A group of military officials were thrown out by monks when they were tried to enter a temple in Phayarkyi quarter in Mandalay, Burma with donations to appease the angry monks.
A group of military officials were thrown out by monks when they were tried to enter a temple in Phayarkyi quarter in Mandalay, Burma with donations to appease the angry monks.
The officials were shouted out by the monks from the temple when they tried to enter. They turned back.
"The incident occurred about 3 p.m. yesterday. The monks did want their donation and did not accept what the military government wanted them to do," a resident in Phayarkyi quarter, Mandalay said.
Maj. Gen Khin Zaw was in the team that tried to enter the temple, said the resident.
The junta is now approaching senior monks to calm monk activists by trying to give donations to temples. The authorities in each state are currently approaching senior abbots in their division to tell their monk to stay away from the protests.
According to the Union Solidarity and Development Association Maj. Gen Khin Zaw and party donated to 102 temples in seven townships of Mandalay division last Tuesday, the day the underground monk association Sangha Thamaggi announced they would protest.
Now Maj. Gen Thet Naing Win and USDA members are now approaching monks in Moulmein not to join the September 17 protest. The protesters want an apology from the junta for violence having been perpetrated by the pro-junta Union Solidarity and Development Association (USDA) and Pyithu Swan Arr Shin on monks in Pakokku.
The officials were shouted out by the monks from the temple when they tried to enter. They turned back.
"The incident occurred about 3 p.m. yesterday. The monks did want their donation and did not accept what the military government wanted them to do," a resident in Phayarkyi quarter, Mandalay said.
Maj. Gen Khin Zaw was in the team that tried to enter the temple, said the resident.
The junta is now approaching senior monks to calm monk activists by trying to give donations to temples. The authorities in each state are currently approaching senior abbots in their division to tell their monk to stay away from the protests.
According to the Union Solidarity and Development Association Maj. Gen Khin Zaw and party donated to 102 temples in seven townships of Mandalay division last Tuesday, the day the underground monk association Sangha Thamaggi announced they would protest.
Now Maj. Gen Thet Naing Win and USDA members are now approaching monks in Moulmein not to join the September 17 protest. The protesters want an apology from the junta for violence having been perpetrated by the pro-junta Union Solidarity and Development Association (USDA) and Pyithu Swan Arr Shin on monks in Pakokku.
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