Ashin Wirathu

In this Burmese name, Ashin is an honorific, not a given name.
U Wirathu
ဝီရသူ
Personal
Born
Maung

10 July 1968 (1968-07-10) (age 56)
Kyaukse, Mandalay Division, Burma (now Myanmar)
ReligionBuddhism
NationalityBurmese
SchoolTheravada
Other namesWin Khaing Oo
Monastic nameVīrasū
OccupationBuddhist monk
Organization
TempleNew Masoyein Monastery, Mandalay
Senior posting
TeacherDhammapiya

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 969 Movement in Myanmar.[1] He has incited the persecution of Muslims in Myanmar through his speeches.[2] Facebook banned his page on the charge of allegedly spreading religious hatred towards other communities, after repeated warnings to not post religiously inflammatory content.[3]

  1. ^ "Two documentaries probe Myanmar's religious strife". The Economist. Retrieved 28 February 2018.
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference NYT20130621 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ "Facebook removes Myanmar monk's page for 'inflammatory posts' about Radical Islamists". Scroll.in. 27 February 2018. Retrieved 27 October 2020.