time. In available time-stamped images, senior NDF leaders were pictured at Wirathu’s monastery at Masoeyein as far back as January 10, 2014. 390 Other politicians have been seen at Ma Ba Tha events; at times, these attendances have been unpublicized. In one Facebook image from October 2015, 391 Central Committee members, including individuals who appeared to be the Chief Editor of Tharki-thwe and a Ma Ba Tha lawyer, were seen seated with a woman who appeared to be Daw Khin Wine Kyi, a senior politician with the NDF,392 who, according to social media, had received one of the Ma Ba Tha’s ceremonial badges at the celebration rallies.393 In other reporting from October, Wirathu and Ashin Parmoukkha are known to have attended the opening ceremony of a new nationalist party, the National Prosperity Party, which contested three seats and promised to “strictly protect the race and religion protection laws.”394 In addition to these two examples, it is likely that many others courted the Ma Ba Tha’s support, but in a more covert manner. In one such example, a series of images were posted online of a Ma Ba Tha event from July 2015. Pictured among the attendees395 appears to be Daw Nyo Nyo Thin, a prominent independent politician and member of the Yangon Regional Parliament, although there is no other open source reporting on her attendance. Alongside her in the photograph are Ashin Parmoukkha and at least one member of the Myanmar National Network, a fringe youth activist allied with the Ma Ba Tha.396 Image 39: A social media image of a woman appearing to be NDF politician Khin Yi Wine seen with Ma Ba Tha editor and lawyer at the gold pin award ceremony in North Okkalapa Township in October 2015 Image 40: A social media image of a woman appearing to be Daw Nyo Nyo Thin (bottom, second from left) seen with Ashin Parmoukkha, members of the MNN and a Ma Ba Tha lawyer at the Sixth Conference on People With Grievances Due to [Corrupted] Government Offices, at Parmoukkha’s Magway Priyatti Monastery in July 2015 Youth Activist Groups A variety of youth activist groups actively support the Ma Ba Tha, but perhaps the most prominent among them is the Myanmar National Network (MNN). A small fringe group that sought to contest a seat for the first time in the 2015 elections, the MNN is a highly visible component of the Ma Ba Tha’s propaganda apparatus, as will be discussed below. Their activists appear closely involved with the Ma Ba Tha’s ground activities and they appear to be very active on social media as major disseminators of Ma Ba Tha content, as well as outright hate speech. For example, they accompany Ma Ba Tha monks pressuring police and judicial cases involving Muslims and tailor their anti-Muslim lectures in rural villages to young children, as discussed later. Recently, association with the Ma Ba Tha has begun to give the MNN a significantly elevated public profile, including interviews on SkyNet, the country’s largest cable TV provider.397 39