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Web Fuels Religious Tensions in Myanmar

As the death toll from an eruption of sectarian violence in central Myanmar rises to at least 40, religious tensions are now being whipped up again in the main city, Yangon, largely by Buddhist nationalists using what many pro-democracy activists here thought would be a tool for promoting peace: the Internet.Perched in front of a laptop computer wearing a sarong and T-shirt on Tuesday, Zaw Min typed away at his Facebook account to try to tamp down rumors of communal attacks now swirling around Yangon. Mr. Zaw Min spent 20 years in jail over his involvement in a student uprising against Myanmar's old military rulers in 1988.But now he and other leaders of the "88 Generation" of political activists in a country making a fast transition to democracy are dismayed over the way the Internet--a relatively new phenomenon here--is amplifying the risk that greater openness might also inflame deep-seated ethnic and religious divides."How to handle the Internet is a very big problem for us, and we...

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