It was founded on 9 September 2007, at the start of the Saffron Revolution, after monks were brutalized at protests in Sittwe and Pakokku.
[1] ABMA made several key demands to the ruling State Peace and Development Council (SPDC), including a formal apology to the Sangha, a reduction on fuel and commodity prices, release of political prisoners including Aung San Suu Kyi, and dialogue with pro-democracy leaders for national reconciliation.
[2][3] On September 21 it escalated its demands, promising to "banish the common enemy evil regime from Burmese soil forever", which was met with a violent crackdown.
[5][6] Outside of Myanmar, the ABMA supports refugee monks who fled retribution from the Burmese junta.
[7][8] In 2016 the executive-director-in-exile of the ABMA was U Pyinya Zawta, who lived in Buffalo, New York at the time.