India: bishop unsatisfied with official report on Orissa violence
July 08, 2009
Responding to an interim report on the religious clashes that bloodied India's state of Orissa last year, Archbishop Rapheel Cheenath of Cuttack-Bhubaneshwar said that the key problem is not understanding the cause of the violence but summoning the courage to prosecutor the instigators. The preliminary report focused on disputes over land and religious conversions: topics that had caused friction between Hindus and Christians. The archbishop suggested: "We do not not need an inquiry to better know the truth but the political will to up hold the constitution of India and the law.”
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