Holding Killers to Account for Hate Crimes in India

Expand Members of a “cow protection” group try to take the cows from the back of a truck that the group stopped on November 8, 2015, in Ramgarh, Rajasthan state, India.  © 2015 Getty Images/Allison Joyce A court in India yesterday sentenced 11 people to life in prison for beating to death Alimuddin Ansari, a Muslim, who his killers believed was trading in beef. Among those convicted was a local leader of the ruling Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). Many Hindus consider cows to be sacred, and in the past four years a violent vigilante campaign against beef trade and consumption…

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