Roberto Abraham Scaruffi: Hindu Radicals Pose Terrorist Challenge to the Sub-Continent

Wednesday, 11 February 2009

Hindu Radicals Pose Terrorist Challenge to the Sub-Continent

Hindu Radicals Pose Terrorist Challenge to the Sub-Continent

By Wilson John

The charge sheet filed in a Mumbai court on January 20 against 11 members of the radical Hindu group Abhinav Bharat - including a serving Military Intelligence officer, a retired Indian Army Major, and nine other activists - has brought the growing landscape of Hindu terrorist cells in India into the open. In the last decade a few radical Hindu groups have carried out systematic hate campaigns against minority communities, particularly India's 150 million Muslims, including mob violence (as in Gujarat in 2002) and bombings (such as the 2004 blast in Nanded, Maharashtra). The September 29, 2008, Malegaon bomb attack in which the Hindu militants are charged was the first sophisticated bombing to be planned and executed by a Hindu terrorist group...

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