Today the christian organization have projected themselves as the protectors of Dalit rights. But the dalits need to understand who really these christian organizations are. And the history of chritians and their organizations would help them to make them understand the real motive of these organizations.
- How can the people who supported slave trade can uplift dalits of today?
- How can the people who killed countless Indians during british rule of India protect poor Hindus now?
- How can the people who killed Hindus in Goa protect Hindus today?
- How can the people who support terrorists in North East India protect India?
- How can the culture so alien and abuses the Indian culture can save India or Indians?
- How can the people who killed women in the name of witches can protect Indian women?
- How can we let Indian follow the people who cheat people blatantly saying they can cure anyone by praying?
- How can the people who have caste based churches will work for dalit up liftment?
These christian organizations are here to split India just like they did before. Earlier they came in the guise of East India Company. Today it is churches. If we don't act against them then we would become slaves again in our own country.
Saturday, December 29, 2007
Plight of Bangaldeshi Hindus
Even though Hindus are being persecuted across the world nobody seems to care. Here are some exhibits that shows the plight of bangladeshi Hindus.
Hindus raped
Death to Hindus
Exhibition by HRCBM
It is sad to see muzzie hooligans running amock across bangaldesh killing Hindus. When will the Hindus get peace? Not until they fight for it.
Hindus raped
Death to Hindus
Exhibition by HRCBM
It is sad to see muzzie hooligans running amock across bangaldesh killing Hindus. When will the Hindus get peace? Not until they fight for it.
Another "peaceful" religion shows its true color
A religion that vouches for peace and love showed its true color recently in Orissa. They attacked a VHP activist for working on anti-conversion. Of course the attack didn't get any media attention at all. When the Hindus retaliated against the attack it has caught the attention of media. And all the media reported it as attack on christians completely ignoring the christians deed.
Clashes between Hindus-Christians
BHUBANESHWAR: Clashes between Hindus and Christians continued in the Phulbani tribal district of Orissa on the third consecutive day on Wednesday with a church being attacked and a youth killed despite an indefinite curfew in four sensitive areas, including the district headquarters.
The attack on the church was in retaliation to an assault on Swami Laxmananda Saraswati of the Viswa Hindu Parishad (VHP) near Daringbadi.
Police said hundreds of tribals attacked the church at Sarsalanda village under Sadar police station, about 20 km from Phulbani town.
Raphel Cheenath, archbishop of Cuttack-Bhubaneswar, claimed Hindu fundamentalists had already torched over 40 churches, forcing Christians to flee to the jungles.
Christian bodies have now approached the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) for protection. Sources say they have even submitted a memorandum to the Prime Minister. “One lakh Christians are living in fear,” said Raphel.
“Churches in Baliguda, Pobingia, Baminigam, Bodagaon, Kamapada, Mandipanka, Jhinjiriguda, Uipadaro, Gobarkuttak and Kulpakia have been attacked. Some of them torched,” he claimed.
Miscreants also torched the vehicle of state steel and mines minister Padamanabha Behera, who belongs to area.
Chief minister Naveen Patnaik took stock of the situation at the state secretariat on Wednesday and deputed two senior IAS officers for spot assessment of the situation. He also appealed to the people to maintain peace.
The Orissa government has deployed 27 police platoons and three companies of CRPF in Phulbani. The police are, however, finding it difficult to enter the troubled areas as VHP supporters have blocked roads with logs.
“The roads are still blocked and police are trying to reach Sarsalanda. The state government has sent paramilitary forces and an additional police force to the region to control the situation. They are on their way,” district police chief Narasimha Bhol said.
The violence erupted when on December 9 Swami Laxmananda learnt that Christian organisations were allegedly planning to convert a few tribals on Christmas day. He held talks with the Ambedkar Banika Sangha (Ambedkar Businessmen Organisation) and pleaded that the plan be dropped. On Christmas eve, however, the Swami understood that the proposed conversion was still on. He started for the site but was attacked on way. Though the Swami escaped unhurt, his body guard was grievously injured. In protest, the VHP called for a four-hour Orissa bandh on Tuesday.
The bandh coincided with another 36-hour bandh called by Kui Samaj Sammanwaya Samiti, a tribal outfit, to demand scheduled tribe status for Dalit Christians. Locals are opposed to this demand and the clash of interest sparked violence. One person was killed and several injured in immediate violence.
Meanwhile, the blame game has begun with Hindu Jagaran Samukhya, a frontal organisation of the RSS, blaming Congress Rajya Sabha member and World Vision chief Radhakanta Nayak for the violence and demanding immediate action against him. The outfit alleged on Wednesday that Nayak is the main conspirator of the attack on Swami Laxmananda Saraswati.
Clashes between Hindus-Christians
BHUBANESHWAR: Clashes between Hindus and Christians continued in the Phulbani tribal district of Orissa on the third consecutive day on Wednesday with a church being attacked and a youth killed despite an indefinite curfew in four sensitive areas, including the district headquarters.
The attack on the church was in retaliation to an assault on Swami Laxmananda Saraswati of the Viswa Hindu Parishad (VHP) near Daringbadi.
Police said hundreds of tribals attacked the church at Sarsalanda village under Sadar police station, about 20 km from Phulbani town.
Raphel Cheenath, archbishop of Cuttack-Bhubaneswar, claimed Hindu fundamentalists had already torched over 40 churches, forcing Christians to flee to the jungles.
Christian bodies have now approached the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) for protection. Sources say they have even submitted a memorandum to the Prime Minister. “One lakh Christians are living in fear,” said Raphel.
“Churches in Baliguda, Pobingia, Baminigam, Bodagaon, Kamapada, Mandipanka, Jhinjiriguda, Uipadaro, Gobarkuttak and Kulpakia have been attacked. Some of them torched,” he claimed.
Miscreants also torched the vehicle of state steel and mines minister Padamanabha Behera, who belongs to area.
Chief minister Naveen Patnaik took stock of the situation at the state secretariat on Wednesday and deputed two senior IAS officers for spot assessment of the situation. He also appealed to the people to maintain peace.
The Orissa government has deployed 27 police platoons and three companies of CRPF in Phulbani. The police are, however, finding it difficult to enter the troubled areas as VHP supporters have blocked roads with logs.
“The roads are still blocked and police are trying to reach Sarsalanda. The state government has sent paramilitary forces and an additional police force to the region to control the situation. They are on their way,” district police chief Narasimha Bhol said.
The violence erupted when on December 9 Swami Laxmananda learnt that Christian organisations were allegedly planning to convert a few tribals on Christmas day. He held talks with the Ambedkar Banika Sangha (Ambedkar Businessmen Organisation) and pleaded that the plan be dropped. On Christmas eve, however, the Swami understood that the proposed conversion was still on. He started for the site but was attacked on way. Though the Swami escaped unhurt, his body guard was grievously injured. In protest, the VHP called for a four-hour Orissa bandh on Tuesday.
The bandh coincided with another 36-hour bandh called by Kui Samaj Sammanwaya Samiti, a tribal outfit, to demand scheduled tribe status for Dalit Christians. Locals are opposed to this demand and the clash of interest sparked violence. One person was killed and several injured in immediate violence.
Meanwhile, the blame game has begun with Hindu Jagaran Samukhya, a frontal organisation of the RSS, blaming Congress Rajya Sabha member and World Vision chief Radhakanta Nayak for the violence and demanding immediate action against him. The outfit alleged on Wednesday that Nayak is the main conspirator of the attack on Swami Laxmananda Saraswati.
Tuesday, December 25, 2007
National Liberation Front of Tripura - a christian terrorist organization
Even though it is clear that christian organizations in North East India are supporting terrorist organizations we have failed to check the growth of christian organizations in South India. I wonder how long our politicians would remain mute to the christian aggression in our mother land.
