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August 12, 2017

South Asia: Our collective cross to bear - the mob against the weak | Pulapre Balakrishnan

Across the South Asian region, the state is culpable of empowering the mob against the weak

In India, thugs assault Dalits and Muslims employed in the cattle trade in the name of Hindu dharma, a writer is hounded out of two Bengals for saying that minorities have been ill-treated in Bangladesh, priests attack Rohingyas in Myanmar for no other reason than that they are Muslim, in Sri Lanka racists suppress a Tamil minority on grounds of difference, in Pakistan a Christian sweeper is arrested upon accusations of blaspheming Islam, and in Nepal people of the hill country disempower those of its plains through constitutional manoeuvre.

http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/lead/our-collective-cross-to-bear/article19466781.ece