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Police Break Up Hindu March in Tense Gujarat

The World | IN BRIEF / INDIA

November 18, 2002|From Times Wire Reports

Hundreds of Hindu protesters were arrested as police broke up a banned rally in western India's Gujarat state, where religious clashes have killed about 1,000 people this year.

The 2-week-long rally planned by the Hindu nationalists was to start in Godhra, where a Muslim mob's arson attack on a train carrying mostly Hindus in February triggered India's worst religious riots in a decade.


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The commission charged with holding elections in Gujarat next month had banned the rally, saying it could reignite tensions and affect the vote.

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