Church backing Tripura Rebels
The government in India's north-eastern state of Tripura says it has evidence that the state's Baptist Church is involved in backing separatist rebels.
Tripura Chief Minister Manik Sarkar said state police had uncovered details of the alleged link after questioning a church leader.
Nagmanlal Halam, secretary of the Noapara Baptist Church in Tripura, was arrested late on Monday with a large quantity of explosives.
Mr Sarkar said that allegations about the close links between the state's Baptist Church and the rebel National Liberation Front of Tripura (NLFT) have long been made by political parties and police.
Now for the first time, he said, hard evidence supporting the allegations had been found.
Explosives
Mr Sarkar told the BBC that Mr Halam was found in possession of more than 50 gelatine sticks, 5kg of potassium and 2kg of sulphur and other ingredients for making explosives.
Chief Minister Sarkar says he has proof
He said that two other junior members of the same church, arrested last week, had tipped the police off about the explosives which were meant for the NLFT rebels.
The chief minister said that Mr Halam confessed to buying and supplying explosives to the NLFT for the past two years.
Another church official, Jatna Koloi, was arrested in south Tripura last week.
Police say Mr Koloi had received training in guerrilla warfare at an NLFT base last year.
Conversion
Guards have been placed outside the headquarters of the Baptist Church in Tripura's capital, Agartala, to prevent possible attacks on it once the news of Mr Halam's arrest spread.
The NLFT is accused of forcing Tripura's indigenous tribes to become Christians and give up Hindu forms of worship in areas under their control.
Last year, they issued a ban on the Hindu festivals of Durga Puja and Saraswati Puja.
The NLFT manifesto says that they want to expand what they describe as the kingdom of God and Christ in Tripura.
The Baptist Church in Tripura was set up by missionaries from New Zealand 60 years ago.
It won only a few thousand converts until 1980 when in the aftermath, of the state's worst ethnic riot, the number of conversions grew.
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NLFT in SATP
Formation
The National Liberation Front of Tripura (NLFT) was formed on March 12, 1989, with Dhananjoy Reang (former Vice-President of the Tripura National Volunteers) as its ‘chairman’. Reang after being ‘expelled’ from the NLFT in 1993 formed a separate outfit, the Tripura Resurrection Army (TRA), but surrendered in the year 1997. After Reang’s removal, Nayanbasi Jamatiya became leader of the outfit and later Biswamohan Debbarma took over. However, another split occurred in September 2000 following differences between the Halam and Debbarma tribal members of the NLFT. Thus, the Borok National Council of Tripura (BNCT) was formed by Jogendra alias Joshua Debbarma. Personal ambitions of the leaders and parochial religious considerations are believed to have caused yet another split in 2001 when Nayanbasi Jamatiya and Biswamohan Debbarma parted ways from the parent outfit to have factions of the NLFT under their respective leaderships. Further, the fourth split is said to have occurred in June 2003 when Biswamohan Debbarma was deposed allegedly at the behest of NLFT’s patrons inside Bangladesh and Mantu Koloi was placed as the leader of that faction. Debbarma is reported to have subsequently set up separate camps on the Tripura-Bangladesh border with his followers.
The NLFT was outlawed in April 1997 under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, 1967, following its involvement in terrorist and subversive activities. It is also proscribed under the Prevention of Terrorism Act (POTA), 2002.
Split
The NLFT split into two groups, one headed by Biswamohan Debbarma and the other by Nayanbasi Jamatiya, in February 2001. Following the expulsion of Nayanbasi Jamatiya and Joshua Debbarma from the NLFT, nearly 125 cadres of the group formed a parallel outfit under the leadership of Nayanbasi Jamatiya. Police records based on interrogation reports of surrendered/arrested cadres reveal that the split occurred as a result of:
1. Reluctance of the Central Executive Committee of NLFT led by Biswamohan Debbarma to nominate Joshua Debbarma as the King of ‘Tripura Kingdom’;
2. Misappropriation of funds by senior leaders;
3. Lavish lifestyles led by the senior leadership; and
4. Forcible conversion of tribal cadres/civilians to Christianity.
Leadership
Nayanbasi Jamatiya and Biswamohan Debbarma have been heading two factions since year 2001. In June 2003, ‘General Secretary’ Mantu Koloi was reportedly made leader of the faction Biswamohan had been heading. Earlier, internal bickering within the NLFT had led to a spate of violent internecine clashes in Tripura and at the outfit's camps in Bangladesh. Senior leaders such as Utpanna Tripura and Mukul Debbarma are believed to have been killed in such violence. However, other leaders of the undivided NLFT included ‘Vice President’ Kamini Debbarma, ‘Publicity Secretary’ Binoy Debbarma, ‘Chief of Army’ Dhanu Koloi, and ‘Finance Secretary’ Bishnu Prasad Jamatiya. While the Debbarma faction reportedly has an estimated strength of 550 cadres, the Nayanbasi faction comprises approximately 250 cadres.
According to the State police sources, community-wise break-up in the NLFT is as follows. Debbarma- 40 per cent, Jamatiya- 30 percent, Reang- 10 per cent, and others- 20 per cent. About 90 per cent of the top ranking NLFT cadres are Christians.
Objectives
The purported objective of the NLFT is to establish an ‘independent’ Tripura through an armed struggle following the liberation from ‘Indian neo- colonialism and imperialism’ and furtherance of a ‘distinct and independent identity’.
Headquarters and Linkages
The headquarters of NLFT is located at Sajak, a camp in the Khagrachari district of Bangladesh. Approximately 65-armed NLFT cadres are permanently stationed in seven huts at the headquarters. Another NLFT camp is in the Mayani Reserve area, also in the Khagrachari district. There are three huts here where 10-12 NLFT terrorists are present. Boalchari, the ‘general family headquarters camp’ of the NLFT is located in Khagrachari near the Sajak camp. Family members of top NLFT leaders reportedly stay at this camp.
Besides the camps mentioned above, the NLFT also has camps in the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT), Sylhet, Maulavi Bazar, Habiganj and Comilla areas of Bangladesh. According to official sources, the outfit has approximately 21 camps in these areas. Alikadam, a ‘major’ training camp for the NLFT, is located in the Bandarban district. This camp is also used to procure and store arms from the Cox’s Bazaar port in southeastern Bangladesh.
Usmanpur is yet another camp used for transit. This camp is located in the Habibganj district under Chunarughat police station limits. The outfit reportedly carries out strikes from this camp in the Khowai East and Khowai West regions of West Tripura district.
Details of other camps used by NLFT for subversive activity against India are as following:
Tailongbasti Transit Camp: Located in the Moulabibazar district, this camp is two km northwest of the Indo-Bangladesh border in Kamalpur, in an area dominated by the Debbarma clan. The camp is allegedly used for strikes in the Kamalpur and Kailasahar sub-divisions of Tripura.
Niralapunji: Located two kilometers southeast of the Indo-Bangladesh border at Kamalpur in the Moulabibazar district, the outfit uses this camp for attacks in the Srimangal town.
Kurma / Khasiapunji: The Nayanbanshi Jamatia faction of NLFT uses this camp that is located four-km north of the Indo-Bangladesh border in Kamalpur.
Cox’s Bazaar: A rented transit house has been set up by NLFT in the Sripur area for procurement of arms from this port town.
