Re: News: Police fire on mob. 11 killed.

[aarohan@bom2.vsnl.net.in (Meera)]

I think there is another side to this story which needs to be addressed.
It is a politically motivated riot and should be seen this way. Let's
pleases be careful how we react to this



>This just in...
>
>More details at
><http://www.yahoo.com/headlines/970711/international/stories/india_8.html>
>
>- 'shal
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>
>[Fri Jul 11]
>Police Fire on Mob in India, 11 Killed
>
>By Dev Varam
>
>BOMBAY (Reuter) - At least 11 people including two children were killed
>when police fired on a crowd protesting against the desecration of a social
>activist's statue in India's commercial capital on Friday, eyewitnesses and
>hospital sources said.
>
>Demonstrators accused police of indiscriminate firing during what they said
>was an orderly protest. Police said they were provoked during the incident at
>Ghatkopar, 10 miles from Bombay's city centre.
>
>[snip..]
>
>The dead included an 11-year old boy and a 12-year old girl -- both apparently
>bystanders -- and an old woman.
>
>Twenty-five were wounded and treated in hospital.
>
>Hospital authorities put the death toll at 11 while police said it was four.
>
>Police said trouble started when a statue of Bhimrao Ambedkar, a revered
>leader of the lower social classes, was found garlanded with shoes, viewed as
>a insulting gesture.
>
>When police reached the scene a crowd of Ambedkar supporters who had
>surrounded the statue pelted them with stones, police said.
>
>
>[snip..]
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>Residents said at least four vehicles were set ablaze in the rioting -- but
>all of them after the police opened fire.
>
>Police in riot gear patrolled the streets amidst isolated incidents after the
>initial rioting.
>
>Authorities closed the busy highway near the statue, causing traffic jams.
>
>Ambedkar, known as the father of India's constitution, is treated like a
>god by the lower social classes in India's rigid Hindu caste system.
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