No doubt, there were violence against Christians.
But, Dr. John Dayal & Co. always preferred to be protected by the minority privileges of constitution as opposed to interfaith dialogues with RSS/VHP and addressing their conversion concerns.
e.g.
Option-1:
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John Dayal & Co --------------------------> RSS/VHP ----------------------> RSS provides names of pastors who are involved in conversion/ distribution of anti-Hindu leaflets/literature ---->
John D & Company investigates (like Pakistan did for 26/11 and arrested the culprits) ----> concerns addressed - Sangh Silence --> People are happy.
Note: this is not easy but much easier compared to Babri masjid Action commitee and Ram mandir action groups, because daily we can find few pastors or missionaries indulged in such activity.
Option-2
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John Dayal & Co ---> Makes lot of trips to affected sites ---> shoots letter to PM /Sonia ---> joins debate in NDTV/IBNLIVE ---> Arch Bishop Cheetanath crys foul and joins the campaign---> high court --> supreme court --> International media --> Home minister visits -> secular lobby Javed Akther /Mahesh Bhatt/Ram Puniyani issues statements --> alleges that Naveen's bone is not secular ---> More tension between two communities - even if John D & co win the legal / constitution battle.
Dr. John D. wouldn't have any job if he chooses option-1 as there will be communal harmony. He will not get a chance to participate in debates. His US financers will stop sending donations , if there is no tension. (assertion).
What do you think ? Just look at the highlighted outcome ? If Pakistan can change its attitude, why John D & Co. can't ?
CC: John D.
Here is an update..
THE INDIA UPDATE
ANTI-CHRISTIAN VIOLENCE SINCE AUGUST 24, 2008
Updated February 2009
1. ORISSA The Orissa government admits that six months after
the Hindutva fury was let loose on a hapless Christian population of
Kandhamal District, it is still not able to ensure the safety and
security of thousands of Christians who cannot still return to their
village homes. "From an initial strength of 25000, the numbers in
government refugee camps have come down to 4000. Of these 4000 we have
taken 2500 people to transition relief camps near their respective
villages. Currently only 1500 people are staying in block-level relief
camps in Tikabali, K Nuagaon and Raikia," Kandhamal distinct collector
Krishan Kumar told The Indian Express. Behind the wordplay, it is
obvious that there is no home still for these hapless people. The
government has no count of people in private camps, some as far away
as in Srikakulam in the neighbouring state of Andhra Pradesh and the
thousands of others who have taken shelter with relatives in other
towns and cities or are internally displaced persons in New Delhi and
other cities and towns, seeking small jobs. It is particularly
distressing that many of the worst affected were families of priests
and pastors, nuns and religious workers who were specially targeted by
the mobs. These families find it almost impossible to return still.
The State is also coming under stress because the Union government in
New Delhi has more than halved the strength of the Central Reserve
Police Force in the district, which has come down to about 3,000 from
the height of 6,000. Top officers had told John Dayal that police
would be deployed from surrounding areas to keep the saturation in
Kandhamal. But there are doubts if the Special Police newly recruited
will be of any help, as most of the young men given jobs remain from
the aggressor sections. Church authorities have said that young and
healthy, and educated, Christian youth were rejected when they
responded to government advertisements seeking jobs as special police
officers in Kandhamal. The government figures of about 150 churches,
prayer houses and pastoral training centers and 3600 houses in
Kandhamal damaged in the violence is also disputed by Christians. Even
government's own initial assessment was of about 250 or more religious
place attacked. Government has been selective in identifying
religious places damaged, keeping out small hut churches in forest
villages, for instance, and not counting thatch huts which were homes
of many a Dalit Christians and which was destroyed in the widespread
arson which lasted nearly two months. The government is in a hurry to
evacuate the refugee camps, possibly before elections due later in
April by current indications. Christians say their attackers still
roam free and have been granted bail, other than those arrested in the
rape of Sister M, the Catholic born in Sambalpur, who was attacked in
Nuagaon on 25 August last year. The Criminal Investigation Department
of the Orissa Police has filed the charge sheet before a judicial
magistrate in the district. The nun had identified main accused
Santosh Patnaik and Kartik Pradhan during the test identification
parade held on January 5. Submitting a preliminary charge sheet before
Dolagobinda Barik, Sub-Divisional Judicial Magistrate of Balliguda,
this afternoon, the CID has accused 10 people of either rape or
abetting the rape. They are Jhuria Pradhan (50) and his son Kartik
Pradhan (22), Saroj Bhadei and his son Muna Bhadei, brothers Tapas
Patnaik and Santosh Patnaik, Biren Sahu, Somanath Pradhan, Gajendra
Digal and Jharalal Behera. The CID has given the sequence of events
that led to the rape in detail in the charge sheet. The CID has
submitted a set of another 50 names that were part of the mob that
assaulted her, and has requested the court to issue non-bailable
warrants against them. These 50 people are still at large. The case
was handed over to the CID on October 3 after the Balliguda police sat
on the case for about 40 days. The local police did not even pick up
the report of the nun's medical examination till the media reported
it, weeks after the Church had protested. Meanwhile, the police have
also filed a charge sheet in the murder of Vishwa Hindu Parishad
leader Lakhmanananda Saraswati and his four in his ashram at
Jalespeta. Maoists claimed to have carried out the assassination to
punish the Hindutva leader for his activities in the region. The
police have named seven people in its first 270 page charge sheet
against seven people arrested in the case. The agency has named
Duryodhan Sunamajhi, Munda Badamajhi, Sanatana Badamajhi, Vijay
Sanseth, Gananath Chalanseth, Bhaskar Sunamajhi, Budhdev Naik. Naik is
said to be a hardcore and others are active sympathisers of the Left-
wing extremists.
A brief recall of the figures at the height of the violence August-
October 2008:
ORISSA {Kandhamal and other affected districts' data}:
14 (of 30) Districts hit
315 Villages destroyed
4,640 Houses burnt [State government earlier estimates
4,215]
54,000 Homeless initially
120 People murdered
7 Priests/ Pastors killed
10 Fathers/Pastors/Nuns injured
2 Rapes confirmed [One of Nun]
252 Churches destroyed [estimated by State
government]
13 Schools, colleges destroyed
2. KARNATAKA
8 (of 29) Districts affected
33 Churches attacked update again
53 Christians injured in attacks, including Nuns
assaulted by state police.
3. TAMIL NADU
12 Churches attacked
4. MADHYA PRADESH
5 Churches damaged
5. KERALA
4 Churches damaged
6. DELHI 2
Churches damaged/destroyed [This update does not include incidents of
violence and persecution witnessed in many other states, but not
linked with the August 2008 outbreak.]
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