Conversion
Tactics
These pages describe common tactics emplyed by
missionaries to convert others to the Christian Faith.
Charitable
Allurement
Deception,
Lies & Deceit
Educational
Indoctrination
Medical
Care
Sexual
Abuse
Violence
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Conversion
Tactics
Charitable Allurement
Missionaries take advantage of those in need,
especially the poor and children, to convert
them
Most Missionary organizations disguise their conversion
efforts as charity organization. Often in the press, we hear about
“faith-based initiatives” but that is just a euphemism for
aggressive and violent conversion organizations. In the Western
media, Missionaries are portrayed as true saviors who feed the
hungry and nurse the sick.
However, Missionaries do not do this for the good of
humanity, but instead to convert people to Christianity.
Missionaries have also decided to target the poorest for
conversions, not because they are the neediest, but rather, because
they can be easily bribed into changing their faith, and they can
not easily report to the press the atrocities which the
Missionaries have inflicted upon them.
Some people wonder fail to see the maliciousness of
conversion through charitable acts. They say that though they are
converting, Missionaries are also helping the poor which is more
important. However, this is wrong because in times of need humans
will often do anything if lured by material possessions. For
example, prostitution is a despicable but existing profession
because people are lured so much by money that they will sell their
bodies. Similarly, one who is converted through “charitable” means
is selling their religion and moral beliefs for material
possessions. Just as prostitution is wrong and despicable,
regardless of the prostitutes financial situation, conversion is
also wrong regardless of the converts financially situation.
Therefore conversion through charitable inducement is a forcible
conversion.
Conversion should only happen through spiritual persuasion
and not through the gifting of material possessions.
Below are some of the tactics which Missionaries use in
the name of charity to convert:
To convert rich and middle-class non-Christians,
Missionaries, who are well-funded by Western churches, buy their
way in by giving money, computers to universities, and scholarships
to children of influential officials.
In other cases instead of feeding the starving,
Missionaries give away a walkman with a tape of the Bible in their
own language to brainwash them instead.
Mahatma Gandhi wrote the following on one incident which
he witnessed:
"Only the other day a missionary descended on a famine area
with money in his pocket, distributed it among the famine stricken,
converted them to his fold, took charge of their temple and
demolished it. This is outrageous."
2. Adoption & Child Sponsorship
– Many innocent looking child sponsorship programs,
such as Christian Children's Fund and World Vision, that often
advertise on U.S. television are guilty of forced conversions. Many
often say, “For 50 cents a day, you'll make a real impact on the
life of a child and their community!” However, instead of nurturing
these children as they claim, they use this money to buy children
of poor non-Christian families (like slaves!). The children
unwillingly are then separated from their mothers and are raised by
Missionaries who brainwash them with Christian fundamentalist
ideas. In other cases, Missionaries will “bribe” the entire family
of the child to convert to Christianity.
3. Jobs - In 1999, the Indian Church
of Christ in Assam was caught red-handed for forcibly converting at
least 14 Hindus. Over a period of six months the missionaries
belonging to this Church offered money, jobs and other economic
benefits to these extremely poor Hindus if they adopted
Christianity. These Hindus were threatened with dire consequences
if they revealed to anyone the circumstances under which they had
been converted. However, two brave individuals who had been
forcibly converted came to the police and told them the details of
how Christian priests had lured them to their residence with the
promise of jobs and money. In return for this favor, the priests
then asked these individuals to convert to Christianity.
4. Loans - When conversions by force
not being possible, the methods that are applied are inducements
and fraud. Inducements are called “social service” or “charitable”
activities. In most cases, the social service benefits were
provided only to those who agreed to convert. A loan given to a
tribal is cancelled if he, along with his family, becomes a
Christian. This inducement has been documented in Madhya Pradesh,
though the practices that have been narrated are the ones that are
a common practice all over India, and indeed in the rest of the
world.
