Crossed and Crucified: Parivar’s war against minorities - A PUCL and Kashipur Solidarity Group report
After the killing of Laxmanananda Saraswati on 23 August 2008, a Hindutva-led pogrom against Dalit Christians started in the Kandhamal district of Orissa. Till now, according to official reports, 39 people have been killed. Nearly, 50,000 people have been hounded out of their villages, their houses have been gutted and their belongings have been looted.
This report, prepared by PUCL-Bhubaneshwar and Kashipur Solidarity Group, has tried to document the systematic targeting and hounding of the Adivasi and Dalit Christians in the Kandmahal region. In the process, the report also provides a glimpse of a long running conflict in that area, which has been used by the dominant forces such as the state, its policies and institutions, institutionalized religion and the Oriyas (who are the caste Oriyas), along with other players.
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