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Men accused of skinning cow lynched
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Men accused of skinning cow lynched
Events rekindle debate in India over faith and culture
By JOHN LANCASTER Washington Post
Sunday, November 3, 2002
Dulena, India -- It began, by most accounts, with a grisly rumor:
Five men had been arrested after stealing a cow -- revered by Hindus
as the mother of all humanity -- and skinning it alive just steps
from the construction site of a new Hindu temple. Something had to be
done.
It was. Inflamed by a day of religio...
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