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Minister warns monks

YANGON: Myanmar’s Religious Affairs Minister warned senior monks on Monday that unless they curb their juniors carrying out anti-government demonstrators, the state would act against the protesting clerics on its own.

Brig. Gen. Thura Myint Maung was shown on state television delivering the warning during a meeting at the Kaba Aye pagoda in Yangon, the country’s biggest city.

He accused the protesting monks of being instigated by the regime’s domestic and foreign enemies, but did not say how they might be punished. — AP

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