Ashin Wirathu (Burmese: ဝီရသူ, Pali: Vīrasū; born 10 July 1968 in Kyaukse, Mandalay Division, Burma) is a Burmese Buddhist monk, and the leader of the...

international media it has received criticism. The Straits Times reported that Ashin Wirathu, the movement's leader, responded to recent anti-Muslim violence with...

racism and Islamophobia within Burmese society and how Buddhist monk Ashin Wirathu inflames the hatred within Myanmar's Buddhist majority population towards...

Jazeera English, the group has ties to ultranationalist Buddhist monk Ashin Wirathu. The primary position of the Thway Thout is in support of the Tatmadaw...

members, including both senior scholar monks and nationalist monks. Ashin Wirathu is a prominent member of PAM and is described as "the leader of the...

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2014, Rakhine mobs protested across Rakhine State, egged on by monk Ashin Wirathu demanding that the census be stopped or changed to prevent the Rohingyas...

anti-Muslim nationalist sentiments. One of the most infamous of which is Ashin Wirathu, who believes most Muslims are violent radicals who are raping Burmese...

delivered a sermon, he singled Ashin Wirathu, then in hiding, out from among the saṅgha, asking in rhetoric, "Where is Wirathu? He is my comrade." In February...

Danish Lama and a convert to the Karma Kagyu school of Tibetan Buddhism. Ashin Wirathu (born 1968), Burmese Buddhist monk, and the spiritual leader of the...