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Last month, the supreme court of India decided that a Hindu temple should be built on an adjacent piece of land, and the Hindu party involved in the situation, Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP), agreed. No one wanted the rioting to continue, so such a compromise was welcomed. To prevent further violence, the supreme court ruled that there would be no religious activity of any kind, by any faith, directly on the site. Yet VHP immediately held a Hindu religious ceremony there...
Pravin Togadiya is general secretary of Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP), the Hindu movement blamed for the upsurge in religious bloodletting in India. Last week in New Delhi he spoke with TIME's Meenakshi Ganguly...
...stripped and then beat a Hindu woman to death for protecting her Muslim friend; another mob fatally stabbed a Muslim man for having married a Hindu. "These people always take our women as one of their wives to beget Muslim children," says one activist for the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP), the extreme Hindu movement linked with India's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party...
...killings were shocking enough, but rumors quickly emerged that aggravated the situation--of Hindu women raped on the platform, of girl survivors being carried away. Local leaders of the chauvinistic Vishwa Hindu Parishad, the group planning to rebuild the Ram temple, gave instructions to destroy all Muslims. In Afsana's neighborhood, Naroda, a crowd of 2,000 armed themselves with sticks, stones and bottles of gasoline and went hunting. At least 65 people were killed, their remains left outside their burned homes. After all the Muslims had died or fled, a Hindu mob surrounded the local mosque and started...
INDIA Late Compromise Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee consulted Hindu and Muslim leaders in an attempt to end simmering religious tensions after riots in the western state of Gujarat left more than 600 dead. The hard-line Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) finally agreed to await a court's verdict on the construction of a Hindu temple at a disputed site at Ayodhya. But Muslim leaders say the VHP's demand for access to an adjacent site could also trigger more sectarian violence...