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Article: Graveyard overwhelmed with dead from religious fighting in India.
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- Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL)
- Article date:
- March 12, 2002
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Byline: Kim Barker
AHMADABAD, India _ Along with his picks and shovels, the gravedigger now wields a Thums-Up soda pop bottle that he uses to sprinkle corpses with rosewater.
The bodies are piled into mass graves, unidentified and unclaimed by relatives, victims of the worst religious riots India has seen in a decade.
"I have developed kind of a surgeon's indifference," said Sheikh Mohammad Hasubhai, who left his regular grave-digging job to help bury the riot victims. "It's a profession. I have to have an indifference to these people. But others who come here, they are shocked and dumbfounded."
Momin Jamat graveyard is one of about ...