indian genocide

An Indian Genocide: The Present-Day Extermination of India’s Christians

5 September 2023

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An Indian genocide is underway, even as governments and journalists turn a blind eye. India’s Christians have been targeted for extermination.

It was an event that moved Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi to tears.

No, sadly, I’m not referring to the brutal gang rape and killing of two young women in the northeastern state of Manipur.

Those women — stripped and paraded naked down the street before being herded into bushland where they were repeatedly assaulted as police watched on — were not the cause of Modi’s wet eyes.

They were, after all, merely Christians. 

And Christians — no matter their denomination — are increasingly fair game in the north of India where Hindus, emboldened by government policy and shielded by the mainstream media’s selective reporting, are targeting them for extermination.

Modi saved his misty eyes to express wonder at India’s space program. 

Just weeks after the two women had their clothes torn from their bodies so that the mob — fuelled as much by religious hatred as by sexual lust — could rape them over and over again, India put a spaceship on the moon.

Never was the thin veneer that separates modernity from barbarism so stark.

Reluctant Reporting on the Indian Genocide

Modi will be hoping his space program can cover a multitude of sins. 

And it almost did. There is more oxygen in space than media were prepared to give the attack on the Manipur women. 

News hounds in the mainstream media had to be dragged, kicking and screaming, to report on the women who were dragged, kicking and screaming, to their terror.

Journalists mentioned it only after a graphic video of the attack went viral on social media. They were literally shamed into reporting on it.

The footage, some of which the Daily Declaration has seen, show the women weeping, wincing in pain and pleading with a mob numbering in the hundreds to show them mercy. 

The mob reportedly murdered the father and brother of the youngest woman, after the men attempted to save her.

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Witnesses of the rape said police were present, but did not intervene to save the women, or the men.

Prime Minister Modi promised that “not a single culprit will be spared”. But, at the time of writing, only a single culprit had been detained.

While the gang rape and murders occurred in the first week of May, police took until July to make just one solitary arrest. It’s quicker to get to the moon than to find even one of Modi’s promised culprits.

Far from bringing any form of solace to Christians targeted by Hindu mobs, the arrest only served to highlight the disinterest of authorities.

Dozens of men were easily identifiable, their faces clearly seen in the horrifying video, which has since been removed from the internet. 

Apparently, landing a rocket on the moon is much easier than finding more than one among dozens of Hindu men caught on video raping Christian women.

The Moon is More Hospitable Than Modi’s India

Speaking of outer space, Christians are now regarded in the north of India as aliens. The majority Hindu population insists Christians have “foreign roots” and so deserve exclusion. Or rape. Or murder. Whatever.

Open Doors, a US-based organisation that documents religious persecution around the world, now ranks India the 11th worst country on earth for religious minorities. 

The north of India is said to be less safe for Christians than Syria (ranked 12th) or even Saudia Arabia (ranked 13th). 

“In 2023, in some states, it’s a scary place to be a Christian,” the group’s latest report says.

The government claims 170 Christians have been killed in recent violence. That figure is further from the truth than the moon is from earth. Relief teams, working in India’s north, estimate more than 1,000 Christians have been murdered.

A lawyer working in Manipur told the Daily Declaration he estimates a further 100,000 Christians have been beaten and tortured. He said he knew of people, including children, with bullet wounds that medical authorities simply refused to treat.

Many thousands of Christians were hiding in forest areas, having been forced out of their villages, he said. He had documented more than 2,000 homes burned to the ground by Hindu mobs in the state of Manipur alone. This was on top of the 249 churches and six Christian institutions damaged or destroyed by arsonists that he had documented.

When it comes to Manipur, Modi’s moon is more hospitable.

It’s Just Not Cricket — It’s Persecution

All this would come as a shock to most Australians who are more familiar with Sachin Tendulkar than Narendra Modi, and who know a lot more about cricket than they do about Hindu extremism.

Modi received a hero’s welcome when he visited Australia in May.

“The last time I saw someone on this stage it was Bruce Springsteen, and he didn’t get the welcome that Prime Minister Modi has got,” Anthony Albanese told a cheering Sydney crowd.

“Prime Minister Modi is the boss!” he shouted.

While Modi was being mobbed by star-struck Labor politicians in Sydney, mobs in India’s north were chasing, beating and killing Christians.

Frenzied crowds — their bloodlust aroused by a heady mix of religious and nationalistic pride — have weaponised anti-conversion laws designed to preserve the religious Hindu identity from the spread of “foreign” religions.

