Rev. Danny Fisher

Last month, I posted about All Burma Monks’ Alliance (ABMA) leader U Gambira being forcibly disrobed by Burma’s ruling military junta and charged with “multiple criminal offenses” stemming from the 2007 uprising. The Democratic Voice of Burma is now reporting that the Burma Lawyers’ Council (BLC) has demanded that the junta abolish that state law that “allows” them to forcibly disrobe monks and try them at civil courts. U Myo of the BLC told the Democratic Voice of Burma, “As monks are not allowed to handle the affairs of monks and they are still under the mechanism of [state] power, monks are being oppressed. That’s why we are demanding the abolition of this law.”