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8/13/2009: US religious commission criticizes India over violence - Television Washington PDF Print

 


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The US Commission on International Religious Freedom placed India on a watch list over alleged failure to prevent a “disturbing increase in communal violence” in the majority Hindu state.

“It is extremely disappointing that India, which has a multitude of religious communities, has done so little to protect and bring justice to its religious minorities under siege,” said Leonard Leo, the commission’s chairman.

In its annual report, the commission cited attacks against Christians in Orissa in 2008 and against Muslims in Gujarat in 2002.
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