To this day, Kanaka Rekha Nayak still cannot describe what happened to her husband, Parikhit, seven years ago without tears.
An orgy of violence had swept the eastern Indian district of Kandhamal in August 2008 after the slaying of a local Hindu leader was erroneously blamed on the Christian minority, and Nayak’s family of four was caught in it.
They fled to a forest near their village of Tiangia Budedipade and hid for two days, but were found by one of the mobs of Hindu radicals rampaging the countryside. Learning that the Nayaks were Baptist Christians, the assailants threw a bicycle chain around Parikhit’s neck and dragged him more than a mile back to town.
In the central square, they demanded that he renounce his Christian faith and embrace Hinduism. The self-declared Baptist preacher refused, whereupon he was beaten, castrated, gutted, and burned.
“They cut my husband into pieces in front of me,” Kanaka Nayak said in an interview this summer. “Covered him in kerosene and set him on fire.” Full story...
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An orgy of violence had swept the eastern Indian district of Kandhamal in August 2008 after the slaying of a local Hindu leader was erroneously blamed on the Christian minority, and Nayak’s family of four was caught in it.
They fled to a forest near their village of Tiangia Budedipade and hid for two days, but were found by one of the mobs of Hindu radicals rampaging the countryside. Learning that the Nayaks were Baptist Christians, the assailants threw a bicycle chain around Parikhit’s neck and dragged him more than a mile back to town.
In the central square, they demanded that he renounce his Christian faith and embrace Hinduism. The self-declared Baptist preacher refused, whereupon he was beaten, castrated, gutted, and burned.
“They cut my husband into pieces in front of me,” Kanaka Nayak said in an interview this summer. “Covered him in kerosene and set him on fire.” Full story...
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