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Thursday, August 28, 2008

[mukto-mona] STATEMENT OF AHMEDABAD CITIZENS CONDEMNING THE VIOLENCE IN ORISSA

 


 
 

 
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    PRESS RELEASE

CONCERN ON VIOLENT ATTACKS

 ON

CHRISTIANS OF ORISSA

 

 

Several Concerned Citizens  and Human Rights organizations of Gujarat held a meeting in Ahmedabad today (27th August 2008) to condemn the violent attacks on the Christian community of Orissa, following the brutal killing of the VHP leader Swami Laxmananda Saraswati. 

 

The meeting strongly condemned the continuous attacks on Christian organizations and institutions by the VHP, Bajrang Dal, etc. and  was of the view that the Government of Orissa has totally failed in protecting the lives and properties of the Christian Community.  Looking to the prevalent situation of Orissa, the Constitutional machinery has absolutely failed in maintaining law and order in the State.

 

In view of this, the meeting unanimously passed the following resolutions :

 

  1. That the State of  Orissa be placed under the control of army and President's Rule be imposed immediately.
  2. That the citizens who have fled into the jungles out of fear, should be brought back to their homes safely and that complete security  be ensured to them.
  3. That all organizations who had declared the Orissa Bandh, and who have been directly involved in the violent attacks on Christians, should be declared as "terrorist" organizations and should be put under the same category of other banned organizations in the country, with  immediate effect.
  4. That all the individuals and groups involved in violent attacks on Christians should be arrested and strictly dealt with in accordance with the law.
  5. That the brutal killing of Swami Laxmananda and his associates should be thoroughly and impartially investigated, and that the killers be punished in accordance with the law.

 

1.      Adv. S. H. Iyer

  1. Rohit Patel
  2. Saroop Dhruv
  3. Gautam Thaker
  4. Hiren Gandhi
  5. Adv. Bhushan
  6. Dwarikanath Rath
  7. Shamshul Pathan
  8. Joseph Dominic
  9. Kiran Desai
  10. Kishore
  11. S. Pandey
  12. Deepika  R.
  13. Simon F. Parmar
  14. Edwin Masihi
  15. Beena Macwan 
  16. D. Ramakrishnan
  17. Fr. Varghese Paul sj
  18. Digant Oza
  19. Paul D'Souza sj
  20. Piyush
  21. Manjula Lavji
  22. John D'Souza
  23. Ashok Singh
  24. Iqbal Baig
  25. Prasad Chacko
  26. Waqar Qazi
  27. Mary Paul
  28. Bhavna Ramrakhiani
  29. Sheba George
  30. Fr. Francis Parmar sj
  31. Ashok Naik 
  32. Fr. Vinayak Jadav sj
  33. Lona Pinto
  34. Fr. Ishanand sj
  35. E. Shailaja Pillai
  36. Sophia Khan
  37. Freeda Coelho
  38. Pravin Bhikadira
  39. Chetana Vyas
  40. Jigna Joshi
  41. Harsh Jadav
  42. Fr. Cedric Prakash sj
  43. Kaushik Raval
  44. Nafisa Barot
  45. Veronica D'Souza
  46. Hanif Lakdawala
  47. R. Vasantha
 
27th August 2008

 

 

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