Extremist monk gagged by Myanmar's Buddhist authorities

By Lindsay Murdoch
Updated March 12 2017 - 5:38pm, first published 5:31pm
* WARNING - SUNDAY FOR MONDAY ONLYRohingya refugee Jamalida Begum and her 7-year-old son Mohammad Ayaz at a refugee camp in Bangladesh (14 FEB 2017). In December, when some Burmese journalists visited her village in Rakhine state of Myanmar, she told them that Burmese soldiers had raped her. ??????The soldiers got angry because of my accusation against them before the media. When they launched a hunt for me, I knew I would face retaliation. I even feared for my life. So, I fled to Bangladesh,?????? she said.
Photo: Saiful Islam??  Photo: Saiful Islam
* WARNING - SUNDAY FOR MONDAY ONLYRohingya refugee Jamalida Begum and her 7-year-old son Mohammad Ayaz at a refugee camp in Bangladesh (14 FEB 2017). In December, when some Burmese journalists visited her village in Rakhine state of Myanmar, she told them that Burmese soldiers had raped her. ??????The soldiers got angry because of my accusation against them before the media. When they launched a hunt for me, I knew I would face retaliation. I even feared for my life. So, I fled to Bangladesh,?????? she said. Photo: Saiful Islam?? Photo: Saiful Islam

Bangkok: A radical monk who for years has fanned the flames of religious chauvinism in Myanmar has been banned from giving sermons for a year by the country's top Buddhist body.

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