Indian Court Sentences 11 To Death For 2002 Attack On Hindus

Last week, a  court in India's state of Gujarat found 31 Muslims guilty of murder and criminal conspiracy in the 2002 attack that set fire to a train carrying Hindu pilgrims. The attack killed 59 and set off counter anti-Muslim riots that killed up to 2000. (See prior posting.) Today, according to AFP, the court imposed death sentences on 11 of the defendants and life sentences on the 20 others. According to the special prosecutor in the case, the court found the death sentences justified, seeing the crimes as ones that come "under the category of the rarest of the rare."