Tue 12 May 2009 22:42

Indian Christians caught up in murderous power struggle

Category: India

The murder squad struck swiftly, emerging from the jungle in the dead of night. At around 2am, about twenty Maoist guerrillas crept into the village of Rudigumma, a clutch of mottled huts deep in the remote eastern Indian state of Orissa. Silently they encircled the house of a worker for the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), India's most powerful extremist Hindu group.   Reports: The Times Online