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Police refuse to follow leads pointing to murder.
NEW DELHI, January 21 (CDN) — Relatives of a pastor who was found dead in a secluded area in eastern Orissa state's Kandhamal district last week have accused local police of a cover-up.
The body of Saul Pradhan, a 45-year-old independent pastor whose house was burned by Hindu extremists two years ago, was found near a pond in Pakala village in Kandhamal's Raikia Block on Jan. 11 and bore marks of assault, Catholic activist Ajay Singh told Compass.
"I spoke to the widow of the pastor, and she told me that the hands and legs of the deceased looked twisted, and there was blood in his mouth. His pants were also torn," Singh said by phone from Orissa's capital, Bhubaneswar. "Why should it not arouse suspicion when Pastor Pradhan was last seen with two Hindu men, Marda Pradhan and Baiju Mallick, who were among the rioters who burned houses of Christians in 2008?"
A local activist with the Evangelical Fellowship of India said he visited the site after the body had been removed and saw blood stains on a stone.
Kandhamal witnessed two of India's deadliest waves of anti-Christian violence in December 2007 and August-September 2008; the latter killed over 100 people, destroyed thousands of homes and displaced more than 60,000 others after a Hindu nationalist leader was killed by Maoists; Hindu nationalist groups blamed it on local Christians.
Christian residents of Kandhamal say the antagonism toward them by those who engaged in the attacks under the influence of extremist Hindu nationalists remains strong.
Singh said that the two Hindu men who burned houses of Christians in 2008, Marda Pradhan and Mallick, came to Pastor Pradhan's house the evening of Jan. 10 and asked him to come out.
"The pastor's wife was about to serve dinner and so asked him to wait," he said. "But he said he wouldn't take long."
When the pastor did not return the next day, his wife went to the house of Marda Pradhan with a few villagers. Marda Pradhan's wife told them her husband had been in the jungle for three days because of a leg injury, Singh said.
That afternoon, the pastor's wife and the villagers again went to the house of Marda Pradhan, whose wife claimed he was not there. They could see him inside the house, however, and asked him to take them to the spot in the jungle where he had taken Pastor Pradhan the previous night. After walking for around half an hour, Marda Pradhan ran away, Singh said.
"The villagers got suspicious and began to look around," he said. "That's when they found the body lying near a pond."
Some area residents told the villagers that they had heard loud quarreling the previous night.
Police, however, say they have found little reason to suspect foul play.
"There were no injury marks on the body of the man," Inspector Ravi Narayan Barik told Compass, refuting the claims of the dead man's family. "The doctor who performed the autopsy said it was just an unnatural death."
According to police, Pastor Pradhan and two other men got drunk on the night of Jan. 10. The two others were able to return to their homes, Barik said, while the pastor could not and died in the cold.
"Drinking country-made liquor is normal behavior here," said Barik, of the Raikia police station. "We called one of the two men who was with the deceased for interrogation but did not find anything suspicious."
An official autopsy report was still awaited at press time.
Asked what sections of the Indian Penal Code or the Criminal Procedure Code were mentioned in the First Information Report or the formal police complaint, the official said, "None."
"The family is spreading rumors about murder in hope of receiving compensation from the government, as many victims of the 2008 violence got compensated," the inspector said.
Activist Singh said when the family went to police to report the suspected murder, officers were unwilling to listen.
"The police scolded them," Singh said. "They said he must have died from the cold. When the family asked for an autopsy, the police asked them to collect the body, take it to the village and bring it to the police station the following day."
But after the family insisted, the police asked them to bring the body the same day, he said.
"So the family and friends carried the body on a bicycle and brought it to the police station," Singh said. Asked why police did not go to collect the body, Singh said, "This is how it happens here."
Singh also said he heard that some local politicians from the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) visited the Raikia police station after the death was reported, though he added that he "could not confirm if that actually happened."
Until March 2009, the BJP was a ruling party in Orissa in coalition with a regional party, the Biju Janata Dal, for 11 years.
Dr. Sajan George of the Global Council of Indian Christians called for an investigation by the Central Bureau of Investigation, the Press Trust of India (PTI) news agency reported on Monday (Jan. 17).
"The killing of Saul [Pradhan] seemed to be an organized crime by a section of people who had threatened him a few months ago, his family members alleged, adding that his house was also torched during the Kandhamal riots in 2008," George told PTI.
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Villagers beat young man and his relatives, as well as burn their crops and press charges.
SHEIKHUPURA, Pakistan, October 11 (CDN) — A young Christian has been jailed for nearly eight months and his family was attacked after a Muslim friend framed him for murder, he said.
Yassir Masih, 18, has been locked up at Sheikhupura District Jail since his arrest in late February. In an interview at Narang Mandi police station at that time, Masih said that on Feb. 17 his Muslim friend Muhammad Mubashir came to his house late at night and asked him to accompany him on "an urgent piece of work."
Residents of Pandori village in Sheikhupura district, Mubashir and Masih went to the home of Muhammad Imran, who was in love with the same girl as Mubashir; Masih said the two one-time friends often quarreled over her, with bitter enmity eventually developing between them.
"Being a friend, I went with him, reluctantly, and we soon arrived at the door of Muhammad Imran," Masih said. "Muhammad Mubashir knocked on the door, and as soon as Muhammad Imran opened the door, Muhammad Mubashir opened fire with his pistol, killing Muhammad Imran on the spot."
