Venerable Monk Sovath Speaks Out in Canada
In February 2012 Venerable Loun Sovath was invited to Montreal, Quebec by the large Khmer community that resides there. During his 6-week stay he will perform Buddhist ceremonies and advocate for land rights in Cambodia.
Venerable Sovath has been a loud advocate for victims of land-grabbing since 2009 when his own community was shot at by police during a land dispute. Since that time he travels across Cambodia reaching out to threatened communities and documenting their stories through videos, songs and poems.
Venerable Sovath‟s activism has drawn the ire of religious authorities who have banned him from all pagodas in Siem Reap and Phnom Penh provinces, and threatened him with expulsion from the monkhood, criminal charges, and even violence.
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