The Catholic Bishops’ Conference of India (CBCI), The Karnataka Region Catholic Bishops’ Conference (KRCB) and Karnataka United Christian Forum for Human Rights(KUCFHR) issued statements denouncing the murder of Gauri Lankesh, the editor of Lankesh Patrike, who was murdered on September 5,2017, at her Raja Rajeshwari Nagar residence in Bengaluru.
As reported by ucanindia.in, the statement signed by CBCI Secretary General Bishop Theodore Mascarenhas asserted that “We salute her for the courage with which she wrote, the conviction with which she lived her life and the boldness with which she fought the forces of evil, hatred and corruption.” Further, it stated that “This hatred cannot build a new India, we need love, peace and harmony and we appeal to all leaders, people, communities and persons in our beloved India to shun the ideologies of hatred.”
Reports claimed that two of the three assailants were bike-borne and followed her car to the house, while another attacker was lying in wait near her house. All three escaped from the spot. An activist, thinker and writer, Gauri was the eldest daughter of the well-known Kannada poet-turned-journalist P Lankesh.