The gunfire awakened villagers, who gathered and began to search for the killer, Masih said. Frightened of the mob and not wanting to put his family in danger, Masih did not return home but fled with Mubashir. The two young men hid in a field of crops, where they decided to leave the village until passions cooled, he said. As Masih left the village, however, he was unaware that Mubashir had melted into the mob that was looking for the killer, he said.
"Later Muhammad Mubashir went to his house and slept in his warm bed that shivering cold winter night," Masih said.
The next day villagers discovered Masih was missing and therefore accused him of killing Imran, he said.
They didn't stop at that, said Khalid Gill, chief organizer for Punjab Province of the All Pakistan Minorities Alliance. Gill said that in order to deprive the wealthy Christian family of their profitable strawberry, wheat, corn and other crops, Mubashir's father, Muhammad Gulfam, filed murder, arms possession and terrorism charges not only against Masih but also against his 50-year-old father Abid Masih, as well as brothers Khalid Masih, 30; Asif Masih, 23; Ashir Masih, 15; Faisal Masih, 13; and two others unnamed.
"Most of the Muslims in the area harbored jealousy against the prosperous Christian family," Gill pointed out, explaining why Gulfam also pressed charges against members of Yassir Masih's family.
Additionally, the angry villagers on Feb. 18 overran the property of Masih's grandfather, Rehmat Masih, where four of the late patriarch's sons lived; the mob beat women and children with clubs and looted appliances, clothes and other household items, Gill said.
"Nothing was left of use for the Christian family," Gill said.
He added that the villagers ransacked Yassir Masih's home and burned 20 acres of his fields on Feb. 18. The village comprises about 2,000 Muslim families and only 15 Christian homes, he said.
Officers from Narang Mandi police station arrested Yassir Masih later than month. He and his family members told officers that Mubashir shot Imran, but police listened only to the lies of the plaintiff, Masih said.
On Feb. 19 Yassir Masih's mother, Shamshad Bibi, went to the Narang Mandi police station to file a complaint against the Muslim villagers for attacking and looting their house and burning their crops, Gill said. Police filed a case against the attackers but so far no one has been arrested, and "all the Muslim leaders who instigated the Muslim mob to attack are still at large," Gill said.
At the same time, Narang Mandi police have arrested not only Yassir Masih but his brothers Ashir Masih and Asif Masih, 15 and 23 years old respectively, Gill said. While Yassir Masih has been incarcerated at Sheikhupura District Jail, Ashir Masih and Asif Masih were interrogated by Criminal Investigation Agency officers and have been kept at an undisclosed location since Feb. 18.
The accused Christian's father, Abid Masih, as well as Khalid Masih, were still in hiding at press time. Police exonerated young Faisal Masih of all charges on Sept.1. Gill said that the 13-year-old boy had moved to an undisclosed location.
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Other Christians murdered in area that continues to be wracked by violence.
LAGOS, Nigeria, April 27 (CDN) — The killing of Christians in Jos, Plateau state in Nigeria continued over the weekend with two journalists and five other persons falling victim to Muslim youth gangs.
Nathan S. Dabak, an assistant editor at a newspaper of the Church of Christ in Nigeria (COCIN) called The Light Bearer, and Sunday Gyang Bwede, a reporter at the publication, were stabbed to death on Saturday (April 24) at Gado-Bako in Jos North Local Government Area along with an unidentified motorcyclist.
"The staff of the church were murdered in cold blood by some Hausa Muslim youths," the Rev. Pandang Yamsat, president of COCIN, told Compass today. "This is clear because they have been using the hand phones of the deceased journalists and boasting that they are the ones that killed them."
The young Muslim men have been boldly answering calls to the cell phones of the deceased journalists, he said; when a friend of Dabak called his cell phone number, an unknown voice responded, "We have killed all of them – you can do your worst!"
Dabak, 36, and the 39-year-old Bwede had left their office on Saturday morning and were on their way to interview local politician Bulus Kaze when they fell into the hands of young Muslim men, Yamsat said.
The church started a search for the two Christians that day but did not discover their bodies until about noon on Sunday at the mortuary of Jos University Teaching Hospital, he said. He added that the church was eagerly waiting for results of a police investigation.
"The security team of the church has been communicating with the police, but they are yet to make any headway on this unfortunate incident," he said.
Burial of the slain journalists is scheduled for Friday (April 30).
In his statement on Monday (April 26), Yamsat lamented that "while efforts have been tailored towards the return of peace to the state by the military Special Task Force, it is regrettable that the state is confronted with a spate of killings."
"The church is still mourning the death of its pastor and his wife killed in Boto, Bauchi state," Yamsat said, in reference to the April 13 kidnapping and murder of the Rev. Ishaku Kadah, 48, and his 45-year-old wife Selina. "It is sad that it should again be left to face another brutal murder of two of their staff."
The state branch of the Nigerian Union of Journalists also condemned the circumstances that led to the death of the two journalists, expressing deep concern over what it described as "a series of attacks on its members in recent times in the course of carrying out their legitimate duties."
Four other Christians also were killed on Saturday (April 24) in the Dutse Uku district of Jos' Nasarawa Gwom area in a revenge attack following the discovery of the corpse of a teenage Muslim who had been missing. Their names were not released at press time.
The four Christians reportedly died, three of them stabbed to death, when hundreds of Muslim youths rampaged throughout the area in protest.
Earlier, police reportedly exhumed eight bodies from shallow graves in a predominantly Christian village near Jos. The discovery of the bodies brought to 15 the number of corpses found in three days in an area fraught with Muslim aggression that has left hundreds of Christians dead.
