansing that has been ongoing for 50 years (4000 people have fled to Thailand in the last month). Over 2000 people are vilely imprisoned because they do not agree with the illegal military government. The Nobel Prize Winner Aung San Suu Kyi , Burma’s so distinguished voice for democracy, in a trumped up trial, is likely again to be stifled.
The City of Orillia, in its wisdom, has chosen to honour Project Umbrella’s mission and vision by endorsing this Flag raising as an expression of their international awareness. Project Umbrella Burma thanks them.
We are hoping the Burmese people, particularly the Karen Community, of Canada will join us in Orillia for this event.
To our friends from Burma who may come from a distance, please email Cathy and David dcdownham@sympatico.ca or call at 705 689 0358 if you require a place to stay on Friday evening, we hope to be able to accommodate you.
