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Special Report: Myanmar gives official blessing to anti-Muslim monks
By Andrew R.C. Marshall
YANGON | Wed Jun 26, 2013 11:15pm EDT
(Reuters) – The Buddhist extremist movement inMyanmar, known as 969, portrays itself as a grassroots creed.
Its chief proponent, a monk named Wirathu, was once jailed by the former military junta for anti-Muslim violence and once called himself the “Burmese bin Laden.”
But a Reuters examination traces 969’s origins to an official in the dictatorship that once ran Myanmar, and which is the direct predecessor of today’s reformist government. The 969 movement now enjoys support from senior government officials, establishment monks and even some members of the opposition National League for Democracy (NLD), the political party of Nobel peace laureate Aung San Suu Kyi.
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Myanmar Warned Radical Trap As Ultra Nationalists Emerge to Destroy Newest Democracy
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The Worst Has Yet to Come
The Worst Has Yet to Come: Appendix
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Leading Myanmar Women Slap on Ultra-Nationalist’s Bill to Control Interfaith-Marriage
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Myanmar Democracy Transition Marred by Anti-Muslim Rhetoric
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Violence used to instigate Myanmars
By RASHVINJEET S. BEDI and FARIK ZOLKEPLI
PETALING JAYA: The recent outbreak of violence involving Myanmar nationals here in Malaysia is being distorted and used to instigate the population back in Myanmar.
Blogs and social media platforms such as Facebook are being used to create the false impression that Myanmar nationals are being persecuted in Malaysia.
“They want to poison the minds of the people back home,” claimed a Myanmar national who has lived in Malaysia for more than a decade.
Most of the blogs and Facebook postings are in Burmese although theStar Online came across one which has posts in English athlaoo1980.blogspot.com.
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ဦးေရႊမန္းနွင့္ အေမရိကန္ ႏုိင္ငံေရးနဲ႔ ႏုိင္ငံျခားေရး ဆိုင္ရာ အဖြဲ႔အစည္းမ်ား ေတြ႔ဆံုပြဲ
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The World This Week: Was the EU right to lift sanctions on Burma? – 25/04/2013
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The untold truth: How Burma and Buddhist stopped international media
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ဘာသာေရး ပဋိပကၡမ်ား ရပ္တန္႔ရန္ ႏွစ္ဘက္ စကားေျပာဖို႔ လို
ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံအတြင္း အၾကမ္းဖက္ ပဋိပကၡမ်ား ေျပလည္ရန္ ႏွစ္ဖက္စလံုးက ေတြ႔ဆံုစကားေျပာ အေျဖ႐ွာရန္ လိုအပ္ေၾကာင္း ယေန ႔ရန္ကုန္ၿမိဳ႕တြင္ ေတာ္ဝင္ႏွင္းဆီခန္းမတြင္ က်င္းပသည့္ Buddhism & Non-Violence အခမ္းအနားတြင္ ဦးေဆာင္ေဆြးေႏြးသူ ပညာ႐ွင္မ်ားက တိုက္တြန္း ေျပာၾကားလိုက္သည္။
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Scholars Warn Myanmar to Aware Nationalism and Religion Used for Political Ambitions
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Rohingya Documentary: Stateless In Their Own Country
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