Right wing Hindutva Neo-Nazi thugs launch anti-Christian pogrom in the Indian state of Orissa Friday 12th of September 2008 Dr. Amarjit Singh, Khalistan Affairs Center
Anti-Christian pogrom in the Indian state of Orissa burning many churches & killing many innocent Christian India's Sikh minority better beware & keep it's 'powder'dry as it is going to be next Washington D.C. - A secret internal Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) survey, taken some weeks ago, had painted a grim picture for the political ambitions of the right wing, Neo-Nazi, fascist party in the forthcoming Indian Lok Sabha (Parliament) elections. The comprehensive internal study showed that the BJP would not be able to win more than 140 Lok Sabha (parliament) seats as compared to the 2004 Lok Sabha polls when it won 130. The gloomy internal survey immediately triggered a rethink, in the fascist Bharatiya Janata Party leadership, about electoral advantages of well-timed pogroms against India's monotheistic Christian, Muslim and Sikhs minorities in Hindu-majority India. The first shot under the BJP's current (2008) strategic rethink was fired by the departing 'Neo-Nazi' Governor of Indian occupied Kashmir, retired General Sinha, when he, 'out of the blue', three days before his departure in May 2008, started a controversy, over allocation of state forest land to a 150-years old Hindu 'phallic'shrine located in a cave in the Muslim-majority Indian 'colony'of Kashmir, a friendly neighbor of Sikh Punjab. The Amarnath cave is dedicated to the Hindu god Shiva, and is located in Indian occupied Muslim-majority Kashmir. The cave is situated at an altitude of 3,888 meters (12,760 ft) about 141 km (88 miles) from Srinagar, the capital of Kashmir. Inside the main Amarnath cave lies an ice stalagmite resembling the Shiva Lingam (the phallic symbol – an erect male penis - used in the worship of Hindu god Siva) which waxes during May to August and gradually wanes thereafter. This lingam is said to grow and shrink with the phases of the moon, reaching its height during the three-month-long summer festival when thousands of Hindu pilgrims come a calling to the Amarnath cave. The thuggish BJP elements in Jammu province of Indian occupied Kashmir immediately seized theAmarnath cave 'opportunity' by organizing a mass communal agitation in Jammu against the cancellation of the illegal order of allotting state-land to the Amarnath shrine committee which had been unanimously apposed by the inhabitants of Muslim-majority Srinagar valley, who had objected to the illegal and unconstitutional land-for-shrine suggestion of the departing Kashmir Governor. The BJP thugs quickly organized a blockade of the valley by killing and beating up truck drivers (mostly Sikhs) going to, or returning from, the Srinagar valley on the Jammu-Srinagar highway the only road link the Srinagar valley has with the rest of India. The Hindu thugs only relented when the Srinagar valley's Muslim inhabitants in massive (but peaceful) retaliation, suddenly triggered a far grimmer crisis which threatened to plunge the Kashmir valley into the armed anti-India insurgency of the early nineties again. The dramatic escalation in the Srinagar Valley radically transformed the nature of the crisis – it became an emergency with international ramifications. An angry mass of Kashmiris, estimated to be around 250, 000 strong came out on to the streets, bent on marching across the Line of Control into Pakistan-held Kashmir with the aim of opening the traditional trade route to Muzzaffarabad. ( Link ) It is not surprising that as a result of this new 'Hold your head High' arrogant attitude, mobs of emboldened Hindutva elements, (Vishwa Hindu Parishad and Bajrang Dal et. Al, all 'first cousins of the BJP) decided to repeat, in August 2008, the anti-Christian December 2007 pogrom in which Christian churches schools and orphanages, in Kandhamal district of Orissa state, had been attacked and dozens of Christians were murdered. Readers may remember that in 1999 an Australian missionary, Graham Staines, and his two sons were killed by a mob that set their car on fire with the three inside. The current violence against Christians in the state of Orissa was organized by Hindutva thugs, prompted by the Aug. 23, 2008 killing in that state of Swami Laxmanananda Saraswati, who had been associated with a Hindu radical group opposed to Hindus' converting to Christianity. Although a letter left at the scene claimed that Maoist rebels carried out the attack, but the Hindutva elements blamed the Christians instead and started an anti-Christian pogrom in Orissa. The attacks in Kandhamal have destroyed or damaged about 1,400 homes of Christians and at least 80 churches and small prayer houses, which were set on fire, a local government official told the media. Clergymen say orphanages were also destroyed. Estimates