Special Report: Myanmar gives official blessing to anti-Muslim monks By Andrew R.C. Marshall YANGON (Reuters) - The Buddhist extremist movement in Myanmar, known as 969, portrays itself as a grassroots creed. Its chief proponent, a monk named Wirathu, was once jailed by the former military junta for anti-Muslim violence and once called himself the "Burmese bin Laden." But a Reuters examination traces 969's origins to an official in the dictatorship that once ran ...
June 27, 2013 - Reuters via Yahoo! News