Sasana Moli sets up 14 global branches

Phanida
Mizzima News (www.mizzima.com)

January 21, 2008- Formed to highlight the brutal suppression of monks by the Burmese military junta in September, Burmese monks worldwide have set up 14 branches of the Sasana Moli International Burmese Monks Organization.

With over 300 members the 14 branches of the Sasana Moli, were formed in various countries including the European countries, Eastern and Western parts of the United States, England, Canada, Bangladesh, New Zealand, Australia, Taiwan, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Sri Lanka and India.

U Pinya Wuntha, Chairman of the Sasana Moli International Burmese Monks Organization, which was formed on October 27, 2007 in Los Angeles, said the organization would chiefly work to highlight the situation in Burma, where flow of information is under the scrutiny of the authoritarian junta.

"In Burma , people live in the dark and do not have access to information. All they have to listen to is the Junta's propaganda and the international community is also cut-off from what is happening. So, we will serve as a window and tell the world what is going on in Burma," the Chairman said.

U Pinya Wuntha added that the organization was formed on the request of the people following the brutal suppression of the monk-led protests, when hundreds of Buddhist monks in Burma are believed to have disappeared.

According to the Chairman, the organization was formed with the aim to uplift the Buddhist religion, to publish and distribute religious publications, to protect the interests of the religion and to bridge the relationship with other religions and to spread love and peace to all the people in the world.