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On the night of January 22nd /23rd 1999 a macabre murder took place in a remote village Manoharpur, in District Keonjhar, in the State of Orissa. Graham Stewart Staines, an Australian missionary and his two small children were all burnt to death while they were sleeping in a station wagon. The barbarity of the crime shook the whole nation. Every Indian had to hang his head in shame. The President of India Mr. K.R. Narayanan described the killing as "belonging to world's inventory of black deeds". He said "That someone who spent years caring for patients of leprosy, instead of being thanked and appreciated as a role model should be done to death in this manner is a monumental aberration from the traditions of tolerance and humanity for which India is known". The President spoke for every Indian. There was all round condemnation in India and abroad of this gruesome crime.

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