On morning of 20th of March Hindus, TV reporters from several
channels came to the spot of demolition. Soon workers came
equipped with crow bars and sledge hammers for destroying the homes. An
electrical arrived and prepared to disconnect the energy supply to the
community and to prepare everything for the destruction.
The Kazakhstan Government has confiscated 116 acres of land from the Religious Organization Society for Krishna Consciousness. As a proposed solution to the conflict the government has offered 5 acres of land in an arid area and has declared this to be a happy ending to the conflict.
Now the movements of sewage at the Hare Krishna farm in the Karasai
district of Almaty province, Kazakhstan, are personally supervised by
the chief expert of the Provincial Land Department, Anatoli Portnyagin.
ALMATY - Hare Krishna followers in Kazakhstan fear eviction from their homes in a case human rights monitors say raises questions about religious tolerance in the Central Asian state.
Today (20 March), Kazakh authorities resumed the demolition of an embattled Hare Krishna commune, Forum 18 News Service has learnt. Demolition re-started this morning, but was suddenly halted on the arrival of "a person in a black Mercedes Benz car".