The laws, supported by Modi’s pro-Hindu party, make it illegal to convert someone to Christianity using inducements.

If that sounds fair, it is only because you lack the imagination of Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party.

Is not the preaching of forgiveness an inducement? And what about the promise of eternal reward?

In the state of Uttar Pradesh, Christians found guilty of leading a Hindu to faith in Jesus face a minimum of three years in prison and a maximum of ten.

As bad as that sounds, jail is usually better than the alternative. 

According to widespread reports, when not making false accusations to police about their Christian neighbours, Hindu mobs are going door to door as prosecution, judge, jury and executioner.

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Violence That Defies Description

Here at the Daily Declaration, we have seen videos from Christians in the north of India showing such severe beatings and torture that there is no way we could repost the footage. We can attempt to describe it, though words fail.

A young woman is stripped naked and held face down on the ground as men thrash her naked bottom again and again with lumps of wood.

At first she struggles. 

Then she writhes in pain. 

Finally, her strength exhausted and her will sapped, she lies lifeless on the ground. The blows do not stop, however. The video ends before we see what becomes of her, though it is hard to imagine that her ordeal concludes with the end of the recording.

Another woman, who looks to be in her early 20s, is kicked and punched before being dragged along the ground by her hair. She is set upon by men who strike her repeatedly with sticks as she tries in vain to protect her face from the blows.

She cowers in the dirt as more men join in. Some with bats. Others with rocks. There are spectators. No one lifts a finger to help her.

In another video, a man is beaten by a mob before being tied up with rope and dragged behind a vehicle. People in the crowd are filming.

More footage shows a group of Christian men made to line up so that the rabid mob can take turns striking the back of their legs with thick lumps of wood. 

Every time you imagine the beating is over, another batter steps up to take his shot.

We saw videos of bloodied bodies. So many lifeless, bloodied bodies. Men. Women. Children. Photos of injuries so horrific that your correspondent had to look away.

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Open Doors reports:

“The assertiveness and aggressiveness of all kinds of Hindu organizations have increased over the years. 

“They claim that India belongs to Hinduism, and that other religions should be driven out of the country. 

“Radical Hinduism is by far the main persecutor in India. It is vocal, omnipresent and very violent.”

A friend I told about the videos I saw expressed disbelief. “But Hindus are peaceful, aren’t they?” she said.

Where did she get that idea? She hadn’t a clue. What she knew was that Muslims commit jihad and that Christians commit colonisation. Hinduism, though, was as benign as Gandhi. Hadn’t they given the world yoga, or something?

Research showing Christians were the most persecuted religious group in the world came as a complete surprise to her. But not to Indian Christians living in Australia.

These Australians — desperately concerned about the plight of family and friends in their country of origin — hoped Anthony Albanese might have mentioned the issue during Modi’s visit.

Was it too much to ask? It’s not like they were after a $275 reduction on their power bills.

Foreign Minister Penny Wong was brave enough to raise the plight of Muslim Uyghurs with our Chinese adversaries. Why would she not raise the plight of India’s Christian with Labor’s new best friend Narendra Modi?

No one is asking Deputy PM and Minister for Defence Richard Marles to cancel our military alliance with India. 

But it might be at least worth asking why our new defence partner, showing off its warships in Sydney Harbour last month, seems unwilling to defend its own Christian minority.

When Israel looks sideways at a Palestinian, the entire Labor Party goes into apoplexy. But when India permits hundreds of Christians to be rounded up by mobs and beaten to within an inch of their lives — or worse — Labor hasn’t a thing to say.

Even the European Union — not exactly a great defender of Christian rights — publicly accused the Modi government of “politically motivated, divisive policies promoting Hindu majoritarianism”.

‘Christianity is Spreading So Fast’

President and CEO of Global Christian Relief, David Curry, has said that Modi’s government is creating an environment where “if you’re not a Hindu you’re not considered a real Indian, and this has allowed this escalation of violence against Christians and Christian churches”.

And it’s not as if our government would be unaware of what even the Left-leaning New York Times has called “anti-Christian hysteria”.

It is, according to Open Doors, hysteria that is at least enabled, if not driven in part by Modi’s government.

“Modi’s administration refuses to speak out against this violence,” the organisation reported earlier this year.

“Police officers are known for not being neutral and for often siding with Hindu hard-liners. They regularly take part in raids on Christian meetings, issue threats to Christians, refuse to register cases reported by Christians and give protection to radical Hindus involved in acts of violence, intolerance and discrimination.”

