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India-Pakistan |
Vajpayee: Riots are a national disgrace |
2002-03-02 |
This week's statement of the obvious. Who're the ringleaders? Suman Palit believes the actual impetus isn't religious, but business: "Notice that all the news articles coming out of that region are all about shops, businesses and homes gutted by mobs. The mobs are not meeting on some giant urban battlefield to fight for their honor. They are systematically targeting the other sides economic base - and claiming the moral high ground using the Koran and the pillars of Ayodhya." NYT has the toll up to 415... and rising. |
Posted by:Fred Pruitt |