Jos has become a flash-point for ethnic and religious tensions in Plateau state, which is located between Nigeria's mainly Muslim north and Christian south. Previously hundreds of Christian villagers were struck with machetes and burned to death on March 7 in Dogo Nahawa, Zot and Rastat, three villages in Jos South and Barkin Ladi Local Government Areas.
On March 17, Muslim Fulani herdsmen assaulted two Christian villages in Plateau state, killing 13 persons, including a pregnant woman and children. In attacks presumably over disputed property but with a level of violence characteristic of jihadist method and motive, men in military camouflage and others in customary clothing also burned 20 houses in Byei and Baten villages, in the Riyom Local Government Area of the state, about 45 kilometers (29 miles) from Jos.
On Jan. 17, two pastors and 46 other Christians were killed in an outbreak of violence in Jos triggered when Muslim youths attacked a Catholic church. Police estimated over 300 lives were lost in subsequent clashes, in which 10 church buildings were burned.
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Forced from Buddhist homeland, dangers arise in Hindu-majority Nepal.
KATHMANDU, Nepal, February 23 (CDN) — Thrust from their homes in Bhutan after Buddhist rulers embarked on an ethnic and religious purge, Christian refugees in Nepal face hostilities from Hindus and others.
In Sunsari district in southeastern Nepal, a country that is more than 80 percent Hindu, residents from the uneducated segments of society are especially apt to attack Christians, said Purna Kumal, district coordinator for Awana Clubs International, which runs 41 clubs in refugee camps to educate girls about the Bible.
"In Itahari, Christians face serious trouble during burials," Kumal told Compass. "Last month, a burial party was attacked by locals who dug up the grave and desecrated it."
Earlier this month, he added, a family in the area expelled one of its members from their home because he became a Christian.
Bhutan began expelling almost one-eighth of its citizens for being of Nepali origin or practicing faiths other than Buddhism in the 1980s. The purge lasted into the 1990s.
"Christians, like Hindus and others, were told to leave either their faith or the country," said Gopi Chandra Silwal, who pastors a tiny church for Bhutanese refugees in a refugee camp in Sanischare, a small village in eastern Nepal's Morang district. "Many chose to leave their homeland."
Persecution in Bhutan led to the spread of Christianity in refugee camps in Nepal. Though exact figures are not available, refugee Simon Gazmer estimates there are about 7,000-8,000 Christians in the camps – out of a total refugee population of about 85,000 – with many others having left for other countries. There are 18 churches of various faiths in the camps, he said.
"Faith-healing was an important factor in the spread of Christianity in the camps," said Gazmer, who belongs to Believers' Church and is awaiting his turn to follow five members of his family to Queensland, Australia. "A second reason is the high density in the camps."
Each refugee family lives in a single-room hut, with one outdoor toilet for every two families. The Nepalese government forbids them to work for fear it will create unemployment for local residents.
Life was even harder for them before 2006, when Nepal was a Hindu kingdom where conversions were a punishable offence.
"When I began preaching in 2000, I had to do it secretly," said Pastor Silwal of Morang district. "We could meet only surreptitiously in small groups. I used my hut as a make-shift church while many other groups were forced to rent out rooms outside the camp."
A fact-finding mission in 2004 by Brussels-based Human Rights Without Frontiers found that police pulled down a church structure built by Pentecostal Christians in the Beldangi camp by orders of Nepal's home ministry. The rights group also reported that Hindu refugees ostracized the Christians, who had proceeded to rent a room outside the camp to meet three times a week for worship services and Bible study.
When the Jesus Loves Gospel Ministries (JLGM) organization sent officials from India to the Pathri camp in Morang in 2006, they found that local residents resentful of the refugees had taken note of a baptism service at a pond in a nearby jungle.
"In August, we were planning another baptism program," JLGM director Robert Singh reported. "But the villagers put deadly poisonous chemicals in the water … Some of the young people went to take a bath ahead of our next baptism program. They found some fish floating on the water and, being very hungry – the refugees only get a very small ration, barely enough to survive on – they took some of the fish and ate them. Three of them died instantly."
Singh also stated that poisoned sweets were left on the premises of the refugee school in the camp. They were discovered in time to avert another tragedy.
Life for Christian refugees improved after Nepal saw a pro-democracy movement in 2006 that caused the army-backed government of Hindu king Gyanendra Bir Bikram Shah to collapse. The king was forced to reinstate parliament, and lawmakers sought to curb his powers by declaring Nepal a secular state.
Though Christian refugees are now allowed to run churches openly in the camps, ill will toward them has yet to end. When Pastor Silwal asked camp authorities to allow him to open a church in 2006, Hindu neighbors protested, saying it would cause disturbances. Camp authorities allowed him to open a tiny church in a separate room on the condition that its activities would not disturb neighbors.
Earlier in his life in Bhutan, said the 40-year-old Pastor Silwal, he had been a stern Hindu who rebuked his two sisters mercilessly for becoming Christians. He forbade them to visit their church, which gathered in secret due to the ban on non-Buddhist religions in place at the time. They were also forbidden to bring the Bible inside their house in Geylegphug, a district in southern Bhutan close to the Indian border.
"I became a believer in 1988 after a near-death experience," Pastor Silwal told Compass. "I contracted malaria and was on the verge of death since no one could diagnose it. All the priests and shamans consulted by my Hindu family failed to cure me. One day, when I thought I was going to die I had a vision."
