Years after Swami Laxmanananda Saraswati's killing, Kandhamal is still a ticking time bomb - Firstpost

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Kandhamal: On the night of 7 June this year, suspected Christian fanatics broke into a small Hindu temple in Daringbadi in Odisha’s Kandhamal district. The 'Ma Bana Durga' temple, which the locals say was at least 50 years old, was just a shrine under a tree till two months earlier when a proper brick-and-mortar structure was created around it...

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Around 20 masked men, wearing black uniforms, kicked the gate open and headed straight towards Saraswati’s quarters, opening fire. As he heard the gunshots, Saraswati locked himself in the bathroom adjacent to his room and started shouting in Odia: “Save me, save me!” The gunmen broke into his room and killed two of his associates: Ma Bhaktimayi and Kishore Babu. Then they tore through the bathroom door and fired at Saraswati.

Another associate of Saraswati, Baba Amritananda, was shot dead in the adjacent room. One of the guardians of a girl student who happened to be in the guest room, Puranjan Gaunta, was killed as well...

In October 2013, seven people — all of them Christians — and a Maoist leader, Pulari Rama Rao,were sentenced to life imprisonment for their role in Saraswati’s killing. Two other Maoist leaders — both in jail now — Dunna Keshav Rao alias Azad and Sabyasachi Panda are also accused in the case...
Years after Swami Laxmanananda Saraswati's killing, Kandhamal is still a ticking time bomb - 
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Swami Lakshmanananda Saraswati and four of his disciples were murdered on August 23, 2008 in the State of Odisha in India. Swami Lakshmanananda was a Hindu monk and a highly revered spiritual leader who lived a life dedicated to the welfare of the vanavasis (or those Indians belonging to the Constitutional Category of "Scheduled Tribes") of Kandhamal...
https://en.dharmapedia.net/wiki/Murder_of_Swami_Lakshmanananda