Let us see the other side of truth regarding voilence in Orrissa
Vinay
Facts on ‘Clashes among Christian Missionaries and the Tribals in Kandhamal
District of Orissa’.
Ashok Sahu, IPS (Retd.),
Former Ispector 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 25th 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 24th 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 24th 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.
http://janamejayan.wordpress.com/2008/01/04/the-truth-about-violent-christist-insurgency-in-orissa/
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