India’s first day of voting in a monthlong election got off to a rocky start. Militants attacked polling efforts in four states, killing at least 17 people. Its a massive problem involving 714 million eligible voters using 1.3 million voting booths in more than 823,000 polling sites. India is no stranger to violence between rival political groups. The attacks took place in several voting districts in the eastern part of India known as the “red belt”. A land mine killed five polling officials, two paramilitary soldiers died in a gunfight, and five polling stations came under a fire. ix border guards, a bus driver and his assistant died on their way to the election center in another explosion.
This article affects me because thats sads that those militants killed 17 people when they were voting. They casued explosions and gunfighting. Why’d thye kill those 17 people??? For what???
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-india-attack17-2009apr17,0,2428430.story
May 1, 2009 at 2:05 am
JAzmin ur article was very interesting when I read about the part that those militants came and ruined the chance for people to vote.
May 1, 2009 at 2:26 pm
Very good arTicle Jazmina. Why do they have to handele things with violence throwing shoes at people specialy when it is a popular Congress Party lawmaker. But you could have added how it affects you and your community. But good and ummm AWESOME ARTCLE!!!!!!!!
May 3, 2009 at 8:18 pm
i still dont get who killed all of those people
May 4, 2009 at 11:26 pm
amazing how shoe throwing can result in such a sentence as a year in jail.
May 4, 2009 at 11:27 pm
It is interesting that, someone got sentenced to a year of jail, just for shoe throwing. That is a very intersting article Samantha. I learned that things unexpected can result from things you think you will never regret.
May 4, 2009 at 11:31 pm
Why do people throw shoes now a days?? It is just weird. And nice artilce Jazmin it was super amazing
and i also agree on your opinion dont they have minds or brains/head a head they can use it haha. interesting and Great Article!
May 4, 2009 at 11:32 pm
Awesome artilce jazmin isnt that weird ya soo chatt with me k bye
May 8, 2009 at 12:48 am
this article was very interesting to me too