Summary
True social service should be done without expecting anything in
return from the recipient. Otherwise it becomes a debased and at
best can have an accidental redeeming value. If the motive is bad,
then the social service has no real merit. There are many
organizations that are doing noble service without expecting
anything in return. And in offering such services, the Hindus are
very actively involved.
During his meetings with the Christian missionaries,
Mahatma Gandhi had said that they are doing social service with the
ulterior motive of conversions. He asked them to give up this
offensive program. He also said to them that if this situation
continued in a free India he would ask the foreign missionaries to
leave the country.
Conversion Tactics
Deception, Lies & Deceit
Missionaries often use devious tactics to decieve
innocent villagers in order to convert them.
Christian Missionaries on one hand preach high moral
values, yet at the same time, they follow the lowest most
despicable ones in order to convert people to their religion.
Missionaries especially prey on the poorest, most rural folk under
the guise of helping them out of poverty when in fact they have
chosen to convert them because they are the most uneducated and
therefore most likely to fall for their deception.
2. Floating Idols – In rural
villages in India, Missionaries and place a stone or metal idol of
a Hindu Deity in bring a bucket of water. The statue will sink in
the bucket. Next the Missionary bring a wax-coated idol of Jesus or
Virgin Mary (though Christianity prohibits idols) and places that
in the bucket. Due the wax-coat, the Christian idol will float. The
Missionary will then conclude that because the Christian idol
floated, it is “higher” and, therefore, better than the Hindu one.
The uneducated villager, not knowing anything about buoyancy or
density, falls for the Missionary’s ridiculous explanation and
converts to Christianity.
3. Fraudulent Saints – Often
Missionaries will disguise themselves as religious leaders of the
local religion and subtly attempt to convert the locals.
Though Nobili used this tactic centuries ago, this
deceitful and treacherous method is still in use by Missionaries
even today.
4. Blasphemy & Impurity
– Another tactic used my Christian is to somehow make
the victim impure to their religion in some way. Then the
Missionary will convince the victim that they can no longer
practice their old faith due to their blasphemy, and therefore they
must accept Christianity.
The most infamous incident is known as the “Sepoy
Rebellion”. In 1857, British General Lord Canning gave orders for
the British to mix crushed cow and pig bones into the salt, butter
and sugar rations of his Indian troops. In addition the British
greased Enfield rifle cartridges with cow and pig fat. After some
time, it was discovered by the troops that the rations they had
consumed and the mouth-loaded cartridges had been contaminated with
animal fats. This led many devout Hindu and Muslim to believe they
were no longer pious members of their respective religions and so
many were forced to convert. This outrage led to a massive war-like
rebellion by the Hindu and Muslim troops which was eventually
quelled by British.
By making one impure to their religion, shows the
paramount of hatred and disrespect that Christian Missionaries have
for all other religions.
5. Guilt & Accusations – In
1975, Christian Missionaries were unsuccessful in converting the
Panare Native Americans of the Colorado Valley. The missionaries
had converted the Bible to their native language, but the peaceful
and simple tribe could not understand the concepts of sin, guilt,
war and plagues. So instead, the missionaries changed the Bible so
that instead of the Romans and others, the Panare were responsible
for the death of Jesus. One excerpt read:
”The Panare killed Jesus Christ, because they were wicked.
Let's kill Jesus Christ, said the Panare. The Panare seized Jesus
Christ. The Panare killed in this way. The laid a cross on the
ground. They fastened his hands and his feet against the wooden
beams, with nails. They raised him straight up, nailed. The man
died like that, nailed. Thus the Panare killed Jesus Christ…
God will burn you all, burn all the animals, burn also the
earth, the heavens, absolutely everything. He will burn also the
Panare themselves. God will exterminate the Panare by throwing them
on the fire. It is a huge fire. I am going to hurl the Panare into
the fire, said God.”
