India guru rape case: 23 die in unrest as Ram Rahim Singh convicted

[Kontinuum]

At least 23 people have been killed in violent protests over the rape conviction of a popular religious leader in north India.
The victims are believed to be Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh's followers. Angry supporters rampaged through Panchkula town, near Chandigarh.
About 2,500 of Singh's followers have been arrested, police said.
Earlier, his devotees smashed cars and set media vans alight, saying he was innocent.
More than 200,000 of his followers had flocked to the Chandigarh area ahead of Friday's verdict.

Singh, who says he has millions of disciples, was found guilty of raping two women at the headquarters of his sect, known as Dera Sacha Sauda, in 2002.
Thousands of army, police and paramilitary forces were deployed. They fired tear-gas canisters and water cannon into the crowd to try to restore control, says the BBC's Ravinder Singh Robin in Panchkula.
However, the region's police chief BS Sandhu said the violence was now under control.

Curfews have been imposed in several areas of Chandigarh city and across the state of Punjab, and internet services were suspended.
Violence also spread to the capital, Delhi, where two train coaches were set on fire, according to reports.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-41049705

[LMuhlen]

That actually sounds very effective, turning off the internet in a region undergoing violent protests. No mass communications, no mass formations.

[Themius]

Rape culture is very real in India...

[lonely zergling]

I will never understand how people can blindly follow such cult leaders. "Religion" is a apparently very important for some people.

[Trollhammer]

These sects always turn out the same.. Wiki pedia has some funny excepts.. In lkight of the above news. This one made laugh the most..

400 followers of the sect have been castrated inside the sect’s headquarters to "bring them closer to god". One of the castrated men came forward and filed a complaint in court against the guru. According to the Central Bureau of Investigation, the castrations were done to "safeguard" female followers from "possible sexual advances".

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I will never understand how people can blindly follow such cult leaders. "Religion" is a apparently very important for some people.

That's not how it works. You seem to completely misunderstand what gurus are. The few who "got famous" wandered around for decades before some rich picked them up and promoted them. Read up Ramana Maharshi for example.

[PC2]

Rape culture is very real in India...

Rapist data patterns are real. The existence of a global or national rape culture is imaginary.

[metzger84]

fuck that guy and his army of retarded flunkies