At first glance there is nothing unusual about the group of grinning teenagers jostling for space in front of a mobile phone camera.
But their selfie -- taken with Yangon’s gleaming Shwedagon Pagoda in the background -- is an act of unity in a nation hit by deadly recent outbreaks of communal violence and increasingly inflammatory hate speech in a crucial election year.
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