‘Safe House’ in Chittagong: Earlier there was a NLFT ‘safe house’ in Chittagong Road No. 8, in a three-storied building bearing a signboard of the Bangladesh Urban Development Centre. The safe house then shifted to Chittagong Road No. 1 in a Government housing centre in Halisahar. The Biswamohan Debbarma faction was using this safe house that has modern communication systems including mobile telephones, computers and satellite televisions. Latest status of the ‘house’ following the reported removal of Biswamohan Debbarma is not yet known.
Mog Bazar, Dhaka: This ‘safe house’ in a three-storied building was rented after the NLFT vacated their New Eskaton Road house in Dhaka. This is another major communication centre of the NLFT. According to the Bangladesh Rural Phone Authority, they had recently sanctioned a mobile phone with ISD (international phone call) facility at this address.
NLFT has further links with the Inter Services Intelligence Agency (ISI), Pakistan’s external intelligence agency and its counterpart in Bangladesh, the Directorate General of Forces Intelligence (DGFI). During 1997-98, NLFT leaders are reported to have visited Pakistan to receive training and arms from the ISI. The ISI had allegedly arranged the passport and visas for the NLFT leaders.
NLFT has also developed trans-border linkages in Myanmar and Bhutan. Besides these, according to Tripura police, the NLFT has also linkages with the Nagaland-based National Socialist Council of Nagaland- Isak-Muivah (NSCN-IM), the Manipur-based Kanglei Yawol Kanna Lup (KYKL) and the National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB), which is active in Assam. NLFT's nexus with the Meghalaya based Hynniewtrep National Liberation Council (HNLC) was revealed with the December 17, 2007 neutralisation of a joint HNLC-NLFT camp in the Narpuh reserve forest in the Jaintia Hills district of Meghalaya.
Church backing Tripura Rebels
The government in India's north-eastern state of Tripura says it has evidence that the state's Baptist Church is involved in backing separatist rebels.
Tripura Chief Minister Manik Sarkar said state police had uncovered details of the alleged link after questioning a church leader.
Nagmanlal Halam, secretary of the Noapara Baptist Church in Tripura, was arrested late on Monday with a large quantity of explosives.
Mr Sarkar said that allegations about the close links between the state's Baptist Church and the rebel National Liberation Front of Tripura (NLFT) have long been made by political parties and police.
Now for the first time, he said, hard evidence supporting the allegations had been found.
Explosives
Mr Sarkar told the BBC that Mr Halam was found in possession of more than 50 gelatine sticks, 5kg of potassium and 2kg of sulphur and other ingredients for making explosives.
Chief Minister Sarkar says he has proof
He said that two other junior members of the same church, arrested last week, had tipped the police off about the explosives which were meant for the NLFT rebels.
The chief minister said that Mr Halam confessed to buying and supplying explosives to the NLFT for the past two years.
Another church official, Jatna Koloi, was arrested in south Tripura last week.
Police say Mr Koloi had received training in guerrilla warfare at an NLFT base last year.
Conversion
Guards have been placed outside the headquarters of the Baptist Church in Tripura's capital, Agartala, to prevent possible attacks on it once the news of Mr Halam's arrest spread.
The NLFT is accused of forcing Tripura's indigenous tribes to become Christians and give up Hindu forms of worship in areas under their control.
Last year, they issued a ban on the Hindu festivals of Durga Puja and Saraswati Puja.
The NLFT manifesto says that they want to expand what they describe as the kingdom of God and Christ in Tripura.
The Baptist Church in Tripura was set up by missionaries from New Zealand 60 years ago.
It won only a few thousand converts until 1980 when in the aftermath, of the state's worst ethnic riot, the number of conversions grew.
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NLFT in SATP
Formation
The National Liberation Front of Tripura (NLFT) was formed on March 12, 1989, with Dhananjoy Reang (former Vice-President of the Tripura National Volunteers) as its ‘chairman’. Reang after being ‘expelled’ from the NLFT in 1993 formed a separate outfit, the Tripura Resurrection Army (TRA), but surrendered in the year 1997. After Reang’s removal, Nayanbasi Jamatiya became leader of the outfit and later Biswamohan Debbarma took over. However, another split occurred in September 2000 following differences between the Halam and Debbarma tribal members of the NLFT. Thus, the Borok National Council of Tripura (BNCT) was formed by Jogendra alias Joshua Debbarma. Personal ambitions of the leaders and parochial religious considerations are believed to have caused yet another split in 2001 when Nayanbasi Jamatiya and Biswamohan Debbarma parted ways from the parent outfit to have factions of the NLFT under their respective leaderships. Further, the fourth split is said to have occurred in June 2003 when Biswamohan Debbarma was deposed allegedly at the behest of NLFT’s patrons inside Bangladesh and Mantu Koloi was placed as the leader of that faction. Debbarma is reported to have subsequently set up separate camps on the Tripura-Bangladesh border with his followers.
The NLFT was outlawed in April 1997 under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, 1967, following its involvement in terrorist and subversive activities. It is also proscribed under the Prevention of Terrorism Act (POTA), 2002.
Split
The NLFT split into two groups, one headed by Biswamohan Debbarma and the other by Nayanbasi Jamatiya, in February 2001. Following the expulsion of Nayanbasi Jamatiya and Joshua Debbarma from the NLFT, nearly 125 cadres of the group formed a parallel outfit under the leadership of Nayanbasi Jamatiya. Police records based on interrogation reports of surrendered/arrested cadres reveal that the split occurred as a result of:
1. Reluctance of the Central Executive Committee of NLFT led by Biswamohan Debbarma to nominate Joshua Debbarma as the King of ‘Tripura Kingdom’;
2. Misappropriation of funds by senior leaders;
3. Lavish lifestyles led by the senior leadership; and
4. Forcible conversion of tribal cadres/civilians to Christianity.
Leadership
Nayanbasi Jamatiya and Biswamohan Debbarma have been heading two factions since year 2001. In June 2003, ‘General Secretary’ Mantu Koloi was reportedly made leader of the faction Biswamohan had been heading. Earlier, internal bickering within the NLFT had led to a spate of violent internecine clashes in Tripura and at the outfit's camps in Bangladesh. Senior leaders such as Utpanna Tripura and Mukul Debbarma are believed to have been killed in such violence. However, other leaders of the undivided NLFT included ‘Vice President’ Kamini Debbarma, ‘Publicity Secretary’ Binoy Debbarma, ‘Chief of Army’ Dhanu Koloi, and ‘Finance Secretary’ Bishnu Prasad Jamatiya. While the Debbarma faction reportedly has an estimated strength of 550 cadres, the Nayanbasi faction comprises approximately 250 cadres.
According to the State police sources, community-wise break-up in the NLFT is as follows. Debbarma- 40 per cent, Jamatiya- 30 percent, Reang- 10 per cent, and others- 20 per cent. About 90 per cent of the top ranking NLFT cadres are Christians.
Objectives
The purported objective of the NLFT is to establish an ‘independent’ Tripura through an armed struggle following the liberation from ‘Indian neo- colonialism and imperialism’ and furtherance of a ‘distinct and independent identity’.
Headquarters and Linkages
The headquarters of NLFT is located at Sajak, a camp in the Khagrachari district of Bangladesh. Approximately 65-armed NLFT cadres are permanently stationed in seven huts at the headquarters. Another NLFT camp is in the Mayani Reserve area, also in the Khagrachari district. There are three huts here where 10-12 NLFT terrorists are present. Boalchari, the ‘general family headquarters camp’ of the NLFT is located in Khagrachari near the Sajak camp. Family members of top NLFT leaders reportedly stay at this camp.
Besides the camps mentioned above, the NLFT also has camps in the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT), Sylhet, Maulavi Bazar, Habiganj and Comilla areas of Bangladesh. According to official sources, the outfit has approximately 21 camps in these areas. Alikadam, a ‘major’ training camp for the NLFT, is located in the Bandarban district. This camp is also used to procure and store arms from the Cox’s Bazaar port in southeastern Bangladesh.
