Irrawaddy: Burma’s monks jailed, disrobed for challenging Junta – Marwaan Macan-Marker
                   
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Filed under: News, Inside Burma In military-ruled Burma the jails are filling up with Buddhist monks. Currently, 136 members of the clergy are behind bars, most of them in the notorious Insein Prison in Rangoon, the former capital. That is the largest number of monks jailed at one time by the oppressive regime, say activists living in exile. But that is not all. “The monks have been disrobed by the authorities,”... [read full story]                    

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