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Ashin Wirathu has long been blamed for inciting hatred against Muslims, in particular the Rohingya minority.

Buddhist monk Wirathu is at the forefront of Myanmar’s radical nationalist movement and supported the crackdown on the Rohingya. Photograph: Sai Aung Main/AFP
▼ Myanmarpolice have issued an arrest warrant for Ashin Wirathu, a firebrand monk known as the “Buddist Bin Laden”, over alleged incendiary remarks about Aung San Suu Kyi.
Wirathu has long been accused of inciting sectarian violence against Myanmar’s Muslims, in particular the Rohingya community, through hate-filled, Islamaphobic speeches.
The monk, who is at the forefront of Myanmar’s radical nationalist movement, supported the military crackdown on the Rohingya in August 2017 in Rahkine state. The UN has since defined the military violence as ethnic cleansing which was carried out with “genocidal intent”.
The police confirmed on Tuesday that a warrant had been issued for Wirathu’s arrest under article 124(a) of the legal code. (▪ ▪ ▪)
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