Santosh wrote:
Why are these researchers and activists ignoring violence against
women of other religions? Why this selective religious propaganda?
**Please, Santosh, do not divert the attention from the burning issue. The
report is coming from Santosh Digal, maybe related to the deceased
Fr.Bernard Digal. Kandhamal women need help. They have to be supported
scientifically, humanly, religiously, economically, medically, legally. If
you can leave your cosy place and go to support them with your ressources,
you are most welcome for them. I have seen the place and sensed the plight
of those villagers, it is even worse now after the organized persecution
("pogrom") by the Hindu extremist assailants. The problem to be solved is
that of the Kandhamal women and children. Police is not helping them. You
can call the attention of the researchers and activits later on to some
other places and situations, which are dear to you. Instead of criticising
those who are doing good, do something befitting a scientist like you.
Regards.
Fr.Ivo
--- On Sun, 5/23/10, Marshall Mendonza <[email protected]> wrote:
ENDLESS VIOLENCE AGAINST CHRISTIAN
WOMEN OF KANDHAMAL
by Santosh Digal
After anti-Christian pogroms of 2008-2009, the Christian
women of Kandhamal
have difficulty returning to their villages and resuming
their lives. The
Social Centre in Mumbai studies their problems to see how
to help. The
continuous support of the Church toward the persecuted.
Bhubaneswar (AsiaNews) 05/17/2010 - Christian women were
beaten, abducted,
suffered sexual and verbal violence during the August
2008-2009
anti-Christian pogrom in Kandhamal district, Orissa. Now a
group of
researchers connected with the College of Social Work
Nirmala Niketan in
Mumbai have conducted a research on the violence, the first
step to finding
a solution.
<<Sister Anita chat services, Daughters of the Heart of Mary,
is a teacher at
the Nirmala Niketan Center who participated in the
research. She told
AsiaNews that "women and girls of Kandhamal have suffered
various forms of
violence" such as cases of beatings, sexual violence,
insults and threats,
kidnapping, and have had to flee from their villages.
According to
information gathered, the Hindu extremist assailants
belonged to different
clans and tribes and came from different regions.
