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The Sikh Leaders, Freedom Fighters and Intellectuals
To bring an end to tyranny it is a must to punish the terrorist -Baba (General) Banda Singh Bahadar Sikhs have only two options: slavery of the Hindus or struggle for their lost sovereignty and freedom -Sirdar Kapur Singh, ICS, MP, MLA and National Professor of Sikhism I am not afraid of physical death; moral death is death in reality Saint-soldier Jarnail Singh Khalsa Martyrdom is our ornament -Bhai Awtar Singh Brahma (General) We do not fear the terrorist Hindu regime. We are tireless: we shall return home before freedom of Khalistan -General Labh Singh The coward Hindu regime will never achieve our surrender -Baba Gurbachan Singh Manochahal One must have superior morality and lifestyle than the person he is going to punish -Bhai Harjinder Singh Jinda and Bhai Sukhdev Singh Sukha My real life will begin from the moment of my martyrdom for the Panth Bhai Amrik Singh Khalsa The siege of Darbar Sahib is the siege of the Sikh Nation -Justice Ajit Singh Bains No power on the earth can stop the freedom of the Sikh Homeland - -Simranjit Singh Mann, MP Even they dismember my body, I will not surrender before the terrorist police chief KP Gill -Bhai Kanwar Singh Dhami We are alive, we are awakened, we are struggling and we shall surely win -The Declaration of the Sikh Nation
The lessons of Guru Gobind Singh ji must be followed. No Sikh, whether a politician, sarpanch or jathedar, should be followed if they do not openly and unequivocally speak out for a free and sovereign Khalistan and encourage a peaceful movement -Dr Gurmit Singh, President, Council of Khalistan, Washington DC
The goal of Khalsa Panth is the Sovereigny of Khalistan. The Akali government has backed away from it. It has lost its credibility with the Sikh Nation. Do not let these Akali leaders get away with it. It is our responsibility to liberate Khalistan. -Dr Gurmit Singh Aulakh
Freedom is never given, it is won through preservance and struggle by peaceful means -Dr Gurmit Singh Aulakh Akali Party id dead -Dr Harjinder Singh Dilgeer
The top priority of the Sikh Nation is to “Re-establish the Sovereignty of the Sikhs' Holy and Historic Homeland, Punjab, Khalistan, by peaceful means.” -Dr Gurmit Singh Aulakh, President, Council of Khalistan, Washington DC
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CONTENTS
Sainthood and the Sikh Gurtej Singh 1 Chronology: Sikh members of parliament “rejected”…Indian parliament A S Sekhon 1 Afzal Guru's execution to invigorate…hegemony by high castes Usman Khalid 2 “Robbed” Punjab of August 15th , 1947…sending any Sikh to the gallows A S Sekhon 4 Hindu Hate: The sad plight of India's flock Father Raymond J DeSouza 5
NEWS, VIEWS, Short Articles, etc.
Demonstration against India's Republic day…and Punjab Habib Yousafzai 8 Sangh oarivar is stoking fire at the India-Pakistan borders. Irresponsible as usual Andhi Tarun Vijay spits venom…. 9 Bhai Sahib Sirdar Balwant Singh Rajoana's statement, written and spoken, in a Patiala court February 4th, 2013 9 Press Release: Dal Khalsa Alliance and sister Sikh organizations condemn Afzal Guru's Hanging 10 Shining India: How to control rapes & killings Zaheerul Hassan 10 Hostile friends Ali Sukhanwar 11 Dr Awatar Singh Sekhon comments…. 11 22nd Session of the United Nations: Human Rights Council: Dr Sekhon's participation 13 Sparks can ignite into flame Sami ullah Malik 14 22nd Session of the UN: Human Rights Council Item 4 A S Sekhon 15 22nd Session of the UN:HRC Item 3 A S Sekhon 15 Centre for Human Rights and peace advocacy UN:HRC Agenda Item 5 Dino Dean Gracious 16 Dr Awatar Singh Sekhon's participation in Combating impunity 22nd UN:HRC 16 Canada again recognize Sikhs' right to propagate the idea of Khalistan Parmjit Singh 17 Dal Khalsa Alliance (USA) and its sister organizations submit Memorandum to the 22nd Session of the UN:HRC, March 2013 18 India police arrest 6 in new bus gang rape 22 India must withdraw its occupying forces…employ the first strike option Habib Yousafzai 23 Ms Laura Dolci-Kanan, NGO Liason Officer, OHCHR Civil Society Unit 23 Movement Against State Repression Chandigarh, Punjab 23 Dr Sekhon writes to Bhai Sahib Sirdar Balwant Singh Rajoana ji 24 Sirdar Gurmit Singh writes on the sad situation of the Delhi Gurdwara Management Committee March 19th, 2013 25 Dr Awatar Singh Sekhon writes to Sirdar Gurmit Singh Khalsa 26 Tribute: Air Commodore M M Alam (1935-2013) Usman Khalid 27 Dr Awatar Singh Sekhon responds to Sardar Harbans Singh Aujla 28 Dr Awatar Singh Sekhon writes further to Sardar Harbans Singh Aujla 29 Sardar Harbans Singh Aujla responds to Manmeet Grewal 29 Brahmins-Hindus-turbaned Brahmins' Gift to the Guru Khalsa Panth. Dr Sekhon writes to Bhai Sahib Sirdar Balwant Singh Rajoana ji 30 My arrest was psychological warfare Mohannad Ahmad Kazmi 54
REVIEW
Failures of the Akali Leadership by Gurmit Singh, 1981, pp 309 Kavneet Singh 53
PUNJABI SECTION
Sirdar Balwant Singh Rajoana's message to the Guru Khalsa Panth alias the Sikh Nation 31 Samlingi Vartare Prati Pahunch Gurtej Singh 33 Banni tan Gavo Guru Keri… Rajinder Singh Khalsa 34 Khalsa Raj: Budh Mat 'te Hunn Principal Giani Surjit Singh 45 Sardar Harbans Singh writes to Giani Gurbachan Singh, Custodian, The Akal Takht Sahib 48
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SAINTHOOD AND THE SIKH Gurtej Singh, IAS & IPS (Formerly)
Recently Sardar Mahinder Singh Khaira, a learned person and characterised by extreme humility. In particular the seeker must writer from UK asked me to clarify the Sikh position on the issue assume oneself to be a sinner while imploring Him to bestow of saint-hood. Reproduced below is what I wrote to him in reply. grace (nadar). The dedication to serve the Lord of Creation must Would you say I gave him the right advice? now become absolute, regardless of the human cost and worldly The theory of creation propounded by Guru Nanak envisages that consequences. It may lead to resisting evil physically and even to the Eternally Existent (Satnam) fashioned the universe out of martyrdom. This is liberation, release, summum bonum, jiwan- Himself/Herself and took abode in every atom of the created. (eh mukti or salvation. Those who receive his grace, of course, come jag sache ki hai kothri sache ka vich vaas) to reside eternally in the 'region of truth' (sachkhand). One part of the self-revelation was the revelation of attributes of At no stage (step) of spiritual development aimed at realising the the Ever True. This makes Him the original Guru (guide, teacher). full spiritual development does one become spiritually superior This discovery is the bedrock upon which the structure of the to any other seeker or being. One increasingly bows with humility faith, its theology and the spiritual pursuits prescribed for the as the fruit laden tree bends with each passing day. There is no seeker are raised. Knowing this is to enter the 'region of space for superior spirituality. The constant guidance that is knowledge' with its myriad nuances and elevating, inspiring necessary throughout the journey is provided by the scripture, the effects. The spiritual goal of the seeker, prescribed by Guru eternal Guru Granth and the company of seekers, the Guru Khalsa Nanak, ordained by the Creator, is the imbibing of the divine panth. Both the entities have been duly anointed and consecrated attributes until one completely merges into the Ultimate Reality in that position by the Guru himself, with divine sanction. like 'water into water.' This requires incessant striving to The ordained priesthood as well as the consecrated saints that are consciously shed the dross of material existence and the loving available in other traditions as intermediaries between man and intense urge to seek the merger. This important step in the God are totally irrelevant in Sikhi (the Sikh faith). The Guru holds elevation of the self to spirituality is complete transformation of both to be responsible for many ills of the world and constitute human nature (from selfishness to altruism). The process is impediments on the path to spirituality. described as happening in the 'region of discipline' Guru Granth and (to a lesser degree) the Guru Khalsa panth are (shramkhand). the only guides available to a seeker in the arduous, but This status beckons the seeker to act in the mundane world; immensely rewarding spiritual journey. Apart from that all Sikhs briefly it involves performing the role of Ultimate Reality in ones are 'brothers in faith in the Guru' (gurbhai). In the structure of the sphere and level of existence. This assuming unlimited Sikh faith, on the spiritual path prescribed by it and its theology responsibility for the welfare of the entire creation is termed as there is no space for the consecration of saints. Those who existence in the 'region of karmkhand.' It is the pen-ultimate stage presume to consecrate and those who deem human sanction as of spiritual striving and renders one eligible for receiving His proof of elevated spiritual status are unequivocally disapproved approval (grace), which of course cannot be earned. of and are called 'shameless hypocrites.' (kulhan dende bawle The basic condition of the path to be trodden thereafter is lainde vadde nilaj, chuha khad na maavai tikkal banhe chhaj). ***** CHRONOLOGY: SIKH MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT "REJECTED" THE INDIAN CONSTITUTION IN INDIAN PARLIAMENT Dr Awatar Singh Sekhon The word India did not exist on the world map, atlas or any Brahmins-Hindus had been "subservient" for more than 3,500 dictionary and encyclopedia of the English language until March years and up until the early hours of August 15th, 1947. 29th, 1849. On the other hand, PUNJAB, the Sikh Raj had been Where had "India" been before August 15th, 1947? The word the first 'Sovereign and Secular Nation' of South Asia from 1799 'India' did not exist on the world map or as pointed out above. The to March 14th, 1849, under a Sikh Monarch, Ranjit Singh (1799 word (India) was invented between March 14th and 29th, 1849 in to March 14th, 1849). The Sovereign and Secular Sikh Raj lost its England, as mentioned by the British agent Dalhousie in his Sovereignty and Secularism on March 14th, 1849, to the forces of Radio announcement from Rawalpindi (what is now the twin city the British Empire. On March 29th, 1849 a declaration was made of Rawalpindi and Islamabad in the Islamic Republic of by the British Empire from Rawalpindi Radio that "PUNJAB, the Pakistan). Until August 15th, 1947 the Hindus-Brahmins had Sikh Raj is "annexed" to the British Empire for the administrative been"subservient" to the Afghans, Mughals, Sikhs, British, purposes only. Portuguese, etc. The Sikhs of the Sikh Raj started their 'Struggle for Sovereignty, India or the British East India Company or its successor the Independence and Political power right after the Sikh Raj's forces British India Empire was made up of the conquered Hindu and surrendered to the British Empire on the 14th day of March, Muslim kingdoms by the British East India Company until 1849'. Their struggle to regain lost sovereignty has been a, August 15th, 1947. "Struggle to Regain Their Lost Sovereignty, Independence and When did India's (Brahmins-Hindus) Freedom Struggle begin? It Political power since March 14th, 1849 and continuing it to-date, began 9-years after the "Sikhs' Struggle for Sovereignty, i. e., 2013", going on and will continue it until the Sikhs' Independence and Political power began on March 14th, 1849. PUNJAB is "Sovereign, Independent and restore their political That is, the Brahmins-Hindus of the British India Empire's power, under the guidance of the Sikhs Holy Scripture, Guru freedom struggle began in 1857. Granth Sahib, and the Sikh Traditions." On August 14th, 1947 Pakistan emerged as a 'Sovereign and Where were the Brahmins-Hindus and their so-called India? The Independent Nation' under the leadership of Janab MA Jinnah,
1 International Journal of Sikh Affairs 23 (1), June Issue 2013 ISSN 1481-5435 his advisors, staunch supporters and followers. On August 15th, 1947 the Brahmins-Hindus Congress (National) 6. Since August 15th, 1947 more than 3.2 million Sikhs have been party under MK Gandhi, JL Nehru and other members of the exterminated in genocide, pogroms, an 'undeclared' war on Sikhs Congress (party) were presented the independence of the British and their Religious and Political institutions, The Darbar Sahib East India Empire (later) and termed as independent India. Complex, including The Akal Takht Sahib, Gurdwaras, villages; On the August 15th, 1947 (at or before 23h 59m 59s of August became the victims of an 'undeclared' war waged in the form of a 15th, 1947) the PUNJAB, Sikh Nation of the British Empire until brutal military "Operation Bluestar" of June, 1984. Elite armed India's independence was "Robed" by the Brahmins-Hindus- forces employed, to 'exterminate' the Sikhs. Armed personnel turbaned Brahmins Rats. (army, navy and air force) slaughtered more than 170,000 The Sikhs elected representatives "Rejected" the Indian innocent Sikhs (infants, children, youth, male and female folks, elderlys) were mercilessly killed between June 3rd to 8th , 1984. Constitution in its draft and final forms: 7. The Sikhs have no constitutional, social, political, religious 1. 1948 rights, etc. Their gross human and religious rights are being abused by the Brahmins-Hindus-turbaned Brahmins Rats' of the 2. 26th of NOVEMBER, 1949 New Delhi administration (NDA), as well as the state/provincial administrations governed by a turbaned Brahmin. 3. 26th of January, 1950 (The day when the Brahmins-Hindus declared India as a REPUBLIC) 8. Massive rapes of the Sikh women (females) are the order of the day by the impotent law-enforcing agencies, since August 15th, 4. 6th of September, 1966 (Rejected by Sirdar Kapur Singh, ICS, 1947. MP, MLA and National Professor of Sikhism. He was the first Based on the above abuses of the Sikh human rights, atrocities, Sikh victim of the Brahmins-Hindus' policies towards the Sikhs fake-encounter killings, rapes, etc., "The Sikhs call the August and their Holy and Historic Homeland, "Robed" PUNJAB 15th & January 26th as 'The Black Days' for the Sikh Nation, (PUNJAB included Haryana and Himachal Pradesh) of August "Robed" PUNJAB of August 15th, 1947alias the "House of Guru 15th, 1947. Baba Nanak Sahib." Similarly, the Muslims, Christians, Assam and its 7-sister, 5. The Sikh Nation, now "Robed" PUNJAB of August 15th, 1947, Kashmiris of the IDA:JK and non-Brahmins-Hindus' rights are has been betrayed by the deceitful Brahmins-Hindus-turbaned violated, including mass rape by the armed personnel and the Brahmin Rats. goons of the political administrators ***** Afzal Guru's Execution to Invigorate Struggle for Liberation of J&K India is the last surviving imperial power which is unique as its desire for regional hegemony is underpinned by internal hegemony by high castes Usman Khalid Director Rifah Institute of Foreign Affairs (RIFA) http://www.rifah.org/site/afzal-guru%e2%80%99s-execution- policy. Since the partition in 1947, the Muslims in India, who to-invigorate-struggle-for-liberation-of-jk/ were more prosperous and socially advanced than Hindus, have Usman Khalid, Director RIFA fallen below even the Scheduled Castes. That is no accident; it is the result of the Muslims being treated as Untouchables and Not many people know that Hindus are a minority in India. The excluded from all spheres of life except the lowest. The number of those within the fold of chaturvarna i.e. four castes resentment against the high caste Hindu rulers exists not only (Brahmin, Kashatri, Vesh and Shudara) are no more than 15% of among the Muslims but among ALL Untouchables. That would the population of India – the same as the Muslims. The original have been a potent force if sovereign Muslim states and erstwhile inhabitants of India are treated as 'untouchables' like the shudras rulers of the sub-continent united against Hindu repression. To but their number is 65% of the population. They are outside the repress Muslims with impunity and to demonise Pakistan is the caste system and were considered 'outcastes' until the British main plank of India's policy. On occasions, in consequence of included them in the caste hierarchy. The indigenous outcastes, sustained subversion, collaborators of Hindus have been under the influence of Aryan settlers in the sub-continent, installed in power in every neighboring country. When such developed a caste system of their own but they did not practice rulers submit to the fiat of India, repression inside India becomes Untouchability. The indigenous outcastes are really the only real more severe; when they do not, India begins to talk up military nation in India. However, the British, who had defeated the threats. Over the last five years India had its collaborators ruling Muslim rulers to conquer the sub-continent, decided to unify the in Pakistan as well as Bangladesh. Bangladesh succumbed to four castes with outcastes into one people. They classified the native people into three groups – Scheduled Castes (SC) 20%, Indian pressure and committed three grave crimes: Scheduled Tribes (ST) 10%, and Other Backward Castes (OBCs) 35%. Those who converted to Islam, Christianity, and the Sikh 1. execution of officers who carried out a coup d'état on August faith were called religious minorities under British rule. Over 15th , 1975 to save Bangladesh from being absorbed into India; time, however, the converts also embraced a caste system of sorts. The Sikhs and Christians have separate gurudwaras and 2. stalling on proper inquiry into the Peelkhana massacre of churches for lower castes. It is only the Muslims who have February 2009 in which 53 senior officers of BDR were killed in spurned the practice of Untouchability and the caste hierarchy. a RAW sponsored clandestine operation, The foreign policy of a country is the projection of its internal
