Organised campaign to convert Christian Adivasis to Hindus in Chhattisgarh: Report
Updated on Dec 27, 2022There was an “organised campaign” to forcibly convert Christian tribals
into Hindus in Bastar’s Narayanpur and Kondagaon districts, a team of
civil society representatives said in a report on Monday after visiting
more than 30 villages in districts where attacks allegedly took place
against Christians. State authorities, however, denied that the violence
was related to forcible religious conversions.
“From December 9, 2022 to December 18, there was a series of attacks in about 18 villages in Narayanpur district and 15 villages in Kondagaon district, displacing about 1,000 Christian Adivasis from their own villages,” said the report of a fact-finding team led by Irfan Engineer, director of the Centre for Study of Society and Secularism, and Brijendra Tiwari, convener of the All India People’s Forum, Chhattisgarh.
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