A committee from Myanmar's Buddhist authority, which includes the
country's 47 most senior monks, confirmed the ban in a statement on
Saturday.
The local Irrawaddy news site said the decision, which
came into effect on Friday and lasts for 12 months, was intended to
prevent monk Ashin Wirathu from spreading hate speech. [...]
Wirathu is a member of the 969 Movement, an Islamophobic nationalist
group of Buddhists known for verbally attacking Muslims in a majority
Buddhist country where many worry about Islamic encroachment.
The digits 969 are said to symbolize the virtues of Buddha, Buddhist practices and the Buddhist community.
The monk is also linked to another nationalist group, Ma Ba Tha, which
is behind the so-called race and religion protection laws, which human
rights watchdogs see as a direct attack on religious minorities in
Myanmar, also known as Burma.
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