India: ‘Vegetarian nationalist’ Hindu fundamentalists wage campaign against butchers
By DW
07 April 2023 |
5:49 am
Butchers and cattle transporters are being targeted by "cow vigilantes." This is part of a wider Hindu nationalist campaign against India's Muslim minority to cripple the community economically.
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