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3. to cover its being complicit in the massacre Hasina use the abject poverty of Kashmiris, Muslims and its outcastes Administration started trial of Jamaat i Islami leaders who with kins in neighboring countries to establish and maintain its assisted the Pakistan Army in fighting Indian invasion in 1971. regional hegemony. Its foreign policy is the extension of the Pakistan led by Asif Zardari kept quiet and acquiesced. The four 'internal hegemony' on which the Hindu caste system is based. party ruling coalition of Zardari League, MQM, ANP and JUI New Delhi is afraid that friendly neighbours and foreign policy have interfaces for guidance and support in India. A propaganda based on 'sovereign equality' of nations would exert such offensive under the title of 'aman ki aasha' has been going on to powerful influence within India that 'equality' between members delegitimize the Kashmiri struggle for freedom as 'terrorism'. of different faiths and castes would inevitably prevail. That is Zardari Administration has signed agreements to give India why arbitrary exercise of power – social as well as state power – access to Afghanistan and Central Asia over its land and continuous repression, are the hallmark of the Indian society. compromising long held declared policy of not giving India MFN The Hindu high castes 'condition' the lower castes to habitual status or access to its roads until the people of J&K got their right acceptance of abuse, cruelty and excess. When there is a protest of self determination. But when it came to protecting Pakistan's or resistance, the Hindu elite resort to what they call 'teaching interests in Afghanistan, the military was in the driving seat and it them a lesson'. This is reflected in the language of political did not allow Indian stratagem to succeed. Indian forces crossed discourse – in the press, on TV screens, in parliamentary debate, the LoC in Kashmir to express its anger. The propaganda in the and generally in all employer-employee relations. The over-dog media was so shrill that another Indo-Pakistan War appeared is forever engaged in 'teaching the underdog a lesson'. imminent. But the nuclear deterrent of Pakistan is credible. Since 'teaching a lesson' requires evidence of affront, its absence Getting no encouragement from the USA, India backed off. But calls for Channakian techniques of distortion, outright lies and then it hanged Afzal Guru on February 9, 2013. His is a case of vicious propaganda. All organs of the state including the police diabolical injustice. and the judiciary see it their duty to create evidence of affront. The background of the case of Afzal Guru is very interesting. It The heavy losses in the 1965 War so soon after the defeat at the was soon after 9/11 when Pakistan had a military ruler – General hands of China in 1962, was an affront enough for the 1971 Musharraf – that India worked itself into frenzy with twin invasion of East Pakistan and the 1973 explosion of nuclear motives – liberating Pakistan from military rule and teaching the devices. Pakistan has responded well on the battlefield but has Pakistan Army a lesson. It needed evidence of 'affront' to work up been no match for India in the use of soft power for propaganda a public frenzy. It decided that an attack on the Indian parliament and subversion. The raids across the LoC by Indian forces, the would be 'adequate affront'. Several Pakistani prisoners which execution of Afzal Guru, mal-treatment Pakistani prisoners in are plentiful in Indian jails were dressed in police uniform, driven Indian jails, the systematic impoverishment of Muslims in India, to the lawns of the parliament building where they started and the colonisation of Bangladesh continue without any serious shooting. Within five minutes the drama came to an end; all five challenge from Pakistan. India sees the military of Pakistan as 'raiders' were shot dead making verbal evidence impossible. On the power centre that stands in the way of Bangladeshization of the pretext of this 'false flag' operation, India moved the bulk of Pakistan. That is also the line of the PPP as well as PML(N) but its armed forces to the border with Pakistan. The deployment they call it 'resentment and resistance' of civil control. The people lasted nearly a year but then senior generals of the Indian Army of Pakistan know the truth and repeatedly express their loyalty advised the Vajpayee Administration that no decisive or quick and love for the armed forces that have stood up to India when victory was possible. even their own leaders were ready to compromise and acquiesce. After having blamed Pakistan for the raid on the parliament, it India miscalculated in 1971 when it pronounced that the Two was necessary to coin a new story in which Kashmiri freedom Nation Theory has been sunk in the Bay of Bengal. It fighters were blamed. Afzal Guru, a former militant who had miscalculated in 1973 when it thought that its nuclear bomb surrendered and was being 'rehabilitated' was indicted for being would give it regional hegemony in perpetuity. It tried to take the 'master mind' of the attack on the parliament. The charge was advantage of outright western support over Kargil War and was absurd because he was overtly under watch. He was in Srinagar at overjoyed when the USA invaded Afghanistan in the wake of the time and he named the police officer who took him from 9/11. After the installation of collaborators in power in Srinagar to Delhi. That officer was never questioned by the Bangladesh and Pakistan, India thought that its domination over investigators or the courts. This would have been a perfect alibi in the sub-continent would be unchallenged. But it was challenged any other country but it was never even considered. The well before it was established. India would continue to draw conviction of Afzal Guru was the subject of an appeal in the high comfort from its collaborators in politics and the media. But it court and the Supreme Court of India. At no stage, the cast iron should learn a lesson from its campaign 'aman ki aasha' which defence of Afzal Guru was given a proper hearing. He made unexpectedly created an environment of trust between the mercy appeals to two Presidents – one Muslim, one Hindu – but Untouchable majority and the Muslims. India appears to have his appeal was rejected. He remained on death row for eight years decided to opt for the stick instead of the carrot. The execution of after his last appeal to the Supreme Court was rejected in 2005. Afzal Guru is yet another miscalculation. It is not going to But his execution was delayed because it was thought that the suppress the Kashmiri struggle for freedom; it marks the death sentence would draw serious reaction in Jammu and beginning of another very different phase in Kashmiri fight for Kashmir (J&K) after such an obviously flawed trial. Clearly, freedom. Henceforth, it would resemble the struggle of Afghans India has chosen to hang Afzal Guru because its intent has first against Soviet occupation and then against American changed. India no longer relies on collaborators to achieve its occupation. No one has said it wants to teach India a lesson. But if objectives; it seeks to use pressure and blackmail in order to India is to avoid a prolonged war of liberation in J&K it would “teach every one a lesson”. follow the example of Great Britain, France and more recently of India is back on the course of using 'internal repression' as a tool the Soviet Union and pack its bags in Kashmir before the cost of of 'regional hegemony'. India is one country in the world which occupation became too high.++ does not seek friendly relations with its neighbours but seeks to *****
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Dr Awatar Singh Sekhon Comments:
1. A beautifully constructive analysis of the Brahmins-Hindus- 3. Wake up the Sikhs of the "Robbed" PUNJAB of August 15th, turbaned Brahmins Rats' psyche of the Demoncracy/Indian 1947". And branding the Sikhs "A Lawless and criminal Tribe democracy by President Usman Khalid, Rifah Party of the Dangerous to the law-abiding Brahmins-Hindus on the 10th of Republic of Pakistan. October, 1947.” The First victim of the Congressional leaders' policy of August 15th, 1947 India: Sirdar Kapur Singh, ICS, MP, 2. The article explains very well the Brahmins-Hindus-turbaned MLA, and National Professor of Sikhism. Sirdar Kapur Singh Brahmins Rats' psyche on "Teach a Lesson to the Sikhs, Muslims was the one of the Sikh members of parliament, who of the IDA:JK, Assamese and its 7-sister and other non- "REJECTED" the Indian Constitution in its 'Draft and Final Brahmins-Hindus minorities. forms'. *****
"ROBBED" PUNJAB OF AUGUST 15th, 1947 IS BURNING AND DO NOT TRY TO PLAY WITH THE FIRE: SENDING ANY SIKH TO THE GALLOWS
A Message to Brahmins-Hindus-turbaned Brahmins Rats' DEMONCRACY alias Indian democracy
Dr. Awatar Singh Sekhon
This message is primarily directed to Shushil Kumar Shinde (a New Delhi went unabated while these rulers played the role of the Maharashtriyan Brahmin), Pranab Mukherjee (a Brahmin of vultures. The Sikhs daughters, sisters and mothers were Bengal), the turbaned Brahmin and criminal Rats like (Hanera) screaming for help from the police yet turned away silently and Prakash Sinh Badal, Ravneet Bittu the son of Beant Sinh instead goaded, helped and watched the rapists in their (deceased), placed in the Punjab administration merely with 7% murderous sadism. of the electoral votes by the New Delhi administration (NDA) of Today after 28 years the police administration could not find the Rajiv Gandhi, along with the Badal's Akalis and the Chief culprits of the Sikh Genocide of 1984 and prosecute them! Those Scoundrel and his associated scoundrels wandering in the who dance to the tune of these murderous rulers have yet to arrest premises of the Sikhs' apex institutions, the Darbar Sahib the criminals of the Sikh Genocide. Yet every justice loving Complex, including the Supreme Seat of the Sikh Polity, The person knows the criminals and rapists of 1984. Because of Akal Takht Sahib, Amritsar ji, "Robbed" PUNJAB of August 15th , Dhamini suddenly the roads of Delhi are unsafe for the women. 1947. But when the question is raised about the Genocide of thousands The Maharashtriyan Brahmin Shinde does not know the History of Sikh women who were raped in broad daylight, why does this of the Sikhs of Punjab from the Sikh point of view. Neither does judiciary keep silent in reference to them? Today the politicized the Bengali Brahmin, Pranab Mukherjee, who signed the papers judiciary is demanding much harsher punishments for the rape with his eyes closed to send an innocent citizen of the because of one Dhamini. These same very people who want Internationally Disputed Areas of Jammu and Kashmir (IDA:JK) harsher laws for rape today never uttered a single word when to the gallows on February 9th. What a shameful, inhumane and thousands of Sikhs women were raped in 1984. Then how could criminal act by these Brahmins of Maharashter and Bengal! you trust these murderous rulers, police administration and Sending of Afzal Guru (Shaheed) to the gallows must be a case to politicized judiciary system? be tried in the United Nations Internal Court of Justice. This "Judge Sahib on the soil of Punjab, firstly these same rulers blew Maharashtriyan Brahmin must not forget that a Sikh female up the holy Darbar Sahib with tanks and cannons, then thousands General (Bibi Sahib Kaur) and the Khalsa Dal defeated the of innocents Sikh pilgrims were slaughtered. This was the Maratha forces of Shivaji in a battle which took place near Genocide of the Sikhs in the world's largest Democracy. In the Dhaulpur (now Rajasthan) on March 15th , 1766 AD. streets of Delhi thousands of Sikhs were murdered for three days Both Brahmins of Maharashtra and Begal must know what Bhai in November 1984. Sikh women were tortured and sadistically Sahib Sirdar Balwant Singh Rajoana had said in a Patiala court on raped in thousands. These very same Congress party rulers of the February 4th , 2013, "Satkar yog Judge Sahib Wahe Guruji Ka nation carried out the Genocide of the Sikh youth in my Khasla! Wahe Guruji Ki Fateh! Judge sahib HIndustans Court I motherland Punjab. Twenty Five thousand (25,000) young Sikh want to make it clear that the rulers of the country who have men were picked up and murdered and made to disappear without blown up the highest authority of the Sikhs namely the Akal informing the next of kin. There have so many and such heinous Takhat and committed Genocide on innocent Sikhs. The Indian crimes committed on the soil of Punjab that it is difficult to constitution does not apply to the Sikhs. I do not trust in that enumerate everything. constitution. I do not want be a part of any court proceeding of Judge Sahib our great Guru Sahibs have told us that, 'it is a crime this country. Judge Sahib in a country where a girl Dhamni aka to commit injustice but also a crime to tolerate injustice'. In this Joyti Pandey (Brahmin) is not safe and is raped and, nation there have been innumerable crimes and atrocities subsequently, brutally killed. But Judge Sahib how could you committed but the Gurus' esteemed self-respecting Sikh youth trust the rulers of this country - those who are responsible for the stood up against these murderous politicians and police officials, murder of thousands of innocent Sikhs, whose daughters and by asking for freedom from such a tyrannical system gave their sisters were sadistically raped and killed deliberately, especially lives for righteousness. I have no regrets in entering into the Sikh those whose own hands are stained with the blood of the Sikhs? struggle for sovereignty and neither do I have any regrets for any How can you trust the police and administrators who play to the other actions. Judge Sahib, any verdict announced from these tune of these rulers? How can you trust these rulers who could courts is more like a politicized statement of the rulers rather than arrest the six rapists from Bihar overnight in the Dhamini case, justice. Those criminal political rulers who have committed but the rape of thousands of Sikh women in broad daylight in massive fraud to the tune of hundreds of millions dollars can get
4 International Journal of Sikh Affairs 23 (1), June Issue 2013 ISSN 1481-5435 away with a short one month or week sentence and be free in this is under the 'occupation' of artificial entity, called the Brahmins- democratic judicial system. The killers of thousands of innocent Hindus, India. None of the Sikhs' elected representatives has citizens are still ruling and enjoying themselves at the helm of the accepted/endorsed/signed the Indian Constitution of 1950. The country. In these courts there is the murder of justice on a daily constitutional document was "rejected", in the parliament by the basis. It is sad that there is no one to shed tears on the injustice of Sikh representatives, i. e., Sardar Hukam Singh, Sardar the politicized justice system. The justice system of this nation is Bhupinder Singh Maan and Sirdar Kapur Singh, ICS, MP, MLA selective and only applies on the minorities and the poor. I do not and National Professor of Sikhism, in 1948, November 26th , have any trust in the judiciary of this country. As far as I am 1949, 1950 and September 6th , 1966. concerned, my arrest on December 22, 1995, from the Jalandhar Let me say with every fairness although you both are unlikely to Bus Depot is totally false. The story concocted by the Rajpura accept my point of view because of your Brahminical way of Police against me is all fabricated simply to implicate me in a thinking. The "Punjab is burning and if you tried to send any Sikh false arrest. I cannot and will not bow in front of such an unjust to the gallows, especially Bhai Sahib Balwant Singh Rajoana, judicial system and betray my brave martyred Sikh brothers. I Bhai Devinder Pal Singh Bhullar, Jagtar Singh Hawara, Paramjit will not beg for any mercy from this unjust judicial system and Singh Bheora or any other Sikhs, you both and the Brahmins- would prefer to go to the gallows with head held high. I will not Hindus' administration will be putting PUNJAB on Fire." No one ask for mercy for myself but rather ask for freedom and else but you the Brahmins-Hindus will have to face the sovereignty for my Sikh nation. My tributes to all my martyred consequences. Do not ever think that the Punjab police, brothers and sisters." Brahmins-Hindus' armed personnel, etc., will stay neutral and/or These both Brahmins, Shinde and Mukerjee, have to produce carry your orders. The Brahmins-Hindus-turbaned Brahmins are evidence that the "Robbed' PUNJAB of August 15th , 1947 and the not 'law-abiding' people; whereas, the Sikhs are as their Guru's IDA:JK are the part of the Hindus-Brahmins' India, in which the (the followers of the Guru Granth Sahib, the Holy scripture of population of the Brahmins-Hindus is merely 10% of over 1.2 Sikhs and the Sikh traditions) taught them, and other minorities billion hungry mouths, since August 15th , 1947. are law-abiding and peaceful citizens. So, it would better be to Mr. Shinde and Mr. Mukherjee went through the 'Statement of listen to the non-Brahmins-Hindus minorities, give them their Bhai Balwant Singh Rajoana in the Patiala Court. You would rights (human, political, social, etc.), let them control their future think honestly that by "Rajoana's statement, the Sikhs have no destiny and let the administration create a "Hindu-Brahmins concern whatsoever with Brahmins-Hindus' India." Punjab is Province/State/Nation for 10% population of the Brahmins- Sikhs' Holy and Historical homeland, it has been fragmented by Hindus (as said earlier in accordance with Sir VT Rajshekar, the Indiraa Gandhi's vicious administration. She deliberatly Editor in Charge, Dalit Voice, Bangalore, and U. Khalid, waged an 'undeclared' war on the Sikhs' Homeland, made it a President, Rifah Party of the Republic of Pakistan). "Concentration Camp" in the post-"Operation Bluestar" era, and It is hoped that the sanity will prevail. ***** Hindu Hate Hindu Hate: The sad plight of India's flock