from Christian groups put the death toll at more than 25, though a state official in Orissa said 16 were killed. The Orissa anti-Christian pogrom continues despite a claim by the Naxalite outfit of the CPI (Maoist) which again yesterday took responsibility for the August killing of Kandhamal's VHP leader Swami Laxmananda Saraswati, according to a report, in the Chandigarh-based Tribune of Sept, 9, 2008. Orchestrated pogroms against religious minorities by Hindu nationalist groups have become a regular feature of Indian politics in recent years. Often these pogroms occur in Hindu nationalist (BJP) ruled states (or in states where the BJP is part of the ruling coalition) which extend police protection and impunity to the rampaging Hindutva activists (read thugs) perpetrating the violence. This latest Naxalite 'in-you-eye' persistence that they executed the rabid Neo-Nazi Swami Laxmananda Saraswati means that the muscular Naxalites have decided to throw down the gauntlet to the fascist BJP and its Hindutva 'fellow- travelers' of the 'Saffron brigade' and intends to confront these 'mad dogs'. Interestingly the New York Times in a report, published on September 5, 2008, gave a graphic description of the modus operandi (way of doing things) of these right wing Hindutva thugs when they set out to murder any minority in India. SIKH READERS PLEASE NOTE. The above mentioned Tangia-datelined New York Times report describing the latest Orissa anti-Christian pogrom wrote that, "Those who came to attack Christians here early last week set their trap well, residents say. First, they built makeshift barricades of trees and small boulders along the roads leading into this village, apparently to stop the police from intervening. Then, villagers say, the attackers went on a rampage. Chanting "Kill these pigs" and "All Hindus are brothers," the mob began breaking into homes that displayed posters of Jesus, stealing valuables and eventually burning the buildings. When they found residents who had not fled to the nearby jungle, they beat them with sticks or maimed them with axes and left them to die. The carefully placed roadblocks accomplished their purpose; residents say a full day passed before help arrived….The scene in Tiangia was repeated in villages throughout the Kandhamal district and several other areas of Orissa, a remote and destitute state in eastern India, witnesses and the police said. The violence, which left at least 16 dead, was among the worst in decades against Christians in this Hindu-dominated nation and appears to have been fueled, at least in part, by discontent at a time when the gap between India's haves and have-nots is growing. Orissa has long suffered from government neglect, and Christian missionaries provide services, including schooling, much better than most residents receive from the government. While that has caused friction before, the stakes are higher now that better-educated people have more of a chance of joining the economic boom. The attacks in Kandhamal have destroyed or damaged about 1,400 homes of Christians and at least 80 churches and small prayer houses, which were set on fire, a local government official said. Clergymen say orphanages were also destroyed. Estimates from Christian groups put the death toll at more than 25, though a state official in Orissa said 16 were killed." Sikhs living in India better beware, and pay heed what other beleaguered Indian minorities, like the Muslims, are saying. One Muslim leader lamented that dozens of Christians have been killed, hundreds injured and many torched alive, in Orissa, by mercenaries belonging to Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP), Bajrang Dal and other Hindu supremacist groups. Reports from the ground also indicate that hundreds of churches have been destroyed and thousands of Christians had to flee into the jungle to avoid massacre. "This is nothing but a repeat of the 2002 Gujarat carnage, only this time the target is the Christian minority" said one Muslim leader. "If the state government, which is in alliance with the BJP, cannot maintain law and order and save the lives and property of its citizens, the Central government should impose president's rule and send the armed forces to stop the anti-Christian pogroms." Sikhs, 'captive' in India should study the tactics of the Hindutva thugs in Orissa and be ready with counter-measures, by organizing/arming themselves and keeping their 'powder' dry, in case the November 1984 anti-Sikh barbaric pogrom, in which over ten thousand innocent Sikh men, women and children were murdered, in New Delhi alone, (after a 'wink and a nod' from the then Indian Prime minister Rajiv Gandhi) is repeated in this first decade of the 21st century. Sikhs ought to remember that after the Christians and Muslims it will be the turn of the Sikhs for a pogrom. Source: Panthic Weekly