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Indian Students Protest Violence That Wracked Prestigious University

Anjana Pasricha

   NEW DELHI - Hundreds of college students across India rallied Monday to
   protest an attack by masked assailants that injured about 30 students
   and teachers at a premier university in New Delhi.

   The violence that wracked Jawaharlal Nehru University Sunday evening
   has led to accusations that Prime Minister Narendra Modi's ruling
   Bharatiya Janata Party is trying to muzzle dissent on campuses.
   Tensions have been simmering over a new controversial citizenship law
   passed by the government.

   Men with faces covered and brandishing sticks and rods vandalized
   hostel rooms, beat students and teachers and smashed windows and cars
   at the university for nearly two hours. Videos of the armed men roaming
   the buildings and entering a hostel went viral on social media. Those
   injured included the president of the university students' union, Aishe
   Ghosh, who said she was hit with iron rods on her head.

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