21/9/07
Catholic priests and human rights activists say Hindu radicals engineered recent anti-Muslim violence in Gujarat with an eye on the state election in December. Violence began on Sept. 18 in Surat district’s Kosadi village after Muslims allegedly killed a member of a Hindu right-wing organization formed to protect cows. Representatives of the organization had visited the village to verify reports that its Muslim residents slaughtered a calf. Hindus revere the cow as a form of god and a law prohibits killing the animal. Muslims say the alleged cow-slaughter incident was concocted to cause trouble.
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Related UCAN Reports
Church People Hail Gujarat Riot Case Verdict (February 27, 2006)
Muslims In Gujarat Welcome Supreme Court Order To Reopen Riot Cases (August 19, 2004)
Sectarian Violence Resurfaces In Gujarat, Muslims Worried (November 5, 2003)
Aussie missionary’s killer jailed again on second murder charge
24/9/07
An Indian man convicted of murdering an Australian Christian missionary and his two sons in 1999 has been convicted of killing an Indian Catholic priest in the same year. The Daily Times reports that he has received a second life sentence. A court in Orissa state sentenced Dara Singh and three others to life for battering to death 35-year-old Arul Doss. Doss was ministering in the east of the state.
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