Word: communalization
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...Communal violence is not something that anyone in the region can take lightly. The modern shape of the subcontinent was formed by Muslim-Hindu hatred. Both Pakistan and Bangladesh were born amid communal slaughter. More recently, Indian Hindus have carried out two large-scale anti-Muslim rampages, and Muslim militants reacted violently both times. The Nepalese government sees the danger...
...While they grope for clues, security experts agree that the attack, with its use of hand grenades instead of crude, homemade bombs, shows how brazen Bangladesh's terrorists have become. "A new threshold has been crossed," says former Foreign Minister Kamal Hossain. "We have seen a tremendous escalation by communal and antidemocratic forces...
...Poles killed by German troops during the 1944 Warsaw Uprising. And this week, the Chancellor makes another war-related pilgrimage, this time to Romania. Sixty years ago, his father, Fritz, a lance corporal in the Wehrmacht, was killed and buried with eight other German soldiers in a communal grave in the tiny village of Ceanu Mare, in the foothills of the Carpathian mountains. Gerhard, his only son, is scheduled to visit the grave on Thursday. Until four years ago, Schröder didn't even know the grave existed. His older sister, Gunhild, found the site's location through state...
...responsibility for anti-Arab attacks previously spoke of punishing 'immigrants,' since 9/11 they claim to be battling the Arab jihad," says one police official. Public opinion may finally be edging toward zero tolerance for such attacks. But Wieviorka says a fundamental problem remains: "France insists all differences of cultural, communal and religious identity be banished from the public place. But differences are out there. We must accept and live with them." Until then France may be forced to witness more attacks on trains - either real or imagined...
...need to return to sectarian demagoguery as the path back to power. To be sure, being part of the governing coalition had a restraining effect on the more extremist elements in the Hindu nationalist movement over the past six years, who may now feel a greater freedom to pursue communal confrontations over issues such as Ayodhya, where Hindu nationalists a decade ago destroyed a mosque, and have tried ever since to build a Hindu temple atop its remains. And also in Gujarat, scene of protracted communal bloodshed two years ago. With Congress in power and the BJP looking to make...