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Some church members tense as federal forces set to leave Orissa
03-06-2009
BHUBANESHWAR, India (CNS) -- Some church leaders have expressed alarm over the federal government's plan to withdraw its forces from India's Orissa state.
"The situation is still very tense and the withdrawal of federal forces will cause panic among people," Father Ajay Singh, who tracks casualties from Hindu-led violence for the Archdiocese of Cuttack-Bhubaneshwar, told the Asian church news agency UCA News.
However, some priests maintain that local police can handle the situation now that Orissa has a secular government.
The Indian government announced June 1 that it would withdraw its paramilitary forces from the Kandhamal district of Orissa within a month.
Government forces were sent to the district two weeks after Hindu extremists launched a sustained wave of violence against Christians in the eastern state in August.
The attacks claimed about 90 lives and left more than 50,000 people, mostly Christians, homeless.
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