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To: Luddite Patent Counsel; Publius6961; voletti; Gengis Khan

Couple of good reads on India.....

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/677105/posts

We also explored the many burned houses. How were they burned? I would ask the locals. Back would come the casual reply. 'They belonged to Hindus and Sikhs. Our fathers and uncles burned them.' Why? 'So they could never come back, of course.' Why? 'Because we are now Pakistan. Their home is India.' Why, I persisted, when they had lived here for centuries, just like your families, and spoke the same language, even if they worshipped different gods? The only reply was a shrug. It was strange to think that Hindus and Sikhs had been here, had been killed in the villages in the valleys below. In the tribal areas - the no-man's-land between Afghanistan and Pakistan - quite a few Hindus stayed on, protected by tribal codes. The same was true in Afghanistan itself (till the mujahedin and the Taliban arrived).

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/773340/posts

But Javed, a high school student here, says his parents might as well be describing life on the moon. He was 3 when a violent insurgency against Indian control tore apart the state, causing Hindus to flee by the hundreds of thousands. He has never had a Hindu teacher or friend, never tasted Hindu food.


54 posted on 08/16/2005 12:01:34 PM PDT by swarthyguy
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To: AnotherUnixGeek; Black Beak; TBP

Ping to Post #54. Links to informative articles if interested.


56 posted on 08/16/2005 12:08:19 PM PDT by swarthyguy
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