A pastor in the southern coastal region of Andhra Pradesh told the Daily Declaration that the persecution was driven by fear.

“Christianity is spreading so fast,” he said. 

“A lot of people are accepting Jesus and leaving their idol worship. This brings a lot of fear to Hindus who are afraid that if people keep converting to Christianity, Hindus will one day become a minority and they will lose India.

“Christian pastors are being told ‘how dare you bring the white people’s God. We have 300 million of our own gods’.

“The government’s anti-conversion laws are designed to communicate that if you are a Christian you don’t belong to India. Only if you are a Hindu do you belong.”

The pastor, whose name we have chosen not to print for security reasons, said the government policy made Christians lesser humans in the eyes of the community.

“We used to go door-to-door telling people about Jesus but that is too dangerous now,” he said. “People will confront you with sticks and stones and demand ‘who gave you permission to do this?’ It is a very dangerous time.”

Christians Assaulted by Mob Then Arrested

Data obtained by Open Doors suggests that when Christians register a complaint about violence or discrimination, police will refuse to act in 90 per cent of cases.

There are now parts of India where attending a church is no longer an act of faithful witness but, rather, an act of life-risking bravery.

The pastor told us that church attendance in many northern states had plummeted because to attend a church meeting meant being beaten and forced out of your village.

He said local authorities were cutting off the water supply to people who dared to attend church. Thousands had been made homeless.

Consider this news report from 2021 when 500 Hindus descended on a couple of dozen Christians gathered for dinner in Oteband village, in Chhattisgarh state’s Durg District.

The mob detained them, pelted them with stones, assaulted their women and vandalised their vehicles.

And when police finally arrived, it was to detain the Christians!

The church folk, having been subjected to hours of torment from the mob, were forced onto a police bus and driven 60km through the night to a station where some of them were charged, without any evidence, with instigating “forceful conversion”.

Police refused to entertain any complaints about the Hindu mob despite the fact they had witnessed the stone-throwing and assaults.

Indians in Australia are Afraid to Speak Up

Attacks against Christians have only intensified in 2023.

Curry reports that dozens of churches have been burned to the ground in the past three months, and that thousands of Christians have been forced from their homes.

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“Regardless of how they frame it, whether it’s ethnic violence or anarchists, it seems the Indian government is always overlooking or even encouraging violence against Christians,” he said.

The pastor we interviewed laughed when asked, ‘But what about the police?’ 

“Everything is completely corrupted,” he said. “The government officials set the policy, the police look the other way, and the mobs are free to do as they please.

“Especially in the north of India, people are not allowed to go to church. And if they do, they are risking everything.

Indians living in Australia will speak privately about the situation in India but do not want to be quoted for fear that family members living there will suffer reprisals.

A highly successful South Australian woman told me she feared that if she spoke on the record, she might be blacklisted from ever returning to India.

“There is a real risk that if you speak out publicly, you will be marked never to receive a visa and so never see your family again,” she said.

“I am not exaggerating the situation. It is dire.

“Churches are being burned down. Christians are being driven out of their homes or killed, and no one says anything.

“Even from thousands of kilometres away here in Australia, I am afraid to go public because of reprisals.”

She said Indian Christians hoped that the targeting of Christians would be raised with Modi by the Australian media or government during his visit last month.

“Instead there was silence, complete and utter silence,” she said.

“If the Indian government was allowing rare birds to be destroyed, the Australian government would say something; journalists would write articles; activists would demand action.

“But it’s not birds facing extinction. It’s Christian men, women, and children. Their fate seems far less interesting to the Australian media, and of zero consequence to the Albanese government.”

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17 Comments

  1. Jim Twelves 5 September 2023 at 9:01 am - Reply

    James, this is a sickening report. I am pleased you have brought it, and pray that the message will get to be heard by those who are happiest to simply close their eyes. The fact that mainstream media is so reluctant to report such atrocities should be a wake up call to ‘never trust them again’.

  2. CRAIG BOSEL 5 September 2023 at 12:47 pm - Reply

    Thanks James. I knew it was bad but had no idea just how bad it has become in India. Pakistan , yep … Afghanistan yep, but this is India! Appreciate your report. Time for Albo to find a real voice., what are the chances ?

