Author: Agencies/ Itanagar
Publication: The Pioneer
Date: May 22, 2003
Tension has been prevailing in Arunachal
Pradesh's Changlang district after the torching of two temples of the 'Rangfraa'
deity, considered by the local tribals as the creator of the universe,
earlier this month, according to reports reaching here.
The Rangfraa temple at Thamyang
village was set ablaze by suspected nscn activists on may 13 and at Kangkha
village on may 15, in the presence of villagers in the insurgent-infested
district, the reports said.
Both incidents were confirmed by
the police. Police said some preachers had visited the villages a few days
before the incidents, allegedly urging villagers to convert to Christianity,
to which they had refused.
A delegation of the indigenous faith
and cultural society of arunachal pradesh is already in delhi and is likely
to call on the union minister of state for home, i d swamy to apprise him
of the situation prevailing in the state, "where conversion is going on
at gun point," according to society sources.
