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Former movie star Kyaw Thu, center with glasses, chairman and founder of Yangon’s Free Funeral Services Society, helps to place the body of famous Buddhist monk Bhadanta Kovida into a hearse at Nyein Chan Yae (Peace) monastery in Yangon June 25, 2011. Photo courtesy of REUTERS/Soe Zeya Tun
*Editors: This photo can only be republished with RNS-MYANMAR-CREMATION, originally transmitted on March 2, 2015.

(RNS1-march2) Former movie star Kyaw Thu, center with glasses, chairman and founder of Yangon’s Free Funeral Services Society, helps to place the body of famous Buddhist monk Bhadanta Kovida into a hearse at Nyein Chan Yae (Peace) monastery in Yangon June 25, 2011. Photo courtesy of REUTERS/Soe Zeya Tun
*Editors: This photo can only be republished with RNS-MYANMAR-CREMATION, originally transmitted on March 2, 2015.