And the simplistic Panare tribe immediately claimed they
loved Jesus, fearing they would be burnt by God. Missionaries seem
to go to any extent to convert others, even if it requires gross
deception and misrepresentation of their own holy book, the Bible
will for the benefit of “winning souls”.
6. False Identities – To convert a
more educated and pious individual, a Missionary will pretend that
he/she has a religious background that is the same as yours.
For example, a Missionary who is targeting a Hindu may
tell the Hindu that he (or a Christian friend or acquaintance) was
once an orthodox Hindu, or that he had a solid Hindu education, a
traditional Hindu family life, etc. This is almost always an
outright lie so that you will open up to him. The hidden message
that he is attempting to convey is that he came to believe in Jesus
after knowing and overcoming all of the Hindu objections, and
therefore, the Hindu he is targeting should also try to follow the
same path, (which he never really took).
Usually, all that is necessary to expose this type of hoax
is to ask him about various small details of Hindu life that any
observant Hindu child would know, and see how he responds. In
almost all cases, he will begin to hedge about the extent of his
"background" and "Hindu knowledge". Unfortunately, most Hindu or
targets of other religions are themselves not knowledgeable enough
to be able to expose this type of deception and quite often
Missionaries are successful.
7. Secret Baptism – Another tactic
that is deceptively employed by Missionaries is to “baptize” a
victim without their knowledge. Then to reveal that they had been
baptized and they must convert to Christianity. Though
well-documented, it is little known that the most famous
perpetrator was Mother Teresa and her sisters.
“For Mother (Teresa), it was the spiritual well-being of
the poor that mattered most. Material aid was a means of reaching
their souls, of showing the poor that God loved them. In the homes
for the dying, Mother taught the sisters how to secretly baptize
those who were dying. Sisters were to ask each person in danger of
death if he wanted a ‘ticket to heaven’. An affirmative reply was
to mean consent to baptism. The sister was then to pretend she was
just cooling the person’s forehead with a wet cloth, while in fact
she was baptizing him, saying quietly the necessary words. Secrecy
was important so that it would not come to be known that Mother
Teresa’s sisters were baptizing Hindus and Moslems.”
7. Miracles – One of the most
despicable ways of deception is how Missionaries pray on young
rural school children. The school bus will stop suddenly. Young
kids are told that they must pray 'Krishna' to try and restart it,
but it fails to do so. Then they try 'Rama', then 'Guru Nanak',
then 'Allah' etc. Finally, after exhausting the common names in
India for spiritual authority, they are asked to say 'Jesus' all
together, and at that time the bus suddenly starts. Everyone
applauds the demonstration of Jesus' love and power.
8. Miracle Boxes – Missionaries will
place "Miracle boxes" are put in local churches: The gullible
villager writes out a request - a loan, a pucca house, fees for the
son's schooling. A few weeks later, the miracle happens, paid for
by Western Christian donations. And the whole family converts
believing it is a miracle of Jesus, making others in the village
follow suit.
Conversion
Tactics
Educational Indoctrination
Innocent Indian children being brainwashed and
forced to read the Bible in a Christian School.
Missionaries have set up thousands of Christian schools,
colleges and other education institutions in India, through funding
from foreign churches. These schools are simply established for
subtle proselytization of the masses. Because many of these schools
were set up in India under British rule, there is a common
misconception that these schools have a higher standard of
education and discipline.
It is very important that all children be raised in their
respective religious traditions. The first impressions are the most
lasting, and they are what the children have to deal with
throughout their lives. This is because early impressions are
locked in the memory pattern of their subconscious minds. And
Missionaries make use of this fact, to attempt to subtle convert
children at a young age.
