The World : 12,000 Hindus Arrested
Indian police arrested more than 12,000 supporters of the extremist opposition Bharatiya Janata Party and scuffled with right-wing Hindu youths of the Shiv Sena group during a New Delhi demonstration calling for deployment of troops in strife-ridden Punjab state. Those arrested were later released. The protest was the largest of a series of rallies held over the last two weeks to demand that the military be used to curb Sikh separatist attacks. Hundreds of people, most of them Hindu, have been killed since the beginning of the year by Sikh extremists demanding an independent nation in Punjab.
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