21.06.2006 - Source: BBC News

Grenade targets Kashmir pilgrims ("Grenade targets Kashmir pilgrims") [ID 15505]

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04.05.2006 - Source: Human Rights Watch

End Communal Violence in Gujarat, Kashmir ("End Communal Violence in Gujarat, Kashmir") [ID 15657]

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28.03.2006 - Source: UK Home Office

Report on general, political and human rights situation (Sikhs, Christians, Muslims and Hindus; land disputes, members of Akali Dal, domestic violence, prison conditions) ("Operation Guidance Note: India") [#48239],  [ID 6465]

"[...]
3.8.9 Treatment-Hindus.
As noted above, Hindus are the major religion in India accounting for some 80% of the population. Skirmishes between Hindus and Muslims do occasionally occur, for example there were minor Hindu-Muslim skirmishes in Gujarat in Vadodara (September 2003 and February 2004), Viramgam (November 2003), Ahmedabad (November 2003 and January 2004), and Godhra (September 2003 and February 2004) as a result of which seven people, three Hindus and four Muslims, were killed.55 Hindu nationalists have long agitated to build a temple on a disputed site in Ayodha and in February 2002 it was reported that a mob of Muslims attacked a train carrying Hindu volunteers returning from Ayodhya to the state of Gujarat, and 57 were burnt alive. According to the official Government figures released in May 2005, 790 Muslims and 254 Hindus were killed in the incident and the resulting anti-Muslim riots throughout the state. Over 100,000 were also reported to have been left homeless by the riots. This led to accusations that the state government had not done enough to contain the riots, or arrest and prosecute the rioters.56 More recent reports have suggested that the fire may not have been as a result of an attack by Muslims but may have been accidental.[...]"

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16.02.2006 - Source: Christian Solidarity Worldwide

Gujarat: Some 300,000 Hindu activists and fundamentalists held mass rally in Dangs district calling for nationwide anti-conversion law; run-up to event characterised by anti-minority propaganda ("Hindu extremists' mass rally calls for nationwide anti-conversion law") [#44262],  [ID 6466]

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10.02.2005 - Source: BBC News

Tamil Nadu: Junior cleric in one of country's leading Hindu monasteries, who was charged with conspiracy to murder along with the monastery's head cleric, freed on bail ("Cleric gets bail in murder case") [#28885],  [ID 6467]

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10.2004 - Source: UK Home Office

Hindus in the Kashmir Valley ("Country Report - October 2004") [#28325],  [ID 6468]

"[...]According to a UNHCR background paper 1998, “Following select killings of community members and widespread anarchy, almost the entire Hindu community (Pandits) of the Kashmir Valley was reported to have fled during 1989-90”, as the violence increased. [6e](p8) The Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) in its report ‘Profile of Internal Displacement: India’ dated 9 June 2004, estimates that between 250,000 and 400,000 Pandits, the term ‘Pandit’ is used to identify Hindu Kashmiris, who fled their homes seeking protection in the cities of Jammu and Delhi. [87] (p.14) [...]"

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