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set fire to a church in the
Jamlapada village and also attacked and looted several houses On the same day a mob of about 200 people attacked and looted the house of a Tribal Christian. Around midnight, a mob of around 50 people attacked a tribal Christian in Galkund and allegedly robbed another man in Jamalpada. A mob of 200 people demolished and burnt a Church in the Gadhvi Village and the same group allegedly set fire to another church at the Jamalapada village.
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Christians and exploiting communal differences to meet
Political ends. It also blamed the central government's inefficiency in providing protection to the minorities. One of the most used accusations of the right-wing groups against the priests and Christian institutions was "forcible conversions" of Hindus to Christianity, which was denied by the Christians. However, during its investigations the Human rights Watch found no proof of forced conversions anywhere.
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Parishad organized an anti-Christian Rally in the village of Pipalwada, near the dang district. This was followed by a series of anti-Christian rallies in all districts of southern Gujarat by Bajrang Dal, VHP and Hindu Jagran Manch which continued for months. The messages of all the rallies were similar, the message is that the Hindus need to protect themselves from the deceiving acts of the missionaries and to "teach them a lesson".
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clean drinking water. The district is reported to be one of the most underdeveloped district in the state. The
Missionaries were the first to started developmental works in the area from the early 20th century, which resulted in a steady growth of Christian Population. When more tribal voters converted to Christianity, they became targets for the right-wing groups.
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during the early 1998. He is also credited for founding the conversion ritual in the Unai hot springs by which
Christian tribals in the district were taken to Asheemanad's ashram and then to the hot springs in Unai where they were made to forcibly convert to Hinduism which is mainly done by the HJM. They claim it as a reconversion ritual while the tribals were
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arrived at the
Navjyot High School in Subir, the mob first destroyed the school's jeep, Christmas decorations and beat up two priests and then went on to attack and burn a building where the food grain for the students was stored. Later, several other mobs went on to attack and damage several Shops owned by Muslims and Christians.
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Church which resulted in violence as the tribal leaders stood up to protect it and ended with police intervention. The other group which was a mob of about 120 went to the Dheep
Darshan high school and pelted stones which damaged the window panes and the roof of the boys' hostel. Another mob at 8 p.m
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On 25 December, more than 4000 people actively participated in the rally mostly HJM activists from outside Ahwa, they shouted anti-Christian slogans in-front of the watching police. The rally started at around 11:30 am and the participants circled around the town, shouting provocative slogans against
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On 25 December 1998, The HJM organized an anti-Christian rally in Ahwa town of Dangs district. More than 4000 people actively participated in the rally and shouted anti-Christian slogans under full police protection. Human Rights Watch reported a series of attacks began on
Christians, their places of
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and several other organisations blamed the hate campaign by the Sangh parivar groups for the violence in the state and also mentioned about the attacks peaking at 1998 when the BJP took over the state in the same year. The
Organization accused the local media in propagating inflammatory news against
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On the night of 25 December, the rally participants began destroying churches and prayer halls and attacking
Christians at the villages surrounding the Ahwa town and some were forcibly taken to the Unai hot springs for a re-conversion ritual. According to witnesses, about 800 men armed with tridents
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reported that from 25 December 1988 to 3 January 1999, at least 20 prayer halls and Churches were damaged or burnt down and Christians and Christian institutions were attacked in the Dangs and its surrounding districts and at least 25 villages had reported incidents of burning and damages to Prayer
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said that the violence against the minorities is coincided with the rise of the Political parties affiliated to the Sangh Parivar. It also reported that the rise of the Bhartiya Janata party in 1998 has helped encouraged a climate for the extremists who have started to believe that violence against
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On December 30, members belonging to the Bajrang Dal attacked several tribal Christians, tore their bibles, robbed them and threatened them of dire consequences if they did not leave Christianity in Kattis. On the same day a Church was attacked in Jhalsol along with 4 other Christians. A mob led by
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On December 26, a mob of 500 armed with tridents, iron bars and heavy-sticks set fire to a church on Waki, a tribal Christian and his family members were assaulted in Galkund. On the same day at about 12:30 a.m, a mob pelted stones on several Christian houses in Divan Temrun Village. A mob attacked
