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February 28, 2002 India braced for anarchy after fatal train attack By Catherine Philp, South Asia Correspondent INDIA faces the prospect of more mob violence after Hindu hardliners vowed last night to build a temple on the disputed Ayodhya holy site. This was despite an attack in which Muslims set fire to a train carrying Hindu activists from the site, killing at least 55 people, including 14 children. Religious tension is rising against the background of the War on Terror and the conflict with Pakistan over Kashmir which has a Muslim majority. Across the state there were reports of sporadic unrest last night: two buses were attacked and burnt in Ahmedabad. Elsewhere one man was killed and two others injured in apparent revenge attacks. The Indian Prime Minister, Atal Behari Vajpayee, has appealed for calm and cancelled a visit to this weekend’s Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting in Australia. In the town of Godhra, where the train was set on fire, a youth of 17 was shot dead by police as they dispersed the mob. The streets were later deserted as police enforced a curfew. Thousands of Hindus had gathered in Ayodhya to plan the building of the temple on the ruins of the 16th-century Babri mosque. Its destruction by a Hindu mob ten years ago caused riots throughout India in which 3,000 died. The Sabarmati Express was taking Hindu militants home to Gujarat from a purification ceremony at the temple site when it was attacked. Police said that a mob gathered outside the station as the passengers shouted Hindu slogans. As the train left the station it was surrounded by about 2,000 people. They doused one carriage with petrol and set it alight, trapping dozens of passengers inside. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Forwarded as information only; no endorsement to be presumed + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. section 107, this material is distributed without charge or profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving this type of information for non-profit research and educational purposes only. + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + The only real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. -Marcel Proust + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + "Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe simply because it has been handed down for many generations. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is written in Holy Scriptures. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of Teachers, elders or wise men. Believe only after careful observation and analysis, when you find that it agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all. Then accept it and live up to it." The Buddha on Belief, from the Kalama Sutta + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + A merely fallen enemy may rise again, but the reconciled one is truly vanquished. -Johann Christoph Schiller, German Writer (1759-1805) + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly. -Bertrand Russell + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + "Everyone has the right...to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers." Universal Declaration of Human Rights + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + "Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut." --- Ernest Hemingway <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/">www.ctrl.org</A> DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance—not soap-boxing—please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'—with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds—is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. ======================================================================== Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html <A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html">Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]</A> http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ <A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/">ctrl</A> ======================================================================== To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om