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India-Pakistan
Vajpayee: Riots are a national disgrace
2002-03-02
  • "This is a disgrace to the whole nation," Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee said in a broadcast on Indian national TV after the worst sectarian clashes to hit the country for nearly a decade claimed more than 300 lives. "I am telling my countrymen that whatever the provocation, please keep calm," Vajpayee said.
    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 3/2/2002 7:38:21 PM
    • Posted by:Fred Pruitt

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