![]() This image, along with a copy of the Urdu periodical, was presented to the Karnataka government as part of a dossier submitted by the northeast groups here on Thursday. The image went viral on the Internet and two weeks ago it found its way into the pages of a local Urdu newspaper, which also passed it off as proof of Muslim persecution in Myanmar. ” By the time protests from the Tibetan groups forced the portal to withdraw the image, the damage was ostensibly done. ![]() ![]() It turned out that the image was of the July 2010 earthquake in Tibet where the monks were engaged in relief work.īut the portal carried the image with the tag “The body of Muslims slaughtered by Buddhist Barma. In mid-July this year, a Pakistani news portal,, carried an image of Buddhist monks wearing masks amid a sea of mutilated bodies. There were also other groups who may have helped fan the panic. What became clear was that rumour-mongers did not belong exclusively to either the northeast or the Muslim community. The combined power of the mobile phone, the Internet and the social media was on display in the crisis that led to thousands of people from the northeast fleeing Bangalore.
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