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Pick on a spontaneous communal event and thereafter pour communal fuel to snow ball a minor event into a communal cauldron. Those are the time tested tactics of the Sangh Parivar. Even a perfunctory scrutiny of the two riots, the 2002 Gujarat riots and the 2013 Muzaffarnagar riots, reveal that both have similar genesis.

Sunila Abesekera passed away in Colombo on the afternoon of 9 September 2013. Posted below are the first the news reports and messages from Sri Lanka. Posted below is also a song sung by Sunila (recorded by CPR in Sri Lanka)

. . .Aminkhata, nestled in the forests of Assam’s Kokrajhar district, was one of many hundreds of villages destroyed in July last year, when riots broke out between Bodos and Bengali-speaking Muslims across the north-western part of the state. The village, a Bodo enclave of approximately 2,000 people, was in the middle of a larger Muslim area. All of its 250 homes were burnt to the ground.

http://www.cbc.ca/day6/popupaudio.html?clipIds=2404573834

Little did your school boy chums in Hawaii, watching you race up and down the basketball court, know how prescient they were when they nicknamed you “Barry O’Bomber”. Little did your fellow Harvard Law Review editors, who elected you to lead that venerable journal, ever imagine that you could be a president who chronically violates the Constitution, federal statutes, international treaties and the separation of power at depths equal to or beyond the George W. Bush regime.