Justice, at last!
53 convicted for 1998 Coimbatore Bombings
On Valentine's Day 1998, Muslim terrorists killed more than 40 people in the sleepy southern-Indian city of Coimbatore. Coimbatore is less than 100km west of where my family comes from, and where most of my extended family still lives. I remember they found unexploded bombs and other firearms in my ancestral hometown, Erode, but luckily nobody was killed or injured there. The 1998 Coimbatore bombings were the worst terrorist attacks to have ever taken place in southern India, and the first major attack there since the LTTE assassinated India's former Prime Minister, Rajiv Gandhi, during an election rally near Chennai in May 1991.
(Rediff's Coimbatore Blasts News Archive)
On Valentine's Day 1998, Muslim terrorists killed more than 40 people in the sleepy southern-Indian city of Coimbatore. Coimbatore is less than 100km west of where my family comes from, and where most of my extended family still lives. I remember they found unexploded bombs and other firearms in my ancestral hometown, Erode, but luckily nobody was killed or injured there. The 1998 Coimbatore bombings were the worst terrorist attacks to have ever taken place in southern India, and the first major attack there since the LTTE assassinated India's former Prime Minister, Rajiv Gandhi, during an election rally near Chennai in May 1991.
(Rediff's Coimbatore Blasts News Archive)