On July 7, 2007, an Indian court sentenced 14 Hindus to life imprisonment for their participation in the brutal slaughter of 116 Muslims during mob violence on October 27 1989. The 14 men (one of whom was a police officer) were members of a mob which attacked 116 Muslim men, women and children, using swords and daggers as part of a brutal religious turf-war over a scrap of land which apparently had holy significance to both groups of people.
More were involved in the killings than just those 14 sentenced to life imprisonment. Six others were accused but have already died, and four others believed to have been associated with the crime cannot be found.
This was a senseless, brutal murder; the mob hacked and stabbed to death over a hundred people simply because the two were of different faiths, and had different beliefs about a piece of land.
Not really the example of high moral values supposedly provided by religion that one would expect to see.
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