Usmanpur is yet another camp used for transit. This camp is located in the Habibganj district under Chunarughat police station limits. The outfit reportedly carries out strikes from this camp in the Khowai East and Khowai West regions of West Tripura district.
Details of other camps used by NLFT for subversive activity against India are as following:
Tailongbasti Transit Camp: Located in the Moulabibazar district, this camp is two km northwest of the Indo-Bangladesh border in Kamalpur, in an area dominated by the Debbarma clan. The camp is allegedly used for strikes in the Kamalpur and Kailasahar sub-divisions of Tripura.
Niralapunji: Located two kilometers southeast of the Indo-Bangladesh border at Kamalpur in the Moulabibazar district, the outfit uses this camp for attacks in the Srimangal town.
Kurma / Khasiapunji: The Nayanbanshi Jamatia faction of NLFT uses this camp that is located four-km north of the Indo-Bangladesh border in Kamalpur.
Cox’s Bazaar: A rented transit house has been set up by NLFT in the Sripur area for procurement of arms from this port town.
‘Safe House’ in Chittagong: Earlier there was a NLFT ‘safe house’ in Chittagong Road No. 8, in a three-storied building bearing a signboard of the Bangladesh Urban Development Centre. The safe house then shifted to Chittagong Road No. 1 in a Government housing centre in Halisahar. The Biswamohan Debbarma faction was using this safe house that has modern communication systems including mobile telephones, computers and satellite televisions. Latest status of the ‘house’ following the reported removal of Biswamohan Debbarma is not yet known.
Mog Bazar, Dhaka: This ‘safe house’ in a three-storied building was rented after the NLFT vacated their New Eskaton Road house in Dhaka. This is another major communication centre of the NLFT. According to the Bangladesh Rural Phone Authority, they had recently sanctioned a mobile phone with ISD (international phone call) facility at this address.
NLFT has further links with the Inter Services Intelligence Agency (ISI), Pakistan’s external intelligence agency and its counterpart in Bangladesh, the Directorate General of Forces Intelligence (DGFI). During 1997-98, NLFT leaders are reported to have visited Pakistan to receive training and arms from the ISI. The ISI had allegedly arranged the passport and visas for the NLFT leaders.
NLFT has also developed trans-border linkages in Myanmar and Bhutan. Besides these, according to Tripura police, the NLFT has also linkages with the Nagaland-based National Socialist Council of Nagaland- Isak-Muivah (NSCN-IM), the Manipur-based Kanglei Yawol Kanna Lup (KYKL) and the National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB), which is active in Assam. NLFT's nexus with the Meghalaya based Hynniewtrep National Liberation Council (HNLC) was revealed with the December 17, 2007 neutralisation of a joint HNLC-NLFT camp in the Narpuh reserve forest in the Jaintia Hills district of Meghalaya.
Tuesday, December 18, 2007
Hindu Killers...
Nothing fits the title more appropriately than the today's congress party. They have feasted on Hindu souls for the past six decades. Starting from ethnic cleansing of Hindus in Kashmir to killing of Hindus in Assam (all have happened during congress regimes and congress supported regimes) they have proved that they are the best Hindu killers after arabs and missionaries.
I am appalled at the media attention that Hindus are getting in Jammu for their struggle. They are conducting hunger strike in Jammu and nobody seems to bother. Of course whatever media that reports this reports them as Kashmiri Pandits and not Hindus. Plain hypocrites.
Hindus on hunger strike
JAMMU: The hunger strike of Kashmiri Pandits, demanding reorganisation of the relief department and bifurcation of the ration cards of Kashmiri migrants, entered its 7th day on Tuesday.
"The hunger strike would continue in first phase for 18 days. And then we would intensify the agitation if the government failed to come forward to meet our demands in this direction," said R K Bhat, President of Youth Wing of All India Kashmir Samaj (YWAIKS).
Six Kashmiri Pandit organisations under the banner of YWAIKS are protesting against the Congress-led government for allegedly failing to fulfill their demand of reorganisation of relief department and bifurcation of the ration cards, launch an employment package, allotment of the residential quarters to the migrants.
I am appalled at the media attention that Hindus are getting in Jammu for their struggle. They are conducting hunger strike in Jammu and nobody seems to bother. Of course whatever media that reports this reports them as Kashmiri Pandits and not Hindus. Plain hypocrites.
Hindus on hunger strike
JAMMU: The hunger strike of Kashmiri Pandits, demanding reorganisation of the relief department and bifurcation of the ration cards of Kashmiri migrants, entered its 7th day on Tuesday.
"The hunger strike would continue in first phase for 18 days. And then we would intensify the agitation if the government failed to come forward to meet our demands in this direction," said R K Bhat, President of Youth Wing of All India Kashmir Samaj (YWAIKS).
Six Kashmiri Pandit organisations under the banner of YWAIKS are protesting against the Congress-led government for allegedly failing to fulfill their demand of reorganisation of relief department and bifurcation of the ration cards, launch an employment package, allotment of the residential quarters to the migrants.
Saturday, December 15, 2007
Now missionaries try converting Mahatma Gandhi to christianity after his death
Home minister Shivraj Patil says Mahatma was influenced by christ than Buddha. Of course he didn't say that Mahatma was influenced more by christ than Bhagavad Gita.
CSI Immanuel church dedicated in Kochi
KOCHI: Union Home Minister Shivraj Patil said that Mahatma Gandhi was more influenced by Jesus Christ than Buddha.
Inaugurating the dedication ceremony of the CSI Immanuel Church in Kochi on Saturday, Patil said that Gandhiji’s preaching of ahimsa was born out of love.
Only love for the entire humanity and not a section of the society will serve the purpose of the religion and the worship centres.
Respect and consideration for other religions should also be preached, he said.
State Home Minister Kodiyeri Balakrishnan, who attended the function, said that the services offered by the Christian churches were instrumental in moulding a new Kerala society.
During the pre-independence era, when untouchability and superstitions ruled the roost, Christian churches contributed a lot to the creation of a new social order.
Bishop K.P. Kuruvila of North Kerala Diocese presided over the function.
Opposition leader Oommen Chandy and Joseph Mar Thoma, metropolitan, Mar Thoma Church, addressed the gathering.
Immanuel CSI church vicar T.I. James welcomed the gathering and J. Oommen proposed a vote of thanks.
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Here is Mahatma Gandhi's view on christianity.
Mahatma on conversion
Gandhiji was not awarded the Nobel peace prize because he refused to be converted. Now that missionaries are spreading their tentacles far and wide in India converting people by allurement, inducement and fraud (In the north east killings and threats are becoming commonplace) Gandhiji's message is all the more relevant in understanding and reacting to this problem. Missionary Terrorism will become as dangerous as Islamic terrorism if ignored. Please read & distribute.
