Guardians of ‘race and religion’ target NLD
Nationalist monks are stepping up their political activities as Myanmar’s election approaches, with the opposition National League for Democracy feeling the heat as the main target of Ma Ba Tha’s growing reach.
The constitution bars monks from voting or forming political parties, but Ma Ba Tha, formally known as the Committee for the Protection of Nationality and Religion, is engaged in what it calls a “voter education” program of sometimes thinly guised attacks against the NLD and its leader Daw Aung San Suu Kyi.
