Stop massacre of Christians in Orissa

In the last months in Orissa, Christians have been killed and maimed in communal violence. Tens of thousands of Christians have fled to the jungles to save their lives. Hundreds of village churches have been burnt and razed to ground. Christian nuns have been gang-raped and burnt to death. Priests have been killed and attacked with iron rods, clubs, swords, and country made guns. Alleged VHP radicals are 'supposedly' responsible for this utterly unbelievable carnage.

It is reported that they force Christians to bow before Hindu Gods and threaten them with death if they do not denounce Christianity and accept Hinduism. Christians are targeted irrespective of age and gender. Even children are not spared from these barbaric acts. Christians are assaulted, humiliated, paraded half-naked, beaten up, their limbs mutilated, tortured, burnt alive, raped, and murdered.

And there have been hundreds of incidents of similar nature. An incident or two can go unnoticed or unprobed by the police but mass atrocities like this are not possible without politicians and police turning a deliberate blind-eye.

It is a shame that on the land of the Mahatma, where non-violence is the sacred mantra, violence is so unashamedly, unabashedly, and unabatedly propagated, instigated, and supported by few anti-social individuals or groups, in the name of religion. Christians are a peace-loving community and abhor violence of any kind. State government is requested to make an all out effort to stop this and probe the case without any bias whatsoever. Please sign the petition to show your solidarity with our fellow Christian Indians suffering in Orissa.