Tag: moblynchings

By M A Mufazzal The outdated culture of vigilantism or mob lynching, newly imported from America is now being practiced in an epidemic proportion in modern India. The tradition of mob lynching is generally associated with the killing of African Americans including women by white men in the course of Civil War and World War II, particularly between 1889 and 1918. By exploiting this terrorizing lunacy, lynchers hanged blacks, burned them alive, or hacked them to death on the pretext of casual social transgressions such as, stealing a cow, arguing with a...