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A view of the religious tensions between Muslims and Buddhist through the portrait of the Buddhist monk Ashin Wirathu, leader of anti-Muslim movement in Myanmar.
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I wrote two sermons
on the catfish of Africa.
Characteristics
catfish from Africa are:
they grow up very fast,
they breed very fast too.
And then, they are violent.
They eat their own species
and destroy the resources
of their environment.
Muslims are exactly
like this fish
If children have the notion
of Buddhism,
they can later
to practice it well.
Must also
that they know how to distinguish,
from an early age,
who is the enemy
and where is the danger.
That's why I teach
especially to children.
In the morning, I first do
recite the doctrine to the monks.
Then I write.
Then I give sermons.
Finally, I help people who have been
persecuted by Muslims
Learn well
the title of my sermon:
"Believe and love 969."
Repeat.
"Believe and love 969."
969 is an organism that protects
race and religion,
without violence or aggression.
Do you agree ?
Yes OK.
Sing.
For race and religion.
For race and religion.
We must adopt 969
for peace to prevail.
Some entrepreneurs
have well-established businesses.
Among them,
a rich Muslim has a slogan:
"To destroy a race,
you have to use the money. "
What did he say ?
"To destroy a race,
you have to use the money. "
The Muslim calls it
"the sex strategy".
He hires a lot of young girls
in his business
Like that,
they see each other every day.
They have everything
what women like to have.
Both sex and desire
And since they have both,
the girls are getting married with them.
When they are a couple,
we give them an apartment.
Manipulated by these men,
they give up their religion.
All these workers
who work for them
and who marry with them
abandon their religion.
This is the "sex strategy".
Does it succeed?
Yes, it succeeds.
If we let the name
respect for human rights,
our race will be destroyed,
is not it ?
Yes, she will be.
Our religion too?
Her too.
She will disappear?
Yes, she will disappear.
Do not we need a law?
If, we need it.
That's it.
I was born in 1968
in Kyaukse, near Mandalay.
When I was in college,
my father retired
and we had
financial difficulties.
We had to help him.
It was a difficult time.
My father sold water
in tanks
on an oxcart,
and I had to walk behind him.
I became a monk at 17 years old.
At first I thought
only stay a few months.
But when I learned the Dhamma
and practiced meditation,
I decided to continue.
My family was angry
that I decide to stay a monk for life.
My father reacted
by banging his head against the wall.
Near Kyaukse,
there is a Muslim village,
Lapang.
In all Burmese villages
around,
there have been cases of rape.
A girl of 14 years
was raped during the night.
She was tied to a tree,
all naked.
We discovered it
only in the morning.
I was 12 years old.
When the authorities investigated,
all the Muslims of this village
shaved their heads
to not be recognized.
Today, my Master does not live anymore
at the monastery where I studied.
He is retired in the countryside
for meditation.
I met Wirathu
when I was 45.
He was about 14 years old.
This is his state of mind
who is like that.
He received the same education
than all other students.
He is brilliant
and shows vigor
in the study of Buddhism.
I never trained him.
It's innate at home.
In Kyaukse, I did not have to go out
for the meal offerings,
so I had all the time
to study.
But in Mandalay,
I had to go out every morning
with my bowl for the meal.
It was hard
to have a good meal.
In Kyaukse, we helped each other
when we had difficulties
or that we were sick.
But in Mandalay,
when I got sick,
I was alone
and had to take care of me.
Eight years later,
I became a member
of the Council of this monastery.
same year, I wrote
a book on meditation
which was refused by censorship.
In fact, the monk
at the censorship office
was close to the military.
At that time,
almost all Masters
were worshiped
by the military in power.
This censor monk was not happy
because I had criticized his Masters.
So I published the book
illegally.
I used the pseudonym
"Wirathu - My Soe Yein".
Like the book
has become a success,
people knew me as
"Wirathu - My Soe Yein".
The Battle of Theravada.
Those who read it
respect me still.
The idea of? ?the book came to me in 1993.
I had seen a video
on the meditation method
at the Monastery of Tant Kyi Taung.
So, I looked in the texts
of the Buddhist canon
to find out if what this monk
said was consistent with the texts.
Master's mistake
from both Kyi Taung
was breathing
in meditation.
When we breathe, we feel the air
which touches the cavity of the nostril.
And when one expires,
we feel the air that touches the tip
of the upper lip.
What to do in meditation,
it's concentrating
on the air contacts.
But the Master
so much Kyi Taung was saying
But the Master
so much Kyi Taung was saying
like cows,
by making noise.
Some roar
like tigers,
some scratch
like monkeys,
some crawl like snakes,
and some giggle
like chickens.
This monk went to the United States
to teach his method.
I do not like it.
It was not limited to our country.
Foreigners might believe
that's it, Buddhism,
but it's wrong.
His monastery has an annex
in Los Angeles, called Azusa.
When the book was published,
the monk of both Kyi Taung
sued me,
but the monks supported me.
I did not learn
the intentions of Muslims
than in 1997.
Before, we closed our eyes,
and it's only in 1997
that we opened them.
They were pages
typed and photocopied,
therefore less readable with time.
I read it in 1997.
At the time,
with my monk friends
other Mandalay monasteries,
we were still
young Masters.
And we went to the cemetery
taking bus number 8
It was around 8 pm
We had gone up on stools
to deliver our speeches.
They did not have a microphone.
Without microphone,
they had to scream.
A young woman and a "kalar"
had a date of love.
So, they hit the "kalar".
I was happy.
His code name
was "Myo Chit Thu": the patriot.
To hide,
they put on the monk's robe
on the head
and black glasses.
And they called themselves
by code names.
It was in order to hide
our identities to the secret services.
