Fear, trauma: the cost of being a journalist under Myanmar s military junta laprensalatina.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from laprensalatina.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
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By Gaspar Ruiz-Canela
Bangkok, May 25 (EFE).- Some conservative monks do not want democracy because they fear that Buddhism will lose in Myanmar, a Buddhist monk says.
In a telephone interview with EFE, Vijjo said his temple in Yangon did not accept donations from uniformed men as religious groups and civilians were against the coup, yet some supported the Feb.1 coup.
“They believe fake news of military, if democracy prevails in Myanmar, Buddhism will be in danger,” said the monk, who used an alias to avoid reprisal from the military rulers.
In his view, some monks support the military out of fear. Several others are close to ultra-nationalist groups that campaigned against Muslims in recent years, particularly the Rohingya minority.
Myanmar civil government calls for foreign military intervention laprensalatina.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from laprensalatina.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
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By Gaspar Ruiz-Canela
Bangkok, Feb 18 (efe-epa).- If fear is anxiety over risk or harm, the Rohingya have many reasons to have it after the military coup in Myanmar, where the military have mistreated this Muslim ethnic group for decades.
The last time was in 2017, when the army launched a military campaign against them that left thousands of deaths, rapes, the devastation of entire villages and the exodus of more than 720,000 Rohingya to neighboring Bangladesh, which is being investigated for alleged genocide in the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague.
An estimated 500,000 Rohingya remain in Myanmar, in the western state of Rakhine, where they live in IDP camps or in villages and are denied citizenship and other rights such as movement.
Fear of prosecution and power hungry: What drove Myanmar s coup? laprensalatina.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from laprensalatina.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.