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...behind the latest bombings, the latest in a string of recent attacks? In August 2003, two bomb blasts in Bombay killed more than 50 people. In September 2004, around 30 people died in a gun attack on a temple in Gujarat. And last October, more than 60 were killed in a series of bomb blasts in Delhi. Another Indian intelligence officer who spoke to TIME linked Tuesday's bombings to amateurish attacks late last year in the tech towns of Hyderabad and Bangalore, and possibly the Delhi blasts too. In Hyderabad last October, a suicide bomber blew himself...
...kept relations between the communities strained. Just four years ago, the death of 59 Hindus in a burning railway carriage-at the time thought to have been set alight by a mob of Muslims, but now ruled an accident-sparked an anti-Islamic pogrom across the western state of Gujarat in which 2,000 more Muslims died. And yet, 24 hours after the Varanasi bombings: no Hindu riots, no Hindu nationalist stoking the crowds, no knee-jerk accusations from the security services...
...INQUIRY CONCLUDED. Into the 2002 TRAIN FIRE in Gujarat, India that killed 59 Hindu pilgrims and triggered the retaliatory slaughter of 2,000 Muslims in three days of mob violence; by an investigative panel in New Delhi. Retired Judge Umesh Chandra Banerjee's committee said the blaze, blamed on Muslim assailants by Hindu nationalist officials, was probably caused by someone cooking or smoking inside the coaches. Although forensic evidence seems to support the panel's conclusions, many observers have called the findings politically motivated...
...Mobs from both sides, armed with farmers' tools, spears and Molotov cocktails, transformed the once placid villages of Zhongmou county in China's central Henan province into an ethnic war zone more reminiscent of Gujarat or Aceh. Four days later, on Oct. 31, when order was finally restored by more than 10,000 People's Armed Police and other military personnel, 148 people were dead, according to local journalists who saw an internal document circulated among high-level bureaucrats in Henan-making this China's worst ethnic strife in years. "In all my life and that of my ancestors...
...Some junk needs to be handled delicately, which doesn't routinely happen in India. The coast of Gujarat state in western India is the world's biggest naval graveyard, but many of the ships have specialized in carrying poisonous materials. According to the government, about 12,500 tons of toxic waste end up in the Arabian Sea each year. In the past few years, India has insourced the disposal of old computers, which contain lead, arsenic, cadmium and bromides. The country is also the biggest single importer of mercury-contaminated industrial waste...