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An ongoing struggle in Kazakhstan between the authorities and a local Hindu village has turned serious.

It was snowing. Residents’ household stuff such as mattresses, blankets, utensils cookware, and furniture were laying outside on the lawns by their houses. People in construction outfits (labor people) got inside the houses and started crushing windows and doors, destroying walls. The bulldozer was demolishing the buildings and the big stone fencing with cast iron openwork lattice which separated the houses from the driving area. 

Kazakhstan Demolishes Hare Krishna Commune

"I have no words to describe what I have seen," Ninel Fokina, head of the Almaty Helsinki Committee, told Forum 18 from the demolition site. "They have no right to move people out of their homes in winter.

Tony Blair has raised the issue with the Kazakhstan President Nazarbayev

British Prime Minister Tony Blair has raised the issue of alleged harassment of Kazakh Hindus with the Kazakhstan President Nursultan Nazarbayev at a meeting in London.

Notificiation of the situation around the RO Society for Krishna Consciousness in Kazakhstan

Notificiation of the situation around the Religious Organization Society for Krishna Consciousness in Kazakhstan

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.

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.

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.

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. 

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

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).