The pastor said he saw a white-robed figure holding a Bible in one hand and beckoning to him with the other. "Have faith in me," the figure told him. "I will cure you."
When he woke from his trance, Silwal asked his sisters to fetch him a copy of the Bible. They were alarmed at first, thinking he was going to beat them. But at his insistence, they nervously fetched the book from the thatched roof of the cow shed where they had kept it hidden. Pastor Silwal said he tried to read the Bible but was blinded by his fever and lost consciousness.
When he awoke, to his amazement and joy, the fever that had racked him for nearly five months was gone.
Pastor Silwal lost his home in 1990 to the ethnic and religious purge that forced him to flee along with thousands of others. It wasn't until 1998, he said, that he and his family formally converted to Christianity after seven years of grueling hardship in the refugee camp, where he saw "people dying like flies due to illness, lack of food and the cold."
"My little son too fell ill and I thought he would die," Silwal said. "But he was cured; we decided to embrace Christianity formally."
In 2001, Bhutan4Christ reported the number of Bhutanese Christians to be around 19,000, with the bulk of them – more than 10,500 – living in Nepal.
When persecution by the Bhutanese government began, frightened families raced towards towns in India across the border. Alarmed by the influx of Bhutanese refugees, Indian security forces packed them into trucks and dumped them in southern Nepal.
Later, when the homesick refugees tried to return home, Indian security forces blocked the way. There were several rounds of scuffles, resulting in police killing at least three refugees.
Simon Gazmer was seven when his family landed at the bank of the Mai river in Jhapa district in southeastern Nepal. Now 24, he still remembers the desolation that reigned in the barren land, where mists and chilly winds rose from the river, affecting the morale and health of the refugees. They lived in bamboo shacks with thin plastic sheets serving as roofs; they had little food or medicine.
"My uncle Padam Bahadur had tuberculosis, and we thought he would die," said Gazmer, who lives in Beldangi II, the largest of seven refugee camps. "His recovery made us realize the grace of God, and our family became Christians."
The plight of the refugees improved after the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) stepped in, receiving permission from the government of Nepal to run the refugee camps. According to the UNHCR, there were 111,631 registered refugees in seven camps run in the two districts of Jhapa and Morang.
Though Nepal held 15 rounds of bilateral talks with Bhutan for the repatriation of the refugees, the Buddhist government dragged its feet, eventually breaking off talks. Meantime, international donors assisting the refugee camps began to grow weary, resulting in the slashing of aid and food. Finally, seven western governments – Canada, Norway, Denmark, New Zealand, Australia, the United States and the Netherlands – persuaded Nepal to allow the refugees to resettle in third countries.
The exodus of the refugees started in 2007. Today, according to the UNHCR, more than 26,000 have left for other countries, mostly the United States. A substantial number of the nearly 85,000 people left in the camps are ready to follow suit.
Although they now have a new life to look forward to, many of Bhutan's Christian refugees are saddened by the knowledge that their homeland still remains barred to them. So some are looking at the next best thing: a return to Nepal, now that it is secular, where they will feel more at home than in the West.
"I don't have grand dreams," said Pastor Silwal. "In Australia I want to enroll in a Bible college and become a qualified preacher. Then I want to return to Nepal to spread the word of God."
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Hindu nationalists protest delegation as Christians cite injustices.
NEW DELHI, February 8 (CDN) — A delegation from the European Union concluded a "fruitful" trip to India's violence-torn Orissa state on Friday (Feb. 5) amid a swirl of protests by Hindu nationalist groups and cries of injustice by Christians.
The delegation was able to hold "open and frank" discussions with Kandhamal officials on the visit, said Gabriele Annis of the Embassy of Italy.
"We had a very good meeting with the Kandhamal district administration," Annis told reporters. "It is fruitful. We had open and frank discussion. It helped us in understanding the situation and understanding happenings over the past 15 months."
The delegation was led by Christophe Manet, head of Political Affairs of the European Commission delegation to India and consisted of members from Spain, Hungary, Poland, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, the United Kingdom, Finland and Sweden. A delegation from five European countries had visited Orissa earlier in November 2009, but the government of Orissa denied them permission to visit Kandhamal district, where Christians say they continue to be threatened and destitute.
Archbishop Raphael Cheenath said on Saturday (Feb. 6) that despite the claims of the state and district administrations, life for the Christian victims of violence in August-September 2008 remains far from normal: thousands still live in makeshift shanties along roadsides and in forests, he said, and local officials and police harass them daily.
"The block officers have been playing with the facts, indulging in corrupt practices and cosmetic exercises whenever political and other dignitaries come to visit or inspect," the archbishop said in a statement. "Innocent people are coerced into giving a false picture. The chief minister must investigate the role and functioning of the entire district administration . . . It is strange that officers in whose presence the violence took place and thousands of houses were burnt are still in office and are declaring that there is peace in the district."
Following attacks in the area after Hindu extremists stirred up mobs by falsely accusing Christians of killing Hindu leader Swami Laxmanananda Saraswati on Aug. 23, 2008, more than 10,000 families were displaced from their homes by the violence. Since then, Cheenath said, an estimated 1,200 families have left the area. Between 200 and 300 families reside in private displacement camps in the district, and more than 4,400 families still live in tents, makeshift shelters or the remnants of their damaged houses, he said.
The number of attack victims who have received financial assistance from the government, churches or Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) is unknown, but is estimated at 1,100 families, Cheenath added.
