Facts on 'Clashes among Christian Missionaries and the Tribals in Kandhamal District of Orissa'.
Ashok Sahu, IPS (Retd.),
Former Inspector General of Police.
Reports of communal violence involving the converted Christians led by the Missionaries on one hand and the Tribals on the other, in Kandhamal District of Orissa by the media since 25 th December 2007 are vastly distorted and motivated which in public interest need be clarified much before the national image is tarnished before the general public and the international community.
The whole series of incidents started from unprovoked and preplanned attack on Vedanta Keshari Swami Laxmanananda Saraswati who was visiting his disciples in Darsingbadi village in Kandhmal District on 24 th December. Swamiji, 82 years old has been working relentlessly in the District since 1967 to protect the local population where more than 75% are below the poverty line and are not literate.
He has opened schools and hostels, hospitals and temples to protect mainly the tribals and the down-trodden from the clutches of Missionaries who are operating with massive fund from foreign countries and pumped into NGOs in disguised operations to convert the local tribals into Christianity.
Chief of such NGOs is one 'WORLD VISION' patronized by one Mr. Radhakanta Nayak, a local of Darsingbadi village from 'Pana' community but later got converted to Christianity.
He happens to be an employee of the State Government promoted to the IAS and retired, and now a Member in the Rajya Sabha. His henchmen were the assailants who attacked Swamiji on 24 th December.
Meanwhile, the Kui tribals among the Kandhs in the District were agitating on the conspiracy by Mr. Nayak who is engineering for getting a Presidential notification under the provisions of the Constitution, to get his 'Pana' community, who are scheduled castes relisted as scheduled tribe along with the Kui on the ground that the former also speak the Kui dialect. Various reservation facilities to which scheduled tribes are entitled are not available to persons converted to Christianity.
On hearing the assault news on Swamiji, the already agitated Kui community reacted and protested through out the district against the 'Pana' community converted to Christianity. Interestingly, the Maoist (Naxalites) activists in the district are also mostly from among the recent converts to Christianity. Among 47 Maoists arrested in connection with recent burning of villages inhabited by Hindus ( Brahmanigaon, Jhinjiriguda, Katingia, and Godapur) as a counter to attacks by tribals on the Churches, 20 guns have been recovered by the security forces from them.
It is evident that the Maoists and the Church are hands in glove with each other to spread fratricidal killings and clashes among the tribals which is evident also from incidents in Karbi-Anglong and North Cachar Hills districts in Asaam. Conversions of poor tribal villagers are being conducted on gun point and by spreading terrorism.
While in active government service Mr. Radhakanta Nayak IAS (Retd.) and Mr. John Nayak IPS (Retd.) both converted Christians were instruments of the Church to proselytize the poor and illiterate 'Pana' and tribal communities in Kandhamal district of Orissa. Under guise of NGOs thousands of dollars are pumped into the country for conversion of tribals in Jharkhand, Chhatisgarh, Madhya Pradesh, Orissa, Andhra Pradesh and the North-East. Taking advantage of the poverty and lack of education, thousands have been converted who are also being trained for separatist movements like NSCN in Nagaland and Maoist insurgency in the aforesaid states. This trend is more pronounced since 1970 which is evident from the census reports till 2001. In Kandhamal District alone the Christian population has increased from 6% in 1970 to 27% in 2001, despite an Act enacted by Orissa Legislature in 1967 to prevent conversion by allurement, coercion, bribery and cheating.
Swamiji has been fighting a lone battle by making the tribal district his home for last 40 years, who has been targeted by the Church to finish him. Earlier to the recent attack, there were two other lethal attacks on Swamiji in 1971 and 1995. Since then the government has provided armed protection to Swamiji.
Inspite of that, he was attacked by armed assailants on 24 December 2007 in which he and his driver and armed security personnel were seriously injured and hospitalized in Cuttack Medical College Hospital. Hence, the recent clashes manifest the various ramifications of the socio-economic, political and cultural tribal issues and the deep-rooted conspiracy by the Church to destabilize our society and our economy. Let the Nation awake and protect our tribal brethren and the national media stop distorting the facts.
Ashok Sahu, IPS (Retd.),
Former Inspector General of Police.
Friday, January 4, 2008
Malaysian Hindus under attack
A Hindu rights activist on Friday filed a $30.5 million libel suit against the Malaysian government for allegedly linking him to terror groups, his counsel said.
M Manogar said the suit was filed in the Kuala Lumpur High Court on behalf of P Uthayakumar who is being held along with four others under the Internal Security Act, which allows detention without trial.
