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India: Supreme Court orders seven Kandhamal Christians freed on bail after 9 years in prison

December 13, 2019 India BJP, Hindu nationalism, Human rights, India, Kandhamal, Minorities

Three of the Kandhamal seven freed from Balliguda jail, India, on 5 Dec 2019 (Photo: Anto Akkara) Eleven years ago today, 13 December 2008, an Indian man was arrested. Initially,...

India: Supreme Court orders Kandhamal Christian freed on bail after 10 years in prison

May 22, 2019 India Hindu nationalism, India, Kandhamal, Minorities

Gornath Chalanseth's stepmother greets him as he leaves Indian jail, 21 May 2019 (Credit: Anto Akkara)

...Hindu swami in the Kandhamal district of Odisha state in eastern India, has been freed on bail by India’s Supreme Court yesterday, May 21. The seven – three of whom...

India: Christian convert killed and left on the road, beheaded

February 22, 2019 India Anti-conversion law, BJP, Converts, Hindutva, India, Narendra Modi, Odisha

A street in a village in India. (Photo: World Watch Monitor)

...was living a kilometer away from the village”. Read more India: Violence against Christians continues in run-up to 2019 elections Kandhamal riots were result of Hindu political conspiracy, says activist...

India: Life sentence for top politician gives hope for justice for Kandhamal Christians

December 21, 2018 India Anti-conversion law, Christmas, India, Jharkhand, Kandhamal, Madhya Pradesh, Minorities, Odisha, Tamil Nadu

...Babri Masjid, 2002 Gujarat genocide, Kandhamal violence in 2008, and other pogroms and genocides will be punished,” she said. Kandhamal The riots in the Kandhamal district of Odisha, eastern India,...

Ten years after arrest of their illiterate husbands, Indian wives wait for justice

October 5, 2018 India Hindutva, Kandhamal, Odisha

...the remote Madaguda area of Kandhamal, are yet to return home. Four other Christians – Bhaskar Sunamajhi, Bijay Kumar Sanseth, Buddhadeb Nayak and Gornath Chalenthseth – also arrested by police...

Kandhamal riots were result of Hindu political conspiracy, says activist

September 20, 2018 India Hindu nationalism, India, Kandhamal, Odisha

Some 56,000 Christians fled their homes during the rioting and many stayed in camps such as this one in Raikia. (Photo: World Watch Monitor)

...that followed the murder had been orchestrated. Compensation Learn more India: Kandhamal Christians back in jail after temporary Christmas release India: Kandhamal victims wait, a year on, for government to...

India: 2 years after Supreme Court order, no investigation into ‘shocking’ number of Kandhamal acquittals

September 11, 2018 India Catholics, Delhi, Hindu nationalism, India, Kandhamal, Odisha, Proselytism

...gathered in Phulbani, the administrative headquarters of Kandhamal, to mark the tenth anniversary on 28 August, under the banner: “No more bloodshed in the name of religion. Kandhamal never again....

India: Kandhamal Christians still waiting for justice one decade after massacre

August 23, 2018 India Anti-conversion law, BJP, Dalits, Hindu nationalism, India, Kandhamal, Odisha, Proselytism

...killed, 300 churches and 6,000 Christian homes were damaged, and 55,000 people were made homeless in the Kandhamal district of Odisha after the killing of a Hindu leader, Swami Laxmanananda...

India: 2017 saw 20% increase in atrocities against Christians, says lawyer

May 30, 2018 India BJP, Catholics, Chhattisgarh, Delhi, Gujarat, Hindu nationalism, India, Kandhamal, Karnataka, Minorities, Narendra Modi, Odisha

...on hatred”, said Ram Puniyani, columnist and social activist. After he visited Kandhamal, in Odisha state, scene of the worst case of anti-Christian violence in India’s history, he returned to...

Court orders extra payment to Christian widows of 14 who died in India riots

May 8, 2018 India Ghar Wapsi, Hindu nationalism, India, Kandhamal, Odisha

Christian women who have been rendered widows in recent anti-Christian violence in Orissa sing their traditional song at a Christmas celebration in Bangalore on December 8 in Bangalore.

The Global Council of Indian Christians based in Bangalore brought two dozen Orissa riot widows to Bangalore from the refugee camps in Kandhamal for conducting medical checks on them and to draw attention to their plight. Though Orissa government has declared compensation of 200 000 rupees ($4000) for those killed, only two of the two dozen widows have got the compensation as police insist on documentary proof for the murders and even recovery of the body some of which have been thrown in rivers and
dumped in jungles.

Photo by Anto Akkara

...in the widespread anti-Christian violence that engulfed Kandhamal district in 2008. Some of the Christian women widowed in the Kandhamal violence, seen here four months later singing a hymn after...

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