Father Raymond J. De Souza: September 08, 2008 by Kelly McParland
Last Friday, Sept. 5, was the anniversary of Mother Teresa's nun was raped. Christian schools, churches and hospitals have death. Eleven years ago, Indians lined the streets to honour her been ransacked. state funeral procession. This year, her sisters, the Missionaries of "There is a climate of intolerance against Christians that is Charity, encountered a rather different crowd on the anniversary. growing in the country, and it will have serious and drastic long- Four sisters were attacked by about 20 Bajrang Dal (a Hindu term effects on Indian society," said Cardinal Oswald Gracias, nationalist youth movement) activists and forced off a train in Archbishop of Bombay, accusing Hindu nationalist leaders of Chhattisgarh, a province in central India. The small mob marched "poisoning minds" with anti-Christian propaganda. the sisters to the police station, chanting anti-Christian slogans, On Aug. 29, India's Catholic bishops closed all the Catholic threatening to beat them up and accusing the sisters of kidnapping schools in the country - many of which are sought out by India's the children in their care. non-Catholic elite for the quality of the education - in a one-day A Hindu nationalist mob threatening violence against religious protest "against the atrocities on the Christian community and sisters who run orphanages? Sadly, that there were only threats other innocent people." must today be considered a blessing. In the neighbouring state of Yesterday was observed throughout the Indian Catholic Church Orissa, the past fortnight has seen an outbreak of deadly anti- as a Gandhi-esque day of prayer and fasting for "the promotion of Christian violence - the latest episodes in an ominous trend communal harmony and peace in India." But otherwise, anti- spanning several years. Christian violence in the country seems to have attracted little In India as a whole, and in Orissa as well, Christians represent notice. slightly more than 2% of the population. Two weeks ago, a Hindu Ignoring this phenomenon would be mistake, both for India and nationalist leader named Swami Laxmanananda Saraswati was Indian Christians. killed in Orissa. Responsibility for the assassination was claimed The growth of Hindu nationalism in India, both in its democratic by Maoists guerrillas. Despite that, the followers of Saraswati political form and in its mob-terrorist form, threatens to put the blamed Christians and went on a rampage. country on a path of sectarian conflict and religious violence. The At least a dozen people have been killed, including a young more extreme Hindu nationalists want to overturn India's official woman missionary burnt alive in an orphanage. (When the mob secularity in favour of an explicit Hindu identity. In such an India, torched the building, she ran inside to try and rescue the children.) the public life and even presence of Muslims and Christians A priest at the same orphanage was locked in a room to suffer the would be severely circumscribed. same fate - though he escaped with grave injuries. In scenes of Muslims in India, numbering some 150 million, are simply too pure barbarism, a Catholic layman was hacked to pieces, a young numerous to be a plausible first target. Christians, on the other
5 International Journal of Sikh Affairs 23 (1), June Issue 2013 ISSN 1481-5435 hand, are a tiny minority and, with the apparent global ignorance Institute Condemns Planned Distribution of Anti-Christian of their plight, can be subject to harassment and violence with Booklets by Hindu Extremist Group in Orissa; Calls on Police to relative impunity. Monitor Activity of Dara Sena Yet if Hindu nationalist violence grows, it will one day turn To: National & International Desks against Muslims in large numbers - threatening to inflame Contact: Ben Marsh of the Institute on Religion and Public religious tensions on the subcontinent, within India and with Policy. India's Muslim neighbours, Pakistan and Bangladesh. A religious WASHINGTON, July 21 /Christian Wire Service/ -- The Dara conflagration could be massively destabilizing for global Sena, a Hindu extremist group dedicated to the promotion of politics. convicted murderer Dara Singh, is planning to distribute anti- The Christian world ought to pay attention on Christian grounds, Christian booklets in Orissa, India. Dara Singh was convicted in too. No flock is too small to be expendable; and in any case, 2003 and sentenced to life in prison for murdering missionary India's Christians are not a small flock. There are 18 million Graham Staines and his two sons by burning them alive. Catholics in India - more than in Canada and England combined. "Dara Singh and the Dara Sena are violent thugs seeking to The Church in India is vibrant. In 2006, I was in Bombay for the intimidate growing non-Hindu populations in Orissa," said installation of the new archbishop and was struck by the sheer Joseph K. Grieboski, President of the Institute on Religion and vitality of the Indian Church. Cardinal Gracias told me then that Public Policy. "Rather than protect Hinduism their stated Bombay, with "only" 500,000 Catholics, is actually comparable objective - they have harmed and embarrassed the international to cities such Chicago or Milan in terms of actual church-goers, Hindu community by promoting violence and intolerance." with Mass attendance above 80%. Certainly, the Church in Dara Singh has repeatedly stated that he wishes to run for public Bombay is more vital and important to the shape of global office in Orissa despite a law prohibiting convicted criminals Catholicism than the Church in Toronto or Montreal - a sobering from holding public office. His followers in the Dara Sena hold reality for Canadians to consider. Singh as a godlike figure and a leader in the fight to protect So in terms of India's future and the future of global Christianity, Hinduism against "foreign" religions such as Christianity and it is a pressing concern that anti-Christian violence be checked. Islam. But it cannot be checked if it is not at least noticed in the National The Superintendent of Police in Mayurbhanj District, where Post Singh's prison is located, has publicly stated that the police will arrest anyone caught distributing anti-Christian publications. Crosses desecrated in Goa "We encourage the government in Orissa to uphold the law and by Nirmala Carvalho fundamental rights, and to combat the atmosphere of intolerance July 21, 2005 and religious-based violence espoused by groups like the Dara Sena," continued Mr. Grieboski. Goa (AsiaNews) – Four crosses were desecrated in seven days in Ponda Parish, in the state of Goa, the former Portuguese colony Hindu extremists slander the Church but send their children on India West Coast. to Church-run schools “Desecrating the crosses conceals an ulterior motive, namely by Nirmala Carvalho sowing the seeds of communal suspicion and unrest in Goa,” said July 26, 2005 Father Loiola, secretary to the Archbishop of Goa and Daman, Mgr Filipe Neri Ferrão, Patriarch of the East Indies. False charges of “forced conversions” are levelled at a Catholic “There have been sporadic cases of communal violence,” Father priest. For the local bishop, this is a plot by Hindu extremists, Loiola noted, “but Archbishop Ferrão has refused to view them as backed by the state government that provides the legal instances of anti-Christian violence. He left any action or official instruments. Behind it, there is an attempt by extremists to get complaint with the State Administration to local parish priests.” free access to high-status Catholic schools. Two crosses were struck on the night of July 13-14. The cross Jhabua (AsiaNews) – The growing anti-Christian campaign in near the Mount Carmel Chapel was completely destroyed; the states controlled by Hindu fundamentalist administrations has other one, which is on private property, was damaged. fallen upon another Catholic priest. For the bishop of his diocese Another cross was found damaged at Farmagudi Ponda this week who has come to the clergyman's defence, this is another example and it is worrisome that it should be so close to the other to acts of of how the Madhya Pradesh's Freedom of Religion Act can be vandalism. used as a “legal instrument” for every kind of abuse. Some weeks back, a cross at Opa was also found to be desecrated. The main character in the story is Fr Thomas P.T., a parish priest The small state of Goa is dotted with crosses rising along public at St Michael's Church in the diocese of Jhabua (Madhya roads and on private properties. Christians often meet at these Pradesh). He was arrested on July 21 on false charges of sites in May to recite litanies when the feast of the Holy Cross is favouring the conversion of local Tribals. The facts are quite celebrated. different. These acts have not however raised sectarian tensions among The Father's troubles go back to July 8th , when Rusmal Charpota, religious groups, which are united in their condemnation. an activist with the Hindu paramilitary group Rashtriya “The Church and the clergy are highly respected in Goa. Our Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), and six other people pressed charges educational institutions are most sought after by people of all against the priest in the village of Jhaapadra for violating the faiths. They are considered prestigious, not only because of the state's Freedom of Religion Act, which bans forced conversions. level of academics, but because of the values that are transmitted On June 25th , Mr. Charpota had already publicly accused Father to the students,” Father Loiola said. Thomas with raising fees at the mission school he runs in order to Ponda has a Hindu majority and law enforcement is checking out discriminate against Hindus. whether the incidents are motivated by religious hatred or a feud On that occasion, the RSS activist warned the Catholic priest that between families. his organisation would decide what steps to take against him at its For Father Loiola, it is too early to label what happened as a next meeting and would inform the authorities. fundamentalist attack against the Catholic Church even if there Father Thomas was eventually charged with demanding very have been cases of anti-Christian intolerance in the past. high tuition fees whilst offering parents who couldn't pay them Copyright © 2003 Asia News All rights reserved with the option of converting to Christianity in order to have the
6 International Journal of Sikh Affairs 23 (1), June Issue 2013 ISSN 1481-5435 fees waved. The parents are said to have refused and so their conversion campaigns. children were not allowed to attend school. In an interview with Asia News, Mgr Chaako Thottumarickal, Praying and fasting to counter anti-Christian violence Bishop of Jhabua, the diocese in which Father Thomas's parish is by Nirmala Carvalho located, rejects the charges as false, a plot by Hindu extremists. August 4th , 2005 “These accusations are completely false. Sister Pratima and the teachers are in charge of admissions. The priest is the overall Praying is the best weapon against rising persecution in Madhya administrator but he is not involved in the day-to-day affairs of Pradesh and Chattisgarh, says the Archbishop of Bhopal. the school,” Bishop Thottumarickal said. Catholic Tribals attend the prayer meeting in great numbers. According to the prelate, “Father Thomas's arrest is part of a Bhopal (AsiaNews) – People gathered for a prayer meeting to conspiracy by the Sangh Parivar (an umbrella group, a 'family' of counter “the deliberate and rising tide of anti-Christian violence” organizations and parties to which the RSS belongs). In the RSS's in Madhya Pradesh and Chattisgarh, Indian states ruled by the agenda, there is a campaign to foment anti-Christian hatred Hindu fundamentalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). In both among Hindus and cause social unrest as a means to increase its places, local legislatures have adopted anti-conversion laws. popular appeal and slander the Church and its missionaries”. In an interview with Asia News, Mgr Pascal Topno, Archbishop What is more, for Bishop Thottumarickal “the attitude of Hindu of Bhopal, where the day of prayer was held two days ago, said extremists towards Christians is inconsistent. First, they attack us that “all Christians from the two states came together to fast and and then they want to send their children to our schools because pray as a result of the atrocities inflicted on our community by the of the high quality of education.” anti-conversion law”. The problem, he laments, is that often these families “demand “The Council of Bishops of Madhya Pradesh and Chattisgarh their children pass the admission exams and be exempted from chose a day of prayer and fasting as the best means to counter the the fees”. increasing persecution we are now facing,” he noted. The situation is made worse by the tacit support of the state As one of the promoters of the event, Archbishop Topno government for these anti-Christian acts. explained that Christians from all denominations arrived in “The Freedom of Religion Act is a legal instrument offered by the Bhopal from both states, including Protestant ministers and authorities to extremists to persecute missionaries whom they Catholic bishops following Eastern rites. accuse of 'forced conversions',” he said. “We prayed for those who persecute us and for the enemies of “Being persecuted is the price the Church must pay to pursue its Christianity, whose lives have not been enlightened by the 'Light mission, but at the same time our voice must be heeded. We need of Truth',” he said. “Many of the participants have been justice and those responsible for these odious crimes should be themselves victims of anti-Christian violence perpetrated by punished to prevent future violence.” Hindu fundamentalists. As spiritual guides we called on the Still, there is a silver lining in all of this, namely “solidarity faithful to forgive their attackers, explaining that prayer and among Christians in such a critical time.” forgiveness are the response to injustice.” None the less, ”everyone is angered by the false charges brought “The plight of [Christian] Tribals is pathetic,” the prelate against Father Thomas and are determined to obtain justice,” lamented. They are poor, unemployed and “at the mercy of Bishop Thottumarickal stressed. rightwing extremists who try to reconvert them to Hinduism After the priest's arrest, Jhabua Catholics in fact submitted a using intimidation and threats”. The presence of many Catholic memorandum to the local and district administrations Tribals at the event is good though, “a sign, an indication that is demanding that” the charges against Father Thomas be dropped encouraging and makes us more confident”. and that his accusers be charged with unjustly attacking Tribals from Jhabua—where a catholic priest was charged and Christians and their institutions, which provide a valued service arrested for alleged forced conversions—were among those who to the population in the social, educational and health fields”. came. The state of Madhya Pradesh is administered by the Bharatiya Local police provided security but were unprepared for the lack Janata Party, a Hindu fundamentalist party. of fiery speeches or inflammatory remarks. “They were Copyright © 2003 AsiaNews All rights reserved surprised,” Archbishop Topno said, “by the atmosphere of India: priest arrested under "anti-conversion" law serenity and spirituality of the day”. New Delhi, Jul. 25 (CWNews.com) - Church leaders in India For him, August 2 was a “marvellous ecumenical experience”. have decried the arrest of a Catholic priest who now faces charges He noted that “despite the monsoon rains, people came [. . .] from under a new state law restricting religious conversions. far and wide to express their solidarity and voice their concern Father P. T. Thomas was arrested on July 21st , in the Madhya over the escalating anti-Christian violence”. Pradesh state, and charged with promising admission to a local Archbishop Topno said that he prepared a memorandum for Catholic school, and waiver of fees, for Hindu families who Madhya Pradesh's Chief Minister, Babulal Gaur, in which it is embraced Christianity. Father Thomas has been released on bail made plain and clear that Christians are guilty only of bearing pending trial. witness of Christ, not of forcing anyone to convert to their The complaint against the priest, brought by local Hindu religion. activists, cites a "Freedom of Religion" act that prohibits the use The document also denounces the conditions of discrimination of force or allurement in an attempt to encourage religious and threat in which Christian Tribals live. conversions. But Bishop Chacko Thottumarickal of the Jhabua diocese insists Indian filmmaker fans the flames the charges against Father Thomas are false. "The accusers never Sidney Morning Herald come to the priest for admission," he said, "as admission is done March 28, 2006 by the headmistress." He added that "the priest never had any role in the day to day running of the school." Deepa Mehta's work provokes violent reactions, writes Garry The central Jhabua region has seen clashes between Christians Maddox. and Hindu groups who charge that Christians are offering The word controversial hardly does justice to director Deepa inducements to poor Hindu families to convert. A controversial Mehta's trilogy on Indian life. report issued by the government recently said that acts of The acclaimed first instalment, Fire, prompted fundamentalist violence against Christians were triggered by the "massive" Hindus to violently attack cinemas in 1998.
