
Download Burma has recently been thrust into the international spotlight.
Following the landslide victory of the National League for Democracy in the April by-election and Aung San Suu Kyi finally taking a seat in parliament – Burma is being hailed as Asia’s newest democracy.
But the government continues to limit the public, and sometimes political, activities of Burma’s Buddhist monks.
After the 2007 Saffron Revolution, monks must now obtain government permission to give a public speech – including details of its content.
Prominent monk Ashin Pyinnyar Thiha is banned from giving any speeches and was recently evicted from his monastery in Rangoon.
Citra Dyah Prastuti travels to Hmaw-Bi Township on the outskirts of Rangoon to meet him.














