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TIME's reporting vividly depicts the mayhem caused by extremist groups of Hindus and Muslims [WORLD, March 11]. Clashes under the guise of religion and political expediency can create long-term divisions between people and nations. Religious bigots should never use the name of God to instigate violence. People and their leaders must work hard to debunk these false prophets and stop the deaths of the innocent. ADRIAN VILLANUEVA Singapore
...late February, India experienced a paroxysm of violence between Hindus and Muslims. A group of Muslims in the western state of Gujarat burned 58 Hindus alive on a train. In response, Hindus went on a three-day rape, pillage and murder rampage that claimed the lives of 427 people. It was the worst violence between the two communities since riots in Bombay in 1993 claimed 800 lives...
...killing businessmen, farmers are fighting farmers, mothers are urging mobs to attack neighbors' children. Across the country, in the cities and out in the villages, Hindu "self-defense" groups are ransacking Muslims' shops and burning their homes. Vigilante patrols from each side keep watch over their respective communities. Among Hindus, talk of finishing the job left undone from the genocide of partition, in which up to a million people died in the bloody split of the subcontinent, is open and common. In the past month, more than 100,000 Muslims have fled their homes; business losses are estimated...
...Then came a nasty but surprisingly effective twist: on March 12, 1993, 10 bombs simultaneously exploded in Bombay, some of them near Hindu targets. At about 300, the body count was alarming and the message was clear: the Muslim community was telling the Hindus to cool it or real war would break out. The Hindus relented, but voted increasingly for the BJP. The party took power for 13 days in 1996 in a doomed coalition. After elections in 1998, it cobbled together a stronger alliance, which insisted that hard-line Advani - legally charged with being responsible for the mosque...
Great events in india have been shaped by the politics of the lynch mob. The last and decisive impetus to the great divide between Hindus and Muslims, which in turn led to the bitter harvest of partition in 1947, was provided by the Muslim mobs of Calcutta who ravaged the city in 1946. In 1984, Sikhs were identified, torched and killed by sword and bullet after the assassination of Indira Gandhi. In 1992 the destruction of a mosque on a disputed spot in the holy city of Ayodhya, where the Himalayas begin to meet the plains, was followed by wanton...