Rangoon, Burma: Buddhist nuns pray during a farewell ceremony for Ashin Pyinyar Thiha, the head of the Shwenyawar monastery. He was ordered out of his monastery by Buddhist elders who said he had given an inappropriate speech at an office belonging to pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi’s party
Photograph: Soe Than Win/AFP/Getty images

Rangoon, Burma: Buddhist nuns pray during a farewell ceremony for Ashin Pyinyar Thiha, the head of the Shwenyawar monastery. He was ordered out of his monastery by Buddhist elders who said he had given an inappropriate speech at an office belonging to pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi’s party

Photograph: Soe Than Win/AFP/Getty images