A Burmese exile group based in Thailand says the Burmese military government has executed three Buddhist monks.

The group -- the All-Burma Young Monks Union -- said the three were among sixty monks arrested by the military authorities in recent months.

It said one monk was put to death in the state of Arakan, and the other two in Shan, but it did not say when the executions took place.

The group also said Burma's rulers had destroyed more than two-thousand monasteries in the past few months.

There has been no word from the Burmese government itself, or from other Buddhist organisations.

From the newsroom of the BBC World Service
 

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