The suit also names police chief Musa Hassan and Attorney General Abdul Gani Patail, the counsel said.
"Both the police chief and the attorney general have gone on record to announce that Uthayakumar is a threat to national security because of his links with terrorist organisations."
"Where is the evidence? If there is any evidence, charge Uthayakumar in the open court. Uthayakumar is claiming 100 million ringgit for defamation," Manogar told AFP.
The five leaders of rights group Hindraf were detained after they enraged the government in November by leading a mass rally protesting at alleged discrimination against minority ethnic Indians in Malaysia.
They are being held at the Kamunting detention centre in northern Perak state, some 300 km from Kuala Lumpur.
Police used tear gas, water cannon and baton charges to break up the Hindraf street protest which drew 8,000 people, and came just two weeks after another rare demonstration organised by electoral reform campaigners.
Religious and racial issues are sensitive in multiracial Malaysia, which experienced deadly race riots in 1969.
M Manogar said the suit was filed in the Kuala Lumpur High Court on behalf of P Uthayakumar who is being held along with four others under the Internal Security Act, which allows detention without trial.
The suit also names police chief Musa Hassan and Attorney General Abdul Gani Patail, the counsel said.
"Both the police chief and the attorney general have gone on record to announce that Uthayakumar is a threat to national security because of his links with terrorist organisations."
"Where is the evidence? If there is any evidence, charge Uthayakumar in the open court. Uthayakumar is claiming 100 million ringgit for defamation," Manogar told AFP.
The five leaders of rights group Hindraf were detained after they enraged the government in November by leading a mass rally protesting at alleged discrimination against minority ethnic Indians in Malaysia.
They are being held at the Kamunting detention centre in northern Perak state, some 300 km from Kuala Lumpur.
Police used tear gas, water cannon and baton charges to break up the Hindraf street protest which drew 8,000 people, and came just two weeks after another rare demonstration organised by electoral reform campaigners.
Religious and racial issues are sensitive in multiracial Malaysia, which experienced deadly race riots in 1969.
Kashmiri Muslim Millitants Plan to blow up AKshar Dham
Security at the famous Akshardham temple in the Capital was beefed up on Friday after police received intelligence inputs that Kashmiri militants planned to blow it up.
"We received an input that some militants belonging to Kashmir-based groups were planning to create terror in the Capital by blowing up the temple," Deputy Commissioner of Police (Special Cell) Alok Kumar said.
He did not specify which militant group was planning to carry out the attack.
Following the input, police have deployed more personnel at the temple on the banks of Yamuna in east Delhi, visited by thousands of people every day.
The Akshardham temple has recently made it to the Guinness Book of World Records for being the world's largest Hindu temple complex. The temple is spread over expansive lawns covering an area of 86,342 square feet and is 356 feet long, 316 feet wide and 141 feet high. Intelligence agencies had last month warned that militants plan to carry out terror strikes in the Capital.
"We received an input that some militants belonging to Kashmir-based groups were planning to create terror in the Capital by blowing up the temple," Deputy Commissioner of Police (Special Cell) Alok Kumar said.
He did not specify which militant group was planning to carry out the attack.
Following the input, police have deployed more personnel at the temple on the banks of Yamuna in east Delhi, visited by thousands of people every day.
The Akshardham temple has recently made it to the Guinness Book of World Records for being the world's largest Hindu temple complex. The temple is spread over expansive lawns covering an area of 86,342 square feet and is 356 feet long, 316 feet wide and 141 feet high. Intelligence agencies had last month warned that militants plan to carry out terror strikes in the Capital.
Indian Killed in Afganisatan By Suicide Bomber
KANDAHAR: A suicide bomb attack targeting Indian road construction workers and their Afghan police escorts left seven people dead and 12 wounded in southwestern Afghanistan, an official said.
The convoy had been traveling on a main road toward the city of Khash Rod in Nimroz province on Thursday when it was first hit by a remote-controlled bomb that was planted on a motorcycle, wounding one policeman, said Nimroz Governor Ghulam Dastagir Azad.
The convoy stopped after the primary explosion, and a suicide bomber set off a secondary attack, leaving six policemen and an Indian worker dead, Azad said. Ten policemen and two Indian workers were wounded.
Insurgency-related violence in the first three days of 2008 has left at least 42 people dead, including those killed in Thursday's suicide attack. Afghanistan experienced a record level of violence that killed more than 6,500 people in 2007, according to an Associated Press count based on figures from Western and Afghan officials.
