Friday, June 29, 2007

Terror Unbound: 14 years old Hindu youth burnt alive

A truly heart-rending story about a Hindu youth from a West Bengal village whom Muslim miscreants set on fire: Terror Unbound: 14 years old Hindu child burnt alive.

The victim's father fled Bangladesh to escape persecution, only to rediscover it in his adopted village in West Bengal. The family has since relocated to Kolkata (Calcutta).

My mother once asked me where the street dwellers in Kolkata came from. I told her that I assumed that most of them were economic refugees who were fleeing poverty in rural Bihar and West Bengal. Now I wonder if many of them fled terrorism such as that experienced by Samrat Mondal and his family.

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