Top U.N. official slams Myanmar monk over ‘whore’ comments

“Don’t assume you are a respectable person, just because of your position,” he said in the speech, footage of which was widely circulated on social media. “To us, you are just a whore.”

The comments drew a sharp response from the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein, who described Wirathu’s remarks as “sexist,” “insulting” and “utterly unacceptable.”

“I call on religious and political leaders in Myanmar to unequivocally condemn all forms of incitement to hatred, including this abhorrent public personal attack,” he said in a statement released from Geneva Wednesday.

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