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Publication: indpride.com
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URL: http://indpride.com/churchbacksterrorism.html
There is clear evidence which confirms
that some international Christian organisations are backing terrorism and
separatist movements in the north-east. These church backed organisations
are providing funds, arms and ammunitions with the aim of creating a separate
Christian state.
Tripura
The National Liberation Front of
Tripura (NLFT) was founded in December 1989. Since its inception the NLFT
has been engaged in an armed struggle to carve out a separate Christian
nation - Tripura. The backing of the Baptist church right from the beginning
has enabled this organisation to spread its base. Due to its terrorist
activities, the organisation was banned by the government in 1997 but it
continued its operations from across the Bangladesh border.
The priests of the Baptist church
supply arms and ammunitions to these terrorist rebels. Nagmanlal Halam,
the secretary of the Noapara Baptist Church in Tripura was arrested by
CRPF in April 2000 on charges of aiding insurgents and possessing a large
quantity of explosives including 60 gelatin sticks, 5kg of potassium, 2kg
of sulphur and other ingredients for making powerful bombs. Two junior
members of the same church, who had been arrested earlier tipped the police
off about the explosives which were meant for terrorist organizations like
the NLFT. Mr. Halam confessed to buying and supplying explosives to the
NLFT. Another church official, Jatna Koloi, who was also arrested, admitted
that he received training in guerrilla warfare at an NLFT base.
It is now apparent that the pattern
of forced conversions at gunpoint are irrefutably linked to the Baptist
Church in Tripura. The NLFT is accused of forcing Tripura's indigenous
tribes to become Christians and give up Hindu forms of worship in areas
under their control. For decades Tripura's indigenous tribal population
has been dragged out of their homes and forced to convert to Christianity
under threat of violence. Whenever any of the tribals organize Hindu festivals
or rituals, the terrorist groups attack to desecrate and kill the participants.
There have been incidents of issuing a ban on the Hindu festivals of Durga
Puja and Saraswati Puja. The NLFT manifesto says that they want to expand
what they describe as the kingdom of God and Christ in Tripura. The hill
tribe 'Jamatiya' worship their traditional god 'Gadiya', who is supposed
to be an incarnation of Lord Shiva, in the month of March. The terrorists
have issued an order that the 'Gadiya' be prayed on the Christmas day instead.
The Baptist Church in Tripura was
set up by missionaries from New Zealand 60
years ago. It won only a few thousand
converts until 1980 when a mass scale ethnic riot was engineered by the
Church in which systematic ethnic cleansing of Hindu and Buddhist tribals
was initiated. Thousands of women were raped and kidnapped and forced to
convert to Christianity. The terrorists receive military aid from extremist
Christian groups in Australia and New Zealand. They also have ongoing exchanges
with Islamic terrorist and ISI who push in arms from the Bangladeshi border.
When the RSS and other Hindu organizations
decided to help the Hindus under attack in Tripura by aiding them in reconversion,
hundreds of the RSS volunteers were attacked, threatened and blackmailed.
Several of them were murdered and a number of them were kidnapped and held
hostage by the Christian terrorists. In August 2000, Swami Shantikali Maharaj,
the famous Hindu sage known for his social services was killed by the terrorists.
In December 2000, Lavkumar Jamatiya, the priest of the 'Jamatiya' tribe
was killed, two Hindu temples and one Buddhist temple were destroyed and
order was issued to end all non-Christian methods of praying. In the year
2001, there were 826 terrorist attacks in Tripura in which 405 persons
were killed and 481 cases of kidnapping by the rebels.
Nagaland
The National Socialist Council of
Nagaland (NSCN), a separatist organisation has two main factions. Both
the factions are headed by Christians and get financial support from World
Council of Churches, a missionary organisation. China provides arms and
ammunitions to both the factions.
The NSCN has its offices in New
York, Geneva and Hague which display boards with legend 'Peoples Republic
of Nagaland'. It has twice raised its demand for an independent nation
in the United Nations. The NSCN has its own government which collects money
from the local people. One third of the salaries of the government servants
is taken away as Nagaland Tax before disbursement. Most of the banks in
Nagaland have closed down because of the huge sums extracted by this outfit.
The letterheads and stamps of this unofficial government read 'Nagaland
for Christ'.
There is evidence of NSCN having
ties with the ISI. The NSCN general secretary in an interview with the
English daily 'Hindu' accepted that they were trying to create pressure
on the Indian army in the north-east so that there was less pressure from
the army in Kashmir.
Meghalay
The proselytising activities of
the Christian missionaries during the 150 years of patronage from the British
rule have resulted in the conversion of two-thirds of the people of the
state to Christianity. After independence in 1947, many of the locals started
reverting to their original tribal religion and lifestyle. The natives
of the Khasi hills started to once again get associated with their roots.
They formed an organisation called 'Sengkhasi'. Shri Rejoy Singh Khongsha,
an important official of this organisation, at first got threats and later
was abducted by North-east Red Army, a separatist and terrorist outfit
known to have direct links with the church. The church has been threatening
the leaders of 'Sengkhasi' for their connection with the Hindu organisations.
The Church in the north-east is
also known to be associated with smuggling across the borders and circulation
of fake currency notes. In December 1998, Bedang Tamjen, a Jemi-Naga missionary
was arrested for making fake currency notes.
The most shocking fact is that the
Indian media has not even mentioned these facts in their coverage. Whereas
even unconfirmed rumors about any attack on Christians are immediately
touted as "an assault on minorities", not a word is spared to enlighten
the Indian citizenry about the religious terrorism that is taking place
in the north-east.
