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Kazakh police have knocked down part of a village housing Hare Krishna followers

Kazakh police have knocked down part of a village housing Hare Krishna followers, the group said on Wednesday calling the move an attack on religious freedom.

NewsRu.com

Hindu's houses destroyed in Kazakhstan

Yesterday 13 cottages of the members of the religious organization Society for Krishna Consciousness were demolished in the area of Sri Vrindavan Dham farm. By this action the court decision about eviction of the vaishnavas from their plots of land was executed.

Business review Republic.KZ

The beginning of the end of a Hare Krishna community

Policemen and bailiffs rushed into dwellings, broke windows, threw out furniture and belongings... Even more than resistance the authorities of the Karasai district were afraid that their arbitrariness may go public.

Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty

Kazakhs Bulldoze Hare Krishna Commune

A Norwegian-based religious-freedom group reported that authorities in southern Kazakhstan today began the demolition of the only Hare Krishna commune in the former Soviet Union.

Forum18 (F18News)

KAZAKHSTAN: State bulldozes Hare Krishna commune, bids to chair OSCE

As Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev is in London seeking support for his bid to chair the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), state authorities began today (21 November) bulldozing the only Hare Krishna commune in the region, Forum 18 News Service has learnt. The costs of the demolition are being imposed by the authorities on the Hare Krishna devotees and OPON riot police have sealed off the commune. "At present a bulldozer is knocking down one house," Hare Krishna devotee Anastasia told Forum 18 from the site as she watched the destruction, "while a further four are being knocked down by hand."

Voice of freedom KAZAKHSTAN

The community of the Society for Krishna Consciousness near Almaty expects its destiny to be settled

The only settlement of the followers of god Krishna in Central Asia located near Almaty remains in the state of nervous expectation. And though the krishnaits' farm Sri Vrindavan Dham operates in the usual mode, nobody can exclude the possibility of new attempts to demolish their buildings (first attempt took place in April of 2006).

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