If they had known who we were,
they would have informed our
Great Masters in the monasteries,
and we risked expulsion.
Wirathu said not to buy
in Muslim shops,
not to sell real estate
to Muslims,
even at a very good price, etc.
These words could incite
to hatred.
That's why the government
had banned these speeches.
The sound of applause
could reach the sky.
At that time,
people were afraid to applaud.
Despite this,
monks had dared to applaud,
and the whole country
was interested in us.
That's how speeches
nationalists have spread.
Every summer he went
to Kyan Khin to teach.
After delivering two sermons,
he knew that the authorities
were going to stop him
and indeed,
secret services
have come to question him.
So he stopped his sermons
and returned to Mandalay.
These two sermons
had been registered.
The monks made copies
and distributed them widely.
In Mandalay,
when he arrived,
cassettes were already there.
That's how it was known
by everybody.
When he became
one of the leaders
from Ma Soe Yein Monastery,
the Grand Masters
no longer forbade him
to give sermons.
Protect race and religion,
it is not easy.
It hurts the heart.
Where are we going, the Burmese?
The threat to Buddhism
has reached the alert level.
By force, there is
less and less Buddhists
and more and more "kalars".
What does the government do ?
Nothing !
In addition, Muslims
live in our country,
they are well established,
they live on our land,
they use our resources
and they have all the rights.
They could
to be happy with that, right?
It is not enough for them.
They insult and assault
our religion.
I can not endure
what they are doing to us.
And you, the Venerables?
No.
So, listen to me.
In a few days,
I will make a decision.
As soon as I give
the sign of departure,
be ready behind me.
In the meantime, I have to plan
like it should be,
CIA way, Mossad, etc.,
an effective operation.
Thus, we will be able to succeed
our action.
The 1997 riots in Mandalay
did not have a leader.
So we did not succeed.
This time, I'm the leader!
I will make sure that the "kalars"
have nothing to eat./i>
And I will also make sure
that they no longer
of place to live.
It all started
October 19, 2003 at approximately 5:30 pm
and around 11 pm it was over.
Muslim houses
were burned.
Muslims are dead.
A monk has crossed on a motorcycle
the village of Lapang
while traveling
at a religious holiday.
The Muslims of Lapang
went out and killed him.
If this monk
had not been murdered,
I would not have been arrested.
A dead monk was serious.
They feared
let the whole country rise up.
They stopped us to prevent
a big move in the country.
The international community,
the UN and the Muslim countries
lobbied
on the government.
The soldiers were scared.
They arrested and imprisoned
random people.
They arrested me by accusing me
to have everything engineered
and orchestrated these conflicts.
He was imprisoned
because of me.
At the same time as me.
In prison, he was a Muslim
who made food for Wirathu.
He asked him what he wanted
then asked the guards
the ingredients and cooked them.
Being a Muslim,
he did not know
the ritual of offering the meal,
then it was others
who offered it to him.
Ce musulman m'a dit
that his relationship with Wirathu
was friendly.
They talked rather
of things to laugh
and they were talking about everything
except religion.
It is said that the prison is
"the university of life".
We can learn a lot,
there are many subjects.
In prison, I practiced
meditation for 99 months.
This is the reason for my serenity:
the concentration I gained.
There is another book of me
translated into English.
Its title is :
The Guilty of History.
I wrote it in jail.
I wrote about behavior
of the Monks Council
and their corruption.
In short, I pointed
that this Council of Monks
was the armed arm
of the military government.
I started it
the "Safran Revolution" of 2007.
It's thanks to a memory
that I wrote in prison
that the revolution broke out.
No.
The "Safran Revolution" of 2007
has not been implemented
by one person.
And she was not made
by a specific person.
It was to liberate the whole country
that the whole religious body
had worked.
Among the leaders,
there were five,
including myself.
It was because
the cost of living very high.
We did not manage.
We, the monks, knew that
it was the government's fault.
We decided to sing
the Metta Sutta outside.
We went to the residence
from Aung San Suu Kyi.
We surprised the authorities.
We entered
in the area easily
before they stop us
the road.
We were sad to see her
under house arrest,
but happy to see her.
She too was lucky
to be able to pay tribute to us.
We could recite
the Metta Sutta.
The government
attacked the monasteries.
It's the first time
in history
that the government
attacked the monks,
while we had demonstrated
peacefully.
We knew that outside,
the revolution had begun.
We had news
by those who visited
to the prisoners.
We were really happy.
And people told me
that this was happening
according to the memoir I wrote.
They had
a lot of respect for me.
Someone in power
came to see me
He asked me
to write a letter to the monks
to stop demonstrating.
Even if he had promised me
to free myself,
I would never have written this letter,
I would never have accepted.
My dear fellow monks,
I am happy
that you have come to welcome me.
Thank you
of your warm welcome.
So, do you prefer
a yellow speech,
a monk's speech,
or a bright red speech,
to know a courageous speech?
A bright red speech!
Okay.
For Theravada Buddhism,
the new monastery Ma Soe Yein
must be a bulwark.
He must be an army
from which fighters are born
who fight in the first row.
We, the monks,
we always open our eyes
Population.
In Burmese politics,
these are always
the monks who guide.
To show our greatness,
we will write
a new page.
When I was released from prison,
the movement 969
has grown.
I planned the project
stickers in prison, all alone.
It took me 8 years.
Seeing these stickers,
they think of Buddha.
Muslims possess
a lot of shops.
Big companies
like Motherland,
Naing Group, Shine Group,
control big markets
construction.
All Muslims.
that's why
we give instructions
not to buy
among Muslims,
because with the money they earn,
they can marry
Burmese girls.
Then,
they will invade the whole country.
A central claim
extremist monks
is that the Muslim population
develops without control.
Census results
do not confirm it at all.
