How Do Buddhist Attacks on Muslims Help Burma’s Government?
Cognitive dissonance aside, Buddhists — including monks — take up arms against Muslims in Burma while the government stands by.
Cognitive dissonance aside, Buddhists — including monks — take up arms against Muslims in Burma while the government stands by.
Burma — from its president to its Nobel laureate — has failed to address Buddhist violence in its Rakhine state against Muslim Rohingyas.
Buddhist teachers — Eastern and Western alike — who sleep with their students have left a trail of human wreckage in their wake.
However compassionate its origins, like all religions, Buddhism resorts to violence.
Kyi May Kaung looks at the religious roots of the protest movement in Burma today.