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Claudio Feliciani

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is ‘stampede’ the right way to describe what happened in hathras

Is ‘Stampede’ the Right Way to Describe What Happened in Hathras?

Using terms like ‘stampede’ has implications – it essentially puts the blame on the people involved in the incident and on the way they behaved, even though crowd behaviour is often not the main cause of such incidents.