Indian court convicts 31 Hindus for killing Muslims

Full Story: Yahoo News 9 November 2011

A court in India convicted and sentenced 31 Hindus to life imprisonment Wednesday for killing dozens of Muslims by setting a building on fire during one of India's worst rounds of communal violence nine years ago.

The killing took place in 2002 in the Indian state of Gujarat, when the suspects set a building on fire in a village in Mehsana district, nearly 25 miles (40 kilometers) north of Ahmadabad, the main city of Gujarat state. Thirty-three Muslims, including 20 women, who had taken shelter there were burned alive.

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