The convoy had been traveling on a main road toward the city of Khash Rod in Nimroz province on Thursday when it was first hit by a remote-controlled bomb that was planted on a motorcycle, wounding one policeman, said Nimroz Governor Ghulam Dastagir Azad.
The convoy stopped after the primary explosion, and a suicide bomber set off a secondary attack, leaving six policemen and an Indian worker dead, Azad said. Ten policemen and two Indian workers were wounded.
Insurgency-related violence in the first three days of 2008 has left at least 42 people dead, including those killed in Thursday's suicide attack. Afghanistan experienced a record level of violence that killed more than 6,500 people in 2007, according to an Associated Press count based on figures from Western and Afghan officials.
Shiv Sena Activist Killed By Muslims
Shiv Sena activists on rampage in Thane
Activists of the Shiv Sena set on fire some shops and attacked homes in Thane on Wednesday, a day after their party leader died of injuries in a scuffle, the police said.
A mob rampaged about in Jawahar tribal belt of the Thane district, torching at least three shops and pelting stones at dozens of houses to protest the death local Shiv Sena leader Ganesh Chaudary in a scuffle, additional superintendent of police (Thane Rural) Deepak Sakore said.
According to Sakore, Chaudary was involved in a physical brawl Tuesday with three locals over sectarian issues.
He was injured in the scuffle and later succumbed to his injuries due to internal bleeding, Sakore said.
The police arrested the three identified as Ali Shaikh, Mansoor Shaikh and Mohammad Shaikh Tuesday.
A shutdown was observed in Chaudary's memory Wednesday, and things took an ugly turn when Shiv Sena activists started protesting also against the influx of what they called "outsiders" in the district.
The police have sought reinforcements to help control the situation and prevent it from escalating, Sakore told IANS.
"Fortunately no one was injured since the whole area observed a bandh," Sakore said.
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Activists of the Shiv Sena set on fire some shops and attacked homes in Thane on Wednesday, a day after their party leader died of injuries in a scuffle, the police said.
A mob rampaged about in Jawahar tribal belt of the Thane district, torching at least three shops and pelting stones at dozens of houses to protest the death local Shiv Sena leader Ganesh Chaudary in a scuffle, additional superintendent of police (Thane Rural) Deepak Sakore said.
According to Sakore, Chaudary was involved in a physical brawl Tuesday with three locals over sectarian issues.
He was injured in the scuffle and later succumbed to his injuries due to internal bleeding, Sakore said.
The police arrested the three identified as Ali Shaikh, Mansoor Shaikh and Mohammad Shaikh Tuesday.
A shutdown was observed in Chaudary's memory Wednesday, and things took an ugly turn when Shiv Sena activists started protesting also against the influx of what they called "outsiders" in the district.
The police have sought reinforcements to help control the situation and prevent it from escalating, Sakore told IANS.
"Fortunately no one was injured since the whole area observed a bandh," Sakore said.
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Hindus in the World
Hindus in the world..
Jews world is say 5000 yrs old They have One country of their own and dominate the world with their Mind power.
Chritian world is say 2000 yrs old They have 100+ contries they control, through money and status
Muslim world is say 1400 yrs old They have 55+ conutries and they control through Madrasa
Hindu World is SANATAN DHARMA WORLD 1,000,000 yrs old is from time memeorial, BUt They have no country of own
Every Human being born in this world carries a hindu status.
Hindu means SANATAN DHARMA.
But if he born in a family of Chritian , and then he is called Chritian.
IF he born in a family of jews , and he is called as jews.
If he /she born in muslim family ,he is called muslim.
But he has right and power when he grows up to call him SANATANI.
Out of 6 billions people in the world Hindus are one billion with no country of their own.
Jews world is say 5000 yrs old They have One country of their own and dominate the world with their Mind power.
Chritian world is say 2000 yrs old They have 100+ contries they control, through money and status
Muslim world is say 1400 yrs old They have 55+ conutries and they control through Madrasa
Hindu World is SANATAN DHARMA WORLD 1,000,000 yrs old is from time memeorial, BUt They have no country of own
Every Human being born in this world carries a hindu status.
Hindu means SANATAN DHARMA.
But if he born in a family of Chritian , and then he is called Chritian.
IF he born in a family of jews , and he is called as jews.
If he /she born in muslim family ,he is called muslim.
But he has right and power when he grows up to call him SANATANI.
Out of 6 billions people in the world Hindus are one billion with no country of their own.
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