"As a Mandalay-born dissident with deep roots in Buddhism, I find it revolting that thousands of Buddhist monks, human rights dissidents and the public in my hometown of Mandalay staged an anti-Rohingya rally this past weekend. They mimicked the regime?s discourse that promotes ?national security? and ?national sovereignty?, while espousing an anachronistic view of blood-based citizenship as opposed to the notions of multicultural citizenship. Where has the vociferous human rights rhetoric gone when it comes to the persecuted Rohingyas? We listened in vain for the metronomic chants of the saffron-robed monks who defied threats and flooded the streets of Rangoon and other towns proclaiming their ?loving kindness? for all sentient beings in 2007. Now the very same monks chant mantras supporting exclusive citizenship. When a mob protests against an ethnic group then, it is no longer a citizens? protest. It is a Nazi rally..."