From the time of colonization
speak English until 2012,
all who ruled
our country were bad.
They did not care
of national security.
that's why
over a million Bengalis
have crossed our borders
illegally.
They want to seize Rakhine.
Everything broke on June 8, 2012.
The Muslim leader.
They are Muslims who
have just come out of the mosque.
Look, they have stones!
They have picks!
He is a Buddhist filming.
He filmed from his window.
When the kalars saw it,
they threw him pebbles.
Even so, he continued to film.
So the kalars
have pushed the doors
and entered.
At this moment,
he escaped with his wife.
Then they set fire to his house.
I arrived after.
It's him
who gave me these videos.
When we arrived,
there was still smoke.
Muslims burned
eight villages in one day.
I did a trick
to see the places
where there were fires.
I found that it was still
more serious than I imagined.
I was very affected.
In fact, in Maungdaw,
riot
had begun
with rape and murder
of a young Buddhist
by three Muslims.
And,
ten Muslim pilgrims were killed
by Buddhists.
June 3, 2012 ...
June 3, 2012,
ten Muslim pilgrims
were returning to Rangoon by bus.
Arrived at Toungup,
a crowd of Buddhists
took them off the bus and killed them.
The riot is gone
from the mosque to Maungdaw,
but in Sittwe,
they are Buddhists
who started.
When the riots took place,
I went to film them
then I broadcast widely
these videos.
People realized
of the situation
and that they had to
protect our religion.
This is how
the 969 movement has taken off.
To President Thein Sein ...
Good health!
To President Thein Sein ...
Good health!
Good health!
To President Thein Sein ...
Good health!
- That our country ...
- Be protected!
Protect our country!
Even the Buddha did
of politics for peace.
I want to declare here clearly
that the Buddhist doctrine
does not mention that religious
do not have to do politics.
- The Rohingyas ...
- We do not want it!
- The Rohingyas ...
- We do not want it!
- The Rohingyas ...
- We do not want it!
I remember talking
with a young monk
in Rakhine State in 2012.
He was writing
the first pamphlet
calling the population to exclude
economically, politically
and socially Muslims.
And he told us that Muslims
posed a threat
to his culture and for his country,
and that he had the impression
that all Rakhine Muslims
were essentially terrorists
or members
d'organisations terroristes.
When there will be too many Muslims,
there will be troubles
and "jihads".
It's to prevent all that
we are acting now.
We can live
with all kinds of people,
with all the people of the world.
But the Muslims here
are like animals.
They are violent
and go on the attack.
After the first wave of violence,
we have described
how Buddhist communities
of Rakhine were organized.
For many months,
they had
large meetings
on the village squares.
In Rathedaung,
a big number of people
have met
and have developed, in fact,
a platform
ethnic cleansing.
We tried to sound the alarm
at the time,
to tell the diplomats,
at the UN, the media,
what was preparing.
We were very worried
that violence increases.
And, of course, in October 2012,
another wave of violence,
much more coordinated, hit.
This time it touched 14
of the 17 cantons of Rakhine State.
This obeyed a plan:
the Buddhists were setting fire
to Muslim houses,
and when the Muslims,
Rohingyas for the most part,
were trying to extinguish those fires,
the police
and other security forces
remained motionless.
Arakanese Buddhists
have all the powers
and all the posts.
They agreed to
try to scare the Rohingyas.
Muslims
have small houses.
Their houses burned,
they can get some
bigger ones.
It is to get
international aid
they burn
their own homes.
The bottom of the problem,
when people say that
the Rohingyas burn their homes,
it's not only that
they say it and repeat it,
but they sincerely believe it.
With this second wave
of violence,
more than 140,000 people
have been confined in more
40 internment camps.
Before 1962,
we had the right to vote.
There were Rohingyas
elected to Parliament.
We could have jobs.
We were in the army,
police, immigration.
There were teachers,
doctors.
We were also part
of the public service.
We are first and foremost
human being.
It's the responsibility
of the government
to protect the rights of people.
There has never been a Rohingya ethnic group
in history.
The Rohingyas invented their name
to hide
their identity "Bengalie".
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At that time,
Ziaur Rahman,
President of Bangladesh,
demanded to repatriate them.
It was a setback
for Burmese generals:
they could not
realize their plan,
because those Rohingyas had
national identity cards.
Because of that, they were forced
to take them back.
The generals then introduced,
in 1982, the law of citizenship
to exclude them from the nationality.
What is curious
in the citizenship law,
it is that it establishes
that the government can decide
which breeds are Burmese
and which are not.
I remember a discussion
with a nationalist leader
Arakanese.
He said to me, "We can not
exterminate the Bengalis ",
that's what he called
the Rohingyas.
"We can not
neither exterminate nor expel them,
"They're too many.
"But we can not either
live with them. "
In reality,
their mosques are not
places of worship
like our monasteries.
These are bases of war
to plan attacks
against non-Muslims.
I guessed
the intention of Muslims,
who wants to convert
the whole world to Islam.
Moreover,
we can see on YouTube,
when the members of the El
behead a Christian,
they show a finger,
that is to say: there must be
one God in the world.
Because Muslims
enter and settle
in the countries of Europe,
they invade the world.
And leaders like
Merkel and Co. accept them
regardless
in the opinion of the people.
To USA,
if the people
wants to stay in peace and security,
he must choose Donald Trump.
Once we had made people believe
that the Rohingyas were
the enemies of the Burmese nation,
it was easy to expand this idea
to all the Muslims of Burma
like enemies.
The word race in Burmese
comes from a word pali, "kula".
But this word "kula"
is often employed
with another word, "rakhita",
which means "protection".
This word, "kula rakhita",
becomes "myo chit", "patriotism".