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Seeing it as an example of corrupting Western influences, they affecting art. "When Clint Eastwood makes something like broke windows, tore down posters, threatened Mehta and forced Million Dollar Baby and Christian fundamentalists are up in the Government to send the film back to the censors. It took a arms, it's happening all over the world," she says. Supreme Court challenge before Fire, which dealt with a lesbian It took five years to get Water back into production, eventually relationship, could be re-released. But that was nothing shooting in Sri Lanka amid tight security under the anonymous compared with the responses when the third film, Water, started title Full Moon. The film has opened in Canada, running for 25 shooting in the holy city of Varanasi two years later. weeks, and is headed for India soon after an encouraging A day into filming, an angry mob of 2000 Hindu protesters burnt response at a recent film festival. sets, threw others in the Ganges and made death threats against Mehta believes Water will face a better reception as India the director and the then lead actresses, Shabana Azmi and continues to modernize. The theme of the trilogy, which emerged Nandita Das. Mehta, who were rehearsing, but were not on set. with Fire and continued with Earth in 1999, is "the tug of war For two weeks, protesters burnt effigies of her in cities across the between modernity and tradition". The final installment has the country. With the Government denouncing the riot and the army support of Rushdie, who has called Water a magnificent film that providing protection, authorities shut down the production after a has "serious, challenging things to say about the crushing of protester attempted suicide by jumping in the Ganges tied to a women by atrophied religious and social dogmas". rock. He was in intensive care and there were reports the inflamed Extremists Threaten Lovers In India With Violence on protesters planned more violence. Valentine's Day "It was insane," says Mehta, who is in Sydney for previews of February 13, 2007 Water. "It was like something out of Kafka." by Playfuls Team Set as Gandhi is coming to power in 1938, the drama follows an Lovers who kiss in public on Valentine's Day in India must live in eight-year-old girl who becomes a social outcast when her fear, if an unusual alliance of extremist groups has its way, reports husband from an arranged marriage dies. Like other widows, she said Tuesday. is dispatched to an ashram for life, according to Hindu tradition, The alliance was formed to protest declining Indian values and of poverty and prayer. the Westernization of society. Even though the script had been approved by the Government, Fanatical Hindu and Maoist rebels and Muslim groups have the protesters believed Water was anti-Hindu. warned couples not to show each other physical affection on While they were clearly unhappy about the interpretation of Valentine's Day, to be celebrated on Wednesday. sacred texts on the treatment of women, Mehta believes the "self- An influential, radical Hindu group said they would blacken the proclaimed protectors of the religion" really wanted publicity. couples' faces, if they caught them. "I was hurt and angry and dismayed," she says of the fury directed Every year, fanatical groups in India protest against celebrating at the production. "But mostly I was really angry. It had a lot to do Valentine's Day which is gaining popularity. In the past years, with the increasing climate in the world and in India at that point businesses selling Valentine's Day cards were demolished and of intolerance in the name of religion." couples were attacked in the streets. Mehta, who grew up in India but is based in Canada, cites the The extremists claim that showing emotion in public contravenes murder of Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh and the fatwa on Indian cultural customs. writer Salman Rushdie as other instances of religious extremism Posted by khalistannews.blogspot.com
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DEMONSTRATION AGAINST INDIA'S REPUBLIC DAY TO STOP GROSS HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS AND TO OUST THE INDIAN ARMED PERSONNEL FROM THE INTERNATIONALLY DISPUTED AREAS OF JAMMU AND KASHMIR (IDA:JK) AND KHALISTAN ("ROBED" PUNJAB OF AUGUST 15TH, 1947)
DATE: JANUARY 27, 2013 Indian state has failed to protect the Kashmiris, Sikhs, Christians, TIME: 11:00 AM TO 14:00 HRS (PM) Dalits and other minorities and thus failed to uphold Article 14A PLACE: PEARSON PLACE CENTRE, 2638 STEELES of the Indian Constitution which has been rendered ineffective by AVENUE EAST, BRAMPTON, ONTARIO, CANADA the states and the New Delhi administration since January 26th, SPOKESPERSON: HABIB YOUSAFZAI 1950. Every individual who stands for the justice, equality of human rights, and the ejection of the Indian occupational forces from the occupied territories and states are cordially invited to Kashmiris and Sikhs will be protesting on India's Republic day. attend. The protest will be held on January 27, 2013. The India's celebration of January 26th as Republican Day is a farce organizers are; Balkar Singh Heir, Dr. Azrab Khan, Khawaja because it has failed to fulfill the real motto of what a republic Rafique, Shabbir Ahmad Bhatti, Engineer Zamiruddin Malik, stands for; justice and equality for all. It has enslaved 14 million Ayub Qureshi, Raja Idrees, Ifrahim Khan, Dr. Ghulam Abbas, Kashmiris and 30 million Sikhs in the illegally occupied states of Mohammad Aslam Qadri, Syed Noushad Hussain, Shahid Jammu and Kashmir, and the Sikhs' Holy and Historic Homeland Mahmood,Jamil Ansari, Farooq Siddiqi and Habib Yousafzai. Punjab that was “robbed" on August 15th, 1947. Both Kashmiris http://kashmirdiasporaa.blogspot.com/2013/01/demonstrate- and Sikhs have been oppressed and humiliated for decades and against-indias-republic-day.html continue to be dehumanized and their human rights violated. The *****
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Sangh Parivar is stoking the fire at the India - Pakistan borders. Irresponsible as usual Sanghi Tarun Vijay spits venom in his article in TOI on "Savage country"
Savage man bill boards in US subways which were removed after on our western front that keeps India bleeding in a cowardly, protests in US. jackal like fashion. [Bismillahnews.in-16-01-13- New Delhi ] Bravo to Gen Bikram Singh, who took up the cudgels and at last http://blogs.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/indus- spoke the language India wanted to hear. calling/entry/warriors-and-that-savage-country The ministers remained mired in a myth of fake peace making, Warriors and that savage country - Tarun Vijay letting the soldier and the patriotic people down. Gen. Bikram The Army Day being celebrated today gives an extraordinary Singh made it clear that the warriors are in no mood to take the message in the prevailing circumstances. Surrounded by barbarism of Pakistan lying down. It was shocking for a nation to unfriendly countries, approximatley 7 thousand kms of see that immediately the Minister of External undecided border, two hostile nuclear powers and a savage army *****
BHAI SAHIB SIRDAR BALWANT SINGH RAJOANA'S STATEMENT, WRITTEN AND SPOKEN, IN A PATIALA COURT ON February 4th, 2013. "NOTE: Translated from PUNJABI (Gurmukhi) to English
Sirdar Balwant Singh Rajoana's Written And Spoken Testimony who dance to the tune of these murderous rulers have yet to arrest Date: February 4th, 2013 the criminals of the Sikh Genocides of June and October- Patiala, PUNJAB November, 1984. Yet every justice loving person knows the criminals and rapists of 1984. Because of Dhamini, suddenly the Today, Bhai Rajoana inspires all of us once again by raising roads of Delhi are unsafe for the women. But when the question is slogans in court and gives a statement! Must read and share! raised about the Genocide of thousands of Sikh women who were Today (February 4, 2013) by Balwant Singh Rajoana: Court Date raped in broad daylight, why does this judiciary of India maintain at Patiala – Rajpura. Today in the court, Veer Rajoana based on silence in reference to the Sikh women? Today the politicized article 313-IPC (Indian Penal Code) has been asked to give his judiciary is demanding much harsher punishments for the rape testimony. Veerji gave his testimony in writing and read to the because of one Dhamini. These very same people who want court what he had written. After his testimony Veerji raised harsher laws for rape today never uttered a single word when slogans of'Khalistan Zindabad' in and outside the Court! thousands of Sikh women were raped in 1984. Then how could Ek Onakar! Honorable Judge, Wahe Guruji Ka Khalsa! Wahe you trust these murderous rulers, police administration and Guruji Ki Fateh! Judge sahib of the Hindustan's Court, I want to politicized judiciary system? make it clear that the rulers of the country have blown up the Judge sahib, on the soil of Punjab, firstly these very rulers blew up highest authority of the Sikhs, namely The Akal Takht Sahib, and the holy Darbar Sahib with tanks and cannons and thousands of committed Genocide of innocent Sikhs. The Indian constitution innocents Sikh pilgrims were slaughtered. This was the does not apply to the Sikhs. I do not trust in that constitution. I do 'Genocide of the Sikhs' in the world's largest Democracy, India. In not want to be a part of any court proceeding of this country. the streets of Delhi thousands of Sikhs were slaughtered for three Judge sahib, in a country where a girl named Dhamni (aka Joyti days in November 1984. Sikh women were tortured and Pandey - a Brahmin) was not safe, raped and brutally killed. The sadistically raped by the thousands. These very same Congress police have been able to apprehend the culprits immediately, but party rulers of India carried out the Genocide of the Sikh youth in this incident is a black mark on the face of the nation. No daughter my 'Motherland Punjab'. Twenty-five thousand (25,000) young in a civil society should go through this. I have full sympathies Sikh men were picked up, murdered and made to disappear with the victim and her family. Like anybody else I wish the without informing the next of kin. There have been so many culprits get a severe punishment. But Judge sahib, how could you heinous crimes committed on the soil of Punjab that it is difficult trust the rulers of this country - those who are responsible for the to enumerate everything. murder of thousands of innocent Sikhs, whose daughters and Judge sahib our great 'Guru Sahibs' have told us that, 'it is a crime sisters were sadistically raped and deliberately killed, especially to commit injustice but also a bigger crime to tolerate injustice'. In those whose own hands are stained with the Sikhs' blood? How this nation there have been innumerable crimes and atrocities can you trust the police and administrators who play to the tune of committed but the Gurus' esteemed, self-respecting Sikh youth these rulers? How can you trust these rulers who could arrest the stood up against these murderous politicians and police officials, six rapists from Bihar overnight in the Dhamini case, but the rape by asking for freedom from such a tyrannical system and gave of thousands of Sikh women in broad daylight in New Delhi went their lives for liberty and righteousness. I have no regrets in unabated while these rulers played the role of the vultures? The entering into the Sikh struggle for sovereignty and neither do I Sikhs daughters, sisters and mothers were screaming for help have any regrets for any other actions. Judge sahib, any verdict from the police yet they turned away silently, instead goaded, announced from these courts is more like a politicized statement helped and watched the rapists in their murderous sadism. of the rulers rather than justice. Those criminal political rulers Today after 28 years, could the police administration not find the who have committed massive fraud to the tune of hundreds of culprits of the Sikh Genocide of 1984 and prosecute them? Those millions dollars can get away with a short, one week or a month
9 International Journal of Sikh Affairs 23 (1), June Issue 2013 ISSN 1481-5435 jail sentence and then be free in this democratic judicial system. my brave martyred Sikh brothers. I will not beg for any mercy The killers of thousands of innocent (Sikhs) citizens are still from this unjust judicial system and would prefer to go to the ruling and enjoying themselves at the helm of the country. In gallows with head held high. I will not ask for mercy for myself these courts there is the murder of justice on a daily basis. It is sad but rather ask for freedom and sovereignty for my Sikh nation. that there is no one to shed tears on the injustice of the justice My tributes to all my martyred brothers and sisters. system. The justice system of this nation is selectively applied on Kalistan Zindabad, Khalistan Zindabad! the minorities and the poor. I do not have any trust in the judiciary Balwant Singh Rajoana system of this country. As far as I am concerned, my arrest on Patiala Central Jail December 22, 1995 from the Jalandhar Bus Depot is totally false. Patiala, PUNJAB The story concocted by the Rajpura Police against me is all fabricated simply to implicate me in a false arrest. I cannot and * Posted by Dr Awatar Singh Sekhon will not bow in front of such an unjust judicial system and betray *****
PRESS RELEASE DAL KHALSA ALLIANCE AND SISTER SIKH ORGANIZATIONS CONDEMN AFZAL GURU'S HANGING
Dal Khalsa Alliance and its sister Sikh organizations condemn Afzal Guru to the Gallows in top secrecy and the IDA:JK under the Indian administration, headed by Manmohan Singh Kohli's curfew, is proof that the Indian administration of the Brahmins- administration. Manmohan Sinh, the prime minister so to speak, Hindus-turbaned Brahmin Rats is the enemy of the non-Hindu- has not been elected to the Indian parliament from any Brahmins minorities. Dal Khalsa Alliance and its sister Sikh constituency of the Indian parliament. He has been continuing in organizations regard that the Indian administration of the the office of prime minister at the mercy of Sonya Gandhi, a non- Brahmins-Hindus-turbaned Brahmin Rats is all out to Indian by birth and the widow of Rajiv Gandhi. Rajiv Gandhi had exterminate the Sikhs, Muslims, Christians, Assamese, other said during the Genocide of Sikhs in June and October- minorities, etc. The Sikh organizations extends their full November, 1984, that "when a tree falls, the earth shakes." sympathies and deepest condolences to the family of the victim Afzal Guru, a freedom fighter from the Internationally Disputed (Afzal Guru) and the citizens of the IDA:JK. Areas of Jammu and Kashmir (IDA:JK), had been raising his Awatar Singh Sekhon, Advisor, Foreign Affairs. voice for the "freedom" of his people of the IDA:JK. By sending *****
Shining India: How to control rapes & killings Zaheerul Hassan
On March 9th , 2013 the United States honoured the Indian 23 year violence against women in Kashmiris, Maoists, Tamils and old psychotherapist who was brutally murdered after a gang-rape Nagaland.On December 31st , 2012 Annie Banerji also in a bus in New Delhi in December 2012. The young student, who mentioned in Reuters Rape Report that in this year, on average has become known simply as Nirbhaya or fearless, was awarded every 20 minutes in a rape occurs in India. Annie further added the US International Women of Courage award posthumously. At that just 26 percent of the cases resulted in convictions, according this occasion the US Sectary, John Kerry told the participants of to the National Crime Records Bureau, which registered 24,206 the ceremony that the bravery of this lady student inspired rapes in 2011, up from 22,141 the previous year. millions of men and women to come together with a simple message, “No more.” We never imagined that the girl we thought Read full article at: was our daughter would one day be the daughter of the entire http://markthetruth.wordpress.com/2013/03/12/shining-india- world,” her parents wrote in a message to the ceremony that was how-to-control-rapes-killings/ read out by Kerry. In fact, awarding nine women for their courageous actions is not Thanks the solution to curtailing crimes against women. The time needs Sajjad Ahmad to come when organizations of human rights and super powers Editor In Chief condemn and force Indian rulers to stop state terrorism and http://www.markthetruth.com, *****
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Hostile friends Professor Ali Sukhanver A few weeks back the Pakistan army published its new Green Control. The National Turk reported on January 16th, Indian Book which identified internal insurgent forces as the country's troops again violated LoC cease last evening. principal national security threat. The book also indicated a shift Indian army men carried out unprovoked firing on Pakistani posts of concentration of the Pakistan army from Eastern borders to the at LOC in Hot Spring and Jandrot sectors from 22:00 to 23:00 western front. This doctrinal change was warmly welcomed by hours. As a result of the Indian army firing, Pakistani soldier Naik various sections of the national and the international society and Ashraf posted at Kundi Post died. Thus the death toll of Pakistani it was being hoped that the relations between Pakistan and India soldiers killed in cross-LoC firing since January 6th has risen to would get better as a result of this shift of concentration. three. Just ten days before this incident, on the sixth day of the Moreover it was also expected that the process of giving India the New Year the Indian troops crossed the Line of Control and status of the Most Favoured Nation would also expedite it. But stormed a military post of Pakistan. unfortunately just after the announcement of the policy of this Read full article at: shift in concentration, the Indian army started an intentional http://markthetruth.wordpress.com/2013/01/18/hostile-friends/ effort of creating a situation of disturbance along the Line of *****
Dr. Awatar Singh Sekhon Comments: The Editor, Mark the Truth Dear Sir: Professor Sukhanver (see above) has been crystal clear in his * Indian Army chief General Bikram Singh's recent 'hawkish' message to the youth, students, academics, law-enforcing statements to please Neo-Nazi BJP leaders like Ms. Sushma agencies, border protecting forces, etc., to preserve the 'Vision of Swaraj endangers the Indian Occupied Sikh Homeland of Punjab Janab MA Jinnah, Father of Pakistan' to keep their eyes and ears – particularly the holy city of Amritsar, the largest trading centre open round the clock, 365 days of a year. If the Republic of before 15th August, 1947. Pakistan has to preserve its Sovereignty and political intactness, please forget the 'Friendship of the Brahmins-Hindus-turbaned * Indian Army Chief General Bikram Singh ought to try to Brahmins Rats' as long as you love your Sovereignty of the answer the questions raised by many retired senior Sikh Army people of Pakistan, respect of the political borders preserving officers during their December 2012 press conference held in a personnel and related agencies. The latter have been carrying out Chandigarh hotel their duties assigned to them. Pakistan, the Republic of Pakistan, has been in existence for Washington D.C. Wednesday January 16, 2013: Indian Army almost 66-years without the Friendship of the deceitful Chief General Bikram Singh, (who wears a Sikh Turban) has a la Brahmins-Hindus-turbaned Brahmins Rats' demo[c]racy and Mr. Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1869-1948) founding- after 6-decade's animosity. The great people of Pakistan 'do not' father of Bharat-India) preferred to take a 'vow of silence', (acting need the 'Friendship' of the deceitful Brahmins-Hindus-turbaned like a 'dove') about addressing the issues raised last month by over Brahmins Rats and you, the Nation of Pakistan, can do without two dozen very senior retired Sikh army officers, in a Dec. 17, their friendship and goodwill. All you need are brotherly 2012, press conference held in the Pankaj Hotel Chandigarh relations, like Canada and the United States, with the "robed" th (video at:- >http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Furk_QTczaA PUNJAB of August 15 , 1947. The 'robed' PUNJAB of August <) about the fate of the last remains of hundreds of uniformed th 15 , 1947 became the target of the vicious eyes of the deceitful Sikh officers and men who were murdered in cold blood in Indian Brahmins-Hindus-turbaned Brahmins Rats in the form of an trains and railway stations, in the November 1984 genocide, by 'undeclared' war in the form of a brutal military "Operation Hindu mobs, rampaging under the orders of the then Prime Bluestar" of June, 1984. This 'undeclared' war took a toll of more minister of India, Rajiv Gandhi. The bloody state-sponsored than 170,000 exercise eventually resulted in the mass murder of over ten innocent Sikhs between the 3rd and 6th of June 1984. Even since thousand innocent Sikh men, women and children in New Delhi "Operation Bluestar" of June 1984, some General Staff of the and other urban areas of India, to the utter disgust of the world's Brahmins-Hindus-turbaned Brahmins armed forces supposedly 28 million strong Sikh community – 25 million captive in the have regretted their armed forces and Brahmins-Hindus Indian map and three million free and prosperous Sikh Diaspora. leadership. I believe their writings are nothing but the Crocodile's Recently General Bikram Singh has instead, endangered the tears. well-being of the Sikh Homeland of the Indian occupied Punjab I would like to mention, where the learned Professor Sukhanver (specially the vulnerable holy city of Amritsar which is located remained silent, that the Republic of Pakistan (i) does not need right on the Pakistan border) by jumping into the fray by issuing the friendship of the Brahmins-Hindus-turbaned Brahmins Rats threats to a nuclear-armed, law-less, leader-less, 'confused' as Pakistan can do without it, (ii) a strong Pakistan is in the Pakistan. He also went along with the accusation that Pakistani interest of the Awam of Pakistan as well as non-Brahmins-Hindus soldiers were responsible for the deaths of two Indian soldiers minorities around its periphery, (iii) the people of Pakistan need who were killed in a cross border raid by Pakistani soldiers in strong institutions, educational, social, political, industries, etc., disputed Kashmir. He also endorsed the story floating around that to emerge again in the international political arena, and (iv) one of the two dead soldiers was beheaded by intruding Pakistani Pakistan and its Awam needs good administrations who are soldiers who carried away the head as a trophy. competent, but not politically impotent. General Bikram Singh also chose to act as a 'hawk' during a New I wish the Awam (my brothers, sisters, elders, youth, children, Delhi press conference, last Monday, on the eve of the 65th Army etc.) the very best. Day, by jumping into the Kashmir dispute. General Bikram Singh, is reported to have said that he expected his commanders ***** to be aggressive and offensive and 'did not want them to be timid'.
