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==Initial Press reports and reactions== | ==Initial Press reports and reactions== | ||
''The Statesman Weekly'', the leading Calcutta newspaper at the time, reported a week after the incident that "Seventeen Ananda Margis, two of them women, were done to death on April 30 morning by frenzied mobs at three places in South Calcutta in the suspicion that they were child-lifters."<ref name=TheStatesmanWeekly1>{{citation | ''The Statesman Weekly'', the leading Calcutta newspaper at the time, reported a week after the incident that "Seventeen Ananda Margis, two of them women, were done to death on April 30 morning by frenzied mobs at three places in South Calcutta in the suspicion that they were child-lifters."<ref name=TheStatesmanWeekly1>{{citation | ||
| | | title=The Statesman Weekly | ||
| pages=1, 7 | | pages=1, 7 | ||
| date=May 8, 1982, cited in Sil (1988), pp. 3–4 | | date=May 8, 1982, cited in Sil (1988), pp. 3–4 | ||
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| year=1988 | | year=1988 | ||
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</ref>{{rp|4}} | </ref>{{rp|4}} The wire story sent out by the [[:wikipedia:United Press International|UPI]] added the erroneous detail that two of the nuns who were killed were "seen carrying a child near a railway station".<ref name=UPI>{{citation | ||
| author=[[United Press International]] | | author=[[:wikipedia:United Press International|United Press International]] | ||
| publisher=[[Sarasota Herald-Tribune]] | | publisher=[[:wikipedia:Sarasota Herald-Tribune|Sarasota Herald-Tribune]] | ||
| date=May 1, 1992 | | date=May 1, 1992 | ||
| title=Mobs in Calcutta Burn 5 Monks Alive, Stab 12 | | title=Mobs in Calcutta Burn 5 Monks Alive, Stab 12 | ||
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==Explanations== | ==Explanations== | ||
As part of its initial coverage, ''The Statesman Weekly'' reported the state's Chief Minister's suspicious that the attack had been staged to embarrass the party in power prior to the upcoming election.<ref name=Sil1988 />{{rp|4}} | As part of its initial coverage, ''The Statesman Weekly'' reported the state's Chief Minister's suspicious that the attack had been staged to embarrass the party in power prior to the upcoming election.<ref name=Sil1988 />{{rp|4}} Ananda Marga Pracaraka Samgha has always blamed the attack on the [[:wikipedia:Communist Party of India (Marxist)|Communist Party of India (Marxist)]]. | ||
<ref name=Crovetto>{{citation | <ref name=Crovetto>{{citation | ||
| chapter=Ananda Marga, Prout, and the Use of Force | | chapter=Ananda Marga, Prout, and the Use of Force | ||
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| year=2011 | | year=2011 | ||
| publisher= | | publisher= | ||
[[Oxford University Press]]| ISBN=9780199735631 | [[:wikipedia:Oxford University Press|Oxford University Press]]| ISBN=9780199735631 | ||
| pages=249–274 | | pages=249–274 | ||
}}</ref>{{rp|257}} | }}</ref>{{rp|257}} This accusation has been repeated for many years.<ref name=HinduismToday1989>{{cite news | ||
|url=http://www.hinduismtoday.com/modules/smartsection/item.php?itemid=621 | |url=http://www.hinduismtoday.com/modules/smartsection/item.php?itemid=621 | ||
| accessdate=2013-02-17 | | accessdate=2013-02-17 | ||
| publisher=[[Hinduism Today]] | | publisher=[[:wikipedia:Hinduism Today|Hinduism Today]] | ||
| date=May, 1989 | | date=May, 1989 | ||
| title=Controversial Movement Survives Years Of Conflict, Emerges Stronger Than Ever | | title=Controversial Movement Survives Years Of Conflict, Emerges Stronger Than Ever | ||
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| accessdate=2013-02-17 | | accessdate=2013-02-17 | ||
}}</ref> | }}</ref> | ||
Allegedly, a mob was stirred up by Communist activists, making unfounded claims of child kidnapping.<ref name=Inayatullah>{{cite book | |||
| last=Inayatullah | | last=Inayatullah | ||
| first=Sohail | | first=Sohail | ||
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| title=Understanding Sarkar: The Indian Episteme Macrohistory and Transformative Knowledge | | title=Understanding Sarkar: The Indian Episteme Macrohistory and Transformative Knowledge | ||
| year=2002 | | year=2002 | ||
| publisher=[[Brill Publishers|Brill]] | | publisher=[[:wikipedia:Brill Publishers|Brill]] | ||
| ISBN=9004121935 | | ISBN=9004121935 | ||
}}</ref> | }}</ref>{{rp|20}} | ||
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==Investigations and memorials== | ==Investigations and memorials== | ||