
Trike Daily Society & Environment
Myanmar Buddhists’ Beef
With official help, radical Buddhists target Muslim-owned businesses.
With official help, radical Buddhists target Muslim-owned businesses.
Narrow Burman-Buddhist nationalism remains the country’s biggest barrier to sustainable political reform.
Although international engagement has its place, only discussion and peacebuilding among local communities can help stem the wave of anti-Muslim violence.
Buddhist nationalism threatens Myanmar’s democratic transition.
(RNS) A radical Buddhist monk in Myanmar said a bomb that exploded near him, wounding five devotees, came after a death threat by a “Muslim religious leader” who wanted to silence his campaign to prevent Buddhist women from marrying Muslim men. Ashin Wirathu’s portrait appeared on the July 1 cover of Time magazine’s Asia edition, […]
Buddhist-led anti-Muslim violence and persecution has received unprecedented mass-media attention in the past couple weeks. Images of Wirathu—monk-leader of the “969” movement, recognized for its hate speech and for inciting violence against Burma’s Muslims—have now graced both the cover of TIME and the front page of The New York Times. While media attention has been […]
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