Though these institutions are open to people of any
religion, they discriminate against non-Christian faiths and
attempt to convert students by the following means:
1. Curriculum Control - The entire
education system in Guyana is controlled by that dominant class
that promotes Westernized and Christian orientation. Having
appropriated the power to define and delimit what is legitimate and
not, this social bloc has monopolized the curriculum constructing
it in a way that deliberately emphasizes western and Christian
mores while at the same time deliberately excluding and
de-emphasizing anything Hindu and Islamic in particular and Indian
in general. By just going through the textbooks produced in Guyana
one can hardly imagine that this is a country with a population
that is half Hindu and Muslim
.2. Dominance of Missionary Schools
- Over the years there have been successful attempts
through the instrument of the state to de-emphasize Hindu and
Muslim contributions to the development of education in Guyana
while at the same time reinforcing and glorifying the Christian
contribution. In 1976 all denominational schools (and other
institutions) were required by the government of the day to change
their names in order to de-link them from their religious and
ethnic background.
While the government made sure that schools with Indian, Hindu and
Muslim names complied with the requirement, Christian schools were
never really affected. Thus Indian Educational Trust College became
Richard Ishmael Secondary, Muslim Trust College became Brickdams
Secondary school, Hindu college became Cove and John Secondary and
Maha Sabha Secondary became Leonora Secondary. On the other hand,
officially and otherwise, St. Stanislaus, St. Joseph's, St. Rose's,
St, Agnes, St. John's, Sacred Heart, Stella Maris, Christ Church
and others have retained their former names and their distinctive
histories.
3. Defamation - Under the guise of
moral education in schools when a Hindu or Muslim child is forced
to listen to a Christian functionary who by force of habit and
dogmatic indoctrination must invariably, subtly and otherwise,
denigrate the Hindu and Muslim traditions, this is in violation of
the fundamental right and the civil liberty of the child.
Priests, nuns and teachers in Christian schools often
defame and blasphemize Hinduism and other religions in their
regular lessons. Hindu students who graduate from such institutions
usually do not convert to Christianity, but through the influence
of their Christian mentors, they end up mocking temples/mosques,
scriptures and their own religious leaders for the rest of their
lives.
4. On Campus Prayers – Most
Christian institutions have mandatory daily prayers. In many
schools, non-Christian students are unjustly forced to attend
Christian masses and recite Christian prayers.
In other schools, non-Christians have their respective
prayer sessions at the same time. However, the Christian prayers
are held in air-conditioned chapels, while non-Christians wishing
to pray must hold their services outside in the hot Indian sun.
Naturally, many non-Christian students will decide to seek shelter
in the chapel and are essentially forced to attend Christian
services.
5. Christian Only Teachers - Some
Christian schools only employ Christian teachers and lecturers for
all subjects. These Christian teachers often defame other religions
and preach about Jesus Christ in the middle of physics, chemistry,
etc. lectures to students who have come to learn their academic
material and not about Chrstianity.
6. Beatings – In Assam, India, at
the English medium Ashapalli High School it is mandatory for all
students to attend church every day before classes begin. Even
after following the bigoted ways of this missionary school, the
Hindu and Buddhist children are ill-treated and physically abused
by the Christian staff of the school.
Kalindi Rani Chakma was a class VIII Buddhist student of
the school; therefore she was abused mentally and physically on a
daily basis by her Christian teachers. One such revolting incident
has put her future academic career in jeopardy.
One evening Kalindi Rani was called to the Principal, H.
Lamare's residence due to alleged non-compliance of her daily
routines. Once there Kalindi Rani was incessantly caned by Lamare.
She begged for him to stop, but he continued to beat her because of
his blind hatred for all Hindus and Buddhists. While he beat her he
asked her, "Why don't you believe in Christ? What is the use of
worshipping Buddha and Kali?
As a result Kalidi Rani went into shock and suffered
several painful bruises throughout her whole body. She did not
attend school until the day after the incident. When she went back
to school, once again, Lamare abused her-both verbally and
physically. She is now terrified of attending school.
Lamare did not punish Kalindi Rani because she did not
complete her daily tasks. He beat her like a mad man because she
was a heathen pagan who did not worship Christ. He has been given
the divine sanction to do so by the Church establishment in India.
