By Braja Sevaki Devi Dasi
The Karasai district Hakimat demands that the Krishna temple and other buildings in the Hare Krishna community be demolished in 10 days.
In the morning of June 6 the local police officer handed a notification to the chairman of the Society for Krishna Consciousness. The document said that the land of the farm community of the Society for Krishna Consciousness had been transferred to the district land reserve according to court rulings. Based on that, the Karasai district Hakimat demanded that all the “illegally constructed buildings” situated on this land including the temple of the Society for Krishna Consciousness and the cowshed be demolished in 10 days.
This Karasai district Hakim’s order is itself illegal because
– the Hakim does not have the right to demand demolition of buildings;
– the court rulings only say about confiscating plots of land, there is no mention of demolishing buildings on the farm community’s land;
– the Hakim calls the buildings situated on the community’s land “illegally constructed.” However both the building currently used as a temple and the cowshed had existed even before the land was acquired by the Hare Krishnas.
The Hare Krishnas are going to appeal against the lawless actions of the Karasai district Hakimat to the prosecutor’s office and the Almaty provincial Hakimat.
At the present time officials in Astana and Almaty province make declarations that the conflict around the Hare Krishnas will be resolved by giving the community an alternative piece of land. However no piece of land has been given so far. Until it happens the Krishna temple with 50 faithful and 30 cows just have no place to go. Besides, the temple building is the place where the Society for Krishna Consciousness is legally registered, and its demolition will lead to the liquidation of the Society.
The chairman of the Religious Affairs Committee, E. Tugzhanov, promised to the representatives of the Society during their last meeting that the community would get a plot of land before May 26. It is quite possible that Astana makes show that the Krishna’s problem is being carefully attended to, while in reality nobody is going to do anything with it. The actions of the local Hakimat confirm this assumption.
The conflict around the Krishna community has been going on since 2004. The RK President’s Administration has defined this situation as a result of bad governance on the part of the local authorities. As a result of this conflict 14 houses of the faithful were demolished in the community in November of 2006.
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The diplomacy time is up! We all should start humbly praying to Lord Nrsimhadeva to kindly deal with those making these horrendous decisions.
Hiranyakashipu style!
time to send the K C army to Kasakstan & take over that country, or at least prevent houses from demolition. sounds like an extreme hatred of krishna consciousness situation.
Maybe Lord Nrsimhadeva will visit the Hakim at night, as He did with Chand Kazi.