Now the movements of sewage at the Hare Krishna farm in the Karasai
district of Almaty province, Kazakhstan, are personally supervised by
the chief expert of the Provincial Land Department, Anatoli Portnyagin.
Almaty – Impervious to international outcry, government officials in
the Central Asian country of Kazakhstan have intensified their attacks
against members of the Hare Krishna religion, a Vaishnava Hindu
tradition. A local court ordered more homes belonging to the Krishna
devotees to be demolished, the Associated Press reported, threatening
to leave more families homeless in freezing temperatures at any moment.
The fact that the 13 partly demolished houses were all of Krishna fellows led some observers to talk about harassment against religious minorities. According to independent observers, the court case is carried out in violation of the procedural code. The Commission will continue to watch the situation and raise the issue in its regular contacts
with Kazakhstan at the apropriate occasion.
New York, Feb 6 (IANS) The Central Asian country of Kazakhstan is
continuing with its persecution of the Hindu community, according to
the North America branch of the International Society for Krishna
Consciousness (ISKCON).
International Herald Tribune (by the Associated Press)
A court has ordered the confiscation of land used
by Kazakhstan's Hare Krishna community, ruling in favor of local
authorities in a legal dispute that Krishnas have called religious
persecution, the community's spokesman said Wednesday.