Like other Christian Fundamentalists, he too was brainwashed to
believe that followers of Christ are superior to the “heathen
pagans”!
7. Scaldings - In another display of
Christian Missionary barbarism, a nun belonging to the Missionaries
of Charity in Calcutta, scalded four little Hindu girls with a hot
knife.
Sister Francesca is the nun in charge of Missionaries of
Charity's Mahatma Gandhi Welfare Center. A young Hindu girl named
Kavery was playing inside the center with three other girls when
the nun approached them and accused them of stealing money. The nun
then heated a knife on an electric heater and pressed in on the
hands of the four children.
When Kavery's father, Kabiram, heard about the incident he
went to the Bowbazar police station to file a complaint, but the
police refused to register a case until the local residents forced
them to do so. The head of Missionaries of Charity, Sister Nirmala,
said that as a disciplinary action she has asked the guilty nun to
discontinue her duties and take rest for the time being! Is this a
punishment or a reward for following the torture of
non-Christians?
Summary
Though the reputation of Christian educational institutions in
India claims to be of high standards in academics, we can see that
these institutions in fact have the lowest standards when it comes
to morality. Children who attend these schools are subjected to
physical abuse, verbal defamation of their respective religions and
daily brainwashing of Christian fundamentalism. In the end, there
is no reason to send children to such cruel and criminal
institutions, as it is not one’s academic background but one’s
morality that makes a person.
Conversion
Tactics
Medical Care
Known as "medical evangelists", Missionaries promise free
medical care
to operate on poor non-Christian patients. After srugery they force
them
to convert or pay exorbitant fees.
Christian organizations have established hospitals with
some of the best medical care across the globe. Many of these
hospitals operate under the guise of provide free or cheap medical
care to rural and poor communities. However, most of these
hospitals are providing these benefits not for goodwill but for
conversion.
1. Denial of Treatment – Often
Christian hospitals publicize their services as pro-bono and for
the needy and general public. However, when poor non-Christians
require treatment, they are either force to convert or pay a large
fee for the services. The incident below describes one shocking
ordeal of how 17 Hindus because they refused to convert:
The Serang Christian Eye Hospital was set up in the Gumma
block of Gajapati district by the Baptists of Canada to supposedly
provide health care to tribals. The hospital is run by the Council
of Christian Hospitals, which has its head office in Bangalore. The
poorest of the tribals are misled into receiving free treatment at
this hospital in exchange for their souls. The victims are operated
upon then pressurized to convert to Christianity, or else told that
they will have to cough up the payment for the operations.
Dr Sadguna Raju, a Christian convert and ophthalmologist
attached to the Serang hospital, operated upon 27 patients on
August 30 and 31 of 2000.Out of these at least seventeen of
them are now blind in one eye. Dr Raju left Orissa a day after
the operations and the tribal Hindus were given no post-operational
care at all. Many times the arrangements for these "quickie"
operations are makeshift and rampant malpractice increases the
chance that patients could be infected in the operation theater
itself. In fact at the post-operative stage the Christian doctors
had even noticed the deterioration in the condition of some
patients but they chose to do nothing about it as the tribals had
refused to convert.
Many of the victims had developed pesedomolas, a bacterial
infection, following the operation leading to pus formation in the
eye. Some of them have had to turn to begging for their livelihood
after this devastating trauma.
2. Fake Medicines – One common
tactic employed by Missionaries is to give a sick villager fake
medicines which have no medicinal value and ask them to worship in
the name of their faith for wellness. After several days, the
missionary gives the villager an identical dose of the medicine,
but this time it is the real medicine. Then the missionary will
instruct the villager to now pray to Jesus. Soon after, due to the
medicine and not due to Jesus, the villager will be cured. The
uneducated and gullible villager, however, will attribute his cure
to Jesus and convert to Christianity.