He criticized Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and the Chief Minister of Orissa Naveen Patnaik saying, "Both of them had promised to provide adequate compensation for the damages caused during the 2008 communal violence. But the victims have not been adequately compensated."
Cheenath said the state government had decided not to compensate any riot-affected religious institutions even though India's Supreme Court had directed the government to compensate them for all damages.
"This is a national calamity and demands a special package for the affected people, which should include land, income generation, education and healthcare," the archbishop said.
Extremist Makeover
Prior to the visit, Christian leaders expressed their shock at Kandhamal district authorities attempting a cosmetic makeover by evacuating nearly 100 Christians from G. Udayagiri.
In letters to the EU delegation, the state government and national human rights and minorities commissions, Dr. John Dayal of the All India Christian Council narrated the plight of the 91 members of 21 families from 11 villages who were living under plastic sheets along a road in the marketplace area of G. Udayagiri.
Dayal said the group included 11 married women, three widows, an elderly man with a fractured hip and thigh, and two infants born in the camp. They had faced almost daily threats, he said, as they had not been allowed to return to their villages unless they renounced their faith and became Hindus.
Soon after the decision to allow the EU delegation, the water supply to the makeshift site was cut off and police and civil officers drove away the residents, who had only plastic sheets to protect them from the cold, he said. The refugees said officers later gave them permission to come back at night but to keep the area clear.
"The families are in G. Udayagiri, they have moved in front of the road, and they are in a very bad state," the Rev. Samant Nayak of G. Udayagiri told Compass. "They are literally on the road."
He said that approximately 55 families were living in G. Udayagiri, where they had been given land, and a Christian NGO was helping to construct houses for them.
The Press Trust of India reported that Orissa officials were nervous about last week's delegation visiting Kandhamal but finally gave permission under pressure from the central government. State officials finally allowed the visit with the pre-condition that the delegation would be allowed only to interact with people and not engage in fact-finding, according to a senior official in Orissa's home department.
The Kandhamal district collector, Krishna Kumar, told Compass that all went well and "no untoward incidents took place," but sources reported at least one minor disturbance in Bodimunda village. On Wednesday (Feb. 3), one house was reportedly damaged there in a scuffle that also resulted in two arrests by the local police.
During their Kandhamal visit, the EU delegation was reportedly forced to cancel a meeting with judges of Fast Track courts established in Phulbani, in Kandhamal district, to prosecute hundreds of those accused in the 2008 violence, due to protests from the local lawyers' association.
Kumar, however, pointed out that the lawyers' protest was secondary to the lack of clearance from the High court for the meeting with the judges. "The same was not informed to us prior to the visit," he added.
Justice Denied
The anti-Christian violence in August-September 2008 killed over 100 people and burned 4,640 houses, 252 churches and 13 educational institutions. Archbishop Cheenath said justice is critical to long term peace.
"The two Fast Track courts, and the court premises, have seen a travesty of justice," he said in the Feb. 6 statement. "Witnesses are being coerced, threatened, cajoled and sought to be bribed by murderers and arsonists facing trial. The court premises are full of top activists of fundamentalist organizations. The witnesses are also threatened in their homes with elimination, and even their distant relatives are being coerced specially in the murder and arson cases against Member of Legislative Assembly [MLA] Manoj Pradhan."
Though some witnesses have testified on Pradhan's alleged involvement in crimes in depositions, he has been acquitted in case after case, the archbishop added.
"We are demanding a special investigation team to investigate every case of murder and arson," he said. "Similarly, there is also need for transferring the cases against politically powerful persons such as Pradhan to outside Kandhamal, preferably to Cuttack or Bhubaneswar."
Cheenath said victims have filed 3,232 complaints at Kandhamal police stations, but officers registered only 832 cases. As many as 341 cases were in the G. Udayagiri area alone, 98 in Tikabali and 90 in Raikia, he said.
"Even out of this small number [in G. Udayagiri], only 123 cases were transferred to the two Fast Track courts," he said. "So far, 71 cases have been tried in the two courts, and 63 cases have been disposed of. Of these, conviction occurred only in 25 cases, and even that is partial as most of the accused have not been arrested or brought to trial."
Only 89 persons have been convicted so far in Orissa state, while 251 have been acquitted, supposedly for lack of witnesses against them, he said.
"Among them is Manoj Pradhan," Cheenath said. "It is strange that in the case of 10 deaths by murder, nine cases have been closed without anybody being convicted, while there has been partial conviction in the case of one death. Who will bring justice in the case of the nine murder cases?"
The archbishop demanded that independent lawyers be allowed to assist overworked special public prosecutors.
Hindu Nationalist Protests
Protesting the delegation visit was the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) and other Hindu nationalist organizations. VHP State General Secretary Gouri Prasad Brahma had lamented on Jan. 31 that the visit would trigger tension and demanded their immediate withdrawal.
"There is no business of the outsiders in the internal matter of the state," he said.
The delegation also faced the ire of the Hindu extremist Bajrang Dal on the day of its arrival in Bhubaneswar, capital of Orissa, on Tuesday (Feb. 2). Hundreds of its cadres met the delegation at the airport shouting loudly, "EU team, go back."
Five Bajrang Dal members were detained for creating trouble, Deputy Commissioner of Police H.K. Lal told media on Wednesday (Feb. 3).
After the delegation had left, the Orissa Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) heavily criticized the central and the state governments, with BJP state President, Jual Oram telling a press conference that the state had allowed the visit to "divide people on communal lines." He said that the delegation had not met any Hindu leader during their visit to Kandhamal, which "exposed their communal agenda."
