Many homeless after India violence

Hundreds of families in a remote region of the eastern Indian state of Orissa remain homeless after a wave of violence swept the region last month.

Four people were killed in the fighting between hardline Hindus and Christians in Kandhamal district.

Tension erupted over the issue of Hindus converting to Christianity.

Orissa, which is mainly Hindu and has a tiny Christian minority, has seen violence between the two communities in the past.

The minority Christian community in Kandhamal district, many of whom are forest tribal people and low-caste converts to Christianity, say they have been targeted by Hindu nationalist organisations seeking to put an end to the church and its activities in the region.

Parts of the district have remained under night-time curfew since the tensions erupted, and has been largely inaccessible to foreign journalists.


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