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Indian journalist critical of Hindu extremists is shot dead in Bangalore
Police say Gauri Lankesh was shot and killed by three assailants as she was entering her home

Safi, Michael
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/sep/05/indian-journalist-gauri-lankesh-critical-of-hindu-extremists-shot-dead-in-bangalore

Publisher:  The Guardian
Date Written:  05/09/2017
Year Published:  2017  
Resource Type:  Article

Gauri Lankesh, an Indian journalist who was killed by three assailants was the senior editor of the tabloid known to be critical of Hindu extremists. The Committee to Protect Journalists reported that 27 journalists have been killed since 1992 with impunity.

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(Lankesh) told the Indian website Newslaundry last year that the "rabid hate" directed at her online had made her fear for the state of free expression in India. "Unfortunately, today anybody talking in support of human rights and against fake encounters [extrajudicial killings] is branded a Maoist supporter," she said. "Along with that, my criticism of Hindutva politics and the caste system ... makes my critics brand me as a Hindu hater. But I consider it my constitutional duty to continue – in my own little way – the struggle of Basavanna and [social reformer] Dr [Bhimrao Ramji] Ambedkar towards establishing an egalitarian society," she said.

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