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The General was reacting to media reports about the January 8th flaunting her morally repugnant Neo-Nazi credentials. death of an Indian soldier (Lance Naik Hemraj), near the According to a Khairair datelined report in the prestigious ceasefire line in disputed Kashmir, which Indian media was Chennai-based English language newspaper THE HINDU, claiming (or is it RAW) was a beheading, allegedly by intruding published last Monday (January 15), under the headline, “Get 10 Pakistan Army troops, in 'a pre-planned and premeditated heads if they don't return it, says Sushma” , in which she is (< http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/we-will-retaliate-if- reported by the newspaper as having said that, (> provoked-further-says-army-chief/article4306810.ece >) action. http://www.thehindu.com/ news/national/get-10-heads-if-they- The General asserted that, India 'reserves the right to retaliate at a dont-return-it-says-sushma/article4307814.ece <) “If Pakistan time and place of its choice'. does not return the severed head of the martyred soldier Hemraj, According to another version of the same New Delhi press India should get at least 10 heads from the other side. The conference the Calcutta-based (>http://www.telegraph question is: Will we sit without any reaction and engage in a india.com/1130115/jsp/frontpage/story_16442737.jsp#.UPSfC dialogue [with Pakistan]? This should not happen. At least the vJ4gY4 <) English language newspaper, 'The Telegraph', carried government should react in some way. That is why we have said the story of the New Delhi 65th Army Day function with a very the government should take some tough measures,” she said, belligerent headline which reads as follows, “Chief swears while talking to reporters here after visiting Hemraj's family vengeance at place and time of India's choosing - Army spits fire, along with party leaders Nitin Gadkari and Rajnath Singh. wonders if Pak wants to reactivate LoC.” The New Delhi- Hemraj, along with Lance Naik Sudhakar Singh, was killed on th datelined Telegraph newspaper report quoted General Bikram January 8 by the Pakistan Army regulars after infiltrating into Singh as having said that, “India will avenge the pre-planned and the Indian territory in the Poonch sector of Jammu and Kashmir. premeditated mutilation and killing of its soldiers by Pakistan at a “Today, the nation is demanding: Don't prove a weak place and time of its choosing. The Indian Army will respond in government. They [the Pakistan Army] came on the LoC, killed the areas where the Pakistanis raided — at the “tactical level” — our soldier and took away his head with them and there should be as the chief put it. “The beheading and killing of the Indian no reaction ... this should not be tolerated at any cost.” Ms. soldiers on January 8th “was a tactical operation that was planned Sushma Swaraj said: “The government should apologize for the in advance and it has strategic nuances”, Gen. Bikram Singh was apathy. They should apologise to the family of the soldier and the reported to have said. In military jargon, “tactical level” can mean country. But they should at the same time take revenge for the either a localized armed conflict or an armed conflict in which incident”. heavy weaponry is not massively deployed. But Singh said the Ms. Sushma Swaraj was also reported by the HINDU newspaper military “was still analyzing if the Pakistan Army wants to to have further added that, “Hemraj's wife Dharamvati was reactivate the LoC”. The army chief's statements and background “disturbed about two things — one is about the honor of her conversations with other officers paint a still-evolving picture husband. She said I couldn't even see his face. As you know that with suggestions of some definite clues. One, the army appears to his body arrived without the head, she is shocked at this, but have concluded that the beheading was carried out by the Special nobody from the government came for his final rites. The other is Services Group of the Pakistan Army with the knowledge of the about the honor and dignity. Both her feelings are legitimate.” general headquarters in Rawalpindi. Two, the army wants to Ms. Sushma said: “When the entire country is feeling outraged, retaliate without escalating tension. This might mean more the government didn't even inform [us] when and how the last firepower for the forces and flexibility for commanders on the rites will be performed.” There should have been sincere efforts ground. The upshot could be more instances of firing across the by the government to be present at Hemraj's last rites. As per border. Three, the army is yet to take a final view on the reason for rules, the Defence Minister should have himself come here. If he the beheading. It is trying to figure out if Pakistan wants to couldn't come, the State Minister should have definitely come. reactivate the LoC. A few more instances of escalation would The Home Minister should have come, somebody from the PMO confirm such a suspicion, which will have implications for not or some State Minister should have come. There is Army in just India but also for America's war on terror as it will give Mathura ... somebody from the Central Command in Delhi Islamabad an excuse to shift troops from its border near should have come. But the kind of apathy that has been shown, Afghanistan to Kashmir. For the past two days, the Pakistan their grievance is genuine,” said Ms. Sushma.” The government Taliban have been speaking of granting immunity to Pakistani didn't even inform [us] when and how the last rites will be soldiers. In swearing vengeance, Gen. Bikram Singh performed. acknowledged that, 'the institution of the Indian Army had been Instead of endangering the Indian occupied Sikh Homeland in scarred by the January 8th raid and despite words of restraint from general, and the holy city of Amritsar in particular, with his the political establishment, the military was honor-bound to jingoism, the Indian Army chief, General Bikram Singh, a Sikh redeem prestige'. ought to calm down and provide the right answers to the dozens Looking at the above irresponsible public comments of Indian of very senior, very angry, very frustrated, retired Sikh Army Army Chief, General Bikram Singh's, quoted above, it seems the officers who raised important questions (>http://www.you man has allowed himself to be intimidated by the ridiculous tube.com/watch?v=Furk_QTczaA <) about the conduct of the public comments delivered by the fiery spokesperson (a future Indian state, and its ruling elite, during and after the November Information minister in any future BJP cabinet) of the powerful 1984 pogrom nay genocide during their historic press conference Neo-fascist BJP opposition party, Ms. Sushma Swaraj. The lady held in a Chandigarh Hotel Pankaj on December 17, 2012. has a habit of strutting around on the Indian political stage Khalistan Zindabad
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22nd SESSION OF THE UNITED NATIONS: HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND
ROOM: XXVII post-doctoral work and joined the services in the Province of TIME: 10:00 - 12:00 Hrs Alberta, Canada. During my career in the Faculty of Medicine, I HUMAN RIGHTS OF DALITS AND OTHER SOUTH ASIAN had my appointment as Medical Mycologist, Director (former) MINORITIES of the National Centre for Human Mycotic Diseases Canada, had MODERATOR: Dr Charles Graves more than seventy-five publication in the peer reviewed journals and the equal number of presentations in the national and Following the presentations of the Dalit and Christian speakers, international meeting that took me to Europe, Canada, United there was still about 80-min left for the session to go. The States, South America, Israel and Far Eastern countries as well as moderator, Dr. Graves, had told the audience that we have at least to the People's Republic of Chine. After retirement, a scientist three more speakers on the floor to enlighten the audience. In the and administrator turned a human rights activist, who is before meantime, there might be more from the audience who would be you. inspired to enlighten the audience. Dr Graves turned to a well The sad story of my homeland, PUNJAB, the 'First Sovereign known gentleman interested on the chronic Kashmir problem and Secular' country of South Asia, under a Sikh monarch Ranjit going on since India's prime minister took the Jammu and Singh, 1799 to March 14th , 1849, had been 'annexed' to the British Kashmir matter to the United Nations Organizations (Security Empire. An announcement of this annexation was made by the Council), New York to rule upon the Jammu and Kashmir's British agent of the British Empire on March 29th , 1849, Lord territory being occupied by the Indian administration, using its Dalhousie that the"Punjab of Sikhs" is 'annexed' to the British armed forces. The UN:SC, in its resolution of 1948, had ruled Empire for the purpose of administration only. My nation, that the both India and Pakistan will exercise restrain under the PUNJAB, had nothing to do with the British East India Trading future of the people is decided by the will of the people, that is, Company or its successor, British India Empire. I am glad to say the "Self-Determination" carried out under the auspices of the that I was born in PUNJAB that had been 'annexed' to British UN personnel. Both India and Pakistan accepted the UN Empire. My forefathers, Sikhs and Muslim brothers, fought the resolution, but no 'Self-Determination' has been arranged despite World War I & II to preserve peace process in Europe. The entire repeated demands of the people of Jammu and Kashmir, whose Europe, especially the United Kingdom knows that the Sikhs very future is at the stake. No one knows as to how long the provided exceptional services to the British Empire during the people of Jammu and Kashmir would have to wait. wars in Europe and to preserve the peace process in Europe and Dr. Graves turned to Dr. Sekhon, who had very cordial and the world. My community lost more than 108,000 Sikhs with respectable relationship with the moderator of the session, Dr. around 89,000 injured during the wars in the Europe. Graves. Dr. Sekhon thanked Dr. Graves for asking him to discuss So much so, the first prime minister of Canada, Sir John A and contribute to the session on the chronic problems of the Sikhs McDonald, requested the British Empire that "he would like to of Punjab under India's occupation, since August 15th, 1947. have the Sikh soldiers as he fears an eruption of between the Since this day of India's occupation, the Sikhs have been traded southern border of Canada which shares its border with the as 'second class' citizens, without any religious, civil, political, nothern United States." educational, and basic human rights. Dr. Sekhon pointed out to Dr. Graves, ladies and gentlemen, independent India's Indira the audience that he has hated the British India Empire, which is Gandhi administration waged an 'undeclared' war on the Sikh now an independent India since August 15th, 1947, after being nation, occupied Punjab of August 15th , 1947' or the "Robbed" 'subservient' to the Afghans, Sikhs, Mughals, British, Punjab of August 15th , 1947, in the form of a brutal military Portuguese, etc., for more than 3,500 years. Dr. Sekhon "Operation Bluestar" of June, 1984, on the Darbar Sahib explained that the reason of his, when he was the student of grade Complex (the Vatican of Sikhs), including the Supreme Seat of 5 during his school days, was nothing but the 'gross Sikh Polity, The Akal Takht Sahib and more than 125 Gurdwaras discrimination' to the non-Brahmins-Hindus communities. He (Houses of Worship), according to Government of India's own said that while subscribing to the Sikh religion, neither his Holy publication. This undeclared war took a toll of more than 270,000 Book, the Granth Sahib or the teachings of compilation of the 10- lives of Sikhs since June 1st, 1984. masters, from Guru Baba Nanak Sahib to Sahib Guru Gobind Ladies and gentlemen, another interesting point from the human Singh ji, nor his parents taught him and discrimination. The rights violation is that the alleged Indian democracy has been discrimination what he has been seeing throughout his life, trying its best to make the "Sikhs as Terrorist people". Indian todate. He noted the discrimination not only with the Sikhs, but administration of Rajiv Gandhi, his armed, foreign and the Dalits, Christians, Buddhists, Jains, tribal communities and intelligence personnel brought down a civil airliner, Air India so on. Flight 182 (Toronto-Montreal-London-Delhi/Bombay) in the What disturbed me was the discrimination experienced by my early hours of June 25th , 1985, near the west coast of Ireland. This father, who had among the high police official of the State of was done to brand the Sikhs 'terrorist'. India did not succeed. It Bikaner and later the State of Rajasthan, and retired as a Deputy was highly frustrated, however. After about five years, India and Superintendent of Police. He had trained the Minister of Home of five other governments hatched a plan to bring down another Air the Rajasthan State and then the Inspector-General of the India airliner. A meeting to complete the mission took place in Rajasthan state. His trained people became minister and the Rome, Italy. An intelligence personnel sent to Rome with full highest ranking police official of Rajasthan. Why did he not instructions and asked 'not to open his mouth or ask questions, reach to further ranks? Only reason I could cite is he was a God- but to follow what the decision of the nations is'. Unfortunately, fearing Sikh belonged to the Sikh religion (the 6th largest while the discussion had been going on, the intelligence religion of the world), a non-Brahmin-Hindu community. This is personnel opened his mouth and asked that don't you know lives the prime example before me, Mr Chairman, ladies and will be lost the way it happened to an earlier Air India destruction gentlemen, of the discrimination and human rights violations. of flight near the western coast of Ireland. Meeting adjourned. I moved to Canada for my studies for a doctorate degree, did What I am saying, Dr. Graves, ladies and chairman, is that "India
13 International Journal of Sikh Affairs 23 (1), June Issue 2013 ISSN 1481-5435 is Terrorist Country in the name of Progressing democracy of In summation, I would like pleading to my brother and sisters of South Asia." Indeed, the Brahmins-Hindus-turbaned Brahmins this session is that India is not a peaceful nation. It has been of India are the enemies of the world's 6th largest religion and creating problems and is busy in the engagement to occupy the Sikh Culture as far as the Sikhs, Muslims, Dalits, Christians, Sikh nation, PUNJAB alias "Robbed" PUNJAB of August 15th , Bodos, Buddhists, tribal communities, Muslims of the 1947, Assam and 7-sister, Christians, Dalits and other minorities. Internationally Disputed Areas of Jammu and Kashmir, etc., are The Council (UN:HRC) is obliged to save the non-Brahmins- concerned. Hindus minorities. I thank you for your patience, Dr. Graves, ladies and gentlemen. *****
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In the 80's Punjab served as a key economic function for the respective states. As a result, these states along with Khalistan Indian state as the backbone of economic development. (proposed name of the Sikh Homeland) can increasingly envision However, with the onset of the Sikh freedom movement, the themselves as sovereign states being not far from reality. economic and political stability of the Indian state was adversely Going back to the 80's, the Khalistan movement was at its climax affected. Indian police, armoured forces, and other civil and there was both moral and financial support from both departments became uneasy due to the rapid development of the domestic and external sources. At that time armed groups of Sikh movement and the freedom fighters quickly equipped Sikhs working for the liberation of Khalistan were ordered to be themselves with advanced weaponry. Economic elite whose attacked by Indra Ghandi (the then Prime Minister of India) along material interests were at stake quickly disseminated propaganda with the Darbar Sahib Amritsar (also known as the Golden to the masses which as a result reacted negatively to the situation. Temple). The attack was carried out by the Indian army under the In reality, wealthy economic players and the Indian state needed a command of a Sikh General. These forces desecrated and resource rich Punjab which provided grain, fruit, and other disrespected the Darbar Sahib a long with massacring more than commodities. As a result, these movements not only damaged the 4000 pilgrims and the Sikh religious leader Sant Jarnail Singh Indian economy but also destabilized the myth of a unified Indian Bhindranwale. Shortly after, the Indian government propagated state. Due to the movements, there was a general consensus the notion that the Sikh movement had been suppressed. In within the population that India would be dismembered in pieces. reaction to the massacre of Sikhs by the India government, two Further, East Punjab became unsafe for Hindus and thus, there Sikh bodyguards meant to protect Indra Gandhi assassinated her was a large influx of Hindu residents within Punjab moving to which gave a message to the world that the Sikhs are not willing Hindu majority areas. to live with India. As a result of this assassination, Indian forces In response to the political, economic, and social destabilization attacked all religious Gurduwaras and killed indiscriminately. that was resulting from the Sikh movement, Indian policy makers There were also many cases of Hindu extremists who were in collaboration with all other departments extinguished the Sikh supported by the government that burnt Sikhs alive. 28 years have liberation movement in a rapid and covert fashion. The passed yet the individuals responsible for such heinous crimes crackdown on the Sikh freedom movement only became readily have not yet been prosecuted. Instead, these very individuals are available public knowledge after Benazir Bhutto, the then Prime continuing enjoy high level positions within the Indian state Minister of Pakistan, confessed in parliament the Pakistani hand apparatus. in helping Rajiv Ghandi (the then Prime Minister of India) to curb Due to the absence of justice, Sikh Diasporas in Western the Khalistan movement. From this rapid crackdown until recent countries are once again actively demanding freedom for and times, its efficiency can be attested to as it is as though a Khalistan independent Khalistan. According to media reports Sikhs of movement never took place. Due to the crackdown by the Indian Europe and North America are once again collecting funds for the government by the beginning of the 90s, it appeared that the Sikh support of the freedom movement. Recently General Kuldip movement had ended. In the days that followed, the Indian Singh Brar, who is a retired Indian Army Officer who took part in security forces killed Sikh freedom fighters whose names were the attack of the Darbar Sahib has been attacked and injured. disclosed by Benazir Bhutto in an attempt to eradicate any future Sikhs are being accused of this attack, and many of the accused possibility of the re-emergence of the freedom movement. have been arbitrarily arrested without any formal charges being However now, political analysts are observing that at the laid. Individuals attached to the Indian Intelligence Department grassroots level, the liberation movement has reactivated. Today claim that in India and Europe outlawed Sikh organizations such there still remain some Sikhs who are followers of the family of as Bubbar Khalsa International and Khalistan Commando Force Guru Nanak and are working hard to bring the freedom have hired Sikh youth who are being shown footage of atrocities movement back on track. The days are not too far when the spark committed against the Sikhs including from Operation Blue Star. will ignite into a flame and the liberation movement will be Operation Blue Star is the code name for the attack on the Darbar successful in freeing Khalistan from Indian occupation. Sahib which took place in 1984 by the Indian government. 50 Russian political analyst Boris Volenski asserts that it is social network sites and 20 websites are also being used in order important to note that due to the current political situation of India to publicize the cause. where the central government is weakening, separatist The officially accepted death toll that the Indian government movements are re-emerging. He also states that although accepts and disseminates from 1980-2000 is more than 30,000 Narendra Modi and Mamta Banerjee did not want their states to Sikhs. However, Jaswant Singh (contractor and resident of be separate from the federation; the weakening of the central Britain) leader of the Khalistan movement claims that a more government is a key aspect in the continued loss of control of their accurate figure is that 270,000 Sikhs have been killed. He has also
14 International Journal of Sikh Affairs 23 (1), June Issue 2013 ISSN 1481-5435 confirmed that Sikh bodyguards which killed Indra Gandhi were attempt to destabilize Pakistan has long supported separatist merely retaliating to Operation Blue Star. movements in Baluchistan and Sindh while simultaneously also We must realize that when one extreme action is taken, it will lay attempting destabilize Sri Lanka. However, the Indian State must the seeds for a retaliatory reaction. Nationalist movements are accept that it has 32 separatist movements within its own borders emerging and this is largely due to the large amounts of diversity and it will not be long until many of these grassroots movements within sovereign states rendering them unable to claim that they which are legitimate and are merely sparks will soon ignite into are a single nation of people. The Indian government in an flames.17(2), 27, 2007©
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Mr. President estimates. There is an increase of 873 per cent (%) since 1971 I would like to invite your immediate attention towards the grave when the NCRB started recording cases of rape. The situation of human rights violations being committed by the State and non- Dalit women and minorities are a matter of concern. These State actors in India. While acknowledging the fact that incidents against minorities woman often remain unnoticed. goverence is a challenging task in a multi-ethic society like India. Delhi has emerged as the rape capital of India, accounting for My organization wants to express concern over the deteriorating 25% of cases. Recent incident of gang rape in New Delhi, whose human rights situation in India. victim died in Singapore demonstrates the need for a renewed Incidents of violence against women, discrimination against commitment by the Government to combat violence against Dalits, tribal groups and religious minorities like the Sikhs, women and to eliminate the culture of impunity. Muslims, Buddhists, etc., patronage by the State of extremists As a signatory to the Convention on Elimination of All forms of political groups; forced displacements on the name of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW), the Government of development. Inhuman conduct of law enforcement agencies India is bound to take all necessary measures to eliminate all warrant urgent attention. forms of violence against women.
