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October 2008

 

Man-eaters rule in a land of widows as tigers get a taste for human flesh The Observer, October 26, 2008

In the remote village of Deulbari, everyone knows someone who has been attacked by a tiger. Until now, humans and tigers have coexisted uneasily in this outpost in the Sundarbans area of West Bengal, where 274 tigers were counted in the last census in 2004. This year has been different.

Convert or die, Hindu lynch mobs tell fleeing Christians The Observer, October 19, 2008

HUNDREDS of Christians in the Indian state of Orissa have been forced to renounce their religion and become Hindus after lynch mobs issued them with a stark ultimatum: convert or die.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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