Scores of pro-democracy Buddhist monks took to the streets of Myanmar’s second-biggest city Saturday, rallying against the military coup in demonstrations that coincided with the 14th anniversary of previous clergy-led mass protests.
Historically, monks in predominantly Buddhist Myanmar have been seen as a supreme moral authority, organising communities and at times mobilising opposition to the military regimes. But the coup has exposed a schism in the monkhood, with some prominent clerics giving the generals their blessing and others supporting the protesters.
Some monks carried upside down alms bowls — ordinarily used to collect food donations from the community — in a symbol of protest to reject the junta regime, which calls itself the State Administration Council.“We have to take risks… to protest as we can be arrested or shot at any point. We are not safe to live in our monasteries anymore,” a 35-year-old monk told AFP.
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