Oram accused the delegation of violating protocol in trying to meet the judges of fast-track courts in Kandhamal, saying this "amounted to interference into internal affairs of a sovereign independent member state under the U.N."
At the same press conference, BJP MLA Karendra Majhi said that allowing the visit was an attempt by the chief minister to win back the confidence of minority Christians. He alleged that the delegation had held secret meetings in a Catholic church at Phulbani with church leaders and select NGOs to facilitate conversions to Christianity.
"I have every reason to believe that the promised assistance of 15 million euros to Kandhamal by the EU delegation will be utilized for conversion activities," Majhi said.
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RENO, Nev. (AP) - Reno police are investigating a pair of armed robberies on the city's near south side.
The first one was reported about 11:15 p.m. Sunday on Lymbery Street near the Peppermill hotel-casino. Police say three suspects who appeared to be armed approached the victim and demanded money.
About 15 minutes later, a single armed suspect demanded money from a person at the Airport Plaza Hotel on Terminal Way.
Police are trying to determine if the two are connected. They say the only description witnesses could provide was that the three suspects in the first robbery were wearing dark clothing.
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Funny: Arm A
- ARMA: Armed Assault, the Queen's Gambit expansion. One word: "Titsabella".
- A Japanese blogger mistook a video of an in-game Osprey blowing up for being real and used it as proof that it is unsafe and should not be used in Japan.
- Similar to the above one in Japan, ITV had a little bit of a problem telling the difference between real life and Arma 2 as well.
- "Hey, I'm the fuckin' boss here!"
- Tanny's demonstration of Scottish slang
- At the start of the first campaign mission in Arma 3, the player can have their character walk around the base before hopping into the helicopter, and one of the scenery props... is THIS◊.
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Or at least make me tired enough I can sleep.
DH and I had started on this just before things went downhill with Hondo. I am now going to finish it myself to keep myself busy and out of the barn, just can't be out there at the moment.
So anyway, here's my project in early phase. I am adding a large koi pond (10'6" x 11") and stone patio around it in my front yard. Who knows how long this will take but it will be cool as all get out when it's done. DH wants to add a 'river' to it around the house to join up with the garden pond in the backyard, I think he is nuts and that is just way too much work - and water to avoid shooting grass into with the lawnmower so I vetoed that plan.
DH starting to dig the pond.
Initial dig, made it a bit larger and deeper once we got the shape down.
The shallow area is 2' and the lagoon is 4' so fish can winter in there with a pond breather - no fish in tanks in my house this next winter.
The shallows, all of the rock work I have done - it's kind of fun and like putting a puzzle together. This is the 4th pond I've done, 2nd of my own, 2 for others.
Next step will be to backfill around the waterfall - the box will be hidden when I'm finished, build up sidewalls and hide hoses and cords and then patio, plants and new fish.
Pretty much all the grass area will become a flat river rock patio.
From corner of covered porch to other deck will be patio
The "bad boy" falls & filter system, it will clean and cycle 5000 gallons per hour, the sound is amazing. My bedroom is behind the door on the covered porch. I have a feeling I will be sitting out there a lot in my pajamas with a cup of coffee.
While I was shopping for things for this project I was looking at fish. Holy shamoly they get expensive. No joke there are koi fish for sale for 12k and up! They come with 6 gen pedigrees just like a horse would. I won't be owning any prized koi stud fish, we'll be settling for the $10 a piece babies from petsmart


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You are welcome to catch up on our family and ministry news including:
- Update on Carl's Back Surgery
- Ted's Schooling and Deborah's Call to Concordia Lutheran High School
- Paul's Ordination
- Updates on Paul, Stacy and new son Andrew; James and Megan; Scott, Becky and Eli
- Carl's New Writing Project
- Stand Fast for Jesus
- Prayer Requests
Our love in Christ,
Carl and Deborah
Back Home from Surgery
Thanksgiving & Christmas 2014
Christmas and New Year's Greetings to you from the Carl and Deborah Rockrohr clan.
We were blessed to have all four children and their families together with us on December 28.
From bottom of stairs ascending: Carl, Deborah, Baby Eli, Rebecca & Scott (Johnson), Stacy & Paul, Megan & James, and Ted.
Prayer requests are Carl's back surgery scheduled for January 13 and his 3-6 month recovery. Also, both Carl and Deborah need full-time calls/employment.
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Enjoy some photos below – I especially like the photos of Ted now touching the ceiling for the first time contrasted to Eli sitting for the first time (tallest and shortest in the clan).
In Christ, Carl
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Photo: Rockrohr Family July 4, 2014
August-September Newsletter Available
- Return to the USA
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- Future Ministry
- Prayer Requests
- Thank you for your interest and support!
You can download the newsletter on the newsletter page.
Photo: Sword Arch after Jim and Megan's Wedding
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Photo: Mekane Yesus Seminary School of Theology Staff
This issue includes:
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- Ministry changes for Carl and Deborah
- Rockrohr Summer visitation schedule
- Photos of our new grandson and baptism
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May Newsletter Available
Our May newsletter is ready for your reading pleasure!
This month's topics include:
– Reflection on ministry in Ghana 20 years ago
– Summer visitation Schedule
God bless your day!
Photo: LCMS Missionaries from South Africa, Ghana, Togo, Kenya, Guinea, and Ethiopia; and Rev. Dr. Collver. Not pictured: Missionary Phil Jaseph of Kenya took the picture.
