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http://www.freeindiamedia.com/current_affairs/21_july_current_affairs.htmTerrorists

in North-East India get support from America *Baptists kill catholics in

TripuraThe sectarian nature of the Baptist terrorists has come to the fore.

They killed a Catholic priest called Father Victor Crasta on July 25, 2000. In

protest the Catholic Church of Tripura called a bandh (closure) in all Catholic

run institutions on August 10, 2000. (The Telegraph 2000)By Kunal GhoshThe

recent terrorist strikes in the USA on September 11, 2001, in which the World

Trade Centre and Pentagon were "crash-bombed" by large airplanes, have brought

a new resolve in the global community to root out terrorism from all parts of

the world. The Americans are playing a leading role in building a world

coalition against terrorism. This is the best time to remind the Americans that

Baptist Christian terrorists are active in India's North-East and they derive

their financial support from the southern parts of the USA where the Baptist

Church has a strong following. Funds are collected in the form of donations in

various church establishments in the name of evangelical work. Some of this

money is spent in true philanthropic work of spreading education and

healthcare. However, it has been suspected for a long time that a part of this

fund gets diverted for buying arms for the Baptist terrorists of the

North-East. Our ex-Chief Election Commissioner, T.N. Seshan, gave voice to this

suspicion in a television panel discussion on Doordarshan as early as in 1993.

Our Army is baffled by the seemingly unending supply of sophisticated and

expensive supply of arms and equipment flooding into our North-East. All

terrorists of various hues, the so-called Darjeeling Gorkha, the so-called

Kamtapuri, Bodo, Ulfa, Naga, Manipuri, Tripuri etc, are flush with automatic

rifles, land mines, remote control devices and so on. Money generated by the

local extortion of businessmen and citizens account for only a small fraction.

Therefore the greater part must be coming from abroad. It is suspected that the

funds come from Islamic sources such as the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) of

Pakistan, the Gulf states etc. and Christian sources such as the Baptist Church

in southern USA and the Presbyterian Church of the UK.The most prominent among

the terrorist outfits of Tripura is the NLFT (National Liberation Front of

Tripura). It employs terror tactics to effect mass conversion to Christianity

(The Statesman 1999, 2000; Ghosh 1999) and is a predominantly Baptist

(Protestant) organisation. Whatever token non-Christian representation it had,

it has lost recently. Nayanbashi Jamatiya, a Hindu leader, led a revolt against

the policy of forcible conversion of the NLFT and left a rebel camp in

neighbouring Bangladesh with his followers. On April 8, 2001, while his party

was moving towards the Indian border, it was attacked by the main group; seven

activists were killed and he himself was seriously injured and taken to a

government hospital in Bangladesh. (The Statesman 2001a, 2001b).¨The sectarian

nature of the Baptist terrorists has come to the fore. They killed a Catholic

priest called Father Victor Crasta on July 25, 2000. In protest the Catholic

Church of Tripura called a bandh (closure) in all Catholic run institutions on

August 10, 2000. (The Telegraph 2000)On August 6, 1999, four RSS (Rashtriya

Swayam-sevak Sangh) workers of Tripura, named Shyamal Kanti Sen Gupta, Sudhamoy

Dutta, Dinendranath Dey, Shubhankar Chakraborti, were kidnapped by the NLFT,

taken to a camp in the jungles of Bangladesh and a ransom of Rs 2 crores was

demanded from their parent organisation. The RSS refused to pay and they were

done to death sometime in the month of December 2000 or January 2001. The news

of their killing was confirmed by the Central Government in July 2001 and

carried by all prominent national dailies. Their "guilt" was that they were

preaching among the tribals to preserve Hinduism. Our Consti-tution permits

propagation of a faith by legitimate means. If that is so then work for the

preservation of a faith too is surely permissible. However, the kidnap and

murder of these Hindu pracharaks of the RSS by Christian terrorists did not

create a media sensation. This is not the first time that a Hindu preacher has

been attacked in North-East India. I found reference to such an event in a most

unlikely place albeit most authentic. Swami Gokulananda (1999), the present head

of the Ramakrishna Mission Ashrama of New Delhi, has written that he had been

the Secretary of the Khasi Hills Ashrama in Meghalaya in the 1980s. He futher

writes:The hostile forces were against our movement as it was trying to bring

back the lost tradition of faith among the people of the Khasi hills. Since it

was like a speed breaker in their path they wanted to remove me. One day a time

bomb was planted in my room but they did not succeed in killing me.It should be

noted that the most dominant church in the Khasi hills is Presbyterian

(Protestant) which is based in the UK. Christian terrorists have been active in

various States of North-East India for a long time. Recently they have spread to

North Bengal also. Reverend John Thwaites, a Protestant priest who had been in

North Bengal for over three decades, was asked to leave the country in January

2001. No reason was given and he defied the order. The West Bengal Government

quietly arrested and prosecuted him. There were demonstrations by his

sympathisers during the trial which ended in August 2001. The judge sentenced

him to three months simple imprisonment following which he was to be deported

to his native land of the United Kingdom. Is there a link between the

Protestant priest and the terrorist activities of the Kamtapuri separatists?

The question is pertinent because just prior to the "quit India" order served

on Reverend Thwaites (January 2001), the Kamtapuri terrorists had killed eight

CPI-M activists including a District Committee member in the four-month span

from August to November 2000. The West Bengal State Government has the answer

to this question. They have not made public way the Reverend was asked to leave

the country in the first place and the BJP-led government at the Centre has

played ball the way the State Government wanted.In the aftermath of the

airplane crash-bombing of the World Trade Centre, President George W. Bush has

said that America would do what it takes to rid the world of the scourge of

terrorism. America would target not only the terrorists but also the those who

shelter and finance them. If he is true to his word, he should have to look

into his own backyard first. It is inconceivable that those in southern United

States who collect funds for the Baptist Church's evangelical work in India

have no inkling of the end use of that fund. One among several end uses is

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