Compiled by Swami Aksharananda
(Track No. 010119.1, Jan. 19, 2001)
I Call Myself a Sanatani Hindu
I call myself a Sanatani Hindu, because I believe in the Vedas, the Upanishads, the Puranas, and all that goes by the name of Hindu scripture, and therefore in avataras and rebirth; I believe in the varnashrama dharma in a sense, in my opinion strictly Vedic but not in its presently popular and distorted crude sense; I believe in the protection of cow. I do not disbelieve in murti puja. (Young India: June 10, 1921)
Why I am Not a Convert
Hinduism as I know it entirely satisfies my soul, fills my whole being. When doubts haunt me, when disappointments stare me in the face, and when I see not one ray of light on the horizon, I turn to the Bhagavad Gita, and find a verse to comfort me; and I immediately begin to smile in the midst of overwhelming sorrow. My life has been full of tragedies and if they have not left any visible and indelible effect on me, I owe it to the teachings of the Bhagavad Gita. (Young India: June 8, 1925)
I Disbelieve in Conversion
I disbelieve in the conversion of one person by another. My effort should never to be to undermine another's faith. This implies belief in the truth of all religions and, therefore, respect for them. It implies true humility. (Young India: April 23, 1931)
Conversion: Impediment to Peace
It is impossible for me to reconcile myself to the idea of conversion after the style that goes on in India and elsewhere today. It is an error which is perhaps the greatest impediment to the world's progress toward peace. Why should a Christian want to convert a Hindu to Christianity? Why should he not be satisfied if the Hindu is a good or godly man? (Harijan: January 30, 1937)
No Such Thing as Conversion
I believe that there is no such thing as conversion from one faith to another in the accepted sense of the word. It is a highly personal matter for the individual and his God. I may not have any design upon my neighbour as to his faith which I must honour even as I honour my own. Having reverently studied the scriptures of the world I could no more think of asking a Christian or a Musalman, or a Parsi or a Jew to change his faith than I would think of changing my own. (Harijan: September 9, 1935)
No Conversion Designs Upon Me
I am not interested in weaning you from Christianity and making you Hindu, and I do not relish your designs upon me, if you had any, to convert me to Christianity. I would also dispute your claim that Christianity is the only true religion. (Harijan: June 3, 1937)
Conversion
Conversion must not mean denationalization. Conversion should mean a definite giving up of the evil of the old, adoption of all the good of the new and a scrupulous avoidance of everything evil in the new. Conversion, therefore, should mean a life of greater dedication to one's country, greater surrender to God, greater self-purification. (Young India: August 20, 1925)
Aping of Europeans and Americans
As I wander about through the length and breath of India I see many Christian Indians almost ashamed of their birth, certainly of their ancestral religion, and of their ancestral dress. The aping of Europeans by Anglo-Indians is bad enough, but the aping of them by Indian converts is a violence done to their country and, shall I say, even to their new religion. (Young
India: August 8, 1925)
Why Should I Change My Religion
I hold that proselytisation under the cloak of humanitarian work is unhealthy to say the least. It is most resented by people here. Religion after all is a deeply personal thing. It touches the heart.
Why should I change my religion because the doctor who professes Christianity as his religion has cured me of some disease, or why should the doctor expect me to change whilst I am under his influence? (Young India: April 23, 1931)
Missionary Aim: Uprooting Hinduism
My fear is that though Christian friends nowadays do not say or admit it that Hindu religion is untrue, they must harbour in their breast that Hinduism is an error and that Christianity, as they believe it, is the only true religion. So far as one can understand the present (Christian) effort, it is to uproot Hinduism from her very foundation and replace it by
another faith. (Harijan: March 13,1937)
Undermining People's Faith
The first distinction I would like to make between your missionary work and mine is that while I am strengthening the faith of people, you (missionaries) are undermining it. (Young India: November 8, 1927)
Physician Heal Yourself
Conversion nowadays has become a matter of business, like any other. India (Hindus) is in no need of conversion of this kind. Conversion in the sense of self-purification, self-realization is the crying need of the times. That however is never what is meant by proselytization. To those who would convert India (Hindus), might it not be said, "Physician, heal yourself." (Young India: April 23, 1931)
Missionaries: Vendors of Goods
When the missionary of another religion goes to them, he goes like a vendor of goods. He has no special spiritual merit that will distinguish him from those to whom he goes. He does however possess material goods which he promises to those who will come to his fold. (Harijan: April 3, 1937)
If I had the Power and Could Legislate.
If I had the power and could legislate, I should stop all proselytizing. In Hindu households the advent of a missionary has meant the disruption of the family coming in the wake of change of dress, manners, language, food and drink . (November 5, 1935)
The Only Begotten Son of God?
I regard Jesus as a great teacher of humanity, but I do not regard him as the only begotten son of God. That epithet in its material interpretation is quite unacceptable. Metaphorically we are all sons of God, but for each of us there may be different sons of God in a special sense. Thus for me Chaitanya may be the only begotten son of God. God cannot be the exclusive Father and I cannot ascribe exclusive divinity to Jesus. (Harijan: June 3, 1937)
Western Christianity Today
It is my firm opinion that Europe (and the United States) does not represent the spirit of God or Christianity but the spirit of Satan. And Satan's successes are the greatest when appears with the name of God on his lips. (Young India: September 8, 1920)
I consider western Christianity in its practical working a negation of Christ's Christianity. I cannot conceive Jesus, if he was living in flesh in our midst, approving of modern Christian organizations, public worship, or ministry. (Young India: September 22, 1921)
Christianity and Imperialistic Exploitation
Christianity in India has been inextricably mixed up for the last one hundred and fifty years with British rule. It appears to us as synonymous with materialistic civilization and imperialistic exploitation by the stronger white races of the weaker races of the world. Its contribution to India has been, therefore, largely negative. (Young India: March 21, 1929)
No Room For Them
In the manner in which they are working there would seem to be no room for them. Quite unconsciously they do harm to themselves and also to us. It is perhaps impertinent to say that they do harm to themselves, but quite pertinent to say that they do harm to us. They do harm to those amongst whom they work and those amongst whom they do not work, i.e., the harm is done to the whole of India. The more I study their activities the more sorry I become. It is a tragedy that such a thing should happen to the human family. (Harijan: December 12, 1936)
Outrage!
Only the other day a missionary descended on a famine area with money in his pocket, distributed it among the famine stricken, converted them to his fold, took charge of their temple, and demolished it. This is outrageous. (Harijan: November 5, 1937)
Let the Hindu be a Better Hindu
I came to the conclusion long ago that all religions were true and also that all had some error in them, and whilst I hold by my own, I should hold others as dear as Hinduism. So we can only pray, if we are Hindus, not that a Christian should become a Hindu. But our innermost prayer should be a Hindu should be a better Hindu, a Muslim a better Muslim, a Christian a better Christian. (Young India: January 19, 1928)
Welcome Them Back
If a person through fear, compulsion, starvation, or for material gain or consideration goes over to another faith, it is a misnomer to call it conversion. Most cases of conversion have been to my mind false coin. I would therefore unhesitatingly re-admit to the Hindu fold all such repentants without much ado. If a man comes back to the original branch he deserves to be welcomed in so far as he may deem to have erred, he has sufficiently purged himself of it when he repents his error and retraces his steps. (Collected Works: Vol. 66, pp. 163-164)
NOTE: As a Hindu courtesy, please acknowledge Swami Aksharanandaji who compiled this information and Vidya Bharati, New York who produced it. Please circulate as widely as possible.
CSI Immanuel church dedicated in Kochi
KOCHI: Union Home Minister Shivraj Patil said that Mahatma Gandhi was more influenced by Jesus Christ than Buddha.
Inaugurating the dedication ceremony of the CSI Immanuel Church in Kochi on Saturday, Patil said that Gandhiji’s preaching of ahimsa was born out of love.
Only love for the entire humanity and not a section of the society will serve the purpose of the religion and the worship centres.
Respect and consideration for other religions should also be preached, he said.
State Home Minister Kodiyeri Balakrishnan, who attended the function, said that the services offered by the Christian churches were instrumental in moulding a new Kerala society.
During the pre-independence era, when untouchability and superstitions ruled the roost, Christian churches contributed a lot to the creation of a new social order.
Bishop K.P. Kuruvila of North Kerala Diocese presided over the function.