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Photo: Rev. Dr. William Schumacher from Concordia Seminary in St. Louis has joined Carl and Deborah for two months to teach two MA systematic theology courses. He is the Director of Institute for Mission Studies and Mission Associate Professor of Historical Theology at Concordia Seminary.
Rockrohr March Newsletter
In this month's newsletter Deborah writes about mercy and language learning. You may download here or go to newsletter page.
Photo: Deborah overlooks the Akaki River in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. About 1 mile downstream from this bridge the river runs alongside Mekane Yesus Seminary where we live and work.
Carl & Deborah's Newsletter from Ethiopia – February
Our February newsletter is available for download.
Photo is of meeting between LCMS President Matthew Harrison and Dr. Al Collver (Assistant to the President for Church Relations) and the Management Committee of the Ethiopian Evangelical Church Mekane Yesus. Carl and Deborah were able to attend the meetings.
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Advent blessings!
Photo: Deborah is with Mekane Yesus Seminary Theology Staff traveling from a staff retreat at Hawassa, Ethiopia.


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Mommy Dearest: No Presents For Babe's Birthday
Mommy Dearest,
Our daughter has too many toys so we wrote, "No presents" on her third birthday invitations.
Most of the guests brought them anyway so now we are in a pickle with no place to store them.
Should we return the gifts to their givers?
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To read the response from Mommy Dearest,
Piles of Presents,
This is a tough one. I've been invited to "no present" parties in the past and the request always makes me feel awkward.
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The FHSAA will begin accepting registrations for the 2015-16 school season starting Wednesday, July 1, 2015. Returning officials, log into FHSAA at https://officials.fhsaa.org to renew registration online in your existing account. New officials, go to https://officials.fhsaa.org/Register.aspx to register for a new account online. Please direct your registration questions to officials [at] fhsaa [dot] org.
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- Jan. 4-9, 2016
- March 14-19, 2016
If you notice that the contest officials are using pink whistles during the contest, this means these officials have agreed to make an individual donation in this effort. If this is the case, the FHSAA kindly asks that you acknowledge this participation through the public address announcement found below. Please make the announcement a minimum of two times during the contest. For football, make the announcement between quarters. In volleyball, make the announcement once between the first and second game in a match, and then again between the second and third game in a match.
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FHSAA Girls Lacrosse Officials Certification
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FHSAA officials background screening / Jessica Lunsford Act update
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The two Taylor County Schools construction projects are behind schedule, largely due to the weather.
At Thursday night's Taylor County Board of Education special-called meeting, Taylor County School Superintendent Roger Cook stated that construction at the new high school is about 70 days behind, while construction at the new elementary school is 55 or 60 days behind.
"If we ever get dry weather, in August possibly, then it'll go a lot faster, probably," Cook said.
A man accused of burning his 2-year-old son with extremely hot water will remain in jail until his jury trial in September.
During a hearing on Tuesday morning, Taylor County Circuit Judge Samuel Todd Spalding kept Kevin Jones' bond at $100,000 full cash, noting the son's burns from 150-degree water. The judge viewed pictures of the boy's burns during the hearing.
He had never played before, but, one day, he decided to pick one up and give it a try. Months later, he says it's one of his favorite hobbies.
Michael Richards, who graduated from Campbellsville High School in May, learned to play guitar when he attended the afterschool Eagle Excellence program.
Richards said he can't really explain why he decided to start playing last fall.
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Devin Miller, 20, of Campbellsville, was arrested Friday, July 3, at 5:33 p.m. CST in the limits of Greensburg on Depot Street, according to a report by Trooper Billy Gregory of the Kentucky State Police Post 15.
Miller was charged with driving under the influence, failure to wear seat belts, first-degree possession of a controlled substance (cocaine), possession of drug paraphernalia, license to be in possession and possession of marijuana, the report stated.
Andrea Lawler has been director at the Taylor County Public Library since November and has loved it.
"I get to be creative here, and I get to be a part of the community, by listening to their voices and hearing what they want," said Lawler. "It's really neat to be able to give back to the community and kind of seeing what their desires are."
Several places in and around Taylor County saw a significant amount of rainwater flood roads and neighborhoods late last week.
Residents of some neighborhoods saw flooding so severe that the streets were unpassable for a period of time.
Michael Eppers, of Sheridan Dr., noted that this was not the first time he has seen severe flooding take place on his street, recalling an event in 2010 that resulted in the losses of "four or five houses'" heating and air units.
Local and state officials and many others were on hand for a Tuesday morning dedication ceremony for the trail system at Tebbs Bend.
"It's been a long time coming, but believe me, it's going to be well, well worth it," said Campbellsville University biology and environmental science professor Dr. Richard Kessler.
The Tebbs Bend-Green River Nature Area is located off of Ky. 55 between Campbellsville and Columbia, a few miles before the county line and not far from the Green River.
The Green-Taylor Early Childhood Council received $15,810 last week as part of a state effort to improve education for the youngest students.
The grant is part of the almost $1 million that has been awarded to 55 CECCs (Community Early Childhood Councils), said Sue Crabtree of the Campbellsville FRYSC (Family Resource and Youth Services Center).
Town Hall Productions and Campbellsville University Theater are teaming up for a production of the "Into the Woods," a musical by Stephen Sondheim.
"We can't say enough about the Into the Woods cast. They are so talented," said THP Director Andrew Ward.
