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The latest massacre of innocent Hindus at the hands of Christian terrorist in the State of Tripura was shocking and outrageous. And what is more shocking and outrageous is the involvement of Church in aiding and abetting the separatist rebels.
It is no secret that the massacre is conducted to terrorise the Hindu population in order to effect ethnic cleansing in Tripura. In this backdrop, it is a trivial knowledge that certain Christian churches in the US are the lifeline of Christian terrorist network operating in the northeast India. The Church involvement has been documented well not by any ‘saffron news’ organisation, but by BBC itself. A news posted on news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/71775.stm reveals that Government of Tripura “has evidence that State’s Baptist Church is involved in backing separatist rebel”. According to the report, the State Chief Minister Manik Sarkar pointed out that the State police had uncovered details of the alleged link after questioning a church leader, Nagmanlal Halam, secretary of the Noapara Baptist Church in Tripura. He was arrested last month (April 17) with a large quantity of explosives, which include more than 50 gelatine sticks, 5kg of potassium and 2 kg of sulphur and other ingredients for making explosives.
It is worth mentioning here that the allegations that the State’s Baptist Church and the rebel National Liberation Front of Tripura (NLFT) are having the close links were being leveled by political parties and the police for a long time. And now, according to the report, the CM confirmed that “hard evidence supporting the allegations had been found”. The NLFT is accused of forcing Tripura’s indigenous tribes to become Christians and give up Hindu forms of worship in areas under their control. Last year, they had issued a ban on the Hindu festivals of Durga Puja and Saraswati Puja. The NLFT manifesto says that they want to expand what they describe as the kingdom of God and Christ in Tripura. The Baptist Church in Tripura was set up by missionaries from New Zealand 60 years ago.
It won only a few thousand converts
until 1980 when in the aftermath of the State’s worst ethnic riot, the
number of conversions grew.
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