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On 11 November, several Christians including a sick woman were beaten up and several Christian families were forced to go through a "reconversion ritual" in the Unai-hot springs in Dahunia village of the Dangs district. The head of the village council prevented the Christians from taking water
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Around 90% area of the Dangs district is covered by forests and 97% of the population in the district is tribal. The District was also called the "Cherrapunji of Gujarat" and "Kashmir of Gujarat" due to the negligence by the government of the state. The district also lacked electricity, roads and
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reported that, even though several Christian organisations and NGOs had warned the district collector Bharat Joshi and deputy superintendent of police Rajan Gaikwad to not allow the rally on the day of Christmas as it could end in trouble due to the church burnings in the past month. The District
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Many incidents of attacks steadily started from November 1997 with assault, killings, distributing provocative pamphlets and hate speeches against Christians mostly by the Hindu Jagran Manch (HJM), Bhartiya Janata Party, Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) and Bajrang Dal. On 25 December 1997, The Vishwa
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went to 311 villages in the Dangs district to spread propaganda and the Hindutva groups have been devising this campaign in south-eastern Gujarat for years. Human Rights Wartch also found out that there was an increase in the forcible conversion of Christians after Swami Aseemanand came to dangs
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Together there were at least 20 incidents of church and prayer halls being burnt down and damaged in and around the Dang district from December 25, 1998, to January 3, 1999, as reported by the Human Rights Watch. Several church burnings and damages to places of worship including assaults against
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The rally climaxed at about 5 pm at a local school ground where another round of hate speeches openly calling for violence against the Christians were going on. After the rally the HJM crowd pelted stones at several tribal Christians who were mostly women at a market, injuring three women and a
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reported that more than 20 Churches and prayer halls were destroyed or burnt down, many people were physically assaulted, tied up and beaten while the angry mobs took over and attacked their homes from 25 December 1998, to 3 January 1999, in the Dangs district and its surrounding districts. The
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On December 27, tribal Christians were tied up and beaten in the villages of Dongiamba and Pipayambal. On the same day, Churches in the Villages of Raochand, Baripada, Mulchond, Barda and Lahankadmal were set on fire. Several Prayer halls and Churches in the village of Karenjpada, Shivbara,
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A mob pelted stones against the Christian houses and churches at about 12:30 a.m damaging the roof tiles. A mob of around 60-80 people damaged the roof tiles of a Church in Nagalkhadi at about 8 p.m. A large mob set a church on fire before trying to demolish it in Padalkhaid.
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said the attacks could be a response to increased and favorable coverage of Christians and Churches in television channels and newspapers during the Christmas season. He claimed that since right-wing extremists can't tolerate this, they went on to attack.
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groups since the beginning of 1998 by giving out hate pamphlets and organizing provocative rallys. The Human Rights Watch noted that a majority of the incidents of violence in 1998, the same year that the Bharatiya Janata Party took control of the state.
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Christians along the Christian institutions celebrating Christmas. The district collector Bharat Joshi was also present in a convocation at the center of the town by the participants, later on that day. The Citizen's commission reported slogans like "
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Retired Judge of the Bombay high court Justice S Suresh carried out an investigation and revealed that the attacks reportedly started around November 1997 when a priest in Kudas village was beaten up on 11 November 1997 and when 24 Christians from
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Organisation reported that Churches and Christian buildings in at-least 25 villages in Gujarat were burnt down or destroyed during the ten days. One report recorded 108 incidents of attacks against Christians from April to August 1998 in Gujarat.
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have attributed the Violence to the increasing presence of Hindutva groups in the area. The NCM also reported that the damages in the violence very mostly one-sided because the impoverished tribal Christians did not resist to the attacks.
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On 15 December, The Hindu Jagran Manch started to distribute provocative pamphlets against the Christians of the Dangs district, calling people for its rally in the Ahwa town of the Dangs district on 25 December. The local dailies,
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to Hinduism. The youth of Bajrang dal are taught to execute operations secretly and deny any knowledge when communal outbursts take place. The attacks on Christians and their Churches are the part of this programme.