Opposition leader Oommen Chandy and Joseph Mar Thoma, metropolitan, Mar Thoma Church, addressed the gathering.
Immanuel CSI church vicar T.I. James welcomed the gathering and J. Oommen proposed a vote of thanks.
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Here is Mahatma Gandhi's view on christianity.
Mahatma on conversion
Gandhiji was not awarded the Nobel peace prize because he refused to be converted. Now that missionaries are spreading their tentacles far and wide in India converting people by allurement, inducement and fraud (In the north east killings and threats are becoming commonplace) Gandhiji's message is all the more relevant in understanding and reacting to this problem. Missionary Terrorism will become as dangerous as Islamic terrorism if ignored. Please read & distribute.
Compiled by Swami Aksharananda
(Track No. 010119.1, Jan. 19, 2001)
I Call Myself a Sanatani Hindu
I call myself a Sanatani Hindu, because I believe in the Vedas, the Upanishads, the Puranas, and all that goes by the name of Hindu scripture, and therefore in avataras and rebirth; I believe in the varnashrama dharma in a sense, in my opinion strictly Vedic but not in its presently popular and distorted crude sense; I believe in the protection of cow. I do not disbelieve in murti puja. (Young India: June 10, 1921)
Why I am Not a Convert
Hinduism as I know it entirely satisfies my soul, fills my whole being. When doubts haunt me, when disappointments stare me in the face, and when I see not one ray of light on the horizon, I turn to the Bhagavad Gita, and find a verse to comfort me; and I immediately begin to smile in the midst of overwhelming sorrow. My life has been full of tragedies and if they have not left any visible and indelible effect on me, I owe it to the teachings of the Bhagavad Gita. (Young India: June 8, 1925)
I Disbelieve in Conversion
I disbelieve in the conversion of one person by another. My effort should never to be to undermine another's faith. This implies belief in the truth of all religions and, therefore, respect for them. It implies true humility. (Young India: April 23, 1931)
Conversion: Impediment to Peace
It is impossible for me to reconcile myself to the idea of conversion after the style that goes on in India and elsewhere today. It is an error which is perhaps the greatest impediment to the world's progress toward peace. Why should a Christian want to convert a Hindu to Christianity? Why should he not be satisfied if the Hindu is a good or godly man? (Harijan: January 30, 1937)
No Such Thing as Conversion
I believe that there is no such thing as conversion from one faith to another in the accepted sense of the word. It is a highly personal matter for the individual and his God. I may not have any design upon my neighbour as to his faith which I must honour even as I honour my own. Having reverently studied the scriptures of the world I could no more think of asking a Christian or a Musalman, or a Parsi or a Jew to change his faith than I would think of changing my own. (Harijan: September 9, 1935)
No Conversion Designs Upon Me
I am not interested in weaning you from Christianity and making you Hindu, and I do not relish your designs upon me, if you had any, to convert me to Christianity. I would also dispute your claim that Christianity is the only true religion. (Harijan: June 3, 1937)
Conversion
Conversion must not mean denationalization. Conversion should mean a definite giving up of the evil of the old, adoption of all the good of the new and a scrupulous avoidance of everything evil in the new. Conversion, therefore, should mean a life of greater dedication to one's country, greater surrender to God, greater self-purification. (Young India: August 20, 1925)
Aping of Europeans and Americans
As I wander about through the length and breath of India I see many Christian Indians almost ashamed of their birth, certainly of their ancestral religion, and of their ancestral dress. The aping of Europeans by Anglo-Indians is bad enough, but the aping of them by Indian converts is a violence done to their country and, shall I say, even to their new religion. (Young
India: August 8, 1925)
Why Should I Change My Religion
I hold that proselytisation under the cloak of humanitarian work is unhealthy to say the least. It is most resented by people here. Religion after all is a deeply personal thing. It touches the heart.
Why should I change my religion because the doctor who professes Christianity as his religion has cured me of some disease, or why should the doctor expect me to change whilst I am under his influence? (Young India: April 23, 1931)
Missionary Aim: Uprooting Hinduism
My fear is that though Christian friends nowadays do not say or admit it that Hindu religion is untrue, they must harbour in their breast that Hinduism is an error and that Christianity, as they believe it, is the only true religion. So far as one can understand the present (Christian) effort, it is to uproot Hinduism from her very foundation and replace it by
another faith. (Harijan: March 13,1937)
Undermining People's Faith
The first distinction I would like to make between your missionary work and mine is that while I am strengthening the faith of people, you (missionaries) are undermining it. (Young India: November 8, 1927)
Physician Heal Yourself
Conversion nowadays has become a matter of business, like any other. India (Hindus) is in no need of conversion of this kind. Conversion in the sense of self-purification, self-realization is the crying need of the times. That however is never what is meant by proselytization. To those who would convert India (Hindus), might it not be said, "Physician, heal yourself." (Young India: April 23, 1931)
Missionaries: Vendors of Goods
When the missionary of another religion goes to them, he goes like a vendor of goods. He has no special spiritual merit that will distinguish him from those to whom he goes. He does however possess material goods which he promises to those who will come to his fold. (Harijan: April 3, 1937)
If I had the Power and Could Legislate.
If I had the power and could legislate, I should stop all proselytizing. In Hindu households the advent of a missionary has meant the disruption of the family coming in the wake of change of dress, manners, language, food and drink . (November 5, 1935)
The Only Begotten Son of God?
I regard Jesus as a great teacher of humanity, but I do not regard him as the only begotten son of God. That epithet in its material interpretation is quite unacceptable. Metaphorically we are all sons of God, but for each of us there may be different sons of God in a special sense. Thus for me Chaitanya may be the only begotten son of God. God cannot be the exclusive Father and I cannot ascribe exclusive divinity to Jesus. (Harijan: June 3, 1937)
Western Christianity Today
It is my firm opinion that Europe (and the United States) does not represent the spirit of God or Christianity but the spirit of Satan. And Satan's successes are the greatest when appears with the name of God on his lips. (Young India: September 8, 1920)
I consider western Christianity in its practical working a negation of Christ's Christianity. I cannot conceive Jesus, if he was living in flesh in our midst, approving of modern Christian organizations, public worship, or ministry. (Young India: September 22, 1921)
Christianity and Imperialistic Exploitation
Christianity in India has been inextricably mixed up for the last one hundred and fifty years with British rule. It appears to us as synonymous with materialistic civilization and imperialistic exploitation by the stronger white races of the weaker races of the world. Its contribution to India has been, therefore, largely negative. (Young India: March 21, 1929)
No Room For Them
In the manner in which they are working there would seem to be no room for them. Quite unconsciously they do harm to themselves and also to us. It is perhaps impertinent to say that they do harm to themselves, but quite pertinent to say that they do harm to us. They do harm to those amongst whom they work and those amongst whom they do not work, i.e., the harm is done to the whole of India. The more I study their activities the more sorry I become. It is a tragedy that such a thing should happen to the human family. (Harijan: December 12, 1936)
Outrage!
Only the other day a missionary descended on a famine area with money in his pocket, distributed it among the famine stricken, converted them to his fold, took charge of their temple, and demolished it. This is outrageous. (Harijan: November 5, 1937)
Let the Hindu be a Better Hindu
I came to the conclusion long ago that all religions were true and also that all had some error in them, and whilst I hold by my own, I should hold others as dear as Hinduism. So we can only pray, if we are Hindus, not that a Christian should become a Hindu. But our innermost prayer should be a Hindu should be a better Hindu, a Muslim a better Muslim, a Christian a better Christian. (Young India: January 19, 1928)
Welcome Them Back
If a person through fear, compulsion, starvation, or for material gain or consideration goes over to another faith, it is a misnomer to call it conversion. Most cases of conversion have been to my mind false coin. I would therefore unhesitatingly re-admit to the Hindu fold all such repentants without much ado. If a man comes back to the original branch he deserves to be welcomed in so far as he may deem to have erred, he has sufficiently purged himself of it when he repents his error and retraces his steps. (Collected Works: Vol. 66, pp. 163-164)
NOTE: As a Hindu courtesy, please acknowledge Swami Aksharanandaji who compiled this information and Vidya Bharati, New York who produced it. Please circulate as widely as possible.
