Showing posts with label saffron. Show all posts
Showing posts with label saffron. Show all posts

04 October 2008

SYSTEMATIC ASSAULT ON CHRISTIANS NOW ALSO IN NEW-DELHI

The fanatical Hindu mobs have struck in the Capital. And the police has kept it under wraps. A good fortnight ago, a mob attacked a handfullof Christian families at the Peeragarhi Relief Camp and demolished the frontal portion of the Christian prayer hall in the camp.

This camp in west Delhi is barely 15 km from Parliament House. To this day, this group of Christians is holding weekly mass with police protection. The families say they are living in constant fear of local miscreants allegedly owing allegiance to ''some religious organisations'' who accuse them of carrying out ''forced conversions'' and threaten to ''take away'' their daughters unless they ''mended their ways.''

The mob had struck on September 16. Despite repeated attempts, the community has not managed to get a FIR registered for what they call ''vandalism'' and police describe as ''regular land dispute''.

Ezik Malik, the priest-in-charge of the prayer hall says that a day before the actual demolition, he had got a call from an unidentified caller saying that the roof of the hall had collapsed.

''We promptly went to rebuild it when suddenly this mob of 500 reached the place carrying saffron flags and sticks. They started pelting stones that left six people injured. There were anti-Christian slogans and then they demolished part of the hall. Policemen just looked on. On hindsight I realised that they had damaged the roof to create a situation that could later be used as an excuse for unrest.'' He added that despite repeated attempts the local police station refused to lodge a FIR but gave the community protection.

Sister Rani, who was praying inside the hall when the incident happened, says she was attacked by some of the men. ''It's like a never-ending nightmare. There have been no arrests and we are living in constant fear of more attacks.''

Struggling to hold back her tears, a petrified Pyalo Dev said: ''They come everyday since that incident and ask us to leave this area as we do not 'belong' here and we should not be practising Christianity in this area. I am scared about my teenaged daughter. All the women from our community who go out to work are followed. It is a nerve-wracking situation and I do not know how much more of this I can take.''

I am sorry for violating the copyright of Times of India.

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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