Indonesia radicals rally for ‘Myanmar jihad’
A protester belonging to the hardline Islamic Defenders Front (FPI) holds a placard calling to ‘stop the massacre of Muslim Rohingya and Myanmar Buddhists cowards’ during a rally near at the Myanmar embassy in Jakarta on May 3, 2013. The protest highlighted 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. Meanwhile, two Indonesians were detained over a plot to bomb the Myanmar embassy in Jakarta, officials said.
The Islamic Defender Front (FPI), along with hundreds of members of other Muslim groups, marched to the Myanmar embassy on Friday, carrying banners that said "We want to kill Myanmar Buddhists" and "Stop genocide in Myanmar."
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