It was news to me when I received an email with a link from the North East Reader that the Evangelists are engaged in Child trafficking, moving children way from North east India to the Southern States of India, to get Grants from the Churches!
The Churches in turn get Grants from the Vatican and other Christian Groups Funds marked for religious conversion.
Please read my posts on this under Christianity.
The phenomenon may be new to India.
But it is rampant in Africa and I am providing a Link towards the end of this post.
“New Delhi, Aug 6 : Promising proper education, pastors are trafficking children from the north-eastern states to Tamil Nadu and Karnataka with an oblique motive to get grants from churches and abroad, the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights said in a damning report to the Supreme Court.
Inquring into recent rescue of hundreds of children trafficked from the NE states and housed in Homes illegally run by pastors in the southern states, NCPCR found that girls were even asked to give massage to the directors of these Homes and molested.
Analysing the situation in a detailed report, NCPCR said insurgency coupled with the virtual absence of government officials at the sub-district and block level to address the education, health and developmental problems have made the entire north-east an easy hunting ground for middlemen to lure out children from parents in the name of providing them proper education.
“All-out effort are being made by pastors and other category of persons who are reaching out to source areas through middlemen for getting children in order to obtain financial support from churches within the country or donations from outside,” the NCPCR said in response to a direction from the apex court to inquire into the incidents.
The source areas for the pastors are Tamnglong, Senapati, Chandel, Bishnupur, Churachandpur and Imphal in Manipur, North Cachar Hills in Assam and Meghalaya. The destination states are TN, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh and Kerala.
“The main reason for children being sent out by the poor parents to far off places in southern states is due to their high expectation of quality education for their children which is not available at their own places,” the Commission said.
The other main reasons for the parents agreeing to send their children far away were no easy access to schools; lack of basic infrastructure such as road connectivity, power and hospitals; insurgency and lack of a sense of security among parents to send children walking to schools; poor financial status of parents preventing them from putting children in boarding schools; and absence of governance in sub-district and block level to address education, health and developmental problems of vulnerable families.
This provides a perfect opportunity for middlemen to exploit the situation and is being taken advantage of by pastors. But, the children get caught between the devil at home and the deep sea in the Homes in southern states, NCPCR said.
..”The book opens with a literally earth shaking event: the 2010 earthquake that devastated Haiti and the rush to adopt it engendered. Joyce focuses immediately on the infamous case of Laura Silsby’s band of bible-thumping pseudo missionaries from Idaho who were arrested trying to leave Haiti with 33 children and charged with kidnapping. Silsby and her Reverse Robinhoods felt justified and self-righteous, about taking from the poor to give to the rich, even building a resort in the Dominican Republic for adopters. A fit beginning to describe the zealousness that drives evangelicals to “save” children physically and spiritually.
In the end, many if not most churches dissociated themselves from Silsby after she was charged with kidnaping. The adoption industry and adoption advocates put the incident, like all adoption horror stories, in a neat little box labeled anomalies and continue right along, business as usual simply moving from country as they close adoptions in order to end the corruption. Not unlike claims that women cannot get pregnant from “legitimate” rape, Chuck Johnson at the Saddlebrook Church, argued that claims of fraud had been blown out of proportion, saying: “We have no indication of real, true corruption.”
Be careful !!!! At the airport or close to any Customs checkpoint, never accept or help somebody to hold his/her bottle of water or other objects, even for elderly person or pregnant women. You could be arrested for cocaine or illegal drugs possession!
Watch this attached video by the US Customs….. you will understand how smart cocaine dealers are nowadays” -Youtube
This warning has come from an officer working at the airport.
At the airport never help anybody to hold, even for a short time, his or her water bottle or anything.
If you happen to buy a water bottle at the airport, please check the bottle. BEWARE of fake water bottles.
At the airport or close to any customs service, never accept or help somebody to hold his/her bottle of water or other objects, even for an elderly person or a pregnant women. Tell them to put the bottle on the floor.
You could be arrested for cocaine or any illegal drugs possession. In Singapore, that means death penalty!
Watch this attached video by the US Customs. (Cocaine dealers are very smart ).
Assassination by the Government may be for the target,(what an euphemism!),who
– poses a direct threat to Nation directly or indirectly.
– has harmed the Nation through or not through war
– has carried out terror attacks like 9/!11 attack
for Geopolitical Reasons.
and Business interests.
In earlier times , CIA to attempted to have Castro killed; employed the Mafia to arrange a mob hit on Mr. Castro shortly before the Bay of Pigs invasion of April 1961. The Mafia turned out not to be a very reliable partner and the hit never materialized, but the C.I.A. was undeterred. The agency later tried to deliver to Mr. Castro a scuba-diving suit laced with poison. Another plot involved getting Mr. Castro to smoke a toxic cigar.
But Osama happened to be different in that he not only made killing a routine affair with an existent or non-existent religious flavor and carried out these attacks with deadly weapons and in some cases with prior notice.
His activities transcends national borders, thus making him loathsome by most people on earth.
There remains some people who still believe in the causes he espoused, some of them legitimate though the path he undertook is not.
In short the killing by Government-is it justified?
Legally, these acts may be justified with the exception of Osama.
Assassinations for other reasons mentioned are neither Morally Right or legally Correct.
These acts violate the principle of Social morality and infringe national borders.
Bombing of Qadhafi falls under this category.
He has neither harmed citizens nor is he a National threat.
The bombing can not be justified .
The killing of Osama must remain for what it was- killing of an international criminal, who had planned and the potential to kill more-nothing more.
And this must never be quoted as a precedent.
The way to justice is law and not cold-blooded killing; one needs to be very careful that the killing one undertakes in the name of justice remains the very rare exception, and not the rule.
US Explains Legality.
The chorus of official applause from international leaders over the death of Osama bin Laden has failed to silence doubts about the killing’s legality.
Despite widespread backing for the raid, there is a growing demand for the precise legal basis of the US operation to be explained, particularly given the absence of prior debate in the UN security council.
Prof Nick Grief, an international lawyer at Kent University, said the attack had the appearance of an “extrajudicial killing without due process of the law”.
Cautioning that not all the circumstances were known, he added: “It may not have been possible to take him alive … but no one should be outside the protection of the law.” Even after the end of the second world war, Nazi war criminals had been given a “fair trial”…..
The prominent defence lawyer Michael Mansfield QC expressed similar doubts about whether sufficient efforts had been made to capture Bin Laden. “The serious risk is that in the absence of an authoritative narrative of events played out in Abbottabad, vengeance will become synonymised with justice, and that revenge will supplant ‘due process’.
“Assuming the mission was … intended to detain and not to assassinate, it is therefore imperative that a properly documented and verifiable narrative of exactly what happened is made public. Whatever feelings of elation and relief may dominate the airwaves,” he said, “they must not be allowed to submerge core questions about the legality of the exercise, nor to permit vengeance or summary execution to become substitutes for justice.”
The human rights lawyer Geoffrey Robertson QC argued that the killing risked undermining the rule of law. “The security council could have set up an ad hoc tribunal in The Hague, with international judges (including Muslim jurists), to provide a fair trial and a reasoned verdict,” he wrote in the Independent. “This would have been the best way of demystifying this man, debunking his cause and de-brainwashing his followers.”
The immediate justification for the killing was that the head of al-Qaidahad long ago declared war on the US and other nations. “In war you are allowed to attack your enemy,” a US embassy spokesman in London said.
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