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IBMO URGED WHITE HOUSE TO HELP FREE AUNG SAN SUU KYI

June 25, 2009

Washington D.C. - We, New York based International Burmese Monks Organization, led an action at the White House Urging U.S President Barack Obama to help free Burma's national leader Daw Aung San Suu Kyi on June 20.

The day after her birthday, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi remaind under detention at Insein prison because of a sham trial by the country's dictators.

Burma's junta, State Peace and Development Council, refused and ignored the international calls to free 1991 Nobel Peace Prize winner.

With more than one hundred participants from New York to Maryland, the monks from IBMO led the prayer services at the Minglar Yama community monastery and White House for the release of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi and all political prisoners and for the world to be in peace.

On behalf of the IBMO, Vice President Venerable Ashin Kawwida sent a letter to President Obama on the occasion of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi's 64th Birthday.

In the letter, Venerable Ashin Kawwida said,

We are deeply concerned for the people of Burma, who live under a stifling regime where they cannot ask, even peacefully, for respect and common human decency without fear of beatings, torture, imprisonment and even death."

Venerable Ashin Kawwida also asked the U.S goverment to use its influence to release all political prisoners including 200 monks, nuns, and Daw Aung San Suu Kyi.

IBMO has reached out to President Obama to work together for peace in Burma. With a birthday cake for Daw Sung San Suu Kyi displayed, Monks led action at the White House lasted for more than two hours and ended at 3:30 pm.