Word: mobbing
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Sale and David Pelletier had been robbed of their rightful gold medal. Both pairs were eventually given gold, but by then the scandal had outraged the world - Oh, the shock of it! Dirty dealings in figure skating! Eventually, interest waned, until this week's exciting tidbit emerged: the Russian mob may have been behind the Olympic scandal from the start. So for resurrecting this tale of ignominy, our person of the week is Alimzhan Tokhtakhounov...
...Bilqis Yaqub Rasool used to live in the village of Randhikpur. When a local mob began its attack, she escaped into a forest with some relatives, including her three-year-old daughter. After three days in hiding, the group was discovered. Rasool watched as the mob smashed her daughter with a stone, killing her instantly. Then Rasool, who was five months pregnant, was raped by three assailants and left for dead. When she regained consciousness, all her relatives had been massacred...
...Rasool now lives in a rented house in Godhra, a wealthy town of businessmen and farmers and a sizable Muslim population, with her husband, Yaqub, a cowherd. Rasool has identified all the members of the mob in a 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...
...vegetarianism extolled. Modi is expected to win the elections there handily. But there are some signs of a backlash, of public revulsion at what has occurred since February. "It was a doomed, horrible time and best forgotten," laments a shopkeeper in Ahmadabad, who admits to running with a mob that killed 83 people in the neighborhood of Naroda. "I think everyone lost all sense. Muslims were killed, but in the end we all suffered...
...that they are going quietly. Every morning, Aziz Ahmed, a Junior Artists Association official, scouts locations from his van. When he finds a production that does not employ junior artists, he works the phones, calling a threatening mob to the set. Ahmed, a burly 39-year-old, heckles producers, demanding a token quota of junior artists, even if it means the extras are "left outside the frame." Most producers comply, or just pay up, to get rid of him. Ahmed admits he has resorted to violence, but says he has no choice. "People say we are quarrelsome and abusive...