Ma Ba Tha continues to lead charge against Thai verdict
Hard-line Buddhist monks and their supporters again took to the streets on 17 January to protest the conviction of the two Myanmar migrant workers condemned to death for murder and rape on Koh Tao island in Thailand.
The Committee to Protect Race and Religion, better known by its Myanmar acronym Ma Ba Tha, has taken the lead in publicly denouncing the sentence and verdict, calling on the incoming government to state its position. The organisation, though thought to be close to some senior military commanders and the outgoing Union Solidarity and Development Party, appears to be concentrating its focus on the incoming National League for Democracy government.
