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On June 20, 2018 he complained "that he was facing challenges that were visible and those that were not." The article says that "U Aung Ko has tried to take action against U Wirathu, a leading member of Ma Ba Tha, an extremist
Buddhist monk group accused of hate speech against Muslims." The article
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He pushed for an amendment to the law on protests to remove the requirement to seek permission from the local police and local government, and to remove jail sentences for violating the law. The final version of the law retained the requirement that permission for protests be obtained—though it now
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474:, the leader of the victorious NLD. He was promoted to Minister for Religious Affairs and Culture, which merged the Ministry of Religious Affairs and the Ministry of Culture, as one of only two USDP ministers in the cabinet of NLD President Htin Kyaw.
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Ko would later add that if the trend continued the proportion of
Buddhists in the country would decline. “Devotees of other religions will become the majority and we will be in danger of being taken over,”.
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Aung Ko also complained that corrupt court officials took advantage of the long delays in the court system to profit from land disputes. Myanmar needed to "create a new society based on the rule of law".
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