Carmelite convent attacked in Madya Pradesh.

www.asianews.it ^ | 09/17/2008 | Nirmala Carvalho

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Carmelite convent attacked in Madya Pradesh. Figures on the violence against Christians

Nirmala Carvalho

Mumbai (AsiaNews) - The guard at the Carmelite convent in Banduha (Ujjain, Madya Pradesh) has been wounded while trying to protect the sisters; in Karnataka, the Syro-Catholic church of St George in Ujire was devastated and burned; a statue of Our Lady of Lourdes was destroyed in Kolar. This is some of the new violence against Christians recorded today. All of these attacks took place overnight, or in the early morning. The wave of violence, which began in Orissa three weeks ago, has so far killed at least 45, and wounded more than 18,000.

At 1:30 this morning, a group of five people with air guns came to the Carmel Convent in Banduha and wounded the guard, Amar Singh, shooting him three times. He is in the hospital, and is not in serious condition. Amar Says that "the culprits asked me to call the sisters but I told them that they were not available. They beat me and asked me to cry loudly so that sisters would come out. They shot me with air guns when I disobeyed, and went away".

One of the sisters, Sr Dhanya, says that four days earlier, a group had surrounded the convent making noise and shouting slogans, but the guard chased them away.

[brooklyn dave]

Much has been happening in India—and it isn’t so good. The Indian Mujahideen is definitely on the loose. They believe it is connected to a Muslim Student group SIMI, but what it the connetion to Pakistan or kashmir one has to ask? The attacks on Christians I am more confused about—is it from radical Hindu groups or Maoist oriented groups?