2008 Kandhamal violence - Wikipedia
The 2008 Kandhamal violence refers to widespread violence against Christians purportedly incited by Hindutva organisations in the Kandhamal district of Orissa, India, in August 2008 after the murder of the Hindu monk Lakshmanananda Saraswati. [1] According to government reports the violence resulted in at least 39 Christians killed. [2]
Kandhamal riots: Ten years on, Christians still live in fear
2018年8月26日 · When the madness hit Kandhamal in August 2008, its ripples spreading swiftly to other districts of Odisha, the family of four fled their village, Tiangia, and went into the forest. Parikhita...
Eleven years after India’s deadly anti-Christian violence, faith still ...
2019年8月26日 · It was on August 25, 2008, that hell broke loose on the Christians of Kandhamal, with Hindu extremists attacking them for the August 23 murder of Hindu leader Swami Lakshmanananda Saraswati, even though Maoist rebels claimed the assassination.
Kandhamal Christians’ Suffering and Witness to Faith Recalled, …
2024年12月7日 · BHUBANESWAR, India — The 13th anniversary of the worst anti-Christian violence in modern Indian history has drawn renewed attention to the incredible Christian witness and the miscarriage of justice resulting from the 2008 bloodshed that engulfed the jungles of Kandhamal in the eastern state of Odisha.
They Persecuted Indian Christians. Most Confessed. Did Divine ...
2023年5月18日 · More than 40 women were raped and sexually assaulted, and the violence disrupted school for 12,000 children for years. (Previously, Kandhamal Christians had been subject to sporadic terror,...
Never Again: Reflections on ten years since the Kandhamal Tragedy …
In 2008, the Christians of Kandhamal District in Odisha state in India experienced the most severe outbreak of anti-Christian violence in the country’s history. The attacks claimed over 100 lives, forced 56,000 people to flee their homes and saw the destruction of …
Remembering the anti-minority violence in Kandhamal - CJP
The mass atrocities of December 2007 and August 2008 in Kandhamal, Odisha, devastated the Christian community and sent shock waves through the body politic. These episodes of violence primarily impacted economically marginalised Adivasi and Dalit Christian communities.
Kandhamal Violence 2008 On the evening of 23 August 2008, Swami Laxmanananda Saraswati was killed at his ashram in Jalespata in Kandhamal district, along with three other leaders of the VHP. This purportedly triggered the second phase of targeted violence against the Christian community in Kandhamal8.
Kandhamal violence must not be forgotten - CSW
2021年8月25日 · Almost 100 people were brutally killed, an estimated 395 churches destroyed, over 40 women were raped or subjected to sexual assault, and over 75,000 people left homeless in attacks by Hindu extremist organisations. For the survivors and the families of the victims, the fight for justice continues to this day.
The Voices of Kandhamal: Part 1 - International Christian Concern
On August 23, 2008, controversial Hindu radical leader Swami Lakshmanananda Saraswati was found murdered. Christians were wrongly blamed for the murder which unleashed months of mob violence that swept across the Kandhamal District of India’s Odisha State.
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