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7th_Sephiroth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-26-03 12:14 PM
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Three 'witches' kill themselves (india)
Three members of the same family accused of being witches have committed suicide, Indian police say. They took their lives after fellow villagers publicly humiliated them, forcing them to eat human excrement... The deaths occurred in the village of Kamalpura in the state of Bihar, in eastern India, where attacks on people accused of witchcraft are common... the three all took poison and died, the police say. 'They could not bear the continuous torture and finally lost the will to live,' a relative told the police. Last July, two women accused of witchcraft were burned to death by a mob in the neighbouring state of Jharkhand."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/3211535.stm
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7th_Sephiroth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-26-03 12:15 PM
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1. i'd just like to say
thier still burning witches in india and it should be stopped
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DisgustipatedinCA Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-26-03 12:24 PM
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2. I'd lay even odds
that they didn't take their own lives. I'll never know the truth, none of us will. But I'd say it's as likely as not that they were murdered.
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opihimoimoi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-26-03 12:45 PM
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3. Invade India, give them the shock and awe thingy.
Get Rummy involved

Heathens!, Kill them before they spread.

They got WMDs too, I saw them.

Damn.
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DisgustipatedinCA Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-26-03 01:16 PM
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4. Bush foreign policy is sort of like Risk
There's no option to not act. There's no possibility of making peace. You either move your troops on your turn or you attack something. He may get around to India one day soon.

I wish I had a witty "come, we go..." saying to insert here, but you're the master, so I'll leave it at that. :)

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