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India, death toll now 815
IaHMADABAD, India
’) — Rampaging mobs set
to homes, burning to death
K members of a Muslim
Tiily in western India, where
■ worst religious rioting in a
|ade has killed 815 people
the past five weeks,
lice said Wednesday.
(A Hindu mob burned three
ises in Abhasana village, 50
Bes south of Ahmadabad,
Jarat state’s commercial hub,
[Tuesday night. Two men, two
(men and a child from one
lily were killed and 42 other
islims were hospitalized with
is, said Superintendent of
ice Vikas Sahay.
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Haze in the Vadali village
pday night. Five people were
ured, said police, who did not
mediately give the religion of
attackers and victims.
The new violence was
’orted a day before Prime
inister Atal Bihari Vajpayee
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Five Muslims were burned to
death and more than 40 suffered
burn injuries when a Hindu mob
set fire to houses in western
Gujarat state, India
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Hindu mobs launched a
wave of revenge killings, arson
and looting in across the state,
killing hundreds of Muslims.
Police firing has killed scores.
Officers at the state’s police
control room, speaking on condi
tion of anonymity, said the death
toll from religious attacks in the
state since Feb. 27 stood at 815.
In Ahmadabad, Hindu and
Muslim mobs clashed late
Tuesday and early Wednesday,
and police fired tear gas to dis
perse stone-throwing groups.
Ten people, including three
policemen, were injured, the
Home Ministry said.
A Hindu temple was
burned by Muslims, police
said. The rioters also hurled
petrol bombs and fired guns
at police. The clashes ended
when soldiers arrived.
Opposition parties and
Muslim groups have called the
rioting “state-sponsored” and
demanded the resignation of
Chief Minister Narendra Modi,
the state’s top elected official,
because of the government’s
failure to stop the killings.
Modi is a member of the
prime minister’s Bharatiya
Janata Party and state police are
facing accusations that they
encouraged the rioters, or did
little to stop them.
The violence in Gujarat is
the worst in India since 1993,
when more than 800 people
were killed during Hindu-
Muslim riots in Bombay. That
violence followed the destruc
tion of a 16th century mosque
by Hindu nationalists in the
northern town of Ayodhya.
The dispute over the mosque
site, where Hindu nationalists
want to build a temple, is also at
the root of the Gujarat violence,
as many of the Hindus burned
on the train were returning
home from Ayodhya.
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ZHENGZHOU, China (AP) — An elderly Tibetan
teacher was freed on medical parole by China after
19 years in prison — a release one leading activist
said was an attempt to please the United States.
Tanak Jigme Sangpo, 76, was set free Sunday
fromDrapchi Prison in Lhasa, the Tibetan capital,
said John Kamm, president of the San Francisco-
based Duihua Foundation.
Jigme Sangpo was one of five prisoners cited by
US. Ambassador Clark T. Randt, at least two of
which have now been set free.
Beijing has made a practice in the past year of
releasing prisoners when it wants to curry favor
with Washington over human rights — the most
persistent sticking point in China-U.S. relations.
Sangpo was arrested in September 1983 and
sentenced to 15 years in prison on charges of
counterrevolutionary incitement and propaganda
for campaignig against Chinese rule in Tibet,
according to Kamm.
The Tibetan had been China’s longest-serving
political prisoner. With hjs freedom, the political
prisoner held the longest is Zhang Chengjian.
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