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Fri, 11/30/2007 - 09:24 — Carried out by North American missionaries, this ethnocide, is an outrage that just has to be stopped, before the extermination of the home less & land less Akha is completed. What kind of a world is this, if we just stand by and allow these so called christians! to get away with this.

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Its about the investigation into the situation of ACF staff in Laos sexually abusing Akha women and girls in the target villages.

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Ranchi - Jharkhand tribal leaders and priests want immediate stripping of reservation facilities of past members of their community who are now converted Christians.

The tribal group, known as Sarna, has demanded that the reservation facilities provided to tribal Christians be stopped immediately.
The Kendriya Sarna Samiitee (KSS), one of the prominent organisations, has taken the lead in making the demand.

Akha villagers in Northern Laos testified on video that Norwegian Church Aid and Action Contra La Faim staff coming to their villages to do various projects had demanded village girls to rape on repeated occasions. Staff often stayed for weeks at a time in villages while doing projects. Akha villagers said that the practice was widespread on the part of numerous NGO‘s in the Muang Long area. Akha villagers gave the names of many villages where the rapes occurred and the names of specific girls who had been raped and became pregnant. Girls ranged in age from 15 to 18.

Bishop Giles Cote said terrorists were entering the Indonesian part of the island, with the consent of elements of Jakarta’s army, to fight against the Free Papua Movement.

AHWA: Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi Saturday criticised Christian missionaries' conversion activities and told a Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) meeting here in the Dangs district that the central government had failed to stop them.

"The constitution is against forcible conversion. The state, however, is doing little to stop such conversions," he told a gathering of more than 150,000 RSS activists.
"Mahatma Gandhi too had opposed forcible conversions. If he were alive today and were to say so, they would have lambasted him as well," Modi said.

President Hugo Chávez warned on Wednesday he would deport a U.S. Christian missionary group working among Venezuela’s indigenous peoples, saying the New Tribes Mission had “violated our national sovereignty. Then the President on Wednesday ordered the missionary group, working with indigenous peoples to leave the country after accusing its members of "imperialist infiltration" and spying.

Once again, we learn that the activities of Missionaries are not what they are supposed to be.

Biak Missionaries Destroy the Natural Environment
On Biak Island in West Papua - -the most christianised (because of ease of access) of West Papua, the missionaries are not content with watering down to almost nothing the traditional culture and beliefs of the Papuans that live in Biak, they want to destroy the natural habitat too in doing so, making sure the peoples will have no choice but to become economic slaves, growing cash crops for cheap exports.

Will Christian arrogancy and aggression never end? Why evict tribal people from their forest homelands and force them into mission schools? Life in the forest was perfectly adapted to the natural environment over thousands of generations, and this harmony between man and nature is now being destroyed for progress and development. But progress and development for what?
Tribal people, once culturally uprooted by civilization, become the underdogs within the civilized society after a short while. This is the result of a UN recent study.

Lord of CARGO CULT - open your vessel's hold!

The Lord will provide.....! Bull
Some aid groups bring relief˜and Jesus˜to hill-tribes....
(From The Economist print edition) Aug 5th 2004

Dear Editor,