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...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 say the accused instigators have disappeared, but TIME met two?Raisingh Pula Baria and his cousin Salam Abha Baria?living openly in the village. Both identified themselves as members of the BJP, but denied they were involved in the killings...
...still unexplained firebombing of a train filled with Hindu pilgrims, in which 59 died. According to independent human-rights groups like the People's Union for Democratic Rights, most Hindus arrested for rioting were released on bail within days. In the first hearing in July, a judge in Lunawada dismissed the case for lack of evidence?as, in fact, he probably had to. "First the police refuse to file proper complaints," explains Amrish Patel, a member of Jan Sangharsh Manch (Forum for People's Struggle), a group that promotes Hindu-Muslim amity. "Then the police don't investigate properly. There...
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