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61 are reported dead in India caste massacre
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LAKSHMANPUR, India -- Wailing with grief, low-caste Hindu
families crowded around mud huts in this poor village yesterday, as
police collected the bodies of 61 residents who had been slaughtered
in the dead of night.
Ranbir Sena, an illegal militia composed mostly of upper-caste
landowners who terrorize villagers who dare question their supremacy,
were accused.
Most residents of Lakshmanpur, a village of low-caste farmers 580
miles southeast of New Delhi, were asleep when at l...