But what the Buddha
wanted to teach
is not that everyone
protect his race.
When the Buddha speaks
to protect the race,
it means protecting
all humanity.
If there are two merchants,
a Burmese and a kalar,
where do we buy?
At a Burmese.
Between a Buddhist and a Muslim,
which one should we choose?
A Buddhist.
When I'm not alive,
around the year 2100,
the white territory
will become the black territory,
and our religion will be dominated
by the religion of the black flags.
When I arrived in Meiktila,
I was told this:
a Muslim,
the owner of the NLD office
prevents to organize a prayer.
Suppose he becomes
a leader of a political party,
a leader of the country
or a member of parliament ...
Think carefully.
It's very serious, this case.
The more you think,
the more scary it is.
Push yourself, please.
Stay away a little .
Put your weapon!
Put your weapon.
The riot started
by a simple dispute
in a Muslim jewelry store
where a Buddhist had come
sell a gold bracelet.
I knew
that people were trying
to destroy the jewelry.
So, I looked for someone
I knew in the crowd.
I asked if there were any monks
and they said yes.
So I spoke with this monk
on the phone.
These monks were there to prevent
people to destroy everything.
But there were so many people
that no one has heard us.
Demolish everything!
Do not excite them anymore.
It's bad.
Let him die.
I ask you to cooperate
so that these conflicts
do not spread
and to protect
the inhabitants of Meiktila.
I hope you'll help us.
We'll meet
and create an association for
protect race and religion.
There will be officials,
monks and locals.
We will protect life
and the property of the people of Meiktila.
The aggressors
are you from your neighborhood?
Yes. There were people
from the neighboring street.
They were Buddhists.
When we were hidden
in the ditch,
people have come
shouting slogans.
"We are the masters,
we Burmese,
"eradicate the Muslims."
They had sticks and swords
and they cut off all those
who were on their way.
So, there are no more Muslims
in the city of Meiktila?
No, not at all.
What we do
has nothing to do with W.
We do not say the same thing
and do not act like him.
The Buddha says it takes
observe and analyze speech
He says you do not always have to
to believe in his sermons.
It's not because he told them
that you have to believe it.
It's not because he is
the Master who must be believed,
but in the contrary,
we must live his words
before accepting them.
Without an organism,
an excited crowd
can become uncontrollable.
It can explode.
MA BA THA intervenes
when kalars
bother Buddhists.
Once the problem is solved
and sanctioned kalars,
the crowd is calm.
This is the role of MA BA THA.
969 had no structure,
it was just a movement.
There was not
appointed officers and status,
while MA BA THA is an organism
well structured with leaders,
central committees,
regional committees.
There are ten monks,
including some monastic advisers
and 15 lay people,
who work there.
There are those who film
during events
and those who distribute DVDs.
We do not market
our reports.
For videos on jihad,
we consider that everyone
must know.
So we offer DVDs.
The video is called:
The Black Days .
One of my students did it.
We have restored
and filmed life
this rakhine girl
before she is murdered.
It was shot exactly
according to confessions
of the three Muslim culprits.
She was raped,
slaughter,
then we cut off his ears
to take his curls
and his jewels.
We have not distributed yet
The Black Days .
We finish the editing
and subtitling.
Subtitling in English.
It's Master Wirathu
who has the rights.
On social networks,
Wirathu has millions of followers.
People post things about him,
true and false.
These photos, they make you laugh.
There is no problem.
As for the false news
on blogs,
that presents a problem
because the provincials
really believe in it
and can react.
No organism,
no NGO,
could not intervene
to prevent them.
Security forces
did not dare to act either.
They were looking at each other's arms.
We went there
to control the situation.
We were 200
to protect people
staying two nights on the spot.
Calm down all of you.
Be peaceful.
I do not know
exactly what happened.
I accept what you say.
But you have to be sure.
We are here at home.
They arrive and insult us.
There were no big problems.
It was in the city center.
Despite that,
there was a death on each side.
Whenever there are conflicts,
we try to make sure
that this does not spread.
We will see in mosques
to dialogue.
According to Buddhism,
we must use the gentle method.
As soon as there is violence,
Buddhism is destroyed.
The laws on the protection of
nationality must be voted
Wirathu had many speeches
to vote the laws
on protection
of race and religion.
And this immense deployment of means
indicates that there was
a lot of money.
Where did the money come from?
That nobody knows.
No doubt "cronies",
a group of millionaires
which evolves
in the military sphere
to get contracts, etc.
Because of their cunning, girls
innocent people have problems.
- Is not it?
- Yes.
When there will be these laws,
the Muslims can not
more pretending to be Burmese
to take our girls.
We succeeded
to vote these laws.
If a Muslim wants to get married
with a Buddhist,
he must not convert it.
If he does, he will go to jail.
And then, for a Muslim,
only one wife.
No polygamy.
Otherwise the prison.
For Muslims,
not many children.
One child every 3 years.
No more.
We succeeded
to introduce these laws.
Now we are relieved
for the future of our country.
These laws could
to be considered by the UN
like a recoil
in the process of reforms.
An organization like the UN
does he have the power to control
the authority of our country?
Yes or no ?
No !
It's up to us to create
the destiny of our country.
Okay !
We will not
give this power to the kalars.
No !
Neither to the Chinese either.
No !
And to the English?
No !
And to the Americans?
No !
Will we accept
this situation ?
No !
Without studying anything,
this damn woman says
that does not respect
human rights.
Is this woman honest?
No !
Do you think you are important?
In our country,
you are just a whore.
You can sell your ass
to kalars,
but you will not sell
our Arakan.
Wirathu risks a lawsuit,
luck turns to Ma Ba Tha
This is an incomparable opportunity
to accomplish a historic project.