Mr. President Mr. President It is the acknowledged fact that a woman has never been treated at I call on this Council to take note of these atrocities against par with a man in our society. However, in India, rapes are ever women and urge the Indian government for impartial increasing in the past few years. The National Crime Records investigation of rape cases. Bureau (NCRB) reported 24, 206 cases in 2011 according to I thank you, Mr. President. *****
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Mr. President suppress the freedom struggle, which is legitimate and well My organization is here to address the plight of women and girls, recognized by the United Nations. Women being the direct especially belonging to minorities who are constant victims of victims of the physical violence, rape, abduction, murder and psychological and physical violence. It is disappointing that indirect victims of arrest, torture, disappearance, displacement despite the unprecedented violence experienced by the women in and this translate into loss of loved ones. A study done by India, the international human rights organizations and their Medecins Sans Frontier's in the mid 2005 revealed that respective administrations, the civil society have failed to minorities' women are the prime object of the sexual violence in persuade the government to eliminate divisions, and take the world, included are the Sikh women of the decade of 1980s punitive action against perpetrators of crimes committed against and 1990s. Nearly 9000 cases of all ages have become victims of women and girls of the minorities. massive and brutal gang rapes and molestation. My organization appeals to the Council to press India to end all Mr. President forms of violence against the female sex in the largest democracy, Women and girls are more vulnerable than ever before. It is a so to speak. My organization also urges the Council to send Ms. horrible reality that incidents of rape have increased. The largest Yakin Erturk, United Nations Special Rapporteur on violence democracy of the world has failed to deal effectively for the against women, to visit India to get the first hand information of crimes against women. the matter in question. The security forces have been playing their active role to I thank you, President
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CENTRE FOR HUMAN RIGHTS AND PEACE ADVOCACY AGENDA ITEM 5 DINO DEAN GRACIOUS Mr. President, governmental debt. In the last six years, more than 200,000 Since the 1940s, the minorities, communities in India i. e., the farming families have taken their own lives. Sikhs, Muslims in general, Buddhists, Christians, Dalits, Mr. President Adivasis, etc. have been suffering rather chronically, as Further, the minorities have been experiencing human rights compared to the elite communities of the Brahmins and their violations, abductions, rapes, torture, social problems, etc. favourite Hindus. By and large, at all levels the law-enforcing and intelligence agencies of the state, federal or territories have been playing their Mr. President active roles. This situation of the minorities has reached a stage Minorities have been having great problems relating to their where they are nothing but helpless. The immediate attention of survival and in the daily use of amenities for daily survival. For the Human Rights Council is required to ask the Indian example, the situations relating to their education, housing, administration to control their activities relating to the human drinking water, fetching food, to irrigate their crops, in rights violations. conjunctions with heavy abuse, rapes, abductions, humiliation, employment, suitable water quality of potable and irrigation Mr. President water, scarcity for food, employment, heavy-handedness of the The situation of minority communities has reached to stage law-enforcing personnel, etc., have been creating problems after where they need immediate help of the Human Rights Council to problems. preserve their human rights by asking the Indian administration to watch their activities. Indeed, these minorities are overburdened. Farmers have been I thank you Mr. President. committing suicide, as they are heavily loaded with un-payable *****
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COMBATING IMPUNITY Room No. XXVII Meeting Organized By National Human Rights Institutions and Non-Governmental Organizations Date: March 15th , 2013
Moderator: Altaf Hussain Wani Government of India. There comes the time when armed forces Speakers: Faiz Nakshbandi, Miss Saddani, S Shawl and Mario are more powerful than their government. The Sikhs have Iqbal Tarana experienced a brutal 'undeclared' war on their Sikh Nation, PUNJAB alias the "Robbed" Punjab of August 15th , 1947. Indian The speakers dealt with the Human Rights violations by the government made their armed forces (army, navy, air force, Indian Armed Forces Act. Impunity meant the loss or escape of foreign advisers and armed personnel) to exterminate the Sikhs of Human Rights of minorities, in particular reference to the Indian Punjab and destroy their Darbar Sahib Complex, including Occupied Areas of Jammu and Kashmir. The cycle of impunity Supreme Seat of Sikh Polity, The Akal Takht Sahib, more than which goes on and on, more violence and more impunity and all 125 Gurdwaras and their religious and historical places by these have affected the Human Rights Institutions. imposing round the clock curfew in Punjab. No one outside Participating in the discussion period, Dr. Sekhon agreed with the Punjab knew that the Sikhs Holy and Historic Homeland is under Chairman that the situation 9/11 has created more problems than the attack of the Indian government and Indian armed forces as a the solutions to 'Resolve the Problem of International Terrorism' complete secrecy had been maintained. This 'undeclared' war on (RPIT). Although it meant well, the problems experienced when the Sikh Nation took a toll of more than 270,000 innocent and all those nations, under the notion that either you are with us or unarmed Sikhs since June 1, 1984 to date. you are not with us in the fight of international terrorism in Similarly, it is not a surprise for me that Afzal Guru's execution accordance with the mandate of the RPIT. The nations known for was carried out by having a full curfew in the IDA:JK. The the human rights violations jumped on the ship for fighting newsflash was made that Afzal Guru has been sent to gallows and terrorism worldwide'. It was a highly unfortunate act on the part he has been buried in Tihar jail, the jail where Guru spent his last of the trouble makers and creating impunity. days in the jail before he was executed. What a shame to the Continuing his discussion, Dr. Sekhon said the Indian Armed peaceful world, which call the Indian administration of the Forces Act is the major stumbling block to bringing peace to the Brahmins-Hindus-turbaned Brahmins the largest progressing Internationally Disputed Areas of Jammu Kashmir. H expressed democracy of South Asia! his opinion that as long the act of the Indian armed forces is not Ladies, gentlemen and Chair, I would like to bring to your notice repelled, there cannot be peace in the IDA:JK. As far as he is that Bhai Sahib Sardar Balwant Singh Rajoana has spent more concerned, the Indian armed forces are immune, enjoy unlimited than 17-years in jail for the charges of killing one time Punjab's power to take any action on behalf of their masters or the Chief Minister, Beant Singh, a brutal person for the Sikhs and
16 International Journal of Sikh Affairs 23 (1), June Issue 2013 ISSN 1481-5435 voted in the office of Chief Minister merely with the 7% of the replied, the decision has been made and it is all up to the judiciary total electorate votes. Beant Singh had been famous for killing to send the next one to gallows. the Sikh youth. More than 17-years of imprisonment, Bhai Sahib Mr .Chair, the Sikhs will not ask for any mercy whatever the Sardar Balwant Singh was brought to a Court of law in Patiala, consequences are or will be. Minorities in India are at the mercy Punjab. He was asked if there has been any counsel to defend of the Brahmins-Hindus' administrations. him. Sirdar Balwant Singh had a hand written statement to read to Like 'mass graves' found in the IDA:JK, a young Sikh engineer the judge. He first greeted the judge with the Sikhs' greetings: had prepared a report on the graves found of the Sikhs in the Waheguru ji ka Khalsa, Waheguru ji ki Fateh! What it means it village Hond Chillar. These graves had been during the time of the "Khalsa belongs to the wonderful Lord, victory to the Sikh genocide of June, 1984 and October-November, 1984. wonderful lord." Judge Sahib, I am my own council, have no While he had been preparing his report to submit to the court of regrets whatsoever, as what I have done is to my Sikh Nation, law, he was arrested, his father's bicycle was stolen, his parents' which is under the occupation of the Indian government. I have home was all disrupted by the Punjab police of the Chief Minister no trust in the politicized judiciary of India. The Indian Prakash Sinh Badal, also chief, Badal Akali Dal Private Limited. Constitution does not apply on the Sikhs. Indian government may He was kept under the police custody for more than 6-months. send me to gallows and I am ready for this. I will not make any When the Punjab and Haryana High Court found no valid case mercy plea. Let me tell you, the judge Sahib, what the police has against this Sikh young man, he was released by the police. implicated me in the Rajpura case, I was not there on that day of Mr. Chairman, ladies and gentlemen, what has been going on in happening and it is nothing but a fabricated report and a bunch of India and how the non-Brahmin-Hindu minorities are treated, lies made against me. I am ready for any outcome and for the day only God knows what more has to be seen by the minorities. to go to the gallows. This statement was made by Bhai Sahib Chairman made his final remarks that what could be said is that Sirdar Balwant Singh Rajoana on February 9th , 2013. the "Culture of Punity" has been prevailing in India. Minorities After Afzal Guru's execution, the Home Minister of India, Mr. and religious minorities have to combat the impunity Shinde, was asked by reporters who is next to be executed? He collectively.
