For those who say everything is ok in India....
washingtonpost.com
a mob formed outside the bakery and tried to set it alight with bombs made from gasoline-filled plastic bags. Sheikh took refuge with other family members and neighbors on an upstairs terrace, but others -- including an uncle and an elder sister -- were trapped on the ground floor, where they were soon surrounded by attackers wielding swords and other crude weapons.
The besieged Muslims repeatedly called police, and an officer finally appeared around 9:30 p.m. But instead of coming to their aid, Sheikh recalled, "I heard him tell the mob, 'Whatever you have to do, finish it off at night, don't leave anything until morning.' "
Sheikh said she could clearly identify some of the attackers as they "set upon" her maternal uncle with an iron rod. The family had moved into the neighborhood six months before and Sheikh said she knew a number of the killers by name. "I never imagined they would attack me," she recalled. "The relations were quite cordial."
The killing went on all night, and when it was over, 14 people were dead, including Sheikh's sister, her uncle and four neighborhood children. Some of the victims had been burned to death. Three Hindu employees of the bakery had their stomachs slit open, Sheikh told human rights investigators.
That morning, the attackers finally got their hands on Sheikh, her mother and another sister, marching them into a nearby field. "Let's rape these women before we burn them," Sheikh recalled one of the men saying.....
...the state government has yet to secure a conviction of a single accused Hindu
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