  3. Rosa Elliott 5 September 2023 at 3:04 pm - Reply

    Anyone who isn’t asleep knows we’re unable to trust the mainstream media. They’re all liars and they’re all puppets to the puppet masters. We’ve come to rely heavily on independent reports such as this one from the Canberra Declaration and thanks be to our Lord God for allowing important information to flow through, otherwise we’d never know…

    • Jim Twelves 6 September 2023 at 10:07 am - Reply

      Rosa, so true. Its as if the mainstream sources have not only ‘crafted their own narrative’, they have more significantly convinced the majority that they are ‘the single source of truth’!

  4. Warwick Marsh 5 September 2023 at 5:02 pm - Reply

    This is an incredibly sad story and James has done a great job telling the story. We pray that Australia speaks out at this time!

  5. Leonie Robson 6 September 2023 at 6:39 am - Reply

    What a dreadful situation, clearly sanctioned by the head of the Government, Modi.
    Our world is going crazy, every day we see the spirit of the age running rampant and this evil isn’t even called out by the ‘civilised west’.
    Shame on every leader and news outlet that turns a blind eye to the suffering and persecution of ANY race of people.
    We have been disgusted by the Chinese in their treatment of their ethnic minority, torturing and murderering them. Yett Christians don’t rate a blip on the radar.
    Yes, time is short….

  6. Gail Petherick 6 September 2023 at 7:03 am - Reply

    Thank you James for presenting the very confronting facts about the sheer brutality and cruel treatment of Christians in North India. There are no words to describe the horror of what the women have been through who were attacked with pieces of wood, beaten in the face and body and unbelievably and raped and or killed. Such beautiful young girls and women of faith paid the price for their faith but so deserve to be defended and protected. The fact that one father and son ran in to protect their loved one, only to be killed, shows the truth of the situation; it resembled a pack of wolves descending on their prey. May God have mercy on all these women and the Christian families and help some escape to a place of peace…May we all be in prayer for them and do what we can to support them. It is so brutal and evil -it is hard to conceive actions like this would be permitted by the Prime Minister of India. May our Prime Minister be urged by God to intervene. Jesus said ‘you will be hated for my Name, as I was hated’ but promised that all who are persecuted will be rewarded in heaven, but He urged us to pray for these ones as though we too were with them in prison with them (Hebrews 13.3)…or in this case , as though we were being beaten with them or worse. May God help each one be strengthened by His Holy Spirit and surrounded by His angels and comforted by God’s loving presence through suffering. Such women and Christians are heroes of the faith Hebrews 11.13 who seek to meet in churches or gatherings and to glorify God at the risk of their lives.

  7. Warwick Marsh 6 September 2023 at 7:48 am - Reply

    Please keep sharing this important article. Great to see it at number two. Pray it gets to number one!!!!!!

  8. Molly Joshi 6 September 2023 at 12:22 pm - Reply

    Thankyou for blowing this trumpet of a clarion call to Australia of the persecuted church in India .
    Australian missionary to India with his two young sons was burnt alive.
    Graham Stuart Staines (18 January 1941 – 23 January 1999) was an Australian Christian missionary, who along with his two sons, Philip (aged 10) and Timothy (aged 6), was burnt to death in India by members of a Hindu Nationalist group named Bajrang Dal.
    The religious persecution of the minority religious groups in India has become heinous.
    A conscience that is seared and comfortable with such atrocities . It is time for our government to intervene as a nation that has a conscience and stop the religious persecution especially of women.
    Ps James you have captured the cruelty in words that is forever etched in my heart and I weep before the Lord God who is a righteous Judge. Let all the earth fear Him.
    Thankyou Warwick Marsh and Canberra Declarations for spearheading this campaign for the persecuted Christians of India especially the women of Manipur.

  9. Warwick Marsh 6 September 2023 at 12:47 pm - Reply

    We thank God for Graham Stuart Staines (18 January 1941 – 23 January 1999) the Australian Christian missionary, who along with his two sons, Philip (aged 10) and Timothy (aged 6), was burnt to death in India by members of a Hindu Nationalist group named Bajrang Dal. His memory and his sacrifice inspires us in our mission.

  10. Kurt Mahlburg 6 September 2023 at 10:38 pm - Reply

    A tour de force James. Amazing reporting about a tragic scandal. May many eyes be opened.

  11. Warwick Marsh 7 September 2023 at 10:38 am - Reply

    Please pass this artilces URL onto your friends. We need to get this message out. We will be praying for our Indian brothers and sisters in Christ this coming Monday at 8PM on Zoom. Details below!.

