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February 26, 2020

At Least 24 Killed in India After Hindu Nationalists Attack Muslim Demonstrators
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In India, the death toll from religiously-motivated violence in Delhi
has risen to 24, with police accused of turning a blind eye to assaults
on Muslims committed by Hindu nationalist mobs. On Tuesday, assailants
set fire to a mosque, while attackers used iron bars, rocks and pickaxes
to attack Muslims protesting against Hindu nationalist Prime Minsiter
Narendra Modi's new citizenship law, which widely restricts Muslim
immigration to India. This comes as Modi himself has been accused of
sanctioning the massacre of more than 2,000 Muslims in 2002, when he was
chief minister of the state of Gujarat.


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