Survivors of Kandhamal massacre

In 2008, sections of Hindutva forces used open terror to coerce Christians in Kandhamal into forced conversion, threatening death with axes placed at their necks. These survivors represent only a fraction of those subjected to such violence. Rituals were staged under duress, not faith. Today, many have returned to their churches, exposing the futility of coercion. These lived experiences stand as political testimony that belief cannot be manufactured through fear. Faith is an inner conviction, not a submission extracted by weapons. History records such acts not as triumphs, but as moral and ideological failures.