Some monks have this year defied religious edicts against political activity – Copyright AFP/File STR Myanmar’s Buddhist monkhood led an earlier struggle against ...

A Myanmar monk infamous for his bilious anti-Muslim tirades has been banned from giving sermons for a year by the country’s top Buddhist body, an unprecedented slapdown to a man whose hate speech has ...

YANGON (Reuters) - Myanmar Buddhist monk Wirathu said on Saturday his anti-Muslim rhetoric had nothing to do with violence in the western state of Rakhine, as he emerged from a one-year preaching ban.

MANDALYA: By 2017, Myanmar’s military had allegedly killed thousands of Muslim Rohingya, a massacre now being pursued as genocide at the International Court of Justice. A central figure accused of ...