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Karnataka forest killing of three Tamils revives memories of gunning down of 20 Tamil Nadu woodcutters in Andhra Pradesh
GlobeAlert Desk · curated from The Hindu
On April 7, 2015, 20 woodcutters from Tamil Nadu were brutally gunned down by a team from the Red Sanders Anti-Smuggling Taskforce of Andhra Pradesh in the Seshachalam forest area at the foot of the Tirumala Hills
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