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- From: sunder@grusin.crhc.uiuc.edu (Srinivas Sunder)
- Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
- Subject: Re: Hijacking of IA Airplane
- Date: 22 Jan 1993 18:53:11 GMT
- Organization: Center for Reliable and High-Performance Computing, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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- Keywords: Just heard over the local radio
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- All from UPI (of course):
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- The hijacker, described as a Hindu radical, held up a plane with a chemically-
- laced bomb (or so he claimed), and forced it to land in a hurry, at Lucknow.
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- He wanted to speak to AB Vajpayee, who subsequently went to meet him and advised
- him to surrender after assuring him that the police would not torture him. All
- 48 people on board flight unhurt. It was a Delhi-Patna flight, and was hijacked
- shortly after take-off at ND.
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- The hijacker's name was Satish Chandra Pandey, and Vajpayee was in Lucknow to
- attend a BJP meeting. He surrendered in Vajpayee's presence (described as India's
- ex Foreign Minister) to the UP DGP Prakash Singh. He was demanding the release
- of all activists connected with the mosque-destruction AND the un-banning of the
- three Hindu organizations banned post-BM destruction.
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- In other noos:
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- John Major in India for RD celebrations (he's the Chief Guest). He is expected
- to pressure PVNR to let Amnesty International and Co. into Punjab and Kashmir.
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- Also, a shoot-out between (get this!) the bodyguards of Punjab CM Beant Singh
- and the police officials responsible for security at an India-England cricket
- match in Chandigarh. The policemen would allow only Beant Singh's vehicle into
- the stadium, while the bodyguards wanted to take their vehicles in too. As the
- two groups argued, one of the bodyguards (belonging to the "elite central
- paramilitary force") pulled a revolver, and as police and paramilitary officers
- tried to break it up, shots were fired, killing one paramilitary officer and
- wounding another.
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- UPI reported this, quoting the Indian Express, who said that "authorities" told
- them so.
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- My comments: See? Most of this junk is sensationalistic. I don't got no option
- but to post sensationalistic noos. Even the occasional non-sens. stuff is dull
- and drab. Re this Punjab thing, if these "elite paramilitary" dudes can't even
- fight a bunch of policemen without getting one of their own killed, no wonder
- the insurgency needs the Army for it to be quelled. That aside from the fact that
- if these guys have been spending all this time fighting each other, it's no
- wonder that the terrorists have gotten away with murder so far.
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- Srinivas Sunder sunder@crhc.uiuc.edu
-
- If my employer shares these views, I'd be most surprised.
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