An Indian court sentenced Dara Singh to death and 12...

An Indian court sentenced Dara Singh to death and 12 others to life imprisonment for killing an Australian Christian missionary and his two young sons in a mob attack.
Graham Staines and his sons Philip, 10, and Timothy, 8, were killed in January 1999 when a Hindu mob burned their jeep while they slept outside a church in Manoharpur, a tribal village in eastern Orissa state.
One of the 12 others given life sentences reportedly said that the killers were provoked by the "corruption of tribal culture" by the missionaries, who allegedly fed villagers beef and gave women brassieres and sanitary napkins. Hindus worship the cow and forbid the eating of beef.
"I did this because of the bitter relations with the Christians," Mahendra Hembram was quoted as saying by The Hindustan Times in a letter to his sister-in-law.
"After hearing so many things about the Christians, we decided to kill the Christians," he said in the letter, written while he was on the run before being arrested.