Subtitling: Eclair Media and Aur?lie-Shama THIBAUDEAU :-)
Love you Vicky
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I wrote two sermons
on the catfish of Africa.
Characteristics
catfish from Africa are:
they grow up very fast,
they breed very fast too.
And then, they are violent.
They eat their own species
and destroy the resources
of their environment.
Muslims are exactly
like this fish
If children have the notion
of Buddhism,
they can later
to practice it well.
Must also
that they know how to distinguish,
from an early age,
who is the enemy
and where is the danger.
That's why I teach
especially to children.
In the morning, I first do
recite the doctrine to the monks.
Then I write.
Then I give sermons.
Finally, I help people who have been
persecuted by Muslims
Learn well
the title of my sermon:
"Believe and love 969."
Repeat.
"Believe and love 969."
969 is an organism that protects
race and religion,
without violence or aggression.
Do you agree ?
Yes OK.
Sing.
For race and religion.
For race and religion.
We must adopt 969
for peace to prevail.
Some entrepreneurs
have well-established businesses.
Among them,
a rich Muslim has a slogan:
"To destroy a race,
you have to use the money. "
What did he say ?
"To destroy a race,
you have to use the money. "
The Muslim calls it
"the sex strategy".
He hires a lot of young girls
in his business
Like that,
they see each other every day.
They have everything
what women like to have.
Both sex and desire
And since they have both,
the girls are getting married with them.
When they are a couple,
we give them an apartment.
Manipulated by these men,
they give up their religion.
All these workers
who work for them
and who marry with them
abandon their religion.
This is the "sex strategy".
Does it succeed?
Yes, it succeeds.
If we let the name
respect for human rights,
our race will be destroyed,
is not it ?
Yes, she will be.
Our religion too?
Her too.
She will disappear?
Yes, she will disappear.
Do not we need a law?
If, we need it.
That's it.
I was born in 1968
in Kyaukse, near Mandalay.
When I was in college,
my father retired
and we had
financial difficulties.
We had to help him.
It was a difficult time.
My father sold water
in tanks
on an oxcart,
and I had to walk behind him.
I became a monk at 17 years old.
At first I thought
only stay a few months.
But when I learned the Dhamma
and practiced meditation,
I decided to continue.
My family was angry
that I decide to stay a monk for life.
My father reacted
by banging his head against the wall.
Near Kyaukse,
there is a Muslim village,
Lapang.
In all Burmese villages
around,
there have been cases of rape.
A girl of 14 years
was raped during the night.
She was tied to a tree,
all naked.
We discovered it
only in the morning.
I was 12 years old.
When the authorities investigated,
all the Muslims of this village
shaved their heads
to not be recognized.
Today, my Master does not live anymore
at the monastery where I studied.
He is retired in the countryside
for meditation.
I met Wirathu
when I was 45.
He was about 14 years old.
This is his state of mind
who is like that.
He received the same education
than all other students.
He is brilliant
and shows vigor
in the study of Buddhism.
I never trained him.
It's innate at home.
In Kyaukse, I did not have to go out
for the meal offerings,
so I had all the time
to study.
But in Mandalay,
I had to go out every morning
with my bowl for the meal.
It was hard
to have a good meal.
In Kyaukse, we helped each other
when we had difficulties
or that we were sick.
But in Mandalay,
when I got sick,
I was alone
and had to take care of me.
Eight years later,
I became a member
of the Council of this monastery.
same year, I wrote
a book on meditation
which was refused by censorship.
In fact, the monk
at the censorship office
was close to the military.
At that time,
almost all Masters
were worshiped
by the military in power.
This censor monk was not happy
because I had criticized his Masters.
So I published the book
illegally.
I used the pseudonym
"Wirathu - My Soe Yein".
Like the book
has become a success,
people knew me as
"Wirathu - My Soe Yein".
The Battle of Theravada.
Those who read it
respect me still.
The idea of? ?the book came to me in 1993.
I had seen a video
on the meditation method
at the Monastery of Tant Kyi Taung.
So, I looked in the texts
of the Buddhist canon
to find out if what this monk
said was consistent with the texts.
Master's mistake
from both Kyi Taung
was breathing
in meditation.
When we breathe, we feel the air
which touches the cavity of the nostril.
And when one expires,
we feel the air that touches the tip
of the upper lip.
What to do in meditation,
it's concentrating
on the air contacts.
But the Master
so much Kyi Taung was saying
But the Master
so much Kyi Taung was saying
like cows,
by making noise.
Some roar
like tigers,
some scratch
like monkeys,
some crawl like snakes,
and some giggle
like chickens.
This monk went to the United States
to teach his method.
I do not like it.
It was not limited to our country.
Foreigners might believe
that's it, Buddhism,
but it's wrong.
His monastery has an annex
in Los Angeles, called Azusa.
When the book was published,
the monk of both Kyi Taung
sued me,
but the monks supported me.
I did not learn
the intentions of Muslims
than in 1997.
Before, we closed our eyes,
and it's only in 1997
that we opened them.
They were pages
typed and photocopied,
therefore less readable with time.
I read it in 1997.
At the time,
with my monk friends
other Mandalay monasteries,
we were still
young Masters.
And we went to the cemetery
taking bus number 8
It was around 8 pm
We had gone up on stools
to deliver our speeches.
They did not have a microphone.
Without microphone,
they had to scream.
A young woman and a "kalar"
had a date of love.
So, they hit the "kalar".
I was happy.
His code name
was "Myo Chit Thu": the patriot.
To hide,
they put on the monk's robe
on the head
and black glasses.
And they called themselves
by code names.
It was in order to hide
our identities to the secret services.
If they had known who we were,
they would have informed our
Great Masters in the monasteries,
and we risked expulsion.
