Ashin Wirathu

Using ‘flower speech’ and new Facebook tools, Myanmar fights online hate speech

By Mari Michener Oye — December 24, 2014
YANGON, Myanmar (RNS) “It’s not enough to complain about content. That just removes the bad stuff after you already saw it,” said Matt Schissler, an adviser to the civil society group Paung Ku.

Buddhist monk blames Muslims for Myanmar bombing

By Richard S. Ehrlich — July 25, 2013
(RNS) Myanmar's radical Buddhist monk 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 marrying Muslim men.
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