How to Read a Bomb: Scenes from Bombay's Black Friday
How to Read a Bomb: Scenes from Bombay's Black Friday
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如何解读炸弹：孟买黑色星期五的场景
DOI：
10.1215/08992363-2007-009
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发表时间：
2007
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影响因子：
1.5
通讯作者：
V. Rao
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作者：
V. Rao
1993年3月12日，在大约两个小时的时间里，10枚炸弹在孟买全市爆炸。定时爆炸是由大量名为RDX的炸药引起的，RDX是一种类似黑色肥皂的物质，装载在几辆四轮车和两轮车上。每辆车都战略地部署在重要的城市建筑、拥挤的市场和酒店内及其周围，每辆车在前一辆车的15到30分钟内爆炸。他们的时间安排不仅是连续的，而且可能是偶然的，遵循了从北到南的地理轨迹，开始于该市历史悠久的殖民地堡垒地区孟买证券交易所地下室的戏剧性爆炸，最后是一系列未爆炸的手榴弹被扔到桑塔克鲁斯西北郊机场的跑道上。这些爆炸发生之前，印度教徒和穆斯林在孟买持续了近三个月的紧张局势和杀戮骚乱，原因是印度北部的巴布里清真寺(Babri Masjid)被一群印度教民族主义青年暴徒摧毁，清真寺建于16世纪。虽然骚乱发生在1992年12月6日清真寺被摧毁后立即发生，一个月后的1月份又发生了第二轮骚乱
n March 12, 1993, ten bombs exploded across the city of Bombay within a period of about two hours. The timed explosions were caused by large quantities of an explosive known as RDX, a black soap – like substance, which was loaded onto several four- and two-wheelers. Planted strategically in and around important city buildings, crowded marketplaces, and hotels, each vehicle exploded within fifteen or thirty minutes of the previous one. Their itiner-ary not only was timed serially but also, perhaps accidentally, followed a north-south geographic trajectory, beginning with a dramatic explosion in the basement of the Bombay Stock Exchange in the city’s historic, colonial Fort area and ending with a series of unexploded grenades hurled onto the runways of the airport in the northwest suburb of Santacruz. These explosions followed nearly three months of tension and murderous riots in Bombay between Hindus and Muslims after the destruction of the Babri Masjid, a sixteenth-century mosque in northern India by a mob of Hindu nation-alist youths. While the riots took place immediately after the mosque’s destruc-tion on December 6, 1992, followed by a second round a month later, in January