Wirathu said not to buy
in Muslim shops,
not to sell real estate
to Muslims,
even at a very good price, etc.
These words could incite
to hatred.
That's why the government
had banned these speeches.
The sound of applause
could reach the sky.
At that time,
people were afraid to applaud.
Despite this,
monks had dared to applaud,
and the whole country
was interested in us.
That's how speeches
nationalists have spread.
Every summer he went
to Kyan Khin to teach.
After delivering two sermons,
he knew that the authorities
were going to stop him
and indeed,
secret services
have come to question him.
So he stopped his sermons
and returned to Mandalay.
These two sermons
had been registered.
The monks made copies
and distributed them widely.
In Mandalay,
when he arrived,
cassettes were already there.
That's how it was known
by everybody.
When he became
one of the leaders
from Ma Soe Yein Monastery,
the Grand Masters
no longer forbade him
to give sermons.
Protect race and religion,
it is not easy.
It hurts the heart.
Where are we going, the Burmese?
The threat to Buddhism
has reached the alert level.
By force, there is
less and less Buddhists
and more and more "kalars".
What does the government do ?
Nothing !
In addition, Muslims
live in our country,
they are well established,
they live on our land,
they use our resources
and they have all the rights.
They could
to be happy with that, right?
It is not enough for them.
They insult and assault
our religion.
I can not endure
what they are doing to us.
And you, the Venerables?
No.
So, listen to me.
In a few days,
I will make a decision.
As soon as I give
the sign of departure,
be ready behind me.
In the meantime, I have to plan
like it should be,
CIA way, Mossad, etc.,
an effective operation.
Thus, we will be able to succeed
our action.
The 1997 riots in Mandalay
did not have a leader.
So we did not succeed.
This time, I'm the leader!
I will make sure that the "kalars"
have nothing to eat./i>
And I will also make sure
that they no longer
of place to live.
It all started
October 19, 2003 at approximately 5:30 pm
and around 11 pm it was over.
Muslim houses
were burned.
Muslims are dead.
A monk has crossed on a motorcycle
the village of Lapang
while traveling
at a religious holiday.
The Muslims of Lapang
went out and killed him.
If this monk
had not been murdered,
I would not have been arrested.
A dead monk was serious.
They feared
let the whole country rise up.
They stopped us to prevent
a big move in the country.
The international community,
the UN and the Muslim countries
lobbied
on the government.
The soldiers were scared.
They arrested and imprisoned
random people.
They arrested me by accusing me
to have everything engineered
and orchestrated these conflicts.
He was imprisoned
because of me.
At the same time as me.
In prison, he was a Muslim
who made food for Wirathu.
He asked him what he wanted
then asked the guards
the ingredients and cooked them.
Being a Muslim,
he did not know
the ritual of offering the meal,
then it was others
who offered it to him.
Ce musulman m'a dit
that his relationship with Wirathu
was friendly.
They talked rather
of things to laugh
and they were talking about everything
except religion.
It is said that the prison is
"the university of life".
We can learn a lot,
there are many subjects.
In prison, I practiced
meditation for 99 months.
This is the reason for my serenity:
the concentration I gained.
There is another book of me
translated into English.
Its title is :
The Guilty of History.
I wrote it in jail.
I wrote about behavior
of the Monks Council
and their corruption.
In short, I pointed
that this Council of Monks
was the armed arm
of the military government.
I started it
the "Safran Revolution" of 2007.
It's thanks to a memory
that I wrote in prison
that the revolution broke out.
No.
The "Safran Revolution" of 2007
has not been implemented
by one person.
And she was not made
by a specific person.
It was to liberate the whole country
that the whole religious body
had worked.
Among the leaders,
there were five,
including myself.
It was because
the cost of living very high.
We did not manage.
We, the monks, knew that
it was the government's fault.
We decided to sing
the Metta Sutta outside.
We went to the residence
from Aung San Suu Kyi.
We surprised the authorities.
We entered
in the area easily
before they stop us
the road.
We were sad to see her
under house arrest,
but happy to see her.
She too was lucky
to be able to pay tribute to us.
We could recite
the Metta Sutta.
The government
attacked the monasteries.
It's the first time
in history
that the government
attacked the monks,
while we had demonstrated
peacefully.
We knew that outside,
the revolution had begun.
We had news
by those who visited
to the prisoners.
We were really happy.
And people told me
that this was happening
according to the memoir I wrote.
They had
a lot of respect for me.
Someone in power
came to see me
He asked me
to write a letter to the monks
to stop demonstrating.
Even if he had promised me
to free myself,
I would never have written this letter,
I would never have accepted.
My dear fellow monks,
I am happy
that you have come to welcome me.
Thank you
of your warm welcome.
So, do you prefer
a yellow speech,
a monk's speech,
or a bright red speech,
to know a courageous speech?
A bright red speech!
Okay.
For Theravada Buddhism,
the new monastery Ma Soe Yein
must be a bulwark.
He must be an army
from which fighters are born
who fight in the first row.
We, the monks,
we always open our eyes
Population.
In Burmese politics,
these are always
the monks who guide.
To show our greatness,
we will write
a new page.
When I was released from prison,
the movement 969
has grown.
I planned the project
stickers in prison, all alone.
It took me 8 years.
Seeing these stickers,
they think of Buddha.
Muslims possess
a lot of shops.
Big companies
like Motherland,
Naing Group, Shine Group,
control big markets
construction.
All Muslims.
that's why
we give instructions
not to buy
among Muslims,
because with the money they earn,
they can marry
Burmese girls.
Then,
they will invade the whole country.
A central claim
extremist monks
is that the Muslim population
develops without control.
Census results
do not confirm it at all.
From the time of colonization
speak English until 2012,
all who ruled
our country were bad.
