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KANDHAMAL
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February 25, 2009:
Another Christian has been killed in Orissa's state
Kandhamal district. A wave of fear and shock enveloped
the district late last week with the discovery of the
body of 45-year- old Hrudyananda Nayak on February 19.
Ashis Parida, an EFI correspondent reported that Nayak
left his village of Rudangia on February 18 to accompany
his older sister to her village of Bandaguda, one and a
half kilometres from Rudangia. It is alleged that an
eyewitness saw Nayak being stopped by a group of
extremists on his way back to the village and vanished
thereafter.
Christians in the area informed the police of Nayak's
disappearance. A search team of policemen and Christians
found the lifeless body of Nayak among some rocks in the
forest near the village of Rudangia on the evening of
Thursday, February 19. His face was disfigured with
blood spots all over his body, they were marks around
his neck and it is presumed that he was dragged towards
the forest with a rope tied around his neck, according
to reports.
Rudangia is a mainly Christian village, about 260
kilometres from Bhubaneshwar, Orissa's capital. Nayak's
death is the third such incident since October last
year.
Despite tight security measures, violence against
Christians continues in the area since the worse
out-breaks of anti-Christian persecution on August and
September last year.
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This page
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PRAISE THE ALMIGHTY
10 YEARS CELEBRATION
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