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Canada again recognize Sikhs' right to propagate the idea of Khalistan [THE SIKH NATION] peacefully By PARMJIT SINGH
Published: January 12, 2013, Sikh Siyasat, Punjab It is notable that Indian investigative and intelligence agencies as Chandigarh, Punjab/India (January 12, 2013): As per recent well as the Indian government has been raising “concerns” over media reports visiting Canadian Minister Jason Kenney told the rise of political awareness among Sikhs in Europe, Canada reporters in Chandigarh that Sikhs in Canada raising their voice and United States. India terms such awareness as the “rise in Sikh peacefully for separate Sikh state named “Khalisthan” out of extremism” in European and Western countries. India, will not be asked to leave Canada. Indian media and Government representatives/officials had Jason Kenney, Minister of Citizenship, Immigration and created the havoc of the rise of “Sikh extremists” in Canada when Multiculturalism (Canada) Canadian prime minister Stephen Harper was visiting India a few Canada's Citizenship, Immigration and Multiculturalism months back. But PM Harper had recognized the right of Minister Jason Kenney is visiting Chandigarh and he said this Canadian Sikhs to raise their political concern or propagate the while addressing a press conference in Chandigarh. idea of separate Sikh state often named as “Khalistan” peacefully. “Members of Sikh community could raise their voices peacefully Tagged with: Canada, Indian Media, Indian State, Khalistan, while living in Canada as there is nothing wrong in it since they Sikh Diaspora, Sikhs in Canada are doing so within the law”, Kenney reportedly said. Related “The Canadian government would not review their immigration Stephen Harper explains the position on political activism of status or disturb their residency status since they are not Canadian Sikh Diaspora disturbing the law and order,” he added. Allegations of extremism against Canadian Sikhs aimed at As per a news report published by “Indian Express” (IE): “He, quashing legitimate discussion of ongoing human rights abuses however, said that if anybody was found involved in any act of by Indian State: WSO terrorism or raising funds for terrorist activities then the Canadian government should not be misled by Indian govt's government would definitely take action against them followed propaganda against Khalistanis by their deportation”. Letter to the Editor: Canadian PM Stephen Harper's visit to India Harper and India: Conversations on extremism *****
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DAL KHALSA ALLIANCE (USA) AND ITS SISTER ORGANIZATIONS SUBMIT MEMORANDUM TO THE 22nd SESSION OF THE UN: HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND, MARCH 2013
Dal Khalsa Alliance Suite 303 1700 Schttuck Avenue Berkeley, CA 94709 USA Parmjit Singh Sekhon President E-mail: [email protected] MEMORANDUM The Hon N. Pillay High Commissioner United Nations High Commission for Human Rights, UN Human Rights Council Palais des Nations, CH 1211 Geneva 10 SWITZERLAND 5th March, 2013 Your Excellency Madam Pillay,
HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS AND GENOCIDE IN PARTICULAR OF SIKHS IN THEIR HOLY AND HISTORICAL LAND, PUNJAB, AND THE NON-HINDU MINORITIES I IN GENERAL IN PREDOMINANTLY HINDU INDIA
We, the Sikhs of North America, European countries and minorities (more than 500,000 Muslims; over 500,000 Kashmiri Switzerland, would like to apprise you, the Excellency, of the Muslims of the Internationally Disputed Areas of Jammu and gross human rights abuses of the Sikhs and other non-Brahmins- Kashmir since occupation; more than 312,500 Christians; Hindu minorities in India which have been taking place since hundreds of thousands of Dalits, adivaases (aboriginals or 15th August, 1947. This was the day when the British India Moolnivasi of India), in numerous genocides, pogroms, authorities transferred political power to the 'unelected' Hindu massacres and staged encounters (25 Years After 1984 Assault on leadership and left the non-Hindu minorities, especially the Durbar Sahib Laying Foundation of Khalistan (ed) Dr Awatar Sikhs, at the mercy of the majority (only 10% of a total population Singh Sekhon, June 2009, ISBN 0-9548929-4-1, a publication of of 1.2 billion), the Hindus. Since receiving political power from London Institute of South Asia). The most recent examples of the the British Empire, despite the protest of the Sikhs at large and state-sponsored pogroms are the killings of Sikhs in their leadership for not returning their 'First Sovereign and Chitisinghpora in Kashmir in February, 2000; killings of 6 Sikhs Secular' Sikh nation of South Asia, of a Sikh monarch, Ranjit in Kashmir in February, 2001; beheading of a Sikh in Kashmir in Singh (1799-1849). The predominantly Hindu India has March, 2001; destruction of 6 Mosques in Kanpur, U P, and exterminated more than 3.4 million Sikhs since 15th August, Bhilwara (Asind), Rajasthan (http://www.indian 1947; more than one million in the decade of 1981-91 (Singh S express.com
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October 7, 1987.” On 21st March, 2006, in a press release, Dr the Hindu militants and fundamentalists, the Brahtiya Janata Gurmit Singh Aulakh, President of the Council of Khalistan, Party (BJP), is back as the Chief of the Punjab. Badal, is an agent Washington DC, said, “What kind of democracy watches people of India's Research and Analysis Wing (RAW; Gurtej Singh 2000 are demanding freedom? Why don't they watch the Black Cats Chakarvyuh: Web of Indian Secularism ISBN 81-85815-14-3) who have killed thousands of Sikhs under the protection of the and a staunch turbaned Hindu in 'The Sikh Identity'. Prakash Indian government?'' Badal has kept his lips 'sealed' when the Punjab Legislative We would like to bring to your notice that the Sikh Nation, Assembly debated the 'Freedom of Press, news media and the free Punjab, the 'First Sovereign and Secular' nation of South Asia of speech recently (www.rozanaspokesman.com, 8th-13th March, monarch Ranjit Singh, 1799 to 14th March, 1849, was 'robbed' 2008). The freedom of speech and expression are the by the alleged Indian democracy on 15th August, 1947. The fundamental human rights in any democracy. This is the clear Sikhs' constitutional rights, Sikh religion and Sikh traditions reflection of the democratic or 'autocratic' nature of the Badal's were 'swallowed' in the Indian Constitution 1950, Article 25. Akali-BJP administration in Punjab. The very Constitution 1950 was 'rejected', in the Indian These are a few examples of the democracy of the New Delhi parliament (Lok Sabha), in its draft and final forms, in 1948, 26 administration's (NDA) blessed administration of Prakash Badal November 1949, 1950 and more recently on 6th September 1966. and his Akalis alliance with the BJP, in the Sikhs' holy and historic The Sikhs' elected representatives who 'rejected' the Homeland of Sikhs, Punjab. Constitution, on behalf of their people or constituents of Punjab, On February 6, 2000, the death of a Dalit youth in police custody were Sardar Hukam Singh, Sardar Bhupinder Singh Maan and in Morinda, Ludhiana, was horrifying. He was killed in cold Sirdar Kapur Singh, ICS, MP, MLA and the National Professor of blood because he objected to police's drinking session at a public Sikhism. Since their 'rejection of the Indian Constitution 1950', place. This incidence revived memories of the dark period in the none of the Sikhs' elected representatives has accepted/ history of Punjab when countless innocent young men were endorsed/signed the Indian Constitution implemented by the killed in false encounters, but police records turned them into deceitful, divisive, devious and apartheid practicing alleged ruthless terrorists. Indian democracy of the 'Brahmins-Hindus'. It must be A mother of six sons, Bibi Jaswant Kaur, lost her husband in considered seriously that under what Constitutional rights, the 1987. Three of her six sons succumbed to tuberculosis. The other apartheid practicing alleged Indian democracy has been ruling three were abducted and killed by Punjab police. One of the three the 'Sikhs of Punjab (including Haryana, Himachal Pradesh and sons, Pragat Singh, 23-yrs-old, was arrested in 1987, kept in Punjabi-speaking areas of Punjab/Sikh Nation/the Sikh Raj of captivity for 14 months. After his release police raided his home Ranjit Singh) since 15th August, 1947? The Sikhs of Punjab's on 9th September 1988, and shot him dead. The eldest son, Jagir story does not end here. Rather, it has been continuing since the Singh, 25-yrs-old, working as a volunteer in a Taran Taran Sikh Nation has been under the 'slavery and Tight Control' of the Gurdwara, was taken by the police and did not return. The oppressive and suppressively alleged Indian democracy of the youngest son, Mohinder Singh (20-yrs-old) was with the 'Brahmins-Hindus', who had been 'subservient' to the Afghans, religious man, Baba Charan Singh (see above). He was abducted Mughals, Sikhs, British, Portuguese, etc., for more than 3,500 by years. the police on 14th June 1991 and died in police custody. Jaswant Additionally, the excesses of the Indian forces can be Kaur has tried all possible avenues to get justice, but has had no summarized as follows. luck ([email protected]; March 20, 2001; post #4181; On 5th November, 1978, the Hindu India police of Delhi fired at a http://www.yahoogroups.com/group/sikhyouth;
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Granth Sahib, in June, 2001. The Hindu hoodlums stoned the democracy” in the world, India. A leading magazine has pointed Sikh pilgrims, burned the Holy Scriptures, and tried to set fire to out 'India is ruled by rascals.' “Many Indians silently witness the train (Press Release: Council of Khalistan. Train Attack Is their country's unlawful events. Several members of the ruling Wake-Up Call for Sikh Nation, June 27, 2001< party's youth wing have in the past been charged with rapes and [email protected]>). In an affidavit filed on 28th August, 2000, kidnapping. Officials respond that all parties have their thugs. by Mr Sartaj Singh, resident of Kathua, Jammu and Kashmir Politicians use thugs to capture polling booths and stuff ballot (under the occupation of Indian administration), Internationally boxes (The Economist, 15th July, 1995, p. 26).” According to the Disputed areas by the United Nations (IDA:JK), stated that he Hon Dana Rohrabacher, for the Sikhs, Kashmiri Muslims, and was tortured and received painful psychological harassment by other minorities 'India might as well be Nazi Germany' (Press the Indian police. The police personnel wanted him to confess for Release: Council of Khalistan, Washington DC; June 27, 2001 < the things, which he never did. The police personnel also wanted [email protected]>). Another Sikh, Devinder Pal Singh him to tell the whereabouts of Neeta alias Ranjit Singh, a freedom Bhullar, is about to be put to death in India for a crime even India fighter, Harbhajan Singh, Gian Singh and Joginder Singh, who admitted he didn't commit (Hon Edolphus Towns, MC. Proc are at large. The police personnel wanted him to make a false House of Representatives, Washington DC, 18th March, 2003). confession that 'we all know one another'. Manmohan Sinh, the present Chief, Council of Ministers, a non- Miss Manorama of Manipur was gang raped by the men of the elected 'Member of Parliament' of India, supposed to be an Assam Rifles and was thrown out of the headquarters after honest and clean person delivered his state address before the mutilating her private parts in July, 2004. More recently (9th “World Conference on Human Rights Delegates in Vienna, February, 2005), a 12-year-old girl was allegedly raped by a Austria, on 24th June (14 to 25th June), 1993. He, then Finance constable of the force in central Assam's Karbi Anglong district, Minister of the PV Rao's administration, said that “ he being Sikh triggering protests from women's organizations. In a blatant finds no abuses of Human Rights of Sikhs much less any violation of human rights, the district police today tortured a Dalit minorities in India.” Another person, Shahabuddin, Manmohan youth to death after he refused to accept his involvement in a theft Singh's colleague of the Islamic faith, said the same of Muslims case (Jalandhar, February 6' tibruneindia.com). of India. Abuses of Human Rights in the Sikhs' holy and historic The World Kashmir Diaspora Alliance reports that "since the Homeland, Punjab, Khalistan (under the Brahmins-Hindus Indian forces occupation, more than 195,000 innocent Kashmiris autocracy's occupation, have been taking place, since 15th have been killed; more than 500,000 have disappeared, and the August, 1947). Manmohan Singh's statement was 'refuted' in the latter have been killed by the invader's troops or they have been strongest possible words by the human rights and peace- loving languishing in Indian jails with no information to their families. citizens (delegates) of North America and elsewhere. In the last three months, the death toll the ongoing Kashmiri Your Excellency, following the execution of “Operation unrest is 96, as another youth Yasir Rafiq Sheikh, a cousin of Bluestar” of June, 1984, an 'undeclared' war on the Sikh Nation, Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front chief, Muhammad Yasin Punjab, by the Indian armed forces, according to Sekhon (2009 Malik, succumbed to his injuries on late Wednesday night ISBN 0-9548929-4-1). During “Operation Bluestar, June 1984”, inflicted by the Indian personnel and kept in a New Delhi every village of the Sikhs' holy and historic homeland, Punjab, hospital. Additionally, at least 10 persons were injured by the was turned into a 'Concentration Camp;' 'Open air' jails were alleged CRPF firing on protesters in Sopur. For the last six days established outside every village of Punjab. These jails were Kashmir is under curfew round the clock (bangla- covered by the barbed wires, in the heat of June – August months, [email protected], 18th September, 2010)." On 9th when the usual temperatures in Punjab are 47 C or more, had been February, 2013, a Kashmiri named Afzal Guru had been sent to under the supervision of the Indian armed personnel, were no less gallows in Tihar jail, Delhi), buried in the jail, without informing than the concentration camps of Adolf Hitler's times in the Nazi his wife and family members. The Dal Khalsa Alliance registered Germany. These 'open air' barbed wire concentration camps/jails a strong protest for Afzal Guru's execution. were used to prison the Sikhs indiscriminately regardless of The above are only a few of the hundreds of thousands of cases gender and age. Sanitary facilities were virtually non-existent. we would like to bring to your kind attention, your Excellency. This reflects the treatment of Indira Gandhi and her We hereby request you to dispatch a fact finding mission to India administration of the Brahmins autocracy to the Sikhs.” to assess in depth the crimes committed against humanity by Bibi Manjit Kaur Dakha (1992): Manjit Kaur Dakha and her armed and law-enforcing agencies in 'uniforms' and bring the husband sought political asylum in the United States after being criminals before the International Court of Justice in the same tortured by the Indian armed personnel. Mrs. Dakha, her father, way as the U N has done to punish the criminals of the Rwanda and her 6-mo-old daughter (Bhaghel Kaur) were tortured and Serbia massacres in 2000; S. Milosevic of Serbia in July mercilessly, given repeated death threats, and her child was made 2001; the former Serb police chief, Steven Todorovic, who to sit on a colony of ants by the Central Reserve Police Force pleaded guilty for torturing, murdering and sexually assaulting (CRPF). Mrs Dakha and her father were made to beat each other Muslims and Croats (National Post, 1st August, 2001, p A11); with clubs. and Radislav Krstic for the Srebrenica genocide of Muslims in Sardar Surinder Singh Fauji (a retired army personnel), of 1995 (National Post, August 3, 2001, p A3). The UN tribunal has Fatehabad, Tehsil: Khadur Sahib of Amritsar district of Punjab, taken a landmark decision recently to include “sex torture as a has been physically, mentally and psychologically tortured by war crime” (National Post, February, 23, 2001). Also, the UN Punjab police since May 27, 1986. Valuable household articles Secretary-General (former), His Excellency Kofi Annan's were stolen by the police personnel from his residence never interview (Time, 4th September, 2000) will be welcomed by the returned. Despite his writing to the Prime Minister (PV Rao), justice-loving peoples of our civilized world that “those who Home Minister of India (SB Chawan), Chief Justice, Supreme commit crimes and those who watch as bystanders are equally Court of India, Chief Justice, Punjab and Haryana High court, and responsible for the crime taking place.” What we have brought to the Senior Session Judge, Amritsar, there was no relief from the your attention, your Excellency, is just the 'tip of the iceberg' of police excesses. human rights abuses, religious persecution(s), rapes, humiliation, More than 35 Sikh youth, including Kanwarpal Singh Bittu and dehumanization and crimes committed by the state-sanctioned Sarbjit Singh Ghuman of the Dal Khalsa, were kept in police armed personnel of what our civilized world terms as the “largest custody. Similarly, Jagtaar Singh Hawara, his wife and other