    Join us for our nightly Zoom prayer call:

    DATES: 28 August — 17 September

    TIME: 8pm AEST

    ZOOM URL LINK: https://zoom.us/j/776881184

    ZOOM MEETING ID: 776881184

  12. Countess Antonia Maria Violetta Scrivanich 11 September 2023 at 4:55 pm - Reply

    We should advise in writing our politicians we will not vote for them if they do not protest Modi’s policy of religious persecution and ridding India of all Christians. Vote “No “against Albanese and his band .

  13. Countess Antonia Maria Violetta Scrivanich 25 September 2023 at 1:54 pm - Reply

    Big rift between Canada’s Prime Minister Trudeau and India’s Modi . Like Christianity, the Sikh religion is hated by Hindus and Modi. Trudeau has accused the Modi government of ordering the murder of a Sikh in Canada. A pity, he did not have the gumption to accuse him, also,of the persecution and murder of Christians and of the Indian State -sponsored destruction of hundreds of Christian churches in India, but, at least it is a start to open the eyes of the world to another repressive regime which does not allow the basic human right of freedom of religion . Albanese has shut his eyes to the Christian and Sikh murders .

  14. Alfin 18 March 2024 at 5:25 am - Reply

    As an Indian from southern part of India, what James has said is mostly (and sadly) true. But there is one state in India were people of all religions coexist peacefully. And it’s Kerala, the south-western most state of India (my home state).

    People here in Kerala are highly educated, and that’s one of the reasons why we all live peacefully. But what the Modi’s party have been trying to do here is different. Most of the people of Kerala (especially Hindus) are aware of the party’s tactics to create a rift within the people of the country, and we know from experience that it will only lead to a really bad ending. That’s why the BJP has been struggling to secure power in Kerala. So inorder to gain an upper hand, the BJP is trying it’s best to create a rift between the Christians and the Muslims here. His political associates are running from home to home of Christians and even arranging grand feast for bishops and priests and pastors during Easter and Christmas and even support the extremist thinkers within Christians (yes they do exist within our faith) when they lash out on the Muslims and blame them as a whole as to win the sympathy of the Christian community and trying to create a sense of insecurity among Christians against the Muslims for votes. And some people have also fell for the trap. But still we have managed to keep peace among people. All thanks to the Lord Almighty that we are still in harmony. And what BJP is doing is highly contradictory; They are presenting Kerala and it’s people as some kind of terrorists to the people in Northern parts of the country just because they don’t have power here. And the poor people there have fallen for that trap in majority that malayalis (that’s what you call a person from Kerala) working in the Northern states has to face condemnation from others just because they saw some propaganda film (a drop of truth diluted in an ocean of lies). While back here in Kerala they and speaking in huge mouths about the achievements of Modi government and promises for Kerala if they come to power.
    They fail to realise that people of Kerala can’t be fooled so easily because most of our family members are around the globe, especially in Europe, America and Australia, and we (through them) have access to almost all international media even if Modi tries to silence the ones in India.

    And the greatest irony is that Mr. Modi is really busy inaugurating temples in Muslim and Christian majority countries while his disciples are busy vandalizing and spreading hate against Muslims and Christians here in India.

    I urge all of you to pray not just for us christians but also for all the people who are being prosecuted (including Muslims) and also for those who attack us because they had been brainwashed into this shit.

    “Forgive them Father, for they don’t know what they’re doing.” – Luke 23:34

  15. Tgi 2 July 2024 at 10:11 pm - Reply

    Blabber blabber, that guy Nijjar was literally glorifying suicide attack and was put on no-fly list several times.

  16. Tgi the Lonewolf 2 July 2024 at 10:28 pm - Reply

    If the whole manipur issue is a Hindu-Christian issue, then it can be said that a bunch of ‘Christian’ militants started it as they infiltrated a peaceful protest and started committing violence. https://www.thesangaiexpress.com/Encyc/2023/8/10/Dr-John-ParratThe-secular-press-in-the-UK-largely-ignored-the-violent-conflict-in-Manipur-which-began-on-May.html#:~:text=The%20Manipur%20Christian%20Churches%20Council,Meeteis)%20attacking%20a%20Christian%20minority .

    This is between tribals and non-tribals. There have been casualties on both sides and there has been damage of homes and churches and displaced internal refugees from both sides as well. There have been temples damaged as well. Mind ya, this article was written by a Christian in local media, not a ‘hindu nationalist’.

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