Senseless cycle of sectarian violence
India’s latest convulsion of religious killings is where it should be: out in the glare of the world
05 March 2020 - 05:00
A man named Musharraf was beaten to death by a mob of Hindu supremacists outside his home in northeast Delhi. First they broke down the door, then dragged him out from under the bed where he was hiding and into the street. His 11-year-old daughter Kushi begged them not to kill her father, but they did anyway.
Of all the thousands of media reports coming from India in the past week, this story — reported in The Guardian — is the one that puts the insanity of the country’s latest convulsion of sectarian violence where it should be: out in the glare of the world...
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