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...this leaves them. "We lived together quite happily," recalls farmer Faiz Mohammad Khan. The change precedes the slaughters of February and March: several years back, some prominent Hindus in the village began organizing meetings of the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP), extremist champions of India's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). "They came here and talked about Muslims, how all of us have weapons, and that Hindus had to protect themselves," says Khan. "Now no one cares about us and we have no faith in them. But we have nowhere else...
...from the majority Hindu population in the wake of the violence. (89.5% of the state's population is Hindu and just 8.5% Muslim.) That provoked an uproar in New Delhi's Parliament last week, as the opposition accused the ruling party of backing Modi, the leader of the Gujarat BJP. But Deputy Prime Minister L.K. Advani did not relent. "You abuse a Chief Minister day in and day out and then expect him not to go to the people?" he argued. "The Chief Minister needs a certificate of the people of Gujarat and he will get that." No doubt, analysts...
...Ajanwa's Hindus and Muslims had lived in peace for years: only in the past decade, with the rise of the BJP in both New Delhi and Gujarat, has the divide grown. Muslim survivors say BJP members led the attacks in March. Some were arrested, but the main organizers charged with the killings are still free. "If only those four or five people are caught, there would be no trouble in the village and we could go back," says Mushtaq, who chooses to live in the nearby town of Lunawada and commute to his farm 25 kilometers away. Local police...
...police complaint, including her three rapists. To date, none have been arrested. "They send word from the village that they will kill us both," says Yaqub. "If the government wanted, they could arrest all these people." He claims they've been spared because they are members of the BJP...
...APPOINTED. LAL KRISHNA ADVANI, 74, India's Hindu nationalist Home Minister, as Deputy Prime Minister; in New Delhi. Widely perceived as a right-wing hard-liner, Advani remains the main strategist of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (bjp). He has long been the de facto No. 2 to Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, and his new designation appears to formalize his position as successor...