Cell phones flared riots in Kandhmal

Orissa’s senior government officiacs have said that mobile phones played a big role in flaring up communal riots in Orissa's Kandhamal district a year ago while religious conversion was one of the major reasons of disharmony among the people living peacefully for generations. [via MyNews.in]

"I will like to blame use of new technology like mobile phones for flaring up the riots in Kandhamal", Orissa's Director General of Police, Manmohan Praharaj, said while speaking at a national seminar on the "Role of Police in promotion of communal harmony and national integration" here yesterday.

The DGP said mischief mongers had easy access to mobile phones to engineer and organise riots across the communally sensitive district. "While controlling riots earlier was comparatively easy for police, it had become difficult now because of the advent of new technology".

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