Suspected Hindu militants burn orphanage, killing nun locked inside (CNA)

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ndtv.com/convergence/ndtv/story.aspx?id=NEWEN20080069982&ch=633606214667012441
It is wrong to use term ‘Hindu terrorists’: BJP
Press Trust of India
Friday, October 24, 2008, (New Delhi)
BJP on Friday said it was wrong to use the term “Hindu terrorists” for the alleged extremists arrested on charges of the Malegaon blasts and charged “some section” of trying to malign the majority community.
“Some section are trying to malign the majority community. BJP is objecting to the term Hindu terrorists, which is wrong. Nobody is saying that the law must not take its course. No one can say that. A terrorist is a terrorist irrespective of his caste or religion,” party leader Yashwant Sinha said in a press conference in New Delhi on Friday.

“Investigations should happen but the whole majority community is being assailed. We object to the ultra secularists. We object to what Brinda Karat(CPI-M) said in the House yesterday that it was Hindu terrorism,” he added.

 

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**Kandhamal beats Gujarat in violence statistics
Farzand Ahmed
Bhubaneswar, November 5, 2008

indiatoday.digitaltoday.in/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=19402&sectionid=4&issueid=78&Itemid=1
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Clearly 1,000 deaths (official) in the entire state of Gujarat during fours months stand nowhere in comparison to 500 deaths in one district of Orissa in one month. Kandhamal is just a small district of the state.
A CPI (Marxist-Leninist) fact-finding team in its report quoted officials admitting that not less than 500 people, mostly Christians were killed in the month-long anti-Church riots in which VHP and Bajrang Dal played a direct role.
The report said: *“The official figure for deaths has been reported to be 31; however, a senior government official on the condition of anonymity informed (the team) that he himself consigned two hundred dead bodies - found from the jungle - to flames after getting them collected in a tractor. As per his estimates based on the intensity and pace of killings the number of those killed is over five hundred”. *The report signed by J. P. Minz was published in the November issue of the Liberation, CPI (ML)'s official journal.
The report further said: “In the communal fire two hundred Christian villages and 127 Church and prayer halls were either destroyed or burnt. Apart from this, schools, hospitals, hostels and convents also have been damaged. The incidents of killings, rape and loot also were carried out in addition to former incidents. The shocking fact is that all these incidents took place in full view of police and the police remained mute spectators”.

Regarding the role of the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) and Bajrang Dal the report said: “The victims in all the relief camps unanimously told the fact finding team that it is the VHP and Bajrang Dal cadres who have sowed the seeds of communal division in the villages. They used to organise meetings of the Kandha tribals and incite them to attack the Christian hamlets and also provided funds for doing this”.

Hitherto Naveen Patnaik believed in the official tolls of 31 but the CPI (ML)'s new revelation was likely to widen the rift between BJD of Naveen and BJP which hoped that killing of Swami and Hindu backlash would electorally help the party.

BJP is a partner of the alliance that rules Orissa.
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I just wonder if our secular press will pick up these atrocities and report them, now that the election is over. If it would be anyone but Catholics, it would be all over the news. What can be done to have all of this reported.
Prayers & blessings
Deacon Ed B

 

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I just wonder if our secular press will pick up these atrocities and report them, now that the election is over. If it would be anyone but Catholics, it would be all over the news. What can be done to have all of this reported.
Prayers & blessings
Deacon Ed B

Dear Ed
In India to add to the pain the media keeps putting the blame on Christians, in a sense blaming the victims of the violence. Either they blame conversions (even where they do not exist) or repackage the conflict as an ethnic conflict which assists them greatly to justify the massacre as a racial rather than a purely religious attack.
**This is the link to the Fact finding report Fact-Finding Report on Kandhamal Situation **I really do not understand what is being done in USA as I have written before most of the organisations committing acts of violence rape and arson are provided charitable tax deductible status in the States. I am certain that people still think of India as being equitable to the christian/muslim/sikh minorities however delusional that idea may be factually in the light of the ongoing atrocities.
Catholics and evangelicals alike are in terror in India with the government making all sorts of verbal assurances and doing absolutely nothing on the ground.
Cruelty is even shown by the heavily biased and compromised organs of the state, the police and now the judiciary theindiancatholic.com/report.asp?nid=11678 (summons to the raped nun who expressed lack of faith in the orissa police)
God bless
Derrick