Tuesday, December 11, 2007
Hindus....forgotten in their own land
It is irony that Hindus are made refugees in their own land. None of the secular media talks about their plight. Worst these media refer them as Kashmiri Pandits and not Hindus. When will Hindus realize that they are being victimized in their own land and join together to fight against the muzzies and xtians?
These Hindus are thrown out of their land and couldn't resettle in their land for last 18 years. Would the Indian media remain mute spectator as they are doing today if Gujarati muslims weren't resettled in their land?
http://www.merinews.com/catFull.jsp?articleID=128428
‘ROOTS IN Kashmir’ a frontline youth group raising awareness about the atrocities inflicted upon the Hindu minority of Kashmir has condemned the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) for not coming to the rescue of the Kashmiri Pandits. It has been almost 14 years since the formation of the NHRC; it has completely failed to address the grievances of the Pandit community, which is living in the 18th year of exile from their homeland, Kashmir.
Kashmiri Pandit children accompanied by activists and common people under the banner of ‘Roots In Kashmir’ held a silent protest at Indira Park on the eve of International Human Rights Day to bring to light the injustice being done with Kashmiri Pandits. Similar protests were organized in various parts of the country by it at places such as Delhi, Jammu, Bangalore and Pune.
To escape persecution, more than 350,000 Kashmiri Pandits had to leave their home and hearths back in the valley of which more than 50,000 refugees are still languishing in uninhabitable refugee camps in Jammu and Delhi.
“The NHRC is a phantom we only hear about but haven’t seen any evidence of. Our community has submitted memorandums, fought cases and appealed to the senior bureaucrats and officials about the situation but to no avail,” said Santosh Razdan who lives with her son in Hyderabad.
“We have lived our lives in Kashmir but it sounds like a distant dream today, all because of the negligence of the responsible authorities.” she added.
In spite of cases of serious nature pending against terrorists like Yasin Malik and Bitta Karate, they roam free and further get all support from the Indian Government; whereas the Pandits continue to live a life of refugee’s in their own country. While, Yasin Malik himself is responsible for killing hundreds of innocents in the valley mercilessly; he now claims to be a human rights activist championing the cause of so-called freedom. He has no right morally to speak on such an issue of sensitive nature in which he himself stands guilty of initiating the gun culture and bloodshed in the peaceful valley.
The NHRC and the home ministry, government of India have, in a written communication through Right To Information Act 2005, said that they don’t have any data on terrorist Bitta Karate of JKLF; while it’s a known fact that there are cases pending against him in courts. It also said that they have no information on the number of Pandits killed in the valley since 1989. Further, NHRC has failed to do justice with the community, as till date there has been no probe on the reasons behind the exodus of them.
The International Human Rights groups like Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch have deliberately failed to frame charges against Malik and other serial killers. Their biased nature is quite visible for last almost a decade. The blind attitude to the ethnic cleansing and genocide of the entire Pandit community by these agencies speaks at large of the discrimination being done with the aboriginal people of Kashmir.
‘Roots In Kashmir’ endeavors to bring to light the real culprits and murderers of innocent Kashmiris. We would like to have an answer as to what happened to our human rights?” said Amrita Kar, Volunteer of RIK.
Our demands from the government of India:
1. An enquiry commission to be set up to come out with a report on reasons of exodus of Kashmiri Pandits.
2. Capital punishment for terrorists like Bitta Karate and Yasin Malik.
3. Kashmiri Pandits be declared as Internally Displaced People (IDP’s) and thus be given the required benefits.
4. Reconstruction of desecrated and destroyed shrines.
5. All property sales after 1989 to be declared null and void.
6. Better rehabilitation of people living in inhuman camps in Jammu and Delhi.
These Hindus are thrown out of their land and couldn't resettle in their land for last 18 years. Would the Indian media remain mute spectator as they are doing today if Gujarati muslims weren't resettled in their land?
http://www.merinews.com/catFull.jsp?articleID=128428
‘ROOTS IN Kashmir’ a frontline youth group raising awareness about the atrocities inflicted upon the Hindu minority of Kashmir has condemned the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) for not coming to the rescue of the Kashmiri Pandits. It has been almost 14 years since the formation of the NHRC; it has completely failed to address the grievances of the Pandit community, which is living in the 18th year of exile from their homeland, Kashmir.
Kashmiri Pandit children accompanied by activists and common people under the banner of ‘Roots In Kashmir’ held a silent protest at Indira Park on the eve of International Human Rights Day to bring to light the injustice being done with Kashmiri Pandits. Similar protests were organized in various parts of the country by it at places such as Delhi, Jammu, Bangalore and Pune.
To escape persecution, more than 350,000 Kashmiri Pandits had to leave their home and hearths back in the valley of which more than 50,000 refugees are still languishing in uninhabitable refugee camps in Jammu and Delhi.
“The NHRC is a phantom we only hear about but haven’t seen any evidence of. Our community has submitted memorandums, fought cases and appealed to the senior bureaucrats and officials about the situation but to no avail,” said Santosh Razdan who lives with her son in Hyderabad.
“We have lived our lives in Kashmir but it sounds like a distant dream today, all because of the negligence of the responsible authorities.” she added.
In spite of cases of serious nature pending against terrorists like Yasin Malik and Bitta Karate, they roam free and further get all support from the Indian Government; whereas the Pandits continue to live a life of refugee’s in their own country. While, Yasin Malik himself is responsible for killing hundreds of innocents in the valley mercilessly; he now claims to be a human rights activist championing the cause of so-called freedom. He has no right morally to speak on such an issue of sensitive nature in which he himself stands guilty of initiating the gun culture and bloodshed in the peaceful valley.
The NHRC and the home ministry, government of India have, in a written communication through Right To Information Act 2005, said that they don’t have any data on terrorist Bitta Karate of JKLF; while it’s a known fact that there are cases pending against him in courts. It also said that they have no information on the number of Pandits killed in the valley since 1989. Further, NHRC has failed to do justice with the community, as till date there has been no probe on the reasons behind the exodus of them.
The International Human Rights groups like Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch have deliberately failed to frame charges against Malik and other serial killers. Their biased nature is quite visible for last almost a decade. The blind attitude to the ethnic cleansing and genocide of the entire Pandit community by these agencies speaks at large of the discrimination being done with the aboriginal people of Kashmir.
‘Roots In Kashmir’ endeavors to bring to light the real culprits and murderers of innocent Kashmiris. We would like to have an answer as to what happened to our human rights?” said Amrita Kar, Volunteer of RIK.
Our demands from the government of India:
1. An enquiry commission to be set up to come out with a report on reasons of exodus of Kashmiri Pandits.
2. Capital punishment for terrorists like Bitta Karate and Yasin Malik.
3. Kashmiri Pandits be declared as Internally Displaced People (IDP’s) and thus be given the required benefits.
4. Reconstruction of desecrated and destroyed shrines.
5. All property sales after 1989 to be declared null and void.
6. Better rehabilitation of people living in inhuman camps in Jammu and Delhi.
Friday, December 7, 2007
The bigger terrorists
An excellent article by B. Raman. Hindus need to understand that the bigger terrorists are the ones who give moral support to them.