They did not care
of national security.
that's why
over a million Bengalis
have crossed our borders
illegally.
They want to seize Rakhine.
Everything broke on June 8, 2012.
The Muslim leader.
They are Muslims who
have just come out of the mosque.
Look, they have stones!
They have picks!
He is a Buddhist filming.
He filmed from his window.
When the kalars saw it,
they threw him pebbles.
Even so, he continued to film.
So the kalars
have pushed the doors
and entered.
At this moment,
he escaped with his wife.
Then they set fire to his house.
I arrived after.
It's him
who gave me these videos.
When we arrived,
there was still smoke.
Muslims burned
eight villages in one day.
I did a trick
to see the places
where there were fires.
I found that it was still
more serious than I imagined.
I was very affected.
In fact, in Maungdaw,
riot
had begun
with rape and murder
of a young Buddhist
by three Muslims.
And,
ten Muslim pilgrims were killed
by Buddhists.
June 3, 2012 ...
June 3, 2012,
ten Muslim pilgrims
were returning to Rangoon by bus.
Arrived at Toungup,
a crowd of Buddhists
took them off the bus and killed them.
The riot is gone
from the mosque to Maungdaw,
but in Sittwe,
they are Buddhists
who started.
When the riots took place,
I went to film them
then I broadcast widely
these videos.
People realized
of the situation
and that they had to
protect our religion.
This is how
the 969 movement has taken off.
To President Thein Sein ...
Good health!
To President Thein Sein ...
Good health!
Good health!
To President Thein Sein ...
Good health!
- That our country ...
- Be protected!
Protect our country!
Even the Buddha did
of politics for peace.
I want to declare here clearly
that the Buddhist doctrine
does not mention that religious
do not have to do politics.
- The Rohingyas ...
- We do not want it!
- The Rohingyas ...
- We do not want it!
- The Rohingyas ...
- We do not want it!
I remember talking
with a young monk
in Rakhine State in 2012.
He was writing
the first pamphlet
calling the population to exclude
economically, politically
and socially Muslims.
And he told us that Muslims
posed a threat
to his culture and for his country,
and that he had the impression
that all Rakhine Muslims
were essentially terrorists
or members
d'organisations terroristes.
When there will be too many Muslims,
there will be troubles
and "jihads".
It's to prevent all that
we are acting now.
We can live
with all kinds of people,
with all the people of the world.
But the Muslims here
are like animals.
They are violent
and go on the attack.
After the first wave of violence,
we have described
how Buddhist communities
of Rakhine were organized.
For many months,
they had
large meetings
on the village squares.
In Rathedaung,
a big number of people
have met
and have developed, in fact,
a platform
ethnic cleansing.
We tried to sound the alarm
at the time,
to tell the diplomats,
at the UN, the media,
what was preparing.
We were very worried
that violence increases.
And, of course, in October 2012,
another wave of violence,
much more coordinated, hit.
This time it touched 14
of the 17 cantons of Rakhine State.
This obeyed a plan:
the Buddhists were setting fire
to Muslim houses,
and when the Muslims,
Rohingyas for the most part,
were trying to extinguish those fires,
the police
and other security forces
remained motionless.
Arakanese Buddhists
have all the powers
and all the posts.
They agreed to
try to scare the Rohingyas.
Muslims
have small houses.
Their houses burned,
they can get some
bigger ones.
It is to get
international aid
they burn
their own homes.
The bottom of the problem,
when people say that
the Rohingyas burn their homes,
it's not only that
they say it and repeat it,
but they sincerely believe it.
With this second wave
of violence,
more than 140,000 people
have been confined in more
40 internment camps.
Before 1962,
we had the right to vote.
There were Rohingyas
elected to Parliament.
We could have jobs.
We were in the army,
police, immigration.
There were teachers,
doctors.
We were also part
of the public service.
We are first and foremost
human being.
It's the responsibility
of the government
to protect the rights of people.
There has never been a Rohingya ethnic group
in history.
The Rohingyas invented their name
to hide
their identity "Bengalie".
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At that time,
Ziaur Rahman,
President of Bangladesh,
demanded to repatriate them.
It was a setback
for Burmese generals:
they could not
realize their plan,
because those Rohingyas had
national identity cards.
Because of that, they were forced
to take them back.
The generals then introduced,
in 1982, the law of citizenship
to exclude them from the nationality.
What is curious
in the citizenship law,
it is that it establishes
that the government can decide
which breeds are Burmese
and which are not.
I remember a discussion
with a nationalist leader
Arakanese.
He said to me, "We can not
exterminate the Bengalis ",
that's what he called
the Rohingyas.
"We can not
neither exterminate nor expel them,
"They're too many.
"But we can not either
live with them. "
In reality,
their mosques are not
places of worship
like our monasteries.
These are bases of war
to plan attacks
against non-Muslims.
I guessed
the intention of Muslims,
who wants to convert
the whole world to Islam.
Moreover,
we can see on YouTube,
when the members of the El
behead a Christian,
they show a finger,
that is to say: there must be
one God in the world.
Because Muslims
enter and settle
in the countries of Europe,
they invade the world.
And leaders like
Merkel and Co. accept them
regardless
in the opinion of the people.
To USA,
if the people
wants to stay in peace and security,
he must choose Donald Trump.
Once we had made people believe
that the Rohingyas were
the enemies of the Burmese nation,
it was easy to expand this idea
to all the Muslims of Burma
like enemies.
The word race in Burmese
comes from a word pali, "kula".
But this word "kula"
is often employed
with another word, "rakhita",
which means "protection".
This word, "kula rakhita",
becomes "myo chit", "patriotism".
But what the Buddha
wanted to teach
is not that everyone
protect his race.
