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India | Religious-rights advocates watch for signs of change from India’s month-long elections | Jamie Dean

Associated Press/Photo by Biswaranjan Rout

Praful Mallick isn't hopeful about India's national elections. More than eight months after Hindu nationalists led violent campaigns against Christians in the country's central state of Orissa, Mallick still lives with 43 other Christian families in a makeshift camp on the outskirts of a small Orissa town.

Fear of more violence keeps these Christians—and scores of others scattered throughout the region—from returning to the homes they fled during persecution-driven riots. Mallick says he doesn't think political change would ease their plight. "There are peace committees," he told the BBC. "But the peace committees are full of the people who led the riots. What difference is that going to make?"

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