Crackdown on monks a junta attempt to clean up Sangha
FRIDAY, MAY 25, 2018
UNPRECEDENTED police action against high-ranking monks are a part of the junta government’s key initiative to clean up the country’s often-untouchable ecclesiastical sector, according to an informed source.
Ex-senior monks have trouble sleeping first night in jail, says prison chief
FRIDAY, MAY 25, 2018
Ex-Phra Buddha Isara and five ex-senior monks of three well-known temples in Bangkok slept poorly on their first night at the Bangkok Remand Prison, the prison chief said on Friday morning.