GlobalPost-Open Hands Initiative reporting fellows interview the Buddhist monk U Wirathu, founder of the anti-Muslim 969 movement, in Mandalay, Myanmar. (Marc Laban/AsiaWorks Television) Kevin Douglas Grant Huffington Post June 24, 2013 YANGON, Myanmar — As an estimated 140,000 Rohingya Muslims sat captive in squalid refugee camps in Rakhine State and across the border in Thailand and Bangladesh, a group of red-robed Buddhist leaders gathered here in Yangon last week, dismissing what human rights groups have called a genocide as “illusions created by the Arab media.” “I really take pity on [my critics],” said the Buddhist monk U Wirathu, founder of Myanmar’s 969 movement , accused of mobilizing a campaign of murder, arson and displacement against Muslims in Rakhine and across the country. “They are under the influence of media backed by the Arab world. Europeans and Americans are educated people, but sometimes certain illusions are created by the Ar...