3. Intentional Denial of Medicines
– In a New Tribes Mission (NTM) mission camp, many of
the natives either died from starvation or from diseases
transmitted by the missionaries for which they had no immunity
against. In one such mission camp in Paraguay, the German
anthropologist, Dr. Mark Munzel, reported that food and medicine
were deliberately withheld by the missionaries. From a total of 277
natives in April 1972 only 202 survivors were left three months
later. A US congressional report confirmed that 49% of the camp
population had vanished!
In Bolivia, William Pencille, of the South American
Missionary Society, was called in to help when white ranchers
moving into the tribal areas came upon the Ayoreos. Pencille
persuaded these natives to stop resisting the encroachment of the
cattlemen and to settle on a patch of barren land beside a railroad
tract. The natives, having no resistance to common diseases of the
"modern" man, began to die. Throughout all this Pencille had the
means to save the lives of these people. He had access to many
modes of transport, including an airplane, and to funds which could
easily have been used to buy medicines for them. Yet this is what
he said: "It's better they should die. Then I baptize them (on the
point of death) and they go straight to heaven."
4. Secret Baptism – Another tactic
that is deceptively employed by Missionaries is to “baptize” a
victim without their knowledge. Then to reveal that they had been
baptized and they must convert to Christianity. Though
well-documented, it is little known that the most famous
perpetrator was "Mother" Teresa and her sisters.
“For Mother (Teresa), it was the spiritual well-being
of the poor that mattered most. Material aid was a means of
reaching their souls, of showing the poor that God loved them. In
the homes for the dying, Mother taught the sisters how to secretly
baptize those who were dying. Sisters were to ask each person in
danger of death if he wanted a ‘ticket to heaven’. An affirmative
reply was to mean consent to baptism. The sister was then to
pretend she was just cooling the person’s forehead with a wet
cloth, while in fact she was baptizing him, saying quietly the
necessary words. Secrecy was important so that it would not come to
be known that Mother Teresa’s sisters were baptizing Hindus and
Moslems.”
5. Threats – Missionaries in
addition to harming non-Christian patients in their hospitals will
also mental harass patients who are already in physical pain. Below
is an account of one such incident:
“I remember a British friend of mine, an
anthropologist researching the lore of a Nilgiris tribe a decade
ago. One day he visited a village hospital to comfort a sick
tribal. A troop of Christians from a particular denomination
entered noisily, and kindly informed all the patients in the ward
that unless they accepted Christ, they would soon die and go to
hell for ever. Is this Jesus' love, or mental torture? Were the
patients' human rights respected or violated?”
- Michel Danino
(World Congress for the Preservation of Religious Diversity)
Summary
Though Christian hospitals claim that they “do not accept any
forced conversion or conversion by fraudulent means” and they are
“for the masses”, they in fact are the contrary. They are only for
though who are Christian and for those who not, they must forcibly
convert in order to use their facilities. Christian Medical
institutions and Missionaries show that other than Christians, they
selfishly do not care for the well-being of anyone. Missionaries
claim their lives are dedicated to “saving” others but we can
clearly see that this “saving” only applies to Christians and for
all others it very well may mean death.
Conversion
Tactics
Conversion Tactics – Sexual Abuse
Body of 14-year old school girl, Jyotirmayee, who was
raped, killed and mutilated for refusing to convert to
Christianity.
The press has recently revealed of the sexual exploitation
of children in churches in the United States by the clergy.
However, the sexual crimes against children and others outside the
U.S. rarely make news. There are many cases of perverted
Missionaries sexually exploited non-Christians and using this as a
conversion tactic.
1. Sodomy - On November 11, 2000
Indian police arrested David Berry, a 51 year old British national
for brutallysodomizing and perpetrating savage sexual
abuse on at least 11 minor Hindu boys in the holy temple town of
Puri, Orissa. Berry was assisted in his heinous crimes by Bijoy
Behera, a local schoolteacher and recent convert to Christianity.
