Senior monks, regime officials, and thousands of lay disciples gathered on Thursday for the funeral of Ashin Munindra, the Buddhist abbot whose death last week forced a rare admission of guilt from Myanmar’s military junta.
The funeral procession from the Win Nimmita Monastery in Bago, where Ashin Munindra was abbot, to the cremation site attracted large crowds despite the heavy rain.
Earlier, prominent monks had delivered sermons to the assembled mourners, who included Myo Swe Win, the junta-appointed chief minister of Bago Region.
Ashin Munindra was shot to death on June 19 while travelling in Mandalay Region’s Ngazun Township. The regime initially blamed his killing on resistance forces, but was later forced to retract that claim after another monk who survived the. . .
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