Campbellsville man John Barefield, 33, couldn't believe how he looked after getting a makeover care of the television program "Good Morning America."
His wife Kristina, 37, nominated him to have a makeover via GMA. He works at Wal-Mart as an unloader. He had long, gray hair and a thick beard. On the show, he ended up clean-shaven, with short hair and a new suit, hat and shoes. He hadn't seen himself until he stepped out of the time capsule.
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'You begin to think you'll be beat?'
'I didn't say so, Mr. Green. It is very hard to understand all the ins and outs of a case like that in a foreign country.'
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The "E" in ESPN, apparently, stands for "everywhere."
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• Ian Hamilton of the Regina (Sask.) Leader-Post, on LeBron & Co. in Games 3 and 4: "The M.I.A.-mi Heat."
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Ayn Rand Goes Electro?
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The Success Myth And The Female Gaze
Noah Brand, a mysterious figure with a very nice hat, tells of his greatest professional failure, explains his theory of "The Success Myth," and introduces the idea of the female gaze, for the Good Men Project:
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The masculine equivalent to what Naomi Wolf called The Beauty Myth is The Success Myth. In Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Marilyn Monroe said, "A man being rich is like a girl being pretty" and everyone nodded their head, recognizing and endorsing the sentiment. When a rich guy marries a slim young "trophy wife" we all nod our heads again, recognizing that, like it or not, this is a match of two high-value people, a conventionally-successful man and a conventionally-beautiful woman. It would take way too long to get into all the horrible things that arise out of these paired myths, from "gold-digger" stereotypes to men who kill themselves for being "failures"; for now let's just talk about the idea that men can't be considered attractive.
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When Jay V.'s pharmacist told him about the nationwide Adderall shortages last weekend, he reacted as any economically rational finance professional would, and attempted to bribe her. Whatever the cost, "it's cheaper than cocaine," his reasoning went. And even if it isn't, you can't put a price on never having to go back to doing bumps in the work bathroom to get through late night deal committee meetings, can you?
Jay's pharmacist said she was reserving her supply for regular customers, but that the price had doubled and the clock was ticking.
If addiction is the kind of thing you think about a lot, it's easy to overlook its significance in the cold, objective Realpolitik scheme of things, which is this: it's a great fucking business model.
Evolution of Narcissism: Why We're Overconfident and Why It Works
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For years, psychologists have observed that people routinely overestimate their abilities, said study leader Dominic Johnson, an evolutionary biologist at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland.
Some experts have suggested that overconfidence can be a good thing, perhaps by boosting ambition, resolve, and other traits, creating self-fulfilling prophecies.
But positive self-delusion can also lead to faulty assessments, unrealistic expectations, and hazardous decisions, according to the study — making it a mystery why overconfidence remains a key human trait despite thousands of years of natural selection, which typically weeds out harmful traits over generations.
Now, new computer simulations show that a false sense of optimism, whether when deciding to go to war or investing in a new stock, can often improve your chances of winning.
"There hasn't been a good explanation for why we are overconfident, and this new model offers a kind of evolutionary logic for that," Johnson said.
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Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Michael Gableman recently defended the campaign advertisement for which he faces possible discipline - and he filed a counterclaim that the charge against him violates his right to free speech.
Gableman was elected in April after a race that besieged voters with distortions and misrepresentations from both sides. The Wisconsin Judicial Commission filed the charge after reviewing one especially egregious ad in which Gableman attacked his opponent, then-incumbent Justice Louis Butler Jr.
The ad focused on the case of Reuben Lee Mitchell, who went to prison in 1985 for raping an 11-year-old girl. Butler, the public defender who was assigned to represent Mitchell, convinced an appeals court to overturn the conviction because some evidence should have been excluded. Still, the state Supreme Court upheld the jury's original decision, and Mitchell was not released until he served his full sentence.
After being released from parole, Mitchell then sexually assaulted a 14-year-old girl and this time was sentenced to 40 years in prison.
Gableman's campaign ad summarized those facts as follows: "Louis Butler worked to put criminals on the street. Like Reuben Lee Mitchell, who raped an 11-year-old girl with learning disabilities. Butler found a loophole. Mitchell went on to molest another child."
The judicial commission charges that the ad violated a rule that prohibits judicial candidates from knowingly misrepresenting facts about their opponents.
Astonishingly, Gableman's defense is: "The advertisement is true and does not contain any statements that are objectively false." Taken separately, the four sentences quoted above can, in fact, be described as true statements. But they are arranged in a manner that suggests cause and effect.
Butler's finding a "loophole" had nothing to do with Mitchell going on to molest another child - the loophole was overruled, Mitchell served his full sentence and he committed another crime after his release.
In the same way, we could say everyone who drives a car will die - the statement is true and contains nothing that is objectively false. But the statement also contains a false implication of cause and effect, and so did Gableman's ad.
And one thing that should be mentioned is that it was, indeed, Gableman's ad. This wasn't some shadowy independent group throwing out misrepresentations in an attack ad; this was funded directly by the campaign of a man who wanted to serve on the state's highest court.
Instead of prolonging this shameful chapter in Wisconsin campaign history and actually trying to defend the ad, Gableman should acknowledge he crossed the line and accept the consequences. The commission could remove him from the bench, but a more likely outcome is the public reprimand he richly deserves.


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Lerud, a 28-year-old former fourth-round pick of the Pittsburgh Pirates, has never been this close to making a big-league team and admitted before Wednesday's game against the Detroit Tigers that he has some anxiety about the team's final decision.


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