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U Kawira, known as Galoneni Sayadaw, told Frontier at the Ngwe Ngar monastery in Mandalay of how he was “arrested, disrobed and sentenced to death by a military court” for his part in the 1988 uprising. (Teza Hlaing | Frontier)

Monks of the mundane world

Politically engaged monks have been active in Myanmar since before independence but their role in the November election is unlikely to be as divisive as it was in 2015.

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