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posted by martyb on Wednesday November 14 2018, @02:55PM   Printer-friendly
from the Wizard's-First-Rule dept.

Two innocent men have been burned alive by a massive lynch mob after WhatsApp rumours branded them child abductors.

A large crowd gathered outside the police station after rumours spread about the two men.

A mob dragged two men out of a police station, savagely beat them and then set them on fire, killing them, after a false rumour was spread on WhatsApp about the pair being child kidnappers.

The mother of one of the men made a desperate plea for the crowd to stop as she watched the lynching unfold on a Facebook livestream.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-46145986


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 14 2018, @05:48PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 14 2018, @05:48PM (#761811)

    Amnesty International admits the cause:
    https://www.bbc.com/news/amp/world-asia-44206372 [bbc.com]

    Delightfully honest cartoon:
    https://imgur.com/QHoRWRi [imgur.com]

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 14 2018, @08:11PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 14 2018, @08:11PM (#761879)

    Delightfully honest cartoon:
    https://imgur.com/QHoRWRi [imgur.com]

    Cute, unfortunately the cartoon is based on a false [routledge.com]premise [wikipedia.org]

    Just like there's Christians and there's Christians, there's Buddhists and then there's Buddhists...the armed Tibetan Buddhist monks fighting the Chinese invaders back in the day was the first clue there as far as I was concerned (now cue quibbles about just how 'Buddhist' Tibetan Buddhism actually is..and what Buddhist tradition is 'best' Theravāda, Mahāyāna or Vajrayāna.)