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Article: It still hurts; Sectarian tension in India.(Sectarian violence in Gujarat)
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- The Economist (US)
- Article date:
- August 14, 2004
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Truth and justice, like reconciliation, prove elusive in Gujarat
THE scar left by the pogrom directed at the Muslim minority in the Indian state of Gujarat in February and March 2002 has yet to heal. That is partly because not a single murderer has been convicted, although perhaps 2,000 people died. The state government is under pressure from local activists, human-rights groups and India's staunchly interventionist Supreme Court to see that justice is at last done. But it continues to act less like a scourge of illegal violence than its sponsor.
This week, the Supreme Court rebuked the state government's prosecutor for his failure to secure the arrest ...