Violence against Burma’s Rohingya Muslims in October last year was a carefully planned and co-ordinated assault involving Burmese security forces and Buddhist monks, according to fresh evidence unearthed in a report released today by Human Rights Watch (HRW). The report, which ...

Thousands watch YouTube videos  Of monk inciting violence against Muslim minority. His name is Wirathu. He calls himself the “Burmese Bin Laden” and he is a Buddhist monk who is stoking religious hatred across Myanmar. The saffron-robed 45 years old regularly shares his hate ...

Rohingya News Agency (thinkprogress): Flying in the face of the Western stereotypes about Buddhists, a highly popular monk in Myanmar is using his position to call for persecution of the country’s Muslims, going so far as to deem himself the ...

A shadowy anti-Muslim movement known as 969 is spreading throughout central Myanmar, threatening the country’s historic democratic transition. Pamphlets, stickers, DVDs and internet postings are spreading hatred towards the country’s Muslim minority following violence last month that left 43 people ...

Reuters - By Jared Ferrie YANGON, April 10 (Reuters) - An ultra-nationalist Buddhist creed is becoming more visible in Myanmar's commercial capital, Yangon, after monks from the apartheid-like movement helped stoke a wave of anti-Muslim violence in the central heartlands. Many Muslims in ...

Reuters - By Jared Ferrie YANGON, April 10 (Reuters) - An ultra-nationalist Buddhist creed is becoming more visible in Myanmar's commercial capital, Yangon, after monks from the apartheid-like movement helped stoke a wave of anti-Muslim violence in the central heartlands. Many Muslims in ...

By FRANCIS WADE / THE IRRAWADDY Pressure is growing on the Burmese government to investigate an alleged massacre of more than 30 Muslim students at a madrasa in Meikhtila town in central Burma, during an outburst of inter-communal violence last month. Reports ...

By Jason Szep - Reuters The Buddhist monk grabbed a young Muslim girl and put a knife to her neck. "If you follow us, I'll kill her," the monk taunted police, according to a witness, as a Buddhist mob armed with machetes and ...

Myanmar's government has violated at least eight international laws with its treatment of the Rohingya Muslims, one of the world's most persecuted minorities, according to a British-based advocacy group. Burma Campaign UK slammed the progressive president Thein Sein for policies of ...