From: sahmed@occs.cs.oberlin.edu (Saif Ahmed)
Subject: (news item, long)  More on the aftermath of Babri Masjid 
Organization: Oberlin College Computer Science
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1992 23:48:50 GMT
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                    Agence France Presse, December 11, 1992

                               December  11, 1992


HEADLINE: Hundreds of Indian Moslems stage protests in Hong Kong

    Hundreds of Indian Moslems took to the streets in a tourist
district here Friday to protest against the storming of a mosque in
the Indian town of Ayodhya by Hindus, police said.

    Police said a group of Moslems led by Syed Shab Bir, 47, had
applied to hold a four-hour demonstration to condemn the violence in
Ayodhya on Sunday.

    A small group of demonstrators gathered first outside the Kowloon
Mosque in the Tsimshatsui district, and were later joined by hundreds
more Moslems in a noisy protest, witnesses said, while police put the
number at 150.


                              Agence France Presse

                               December 10, 1992

HEADLINE: Three more killed, 100 injured in Bangladesh

 BODY:
    Three more people were killed and some 100 injured in Bangladesh
as violence triggered by the destruction of a mosque in northern India
by Hindu militants continued, newspapers reported here on Thursday.

    Two Moslems were shot dead and 35 injured late on Wednesday in
northeastern Madhabpur town when paramilitary Bangladesh Rifles opened
fire to prevent attacks on Hindu temples, the Daily Ittefaq newspaper
said, adding that two temples were destroyed.

    In southeastern Chittagong district's Anwara area late on
Wednesday, a woman burned to death when a Hindu slum was torched by
militant factory workers, who, according to police, came under fire,
the reports said.

    Several people were injured, some with bullet wounds, in the
incident, they added.

    The toll from two days of nationwide violence -- sparked by the
demolition of the 16th century Babri Mosque in Ayodhya, northern India
-- has risen to eight, with more than 600 injured, according to police
and newspaper reports.

    Authorities rushed food and medical help to the victims in some
areas, reports said.

    The mosque demolition forced the postponement until next month of
the summit of the seven-nation South Asian Association for Regional
Cooperation (SAARC), which had been scheduled to start here on
Saturday.

    A newspaper report said that, despite the postponement, Maldives
President Maumoon Abdul Gayoom, Sri Lankan President and currect SAARC
chairman Ranasinghe Premadasa and Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif
were to arrive here within the next two days. No official confirmation
was immediately available.

    Indian Foreign Minister R.L. Bhatia, who arrived here on
Wednesday, attributed the postponement to the inability of Indian
Prime Minister Narasimha Rao to leave India in the midst of such
pressing domestic problems.

    A SAARC cricket tournament resumed on Wednesday after one day's
break, but the remaining matches have been deferred until the summit,
sports officials said.

    Fresh violence led to the re-imposition on Wednesday, after a
brief break, of an indefinite curfew in the southern Bhola district,
reports said, adding that authorities have imposed a ban on public
assembly in four districts.

    Meanwhile, in Dhaka and several other districts, Bangladeshis held
peace marches calling for communal harmony and peace.

    About 12 percent of the 110 million population in predominantly
Moslem Bangladesh are Hindus.


                              Agence France Presse

                               December 10, 1992


HEADLINE: Moslems keep burning Hindu temples in Bangladesh

DATELINE: DHAKA

    Moslem extremists ignored a ban on public assembly Thursday and
set ablaze 12 temples in the Hindu-dominated Dhamrai area near Dhaka
in continuing anger at the destruction of a mosque by Hindu activists
in India, the United News of
 Bangladesh news agency said.

    Police rushed to the scene and arrested 28 suspects, the United
News said, but did not give any further details.

    In Dhaka, police on Thursday stopped some 2,000 protesters from
the fundamentalist Jamaat-e-Islami party from marching on the Indian
High Commission, witnesses said.

    In communal violence Tuesday and Wednesday related the to razing
of the mosque in the northern Indian town of Ayodhya on Sunday, eight
people were killed and some 600 injured, according to police and press
reports.

    Authorities rushed food and medical help to the victims in some
areas, reports said.

    The mosque demolition forced the postponement until next month of
the summit of the seven-nation South Asian Association for Regional
Cooperation (SAARC), which had been scheduled to start here on
Saturday.

    Indian Foreign Minister R.L. Bhatia, who arrived here on
Wednesday, attributed the postponement to the inability of Indian
Prime Minister Narasimha Rao to leave India in the midst of such
pressing domestic problems.

    About 12 percent of the 110 million population in predominantly
Moslem
 Bangladesh are Hindus.


                           Source: Reuter Textline
                                  Lloyds List

                               December 10, 1992


HEADLINE: BANGLADESH: POLITICAL AND CIVIL UNREST; INDIA

    Three Hindu infants were burned alive and 500 people were left
homeless on the island of Kutubdia when a mob of Muslim fanatics set
fire to an exclusively-Hindu fishing village, Dhaka newspapers
reported today.  The attack yesterday evening, which came during a
12-hour general strike across the country in protest at the demolition
of a mosque in India, left over 50 houses belonging to Hindu fishermen
burned to ashes, the independent English-language newspaper "The Daily
Star" reported. At least 500 Hindus were left homeless by the blaze on
the island, several newspapers reported. About 20 policemen posted on
the island were unable to handle the 500-person mob and the
administration in Cox's Bazar District failed to send any
reinforcements, the newspaper reported. In addition, eight Hindu
temples burned down and six others were damaged, Bengali daily "Bhorer
Kagoj" reported today. - United Press International.
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| | Saifuddin Ahmed                                                        |
| | sahmed@occs.cs.oberlin.edu                                             |
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