IRFWP supports the decisions of India and Orissa government | September 04, 2008
We are saddened by developments in Orissa state (India), where fellow Indians have fallen under the spell in which they misuse and misunderstand religion to harm and disrespect one another... the the detriment of all.
A Hindu leader who ran a campaign against Christian conversion was murdered. Maoist rebels took responsibility for this murder, but Hindus blamed Christians nevertheless, and riots ensued. Christians have been killed, thousands have taken shelter in makeshift government camps where Hindu mobs went on the rampage last week after the murder of a Hindu leader.
On Thursday a mob of about 1,000 Hindu men and women had attacked a Christian relief camp.
We of IRFWP are proud and grateful for the Indian and the Orissa governments to have responded so well to diminish these so called "religious" tensions.
The Supreme Court asked the Indian government to deploy the additional federal police in Kandhamal, the worst-affected district in rural Orissa district.
"The counsel for the state of Orissa states that four more battalions of the CRPF are needed. The (federal government) may do so," the court order said.
The state government was also ordered to do more to protect Christians. Thousands of police have been deployed already in 12 of Orissa's 30 districts.
Government counsels said the region was "very, very tense" and no religious march would be allowed there.
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Posted by admin at September 4, 2008 10:55 PM
