From: fmbutt@engage.sps.mot.com (Farooq M. Butt)
Subject: Re: Riots Paralyze Bombay for Seventh Night
Keywords: Riot Bombay
Organization: Motorola RISC Software, Austin, TX
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 17:33:28 GMT

In article <1993Jan12.125020.23270@ulysses.att.com> bala@ulysses.att.com (Bala Krishnamurthy) writes:
>apnews reports:
>	   BOMBAY, India (AP) _ Thousands of terrified people jammed
>railway stations today, trying to escape Hindu-Muslim riots that
>have killed more than 130 people in the past week and lit up the
>night sky with fires.
>	   At least three people were reported killed overnight in the
>violence that has spread from slums to the rich neighborhoods of
>this city of 12 million, India's commercial center.
>	   Police reported 137 deaths in the city as of Monday. Other
>reports based on hospital records put the death toll at more than
>200.
>	   ``I don't know when this madness will end. All I can say is we
>are doing all we can,'' said S.K. Bapat, the chief of Bombay
>police.
>	   The riots that began last week are the second spasm of
>Hindu-Muslim violence to erupt in two months. More than 1,200
>people died in a week of nationwide riots in December after Hindu
>zealots destroyed a mosque in the town of Ayodhya that they believe
>had been built on the birth site of a Hindu deity.
>	   The mosque destruction was sponsored by the Hindu nationalist
>Bharatiya Janata Party, whose leader today appealed for peace.
>	   ``This killing of innocents makes me ashamed. We would like to
>appeal to all _ Hindus and Muslims alike. This should stop,'' L.K.
>Advani said in New Delhi.
>	   United News of India said a city councilman from the governing
>Congress Party was killed by a mob today. He apparently was with a
>police patrol heading toward a burning shanty area.
>	   The fire department received 85 emergency calls through the
>night as gangs of Hindus and Muslims raided each other's territory
>despite the deployment of paramilitary forces and police.
>	   More than 1,700 people have been arrested for acts of violence
>and another 2,200 have been put under preventative detention,
>United News reported.
>	   Authorities do not give a breakdown of the victims, but some
>reports said Muslims were the main targets.
>	   ``There has virtually been a pogrom declared against Muslims,''
>said the Times of India in an editorial. ``Only homes, shops and
>cars belonging to them have been singled out for attack, which
>bears the stamp of a systematic vendetta.''
>	   The current violence, which largely has been limited to Bombay,
>apparently flared at the instigation of the Shiv Sena, a radical
>Hindu group.
>	   Advani, the nationalist leader, said Bombay's rioting was not
>related to the events in Ayodhya, where his party supported the
>campaign by radical Hindu groups to have the mosque removed.
>	   Advani was arrested with five other leaders of his party soon
>after the mosque was demolished and charged with provoking
>religious hatred. He was released Monday without explanation.
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