Myanmar’s military junta releases a hardliner Buddhist monk, who has called Muslims 'mad dogs', 'snakes' and 'terrorists'. Here we explain his history of racism
Ashin Wirathu loves to spew hatred against Myanmar’s Muslim minority, the Rohingya Muslims. Such horrific was his malicious anti-Muslim rhetoric that Time magazine declared him asThat made the fundamentalist monk angry. He accused the international media outlet of violating his 'human rights'. He even went to the extent of saying Time magazine was funded by some “Arab capital", which according to himBut Wirathu’s anti-Islam statements are like an open book.
Interestingly, not a civilian court but the military itself made a statement to herald the gloomy fact that Wirathu was released from custody. “The case was closed and he was released this evening,”activist
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