{"id":3692,"date":"2019-07-04T10:18:10","date_gmt":"2019-07-04T03:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/equalitymyanmar.org\/new-eng\/?p=3692"},"modified":"2026-01-28T12:42:45","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T06:12:45","slug":"buddhist-monk-plays-suicide-of-lgbtq-librarian-for-laughs-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/equalitymyanmar.org\/?p=3692","title":{"rendered":"Buddhist monk plays suicide of LGBTQ librarian for laughs (VIDEO)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A controversial monk\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.irrawaddy.com\/2011\/02\/blog-post_400.html?fbclid=IwAR16mYsfu7mEHGYI8wkSVnI5ud7bcOTIt1Y8vKIkRHRxjmqYpQJbeltCgsw\">who has previously run afoul of religious authorites for getting too cozy with his female followers<\/a>\u00a0has been captured on video mocking the death of Kyaw Zin Win, the university librarian who\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/coconuts.co\/yangon\/news\/school-in-firestorm-after-employee-suicide-linked-to-anti-lgbt-bullying\/\">suicide in the wake of homophobic bullying<\/a>\u00a0has sparked a national conversation on LGBTQ rights.<\/p>\n<p>In a video with over 2,800 shares that was uploaded to Facebook on Sunday, Koebweya Sayadaw Ashinasayar can be seen delivering a homophobic rant during his sermon, telling a laughing crowd he would shoot all LGBTQ people if he were president, and labeling Win a \u201cgandu,\u201d Hindi for \u201csissy.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/video.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FShinThant199%2Fvideos%2F1476315942509241%2F&amp;show_text=1&amp;width=267\" width=\"267\" height=\"846\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A controversial monk\u00a0who has previously run afoul of religious authorites for getting too cozy with his female followers\u00a0has been captured on video mocking the death of Kyaw Zin Win, the university librarian who\u2019s\u00a0suicide in the wake of homophobic bullying\u00a0has sparked a national conversation on LGBTQ rights. In a video with over 2,800 shares that was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3693,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/equalitymyanmar.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/equalitymyanmar.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/equalitymyanmar.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/equalitymyanmar.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/equalitymyanmar.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3692"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/equalitymyanmar.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3692\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3694,"href":"https:\/\/equalitymyanmar.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3692\/revisions\/3694"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/equalitymyanmar.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/equalitymyanmar.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/equalitymyanmar.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/equalitymyanmar.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}