The police were forced to arrest the two Christians following a
complaint lodged by a victim's father, Shree Banamali Senapati.
Initially despite his lodging of the complaint, the police
dismissed the case and refused to arrest the perpetrators, but were
forced to act when an angry mob from the town besieged them and
threatened dire consequences if the guilty were not punished. Shree
Senapati was in tears as he related how Berry had sodomized his
traumatized 12-year-old son at least eight times in his hotel room
and elsewhere. The boy related to the police that Berry had forced
him to have oral sex and kept him a virtual prisoner in the hotel
room for hours. He also revealed that the Briton had sodomized at
least 10 other school children, all below the ages of 12. The
children were so traumatized by Berry's threats and Behera's
beatings that they did not dare to confess to the horrors visited
upon them until young master Senapati could take no more and broke
down to his father.
2. Stripping - On October 9, 2000 a
group of converted Christians stripped a 12-year-old tribal Hindu
boy andparaded him naked in Gasukia village after he
opposed attempts to convert him to Christianity. He was taken to
the village school and brutally beaten for
"refusing to accept Jesus as his savior". This event naturally led
to communal tension as the Hindus were outraged at the heinous
crimes being forced on them.
3. Rape – In January 2002, American
Missionary Reverend Joseph Cooper and Sam Benson were expelled from
India after Benson was accused of raping a young
Hindu girl and Cooper was accused of making inflammatory remarks
against Hinduism. Both currently walk free and Cooper is a preacher
in Connecticut. Western Media only reported how Hindus had
retaliated against Cooper but did not mention that he incited
locals by saying Lord Krishna "spreads AIDS". American Pastor
Benson Sam and his wife Sally also were found guilty
of abduction and rape of a minor girl.The poor orphan
girl named Laly had allegedly been sexually abused and harassed for
four months at the Bible Christian Centre, which had resulted in
the issue of non-bailable warrants against Sam Benson and his
son.
4. Rape and Murder - In February 2005, a
14-year old school girl in Orissa was raped and killed and her
mutilated body thrown to a nearby railway crossing in Dhenkanal for
refusing to convert to Christianity. “One day, three Christian
leaders, Prashant Ghose, D. V. John Sarangi and Rabi Naik alias
D'Souza came to my home and asked me to convert to their religion,
Christianity,” Shri Bej said and added that they promised him help
in the form of money and material in his only daughter
Jyotirmayee’s marriage. However, Shri Bej turned down their
proposal.
Then the local Church mandarins made a second attempt trying to
allure Shri Bej’s wife Yasoda. “‘If you change over to
Christianity, your daughter could get a good bridegroom as there
are many well-to-do persons in our religion,’ Rabi Naik told me,”
said a weeping Yasoda to Organiser and added that on that day, Shri
Naik had threatened her with dire consequences if her family did
not adopt Christianity.
Following this threat, Bej’s daughter Jyotirmayee, a student of
Class VIII in Saudamini Smruti Vidyapeeth, was reported missing
from her school. Jyotirmayee’s friends intimated her family about
this. A concerned father went to the police station and reported
the matter. But the local police did not take it seriously. The
next morning, Jyotirmayee’s naked mutilated body was found on the
railway tracks. With ample circumstantial evidence of Jyotirmayee
being raped and murdered, the local people staged a road blockade
demanding the arrest of the culprits.
In the FIR filed in the police station, Shri Alekh Bej has
categorically mentioned names of Raju Naik, Rabi Naik and Ranjan
Naik. “As I refused to convert, I had to face this consequence,”
Shri Bej reported.
Though the body of Jyotirmayee was found on February 17,
till February 21 no one was arrested. The Bej family is unable to
understand the inaction on the part of police to arrest the
culprits. The Bej family has accused the police station incharge,
Jyoti Ranjan Mohapatra, and DSP Mandardhar Sahoo of conniving with
the culprits and al