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Afghan Sikhs carried a coffin to the United Nations headquarters in Kabul
KABUL: Around 100 angry Afghan Sikhs carried a coffin to the United Nations headquarters in Kabul on Monday, accusing Muslims of stopping them cremating the dead man.Shouting slogans and punching their fists into the air the turbanned men broke through a hastily assembled police barriers until they reached the gates of the UN mission.The protesters said Muslims had beaten them as they tried to bury community elder Lachman Singh."Aren't we human? Isn't God created for us as well? If God is only for Muslims, go ahead and kill us all or hand us over to the UN,"Autaar Singh, parliament's Sikh representative said."We want our rights and freedom," he said. "We weren't even stopped performing our religious ceremonies by the Taliban." Numbering just a few hundred in Kabul and a few dozen elsewhere, Afghanistan's dwindling Sikh community complains of widespread discrimination from the overwhelming Muslim
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