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To: MadIvan
"That led to the slaughter of 700,000 people in India, with the killing beginning one minute after the midnight deadline."

The British did do a pretty bad job with the partition of India.

9 posted on 03/04/2007 5:06:11 AM PST by Jedi Master Pikachu ( What is your take on Acts 15:20 (abstaining from blood) about eating meat? Could you freepmail?)
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To: Jedi Master Pikachu
It was not the British who wanted partition, it was Mohammed Ali Jinnah, who demanded an independent Pakistan. The results have been pathetic.

Regards, Ivan

10 posted on 03/04/2007 5:08:41 AM PST by MadIvan (I aim to misbehave.)
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