Let us shed tears for ourselves
Let us shed tears for ourselves
Large sections of the nation shed tears on July 11, 2007, in memory of the 190 innocent Indians belonging to different religions who were killed a year ago in a series of explosions in suburban trains of Mumbai by jehadi terrorists inspired by the ideology of Al Qaeda. Their tears were also an expression of solidarity with the surviving relatives of these victims.
Just as millions of Americans and their leaders belonging to both sides of the political spectrum shed tears on September 11 every year in memory of the over 2,500 innocent civilians belonging to different nations who were killed by Al Qaeda in the US homeland on September 11,2001, and in solidarity with their relatives.
Just as millions of Indonesians and Australians and their political leaders shed years every year on the anniversary of the Bali bombing of October, 2002, in which nearly 200 innocent civilians-Indonesians, Australians and others- were blown to pieces by jehadi terrorists.
Just as millions of Spanish people, their royal family and their political leaders shed tears every year on the anniversary of the Madrid bombing of March, 2004, in which the jehadi terrorists targeted suburban trains, killing nearly 200 innocent civilians.
Just as millions of British, their royal family and their political leaders shed tears every year on the anniversary of the London bombings of July, 2005, in which jehadi suicide terrorists targeted the public transportation system killing over 50 innocent civilians.
There was a significant difference between the observance of the anniversaries of these great human tragedies inflicted on humanity by the jehadi terrorists in other countries and in India.
In other countries, the head of the State or Government participated in the observance of the anniversaries.On July 7, 2007, we saw on the TV touching scenes of Mr Gordon Brown, the British Prime Minister, and his wife visiting the tube stations where the terrorists struck and placing flowers at the scene of the tragedy.
In India, our so-called secular political class and elite kept away from the observance of the anniversary of the Mumbai tragedy of July 11, 2006.
Forget about flowers.
Not a drop of tear.
Not a word of sorrow.
Not a sign of grief.
Not a single expression of solidarity with the relatives of the victims.
I did not write this article yesterday because I waited to see whether our Prime Minister would fly to Mumbai and lead the people of the nation in remembering the innocent Indians-men, women and children- who were blown to pieces by the jehadi terrorists last year. I was convinced in my mind that he would not. Still, I was hoping that he would prove me wrong by participating in the observance of the anniversary. He didn’t.
Why he didn’t?
Busy dealing with grave crises confronting the nation?
No.
Lack of time?
No.
Bad weather?
No.
He did not attend because he was worried the Muslims might misunderstand.
He did not attend because he was worried that any public expression of sorrow for those blown up by the jehadi terrorists might be misinterpreted by the Muslims as stigmatising their community.
A few weeks after the Mumbai blasts of July 11, 2006, I had been to Kolkata to attend a conference.One of the eminent participants told me that a few days after the blasts there was a meeting in the Raj Bhawan chaired by the Governor of West Bengal to discuss some other subject. One of the participants proposed that they observe a two-minutes’ silence in memory of those killed in Mumbai.
The Governor ruled his suggestion out of order.
Why?
Lest the Muslims misinterpret it as stigmatising their community.
Jehadi terrorists can go on indulging in one act of mass casualty terrorism after another.
But, according to our so-called secular political class and elite, we should not talk about it or even cry about it.
Our anger, our tears, our exasperation at the failure of the Government to deal with them might be seen by the Muslims as stigmatising their community.
How many acts of jehadi terrorism we have had in India since the present Government came to power in Delhi in 2004?
Delhi, Varanasi, Mumbai, Malegaon, Bangalore, Samjota Express, Hyderabad.
Shri Shekhar Gupta, the Editor-in-Chief of the “Indian Express”, in a recent article drew attention to a fact to which I have been drawing attention in my writings for over a year. There has been no satisfactory progress in any of these investigations.
In the past, our Police might have been criticised in some instances for its inability to prevent acts of terrorism, but it had generally received very high praise for its successful investigation.
We all felt proud of the Mumbai Police of the 1990s recently when the case relating to the Mumbai blasts of March, 1993, in which about 250 innocent civilians were blown up by jehadi terrorists, ended in conviction. There were many other cases in which too the Mumbai Police of the 1990s had covered itself with credit.
So too the Delhi Police.
So too the Police of other cities.
Why there is a perception now that they are not as good as they were in the 1990s?
Has there been a deterioration in their competence?
No. In the 1990s, they received the full backing of the political leadership of those years, which took active interest in the investigation.
The political leadership of those years did not give sermons to the police not to do anything which might be viewed by the Muslims as stigmatising or targeting their community.
It refrained from inhibiting a thorough investigation through such sermons.
The political leadership of the past provided leadership and guidance. It took active interest in the investigation. It was determined that the guilty will be brought to book, even if they be Muslims.
The political leadership of today gives sermons and no leadership. It avoids active monitoring and supervision of the investigation lest the Muslims misunderstand.
I was in service at the height of terrorism in Punjab and Jammu & Kashmir under leaders like Indira Gandhi, Rajiv Gandhi and Narasimha Rao.
They never gave sermons.
I had never heard expressions like “stigmatising a community” or “targeting a community” etc coming out of their mouth.
In the past, we used to accuse Western countries of following double standards in counter-terrorism because of their reluctance to co-operate with us.
We accused them of adopting an over-legalistic approach in order to avoid co-operating with us.
Since the botched-up London and Glasgow terrorist strikes by a joint Arab-Indian jehadi cell, we have been guilty of the same sins of commission and omission which we attributed to the West in the past.
Much of the initial leads about the Indian participants and their jehadi background before they migrated to the UK came from the Karnataka Police. It is they who were the first to identify the man who drove the car, which crashed into the Glasgow airport, as Kafeel Ahmed, an Indian national.
They were also the first to identify him as an aeronautical engineer and not a doctor.
They were also the first to establish that he became Wahabised in Bangalore and not in London, Belfast, Cambridge or Glasgow. He was not infected in the UK. He carried the jehadi infection to the UK from India.
Leaders of the Indian Muslim community are worried that digging out the truth might lead to a stigmatisation of the Indian Muslims abroad.
They express their concern to the so-called secular political leadership. What does it do?
Till recently, our Prime Minister was giving sermons to our police and intelligence agencies not to do anything, which might be viewed by the Muslims as stigmatising their community.
Now, he gives a ring to Mr.Gordon Brown and gives him a sermon about the importance of not doing anything which might stigmatise the Muslim community.
The Australian Police want some quick check-up about the antecedents of an Indian Muslim doctor from Bangalore under interrogation by them. He is related to one of the Indian perpetrators of the London and Glasgow attempts and had lived with them in the UK before migrating to Australia.
What do we do?
The Central Bureau of Investigation gives them a sermon about the importance of making their request through proper channel.
Just as the Western Police and intelligence agencies used to tell us in the past when we asked for a quick check-up of a terrorism-related information.
New Delhi is afraid that any over-enthusiasm by our police and investigative and intelligence agencies in co-operating with the British and Australian investigators making preliminary enquiries about the suspected Indian Muslims might be viewed by the Indian Muslim community as stigmatising them.
So, the message is: Drag your feet in co-operating with the British and Australians.
The sensitivities and feelings of the Muslims are more important than saving innocent civilians-whether in India, the UK or Australia-by exposing the jehadi iceberg and neutralising it before it is too late.
We shed tears for the victims of last year’s Mumbai explosions yesterday.
Let us shed tears for ourselves today for having the misfortune of having a Government for which the feelings of the Muslims are more important than saving the lives of innocent civilians from the continued depredations of the jehadi terrorists. (12-7-07)
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