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visited the Dangs district on 10 January 1999 and criticized the Gujarati government for failing to ban the rally on Christmas Day. He also ordered the Gujarati government to take action against the attackers.
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On 5 March, members of the VHP brought two blind persons to a Pentecostal church, demanded them to be healed, then went on desecrated the stage, amplifiers and microphones in the church and assaulted the
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On 4 November, a church in the Borigautha Village was attacked, its surrounding structures were set on fire and Christian tribals were robbed. On the same day a church in the village of Gadhvi was burnt
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On December 28, tribal Christians who went to a police station to report about an attack were threatened of grave repercussions. On the same day, a mob damaged two Christian houses in Savardakasad.
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were incriminated in false cases on 14 November 1999. On 26 December, people celebrating Christmas were stoned and harassed the entire night in the Dagadpada Village and were later sent to jail.
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spirit worshippers to begin with During an interview, Aseemanand claimed to have converted forty-thousand Christians and demolished 30 Churches from mid December 1998 to January 1999.
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from late 1997 to early 1999. The attacks reportedly started at the end of 1997 before peaking during the Christmas of 1998 after the anti-Christian rallies in the Dangs District by the
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called for the dismissal of the Bharatiya Janata Party's rule in Gujarat. She also went on to say that Gujarat attacks have become a black mark to the fair name of the country.
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The committee to Protect Democratic Rights and the Andhra Pradesh Civil Liberties Committee in October 1998 reported that a well planned programme is being carried out by the
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and made serious damages to several Churches in the villages of Karadiamba and Bahdun. On the same day six churches in different areas of the Dangs district were demolished.
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In July, a prayer hall was damaged in Dholidod, a prayer hall in Bobkhal was attempted to burned down and several Christians were attacked during their prayers in Padalkhadi.
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from the village well and from working in any government projects. The village head also banned the Christians to have their livestock graze with the livestock of others.
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worship, Christian houses and schools, and shops owned by Muslims and Christians after the rally.
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protesting against the attacks on the Christians in Gujarat and other parts of the country.
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Pipaldaghad, and Sepuamba were also attacked and left badly damaged.
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1181:"Church of north India to focus on tribal Christians' development"
965:"Annual Report on International Religious Freedom for 1999: India"
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1121:"Rediff On The NeT: 'Anti-Christian attacks started in Nov 1997'"
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1147:"Opinion | Is India Imitating China in Persecuting Christians?"
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Incidents of Violence against the Christian Community in India
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the religious minorities will not be punished systematically.
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1863:"Rights-India: Hindu Fundamentalists Now Target Christians"
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On November, Several prayer halls were burnt down in
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2407:"Gujarat: Tension over Church construction in Dangs"
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209:2008 attacks on Christians in southern Karnataka
2004:The Other India: Realities of an Emerging Power
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2266:"Christians may be targeted again in Gujarat"
1759:"The bloody trail -Cover Story- October 1998"
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2126:"Grisly Christmas for Christians in Gujarat"
1239:"VI. The Context of the Violence in Gujarat"
179:1998 attacks on Christians in Dangs district
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1266:"PM's visit puts Keshubhai in the dock".
1145:Datta-Ray, Sunanda K. (13 January 1999).
214:2021 anti-Christian violence in Karnataka
2539:Violence in Gujarat - Human Rights Watch
2381:"Countries of Particular Concern: India"
2321:"The Context Of The Violence In Gujarat"
2032:. New York: Facts on File. p. 277.
2007:. SAGE Publications India. p. 113.
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2574:Religiously motivated violence in India
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2096:Christmas Day 1998 and Thereafter
1927:Mahurkar, Uday (10 August 1998).
1409:"Politics and violence in Orissa"
545:25 December 1998 – 3 January 1999
204:2008 Kandhamal nun gang rape case
1845:"Christians Under Fire in India"
1348:Dayal, John (11 February 2016).
333:That the Christians are thieves
331:There is a noise in the streets
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703:Hindus Awake, Christians flee"
184:1998 Ramgiri-Udaygiri violence
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2181:The Caravan Book of Profiles
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2028:Walsh, Judith E. (2006).
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2030:A brief history of India
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