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Christian forum warns of fresh hate campaign

The United Christian Forum for Human Rights today launched a frontal attack on the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh for "initiating" the next wave of attack on Christians through escalating hate campaigns.

Addressing a press conference, the forum's national convenor John Dayal alleged that in this new wave of hate campaign millions of copies of highly inflammable and misleading pamphlets were distributed in north India, besides Orissa and Tamil Nadu.

''The Sangh Parivar is poisoning the country and we thought after Dangs and Orissa they will get a lesson. But a third wave of attack is already visible in Punjab, Orissa and Tamil Nadu.''

Dayal referred to the Dangs incidents as the first wave and Orissa series as the second. ''This time they are not going for physical but intense hate campaign and producing pamphlets full of lies,'' he said.

He said the campaigns, by a section of fundamentalist organisations, were organised to shift national and international focus from human rights violations that marked much of 1998 and early 1999. ''During this period there have been more than 150 cases of violence, including murders and demolition and desecration of churches,'' he added.

He said the authorities were aware of such hate campaigns but had done nothing to check them, ''though it clearly violates the laws of the land. It is surprising that leaders of the ruling coalition are yet to condemn such writings which cross the boundaries of law.''

UNI

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