When the Buddha speaks
to protect the race,
it means protecting
all humanity.
If there are two merchants,
a Burmese and a kalar,
where do we buy?
At a Burmese.
Between a Buddhist and a Muslim,
which one should we choose?
A Buddhist.
When I'm not alive,
around the year 2100,
the white territory
will become the black territory,
and our religion will be dominated
by the religion of the black flags.
When I arrived in Meiktila,
I was told this:
a Muslim,
the owner of the NLD office
prevents to organize a prayer.
Suppose he becomes
a leader of a political party,
a leader of the country
or a member of parliament ...
Think carefully.
It's very serious, this case.
The more you think,
the more scary it is.
Push yourself, please.
Stay away a little .
Put your weapon!
Put your weapon.
The riot started
by a simple dispute
in a Muslim jewelry store
where a Buddhist had come
sell a gold bracelet.
I knew
that people were trying
to destroy the jewelry.
So, I looked for someone
I knew in the crowd.
I asked if there were any monks
and they said yes.
So I spoke with this monk
on the phone.
These monks were there to prevent
people to destroy everything.
But there were so many people
that no one has heard us.
Demolish everything!
Do not excite them anymore.
It's bad.
Let him die.
I ask you to cooperate
so that these conflicts
do not spread
and to protect
the inhabitants of Meiktila.
I hope you'll help us.
We'll meet
and create an association for
protect race and religion.
There will be officials,
monks and locals.
We will protect life
and the property of the people of Meiktila.
The aggressors
are you from your neighborhood?
Yes. There were people
from the neighboring street.
They were Buddhists.
When we were hidden
in the ditch,
people have come
shouting slogans.
"We are the masters,
we Burmese,
"eradicate the Muslims."
They had sticks and swords
and they cut off all those
who were on their way.
So, there are no more Muslims
in the city of Meiktila?
No, not at all.
What we do
has nothing to do with W.
We do not say the same thing
and do not act like him.
The Buddha says it takes
observe and analyze speech
He says you do not always have to
to believe in his sermons.
It's not because he told them
that you have to believe it.
It's not because he is
the Master who must be believed,
but in the contrary,
we must live his words
before accepting them.
Without an organism,
an excited crowd
can become uncontrollable.
It can explode.
MA BA THA intervenes
when kalars
bother Buddhists.
Once the problem is solved
and sanctioned kalars,
the crowd is calm.
This is the role of MA BA THA.
969 had no structure,
it was just a movement.
There was not
appointed officers and status,
while MA BA THA is an organism
well structured with leaders,
central committees,
regional committees.
There are ten monks,
including some monastic advisers
and 15 lay people,
who work there.
There are those who film
during events
and those who distribute DVDs.
We do not market
our reports.
For videos on jihad,
we consider that everyone
must know.
So we offer DVDs.
The video is called:
The Black Days .
One of my students did it.
We have restored
and filmed life
this rakhine girl
before she is murdered.
It was shot exactly
according to confessions
of the three Muslim culprits.
She was raped,
slaughter,
then we cut off his ears
to take his curls
and his jewels.
We have not distributed yet
The Black Days .
We finish the editing
and subtitling.
Subtitling in English.
It's Master Wirathu
who has the rights.
On social networks,
Wirathu has millions of followers.
People post things about him,
true and false.
These photos, they make you laugh.
There is no problem.
As for the false news
on blogs,
that presents a problem
because the provincials
really believe in it
and can react.
No organism,
no NGO,
could not intervene
to prevent them.
Security forces
did not dare to act either.
They were looking at each other's arms.
We went there
to control the situation.
We were 200
to protect people
staying two nights on the spot.
Calm down all of you.
Be peaceful.
I do not know
exactly what happened.
I accept what you say.
But you have to be sure.
We are here at home.
They arrive and insult us.
There were no big problems.
It was in the city center.
Despite that,
there was a death on each side.
Whenever there are conflicts,
we try to make sure
that this does not spread.
We will see in mosques
to dialogue.
According to Buddhism,
we must use the gentle method.
As soon as there is violence,
Buddhism is destroyed.
The laws on the protection of
nationality must be voted
Wirathu had many speeches
to vote the laws
on protection
of race and religion.
And this immense deployment of means
indicates that there was
a lot of money.
Where did the money come from?
That nobody knows.
No doubt "cronies",
a group of millionaires
which evolves
in the military sphere
to get contracts, etc.
Because of their cunning, girls
innocent people have problems.
- Is not it?
- Yes.
When there will be these laws,
the Muslims can not
more pretending to be Burmese
to take our girls.
We succeeded
to vote these laws.
If a Muslim wants to get married
with a Buddhist,
he must not convert it.
If he does, he will go to jail.
And then, for a Muslim,
only one wife.
No polygamy.
Otherwise the prison.
For Muslims,
not many children.
One child every 3 years.
No more.
We succeeded
to introduce these laws.
Now we are relieved
for the future of our country.
These laws could
to be considered by the UN
like a recoil
in the process of reforms.
An organization like the UN
does he have the power to control
the authority of our country?
Yes or no ?
No !
It's up to us to create
the destiny of our country.
Okay !
We will not
give this power to the kalars.
No !
Neither to the Chinese either.
No !
And to the English?
No !
And to the Americans?
No !
Will we accept
this situation ?
No !
Without studying anything,
this damn woman says
that does not respect
human rights.
Is this woman honest?
No !
Do you think you are important?
In our country,
you are just a whore.
You can sell your ass
to kalars,
but you will not sell
our Arakan.
Wirathu risks a lawsuit,
luck turns to Ma Ba Tha
This is an incomparable opportunity
to accomplish a historic project.
Subtitling: Eclair Media and Aur?lie-Shama THIBAUDEAU :-)
Love you Vicky