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A cynical ploy

Sir, — It seems as if the shrill war rhetoric from India is being used to drown the international condemnation of the Gujarat carnage. This cynical ploy seems to have been effective. The plight of the victims and the denial of justice and succour have now been relegated to the inner pages of newspapers. With an enemy across the border, the faces of the Gujarat victims have started blurring.

The Government has repeatedly said that India's restraint was at breaking point and that the people were not ready to tolerate any more the massacre of innocents in Jammu and Kashmir by Pakistani infiltrators. But are lives more valuable in Jammu and Kashmir compared to Gujarat? Why did the Government exercise "restraint" while a pogrom was carried out in Gujarat? The current hysteria must not be allowed to eclipse this far more serious crisis.

Pinaki Majumdar,
Allahabad

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