ICC Note: A pastor and two students in India were assaulted by a group of Hindu radicals on June 8 who filmed their attack and uploaded it to social media. Since then, the video of the assault has gone viral. The Christians have filed a complaint against their assailants, but justice may be hard to come by as an atmosphere of impunity surrounds many attacks on religious minorities in India.  

07/03/2018 India (Woke Journal) – A group of Rashtriya Swayam Sevak (RSS) terrorists attacked and threatened three protestant pastors in Kodungalloor on June 8, 2018. In the video taken by one of the assailants, a RSS worker named Gopinathan Kodungalloor is seen hitting the pastors and threatening them.

RSS workers who were with Gopinathan took the video of the assault and shared it on social media.

Pastor Roy Thomas and two of his students filed a complaint against the assailants in police station and the police have issued a look out notice in the name of Gopinathan Kodungalloor. The video had become viral on Social Media and sparked protests.

According to the World Watch Monitor, 410 incidents of attacks on Christians in India had been reported in the initial six months of 2017 – almost as many as the total for the whole year 2016 – 441. In all the recent attacks on Christians, the involvement of various right-wing outfits which are affiliated to BJP and RSS is very evident.

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