Tuesday, August 25, 2009

4,000 Still in Orissa Refugee Camps, One Year Later

http://www.christianpost.com/article/20090822/one-year-later-4-000-still-in-orissa-refugee-camps/index.html

[The Christian Post] 25 Aug 2009--A year after the worst anti-Christian violence in India’s democratic history, more than 4,000 Christians are reportedly still stuck in squalid refugee camps, too scared to return to their villages.

If they return to their homes, these Christians risk death or forcible conversion to Hinduism by extremists, reported persecution watchdog Open Doors.

The government, even after one year, has failed to establish security in the eastern state where last fall at least 120 people were murdered, 250 churches, destroyed and over 50,000 individuals, displaced.

Moreover, out of the more than 750 cases filed by Christians against Hindu attackers, only six people have been convicted in two cases.

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