20 International Journal of Sikh Affairs 23 (1), June Issue 2013 ISSN 1481-5435 family members were humiliated (by putting cigarettes and attacks in November 1984 (3rd March, 2011, posted by SFJ on tobacco in Hawara's mouth), tortured and harassed by the Punjab many websites). and Delhi police (www.panthic.org 17th July, 2005). Another Reported recently (www.facebook.com, 14th March, 2011), Sikh leader, Daljit Singh Bittu, President, Panch Pradhani, and large number of Sikhs gathered in Gurudwara at Pandri thousand of Sikh youth have been in jails, without trials and Kattaiyyan 10 km from Nanakmatta, Pilibhit road and 15 kms crimes. from Sitarganj.The gurudwara was locked but ransacked and the A human rights lawyer and prominent Sikh nationalist Harpal Holy Scripture of Sikhs, Guru Granth Sahib, was set on fire; Singh Cheema, after spending eight years in a California jail, whereas, two more copies were ripped off by sharp weapons. The whom Judge Dana Keener determined Singh did not pose a threat majority of farmers in this area is the Sikhs, Muslims and Biharis to national security. The Hon judge stopped short of granting him labourers. A Muslim named Mehadi Hassan (MH) was caught full asylum, but forbade the then-INS from deporting the couple. stealing the motor from Gurudawara a couple of days ago. He was Indeed, she noted that Singh “is widely perceived as a moderate handed over to Police. It is reported his involvement along with and a voice for reason (Camille T Tairara, Editor, New America his some other Muslim friends, who attacked Gurudwara Sahib, Media, News Feature, Aug 07, 2006). To escape atrocities and burnt the Holy Scripture and they cut the pages with sharp edged persecution during custody of the Indian law-enforcing weapons. Temporary Granthi/custodian Narinder Singh also hid personnel until 1992, Mr Cheema and his wife sought asylum in the truth because of intimidation. It is understood that some the United States in1993 (www.news.ncmonline.com Hindu fundamentalists and miscreants are involved to incite MH /news/views_article.htmal? Mr Cheema is separated from his and his associates to create animosity between the Sikh and wife and son. Both mother and son are too scared to return to Muslim communities of UP and Utrakhand. It has been done India. before by the Brahmins-Hindus personnel of the Indian In February 2010, the Punjab police killed 13 youth in Ludhiana Government in the occupied-Jammu and Kashmir during district of Punjab, while they were participating in the Birthday President William J Clinton's state visit to India. A few weeks celebrations of Shaheed-Bilas Saint-soldier Jarnail Singh earlier in August, 2011 desecration of Sikhs' Holy Scripture took Khalsa, Punjab's political and religious leader of the 20th century place in a town in Hoshiarpur district, Punjab. (www.rozananaspokesman.com). Recently, the Vice Chancellor of the Punjab University, invited A mass Grave of Sikhs killed in November 1984 has been Professor of Sikhism Gurtej Singh, to write an invitational article discovered after 26 years in village Hondh-Chillar, District on the 'Sikh War Code'. Professor Gurtej Singh's invitational Rewari, Haryana. The village was inhabited by several Sikh article was 'rejected' on the ground that certain changes are families. On November 2nd, 1984 in an organized and well required before it is accepted for publication by his university. planned attack, the entire village was burnt, along with the Sikh This is a 'discrimination' of Punjab University's policy against the population and Gurudwara. The village consisting of torched Sikhs and the highly esteemed Sikh writer of the international houses, a burnt Gurudwara and scattered human bones have now caliber. been discovered (www.punjabspectrum.com, 17th February, More than 257,000 Sikh farmers have committed suicide since 2011). post-“Operation Bluestar” era in the 'robbed' PUNJANB of 15th Speaking before a judge in Patiala court on 4th February, August, 1947, because heavy burdens of the taxes imposed by the 2013, Bhai Balwant Singh Rajoana said: “As far as I am administration of Hanera (Prakash) Sinh Badal concerned, my arrest on December 22, 1995, from the Jalandhar (Rozanaspokesman, 29th February, 2012). Bus Depot is totally false. The story concocted by the Rajpura We request you to bring to justice the deceased or living Police against me is all fabricated simply to implicate me in a politicians of Indian administrations (Indira Gandhi, Rajiv false arrest. I cannot and will not bow in front of such an unjust Gandhi, Chandershekhar, P Chidambaram (now Home Minister judicial system and betray my brave martyred Sikh brothers. I of India; one of the members of a 3-men Team in the 'War Room' will not beg for any mercy from this unjust judicial system and during an 'undeclared' war on the 'Landless Sikh Nation alias would prefer to go to the gallows with head held high. I will not 'robbed' Punjab' of 15th August, 1947, in June, 1984). V P Sinh, ask for mercy for myself but rather ask for freedom and Dev Gowda, P V Rao, A B Vajpayee and their cabinet colleagues, sovereignty for my Sikh nation [“Robbed” PUNJAB of 15th including Narendra Modi and his cabinet colleagues responsible August, 1947]. My tributes to all my martyred brothers and for the Gujarat Massacre of Muslims (February to November, sisters.” 2002), Hanera (Prakash) Sinh Badal of the 'robbed' PUNJAB, It is learned from highly reliable sources that the Central Reserve and/or appointees like HKL Bhagat, Jagdish Tytler, Arun Nehru, Police Force (CRPF) had been operating at least four deep pans of SD Sharma, SS Ray, Boota Singh, LK Advani, GL Nanda, Surjit boiled oil to kill alive the Sikh youth in Amritsar in the post- Barnala, Balwant Singh, Beant Singh, PD Singh, JS Chohan undeclared war on the occupied Sikh Nation, under the consent of (deceased), Surender Nath, Prakash Sinh Badal, GS Tohra, HS the then administration of India. Longowal, Lalit Makan, to cite but a few; police officers JF In the second week of February, 2010, the Punjab police killed 13 Rebeiro, KPS Gill (the Butcher of Punjab), Sarbjit Singh, youth in Ludhiana district of Punjab, while they were Sumedh Saini (now the Director General of Punjab Police), DR participating in the Birthday anniversary celebrations of Bhatti for the killings of Professor (Dr) Rajinder Pal Singh Gill Shaheed-Bilas Saint-soldier Jarnail Singh Khalsa, Punjab's (Bulara), Dr Gurnam Singh Buttar, Bhai Gurbhej Singh of the political and religious leader (www.punjabspectrum.com, Jalandhar district and others, Swarn Ghotna, Gobind Ram, AS February 21, 2011). Sandhu (declared deceased by the Indian administration and According to the Sikhs for Justice (SFJ), the summons against associates. However, he is living under fake identity in Halifax, Congress have been issued pursuant to a class action lawsuit filed NS, Canada, as reported by
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To The Nation: Oppression in Punjab. Library of Congress Card Alla Singh Bhogal No. 86-60058, January, 1986; Gurtej Singh 2000 Chakarvyuh: Chairman, International Sikh Sabhiachar Society Web of Indian Secularism ISBN 81-85815-14-3; Int J Sikh Affairs [email protected] Vol 9, No. 1, 1999 ISSN 1481-5435; Sikh Shahadat, June 2005, p. M. S. Randhawa* 12-17). Senior Advisor, Council of Khalistan Washington, DC, USA We look forward to hearing from you and hope for your prompt Signed by: Gaganjit Singh* action on all crimes committed against humanity. With warmest Dal Khalsa of America [email protected] regards and best wishes. Ram Sing* Respectfully submitted, President, American Gurdwara Council Ph: 1.408.667-3116 Sincerely. Karnail Singh Khalsa* Parmjit Singh Sekhon,* President, Gurmat Chetna Lahar of the United States of America PresidentDal Khalsa Alliance 1.510.557-9168 Dr Awatar Singh Sekhon Harmindar Singh* Editor in Chief President, Khalsa Jagriti Lahar of the United States of America International Journal of Sikh Affairs ISSN 1481-5435 Sukhwinder Singh*, President, Sikh Sahit Sabha 510.277-7560 EDMONTON, AB T5T 2B8 Baljinder Singh*, CANADA [email protected] President, Sikh Sabhiachar Committee 510.774-5909 Advisor (Foreign Affairs), Dal Khalsa Alliance Sultan Singh Akhtar* Sikh Federation Swiss President, International Sikh Sahit Sabha Freemont, CA, USA Signed by: Amarjit Singh Khalsa* Denotes signed with the permission
India police arrest 6 in new bus gang rape Driver allegedly took woman to isolated area in northern Punjab state
The Associated Press Posted: Jan 13, 2013 5:53 AM ET Last Updated: Jan 13, 2013 11:02 AM ET
Indian police officials present six arrested men, accused of a gang to do to prevent such tragedies. Protesters and politicians have rape in Punjab state, for an appearance at court in Gurdaspur on called for tougher rape laws, police reforms and a transformation Sunday. (STRDEL News/AFP/Getty) in the way the country treats women. In her first published comments Sunday, the mother of the Related Stories deceased student said all six suspects in that case, including one India rape victim's companion recounts 'brutal' attack believed to be a juvenile, deserve to die. New gang-rape case 2:29 She was quoted by The Times of India newspaper as saying that Police said they arrested six men on Saturday in another gang her daughter told her that the youngest suspect had participated in rape of a bus passenger in India. Four weeks after a deadly attack the most brutal aspects of the rape. on a student on a moving bus in the capital outraged Indians and Five men have been charged with the student's rape and murder led to calls for tougher rape laws. and face a possible death penalty if convicted. The sixth suspect, Police officer Raj Jeet Singh said a 29-year-old woman was the who says he is 17 years old, is likely to be tried in a juvenile court only passenger on a bus as she was travelling to her village in if medical tests confirm he is a minor. His maximum sentence northern Punjab state on Friday night. He said the driver did not would be three years in a reform facility. stop at her village despite her repeated pleas and drove her to a "Now the only thing that will satisfy us is to see them punished. desolate location, where he and the conductor took her to a nearby For what they did to her, they deserve to die," the newspaper building. He said they were joined by five friends, and they took quoted the mother as saying. turns raping her throughout the night. Some activists have demanded a change in Indian laws so that The driver dropped the woman off at her village early Saturday, juveniles committing heinous crimes can face the death penalty. he said. The names of the victim of the Dec. 16 attack and her family have Singh said police arrested six suspects on Saturday and were not been released. searching for another. The physiotherapy student died from massive internal injuries in The brutal rape of a 23-year-old student on a New Delhi bus in a Singapore hospital where she was sent for emergency treatment December set off an impassioned debate about what India needs (CBC News on-line, January 13th , 2013).
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INDIA MUST WITHDRAW ITS OCCUPYING FORCES FROM KASHMIR OR PAKISTAN WILL EMPLOY THE FIRST STRIKE OPTION
HABIB YOUSAFZAI, KASHMIR DIASPORA ALLIANCE
As a result of recent skirmishes around the ceasefire line The fact is the State of Pakistan does not need the friendship of bordering India and Pakistan, also known as the line of control India. Keeping up the “facade” of friendship does nothing but (LoC) in the state of Jammu and Kashmir, deaths have delegitimize Pakistan's very legitimate existence. Historically, accumulated on both sides. Indian Leader of the Opposition the Indian state has acted as an aggressor attempting to establish a Sushma Swaraj in Lok Sabha called for '10 heads' from Pakistan. role as a regional hegemony. Simultaneously, it has Her exact wordings were, “if his (Hemraj's) head could not be indiscriminately violated its neighbors. Economic incentives brought back, we should get at least 10 heads from their side”, should not impede Pakistan's decision to cut off ties with the referring to Lance Naik Hemraj Singh the soldier who was Indian state. Pakistan can do business with the plethora of other allegedly beheaded. Swaraj was accompanied by BJP president sovereign states in the international system. The Indian state has Nitin Gadkari and Rajnath Singh. “The question is, will we sit killed more than 200,000 Kashmiris and enslaved fourteen without any reaction and engage in a dialogue? This should not million of its citizens for over six decades which are bona fide happen. At least the government should react in some way. That is citizens of Pakistan. What other means of aggression can be why we have said the government should take some tough constituted as legitimate to break off ties and be designated as measures.” Pakistan has already officially denied this barbarous hostility towards a state? India is strategically propagating act and has willingly opted for a United Nation investigation. discourses in order to isolate and corner the Pakistani state to give Ravish Tiwari of The Indian Express commented on January 15th , up its claim to Kashmir and its fourteen million inhabitants. 2013. Unlike India, Pakistani forces are apt followers of the laws of war The Nuclear doctrine of the State of Pakistan is its military as per the Geneva Convention. India is and has historically been a strategy which it uses in an attempt to deter the very real presence serial violator of aggression. In 1947, it forcibly occupied of aggression against the state and its citizens. This deterrence is Junagarah, Manwader, Hyderabad, and 42,000 square miles of based on a guarantee of massive retaliation to anyone who seeks the State of Jammu and Kashmir enslaving 14 million innocent to take aggressive military action against Pakistan. Pakistan must Kashmiris. India's aggression against Pakistani citizens does not not back down from the Indian state which has long acted as a end in Kashmir. In 1971, it dismembered the East wing of rogue state and violator of basic human rights and make its stance Pakistan that was known as East Pakistan and is presently and intentions clear to both India and the International Bangladesh. It has gone as far as committing a broad swath of community at large. Kashmir Diaspora Alliance strongly urges human rights violations against the Sikhs, once their close allies Pakistan to act swiftly upon its implied and constitutional policy who sacrificed wholeheartedly in the effort to eject the British that it will not only use nuclear weapons in a retaliatory strike, it is forces from India. Subsequently, it has deprived the Sikh nation also ready to take the lead and use nuclear weapons first to their birth right of the Sikh Homeland Punjab Khalistan. As per counter Indian conventional aggression. United Nation records, more than 270,000 Sikhs has been mercilessly killed to suppress their voice for Sovereignty. *****
Ms. Laura Dolci-Kanaan Awatar Singh Sekhon, Ph D, FIBA, RM (CCM) NGO Liaison Officer Acting Editor in Chief OHCHR Civil Society Unit International Journal of Sikh Affairs ISSN 1481-5435 E-mail: [email protected] Dear Madam,The following is being submitted for your attention & and discussion at the forthcoming meeting of the PCR Director, Human Rights Wing mechanism, with regard to the 'Genocide of the Sikhs, Muslims, Council of Khalistan [email protected] Muslims of the Internationally Disputed Areas of Jammu and Washington DC, USA Kashmir, Assamese, Dalits, Christians and other non-Brahmin Copy to: Dr Gurmit Singh Aulakh, President, Council of and non-Hindu minorities' by the alleged Indian democracy, Khalistan [email protected] since August 15th , 1947. Sardar Inderjit Singh Jaijee, Convener, MASR, CHANDIGARH, PUNJAB I shall look forward to your action and consideration. Best wishes. ***** Sincerely,
MOVEMENT AGAINST STATE REPRESSION CHANDIGARH, PUNJAB
November 4th , 2007 Chandigarh debt than in any other state. Crushing debt is driving them to take To: Sri Somnath Chatterjee, Speaker, Lok Sabha their own lives. Causes for the past 30 years downward spiral into New Delhi debt are many but a major part of the blame falls on an inequitable Sub: Debt-related rural suicides in Punjab. cost/price structure established by the Centre. We are listing here seven estimates of the number of suicides in Dear Sri Chatterjee, Punjab and one of Moonak Sub-Division of District Sangrur. As you will see the numbers range from a mere handful for the past Farmers and farm labourers of Punjab are under heavy debt, seven years to several thousand. Formulating effective policies which according to Government figures is more than double the requires accurate data. Before a fair and workable scheme can be
23 International Journal of Sikh Affairs 23 (1), June Issue 2013 ISSN 1481-5435 drawn out it is necessary to know the true level of the problem, in 5. Bhartiya Kissan Union (Ekta) for total Punjab 1990-2006: other words, the number of farmers/farm labourers who took 90,000 (1990 – 2006) 90,000 is the extrapolated figure based on their own lives. 29,766 cases recorded for 8 districts on random check of 261 Pending general suicide census for Punjab we would request you villages to urge the government to have the cases of Moonak Sub- 6. Punjab Revenue Department's Report 2007: 132 (for past five Division of District Sangrur examined. These cases have been years) identified and certified by the Gram Panchayats. A list of 1508 7. Punjab Police Report 2007: 7 (for past seven years) suicide cases with 1408 Gram Panchayat Affidavits are enclosed. 8. MASR Census of Moonak Sub-Division:2007 1,508 (1988-to This list covers all 91 villages comprising the Moonak date) Subdivision and is for the period 1988 till date. Punjab has some (comprising 91 villages and supported by Gram Panchayat 12,400 villages. We would request you to place the enclosed list Affidavits) and affidavits in the library of the Lok Sabha so that Members of The Central government is willing to concede suicides in the Parliament may verify the data if they so desire. southern states but not in Punjab or Haryana because Punjab has In 2005 the Punjab Government established a Farmers' long been projected as an “agricultural success story”. If it is Commission to look into the situation of the state's farmers, conceded that Punjab and Haryana farmers are desperate it must including the prevalence of suicide. This commission made a mean that agriculture all over India has collapsed. general study of the problem but did not conduct a census. The Punjab is experiencing more suicides than other states because Commission on the basis of the data available to it concluded that agriculture is overwhelmingly the state's main economic activity. about 2,000 farmers commit suicide each year. Thanks to the thrust of the green revolution it has moved on from The Punjab State government, on the other hand, collected data one crop to more than two crops a year. Therefore its losses are on rural suicides through two agencies, the Police and the proportionally more than other states. Revenue Department. It did not involve Farmers' Commission in In 2001, we had apprised both the President of India and the Chief this exercise. The Police findings placed suicides in Punjab Minister of Punjab that suicide is violence turned inward. It will during the past seven years at only 7 and Revenue Department not be long before anger and despair are turned outward and went a little further and gave a figure of 132 suicides for the same result in social and political turmoil if nothing is done to mitigate period (as suicide is a Penal offense, people are reluctant to record the difficulties of the rural sector. The Central government's deaths as suicide. This is especially so in Punjab as there has been response has been to multiply the number of para-military forces. very little accountability for police excesses.) The increased threat perception to the state is not from so-called Various reports quantifying suicides in Punjab: “Naxalites” and “Maoists”. It is from rural emiseration due to 1. MASR projected figure for Punjab 2000: 3,000 per year unequal distribution of the nation's wealth. 2. Punjab Govt Status Report 2004: 2,116 (period 1988-2004) With warm regards, Yours sincerely, 3. Punjab Farmers' Commission 2006: 2,000 per year Cc: all Members of Parliament Inderjit Singh Jaijee, Convener 4. MASR estimates of Punjab's suicides 2006: 40,000 to 60,000 (1988-2006) *****
Bhai Sahib Sirdar Balwant Singh Rajoana ji C/- Bibi Kamaldeep Kaur ji Waheguru ji ka Khalsa, Waheguru ji ki Fateh!
Aap ji de Khat 23rd of February, 2013 waste ati Dhanvad hai! “occupation” of the Brahmins-Hindus-turbaned Brahmin Rats Muaf karna meri PUNJABI (Gurmukhi script) di likhai bot hi like Hanera Sinh. Please note that (i) what our Guru, Guru Granth marrih hai. Es vaaste chithi da jawab English vich de riha haan. Sahib, teaches us, “Hukam-e-Ander Sabko Bahar Hukam Na The following (see below), press release, had to be given as I had Koi….”; (ii) let these people who have been showing or giving no choice after Afzal Guru had been sent to 'Gallows' (phansi-de- their back to the Sikh Nation, in the name of Khalistan (Khalsa takhte te charraha ditta giya see). I saw the Newsflash of one means Sovereign and Stan means Land, i. e., Khalistanstan), Indian NDTV channel. Right away, the Press Release was given please do not be worried at all. We, the citizens working for the on behalf of the Dal Khalsa Alliance of the United States of interest, sovereignty, independence and political power of the America in the late evening of the 8th of February, 2013 (MST in Sikh Nation in Punjab and outside PUNJAB, are very much North America and February 9th , 2013 morning of IST). As the familiar with the working procedures (leadree) of these people in Foreign Advisor of the Dal Khalsa America of the U S, it was my Akalis, non-Akalis, anti-Sikh political parties. Our eyