"...Htin Lin Oo is an author who was also an information officer of the National League for Democracy (NLD). He spoke at a literary event in Sagaing Region in upper Burma on 23 October 2014 about Buddhism and nationalism. He claimed that there are good and bad people in every religion so no one can say that which religion is good or bad. Some Buddhist people didn?t follow Buddha?s words and do whatever they want under the umbrella of Buddhism. He excoriated those who use Buddhism as a tool of extreme nationalism and criticised other religions or discriminate against them. True Buddhism has no place for extremism, he added. His speech was nearly two hours long, but an excerpt of 10 minutes out of the 2 hours of his speech was spread on Facebook. A group of monks released a statement claiming that his speech was insulting Buddhism. Nine political parties and nationalist groups also released statements condemning the event organiser, NLD, and Htin Lin Oo, who they accused of insulting Buddhism and creating a big problem by taking religion into political matters. They asked for serious action to be taken against him. On November 18, NLD said Htin Lin Oo speech was his own idea which wasn?t concern about the party and he was no longer information officer of the party..."