Killing fields revisited
The nauseating regularity with which large groups of voiceless, faceless people in rural Bihar are exterminated, mocks India's claims to being a modern democratic state. News has just come in of the state's worst-ever mass killings in which over 70 people of Lakshmanpur-Bathe village have been butchered by 300-strong mob of Ranbir Sena activists.
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