The nationalist monks opened a Rangoon school that teaches students how to become ‘decent citizens’ who protect Burma’s majority race and Buddhist religion.
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The National Development Party (NDP) may only be a few months old, but it already an electoral force to be reckoned with.
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Yanghee Lee highlights risk of backtracking and enduring rights abuses, and is targeted by nationalist protests on perceived UN bias to Rohingyas.
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The divisive Burmese monk will attend a conference in Columbo, organised by Sri Lankan Buddhist nationalist group the Bodu Bala Sena.
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The term ‘ethnocentric Buddhism’ points to the notion that Buddhist identity is intrinsically linked to national identity, says scholar Dr Paul Fuller.
Nationalist monks forced the abandonment of an NLD-organised literary festival in Rangoon on Wednesday, unhappy with Muslim speakers on the bill.
About 400 Buddhist monks and civilians marched against Time Magazine after it dubbed radical Buddhist monk Wirathu, ‘The Face of Buddhist Terror’ on its front cover. The article documented the[…]
Burma’s most notorious monk, Wirathu, has spoken out about Time magazine’s July issue which features his photo and the headline: “The Face of Buddhist terror” on the cover.
About 200 senior Buddhist monks met at a monastery in Rangoon to discuss ways to end violence between Buddhists and Muslims in Burma. The monks drafted a law that proposed[…]
Houses and mosques were set ablaze by mobs in a town in eastern Burma after a Buddhist woman was allegedly “torched” by a Muslim man, said authorities on Tuesday
Several people were seriously injured after violence erupted between Thai and Burmese labourers near a construction site in Thailand’s Ayutthaya province on Sunday
While the Myitsone dam suspension may have marked a watershed in business accountability, Burma is not yet in a position to drop its reliance on China
