Obama, Burmese Monks Call For Release Of Suu Kyi
Posted on May 26, 2009, by Hanna Ingber Win, under Immigration, International.
Check out my story in today’s HuffPost.
On a recent trip to New York City, three Burmese monks who helped lead the 2007 protests known as the Saffron Revolution also called for the immediate release of Suu Kyi.
“For Burma to gain democracy without Aung San Suu Kyi is impossible,” U Pyinya Zawta told the Huffington Post through a translator.
The monks, who fled Burma (also known as Myanmar) after a government crackdown on protesters and were resettled in upstate New York as refugees, said there have been no significant protests inside Burma against the trial, but that is only because people are fearful of being arrested. Burmese have shown their solidarity with Suu Kyi by gathering outside Insein Prison, where her trial is now taking place.
“People feel very strongly about the government trying to imprison Aung San Suu Kyi. They are holding back [from protesting] because of the government repression against them,” U Pyinya Zawta said.
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