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  • May 03, 2013 7:56PM

TWO Indonesians have been detained over a plot to bomb the Myanmar (Burma) embassy in Jakarta, officials say, as radicals rallying in the city called for "jihad in Myanmar" to avenge Muslim deaths.

The incidents highlight the growing anger in Muslim-majority Indonesia over a string of religious clashes in largely Buddhist Myanmar, that have left many minority Muslims dead and tens of thousands displaced.

At least one person was killed when mosques and homes were attacked in central Myanmar this week, the latest anti-Muslim unrest to cast a shadow over political reforms in the formerly junta-run country.

Around 1000 angry hardliners from the Islamic Defenders Front (FPI) marched to Myanmar's embassy in Jakarta on Friday, brandishing banners that read "we want to kill Myanmar Buddhists" and "stop genocide in Myanmar".

Full article here: http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/breaking-news/indon-says-2-arrested-for-myanmar-plot/story-fn3dxix6-1226634619523

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