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Article: 'They Want to Destroy Christians'; Spasm of Religious Violence Leaves a Pakistani Minority in Mourning, Frustration
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- The Washington Post
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- August 3, 2009
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They do not want to bury the Christians. They want the nation to
see them.
By nightfall Sunday, hundreds of residents of the Christian
enclave here stood in defiant vigil around seven particleboard
coffins neatly aligned on the train tracks that run through town.
They had demands: Until the government investigates the killings and
finds those responsible, they will not remove the bodies.
Police waited warily in the street. A man on a loudspeaker
bellowed the villagers' sentiments, which included anger at
provincial authorities for not stopping the killings.
"Death to the Punjab government!"
A spasm of religious violence came to this rural town in the
shape of an angry Muslim mob Saturday ...