Muslim vendors forced out of Shwedagon pagoda, goods seized

Nationalist monks forced three Muslim vendors out of Yangon's Shwedagon Pagoda on Saturday in a row over selling goods near the religious site.

Members of the Patriotic Monks Union seized products worth hundreds of dollars from the men, who sold belts, pots and mobile phone accessories, before violently kicking them out of the pagoda.

“They hit my face and attacked [with] knee and took me into the monastery for a beating,” Ye Ko Ko, one of the vendors, told Myanmar Muslim Media. (Courtesy of Coconuts Yangon)