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Myanmar's Extremist Monk

Jonah Fisher has been to Burma to meet Buddhist Monk Wirathu and members of Burma's Muslim community who've been caught up in clashes with Buddhist nationalists.

In the past year a Buddhist nationalist group called 9-6-9 has spread rapidly across Burma. Lead by a monk called Wirathu it calls on Burmese Buddhists to boycott Muslim businesses. 969 claims to be non-violent but has been widely blamed for stoking up anti-Muslim sentiments which have led to more than two hundred deaths. For Our World Jonah Fisher has been to Burma to meet Wirathu and members of Burma�s Muslim community who�ve been caught up in clashes with Buddhists nationalists.

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