An open letter from Saffron People's movement Committee

Saffron Robe people's movement of Burma

A meeting held on the Thai -Burma border on the 16th ,Dec;07 by monks and lay people who managed to escape after the September 2007 creckdown by the Military regime in Burma.
The September;07 demostrations lead by the Buddhist clergy by the military.This fact was well established through print and television media around the world.
Hence , the meeting held on the above date, and attend by duly elected leading monks ,formed the Saffron Robe People's Movment accrodingly.thus this movement consisting of 3 seior elected monks,and 5 lay people from the expatriateBurmese community at learge, about the tragic situation that is , in Burma nowadays since september 2007.
It is without doubt thatthe military relentlesly continues to pursue those who took part in the september ;2007 demostrations.And monks ,lay people ,and student that are avoiding arrest continue to filter through the Thai -Burma border .These occurrences cause grate difficulties for the movement because it has to render as much help aspossible to those who manage to escape.
One of the movement's pressing issues is finding safe housing for those who are now living in uncertainty in exile.The movement have so far manage to provide the monks and their supporters with rellatively safe accommodation .
The movement's immediate and inter-mediate needs are;

1. To provide food and sheltier its members
2.To be abale to get UN refugee status for those members
3.to seek funds for tele-communation equipments i.e ,computer and
internet services
4.And , to also send some kind of help for the families of those arrested

because of their invlovement in the september;2007 demostration in

Burma.


Thank you kindly for your interest and generosity.

The Saffron People Movement Committee