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| Indian court convicts 31 Hindus of killing Muslims |
| 2011-11-10 |
| [Dawn] A court Wednesday convicted 31 Hindus for killing dozens of Mohammedans by setting a building on fire in Gujurat state during one of India's worst rounds of communal violence nine years ago. For several weeks in 2002, Hindu mobs rampaged through Mohammedan neighborhoods, towns and villages in the state in rioting sparked by an arson attack on a train that killed 60 Hindus. Extremists blamed the train attack on Mohammedans. Wednesday's verdict dealt with an arson attack on a building in Mehsana district, nearly 25 miles (40 kilometers) north of Ahmadabad, the main city of Gujarat ...where rioting seems to be a traditional passtime... state. Thirty-three Mohammedans, including 20 women, who had taken shelter there were burned to death in the fire. Judge S.T. Srivastava acquitted an additional 41 Hindu suspects of murder charges for lack of evidence. The judge will sentence those convicted later this week. They face the death penalty. Two of the suspects died during the trial, which had been expedited by orders from India's top court, the Supreme Court. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #2 At only nine years this was a super expedited case. Very fast. The wheels of justice grind at a glacial pace in India. Any slower and it could be classed as geological. |
| Posted by: Secret Asian Man 2011-11-10 20:06 |
| #1 The crime was in 2002 and it just got through trial - and the trial was EXPEDITED? That's as 'good' as we do here! |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2011-11-10 09:15 |