30 September 2008

PEACEFULL HINDI & THE KILLING OF CHRISTIANS




A summery what happened in the last 8 weeks only few of the casualities were reported in Western newspapers :
August 23, 2008- Swani Lakshmanananda Swarati a VHP leader is killed in Kandhamal district. All indications shows that it was a political motivated murder by Naxal (Maoist terrorist). Hindi groups in Orissa blame Christians for the killing.
- Two nuns are attacked, the vehicle set on fire and the driver beaten up. A prayer chapel in Sundargarh is destroyed.
August 24 - Attacks in Kandhamal district intensify. The office of Jan Vikas a Christian NGO , is ransacked and vehicles set on fire. A pastoral centre a convent and a hostel is also vandalized by the sam hindu - group.
August 25
Hindi attack a Christian orphanage at Khuntpalli village in Bargath district. An employee and a prospective convert , a local Hindi burnt to death.
August 29
The violence is spreading, by now at least 20 Christians are killed and 3,000 are reported living in relief camps , because they don not trust themselves to return to their native villages because they are afraid to get killed for their believe. 1,000 homes set to fire.
September 1
Orissa governement claims situation is under control but additional 558 houses and 17 churches and prayer halls are burnt.
September 4
Over 300 Hindi woman attack a relief camp for the Christian victims of the violence in Tikabali, Khandmal. The woman protesting that Christians have have provisions in the relief camps , Hindi do not have.
September 14
More than a dozen churches are ransacked by activist of Bajrang Dal in Mangalore (so the violence spread now from Orissa east coast to Karnataka west- coast), Udupi Chikmagalur of Karnataka.
September 15
Around 10 Christians were stabbed to death in the outskirts of Bangalore,
September 21
Three moore churches are burnt by Hindu fundementalist

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