Mainstream, VOL LII No 36, August 30, 2014
‘No Foreign Christian Missionary is Working in India’: Interview with civil rights activist Dr John Dayal
Six years after the outbreak of the 2008 anti-Christian violence in Kandhamal district of Odisha, killing more than one hundred Christians, mostly Dalits and tribals, and displacing sixty thousand of them, justice remains denied to the victims and survivors. While the civil society observed the anniversary of Kandhamal violence on August 25 all across the country, Md. Eisa, Abdul Raheem Umary and Abhay Kumar conversed with Dr John Dayal, a well-known civil rights activist who has been a leading voice of justice for the Kandhamal victims, on August 22 at New Delhi’s India International Centre. The sixtysix year old Dr Dayal, who is also a member of the National Integration Council (NIC), Secretary-General of the All India Christian Council, and a former President of the All India Catholic Union, speaks on a wide range of issues including the continuous sufferings of the victims, causes of the delay in securing justice, ongoing discrimination against Christians in Odisha, and looming threat from the Hindutva outfits etc. The excerpts are as follows.
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