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| Posted: December 5, 2008 |
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The recent terrorist attacks in Mumbai, India, took more than 170 lives and have stirred anger at both India's government and neighboring Pakistan. |
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| Ash from Chicago, Ill., asks: |
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| There is a lot of coverage of the international victims of the attack - 22 in all - but Indian citizens bore the brunt. Could you tell me what happened to them, and how are they being affected? |
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| Simon Marks responds: |
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 It's absolutely true that the vast majority of the more than 170 victims of last week's terror strikes were, indeed, Indians - more than 50 of them cut down on the indiscriminate rampage that was unleashed on the main railroad terminus here in Mumbai. But many other victims being caught at the Taj and Oberoi hotels, including in some of those hotels' five-star restaurants. And it is being widely noted here that unlike previous terror strikes on Mumbai, this terror strike has resulted in deaths across the socioeconomic spectrum. Several leading members of Mumbai's business community were killed in this attack, along with lower-class and middle-class Indians caught in the carnage at the train station and other locations. That has really brought communities together here in Mumbai, and the fact that it has touched the so-called "five-star business culture" may also be partly responsible for propelling the Indian government to take urgent action, because, as you can imagine, the business community here in Mumbai is both organized and vocal about the need to make improvements in this country's security infrastructure. That's all the time we have for your questions from here, but I'm extremely grateful to you all for submitting them. I hope you'll continue to watch our coverage on the NewsHour, from this and from other datelines around the world. |
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