The Voice of the suffering in Asia

“The situation of minorities in Pakistan is still not improving despite all the efforts.”

“The law ... has given the right-wing zealots the chance to crack their whip at any time against the vulnerable minority community members,”

DAVID PAMTHET, 17, AN ETHNIC KHASI PRESBYTERIAN, lives with his mother Welentina Pamthet, 42 and two sisters in Ichhachhara Khasi in northeastern Bangladesh. There are about 300 people from 50 Christian families in the village. Khasi, a mongoloid group, mostly rely on betel leaf farming for survival. There are about 40,000 mostly Christian Khasi people in some 94 villages in northeastern Bangladesh. Since 2020, David’s family has been in a dispute with a Muslim man over a five-acre betel leaf plantation, the only source of income of the family. David’s father, Jasper Amlorong, 52, inherited the family property, but ...

“Unexpectedly, there was a strong rejection from a certain intolerant Muslim group. They protested against the Easter celebrations held on the parish’s land. I was shocked as I did not expect such thing to happen. "

"Education once brought hatred to the people, now it must be the healer."

“Peace is possible. Peace is the only way. Democracy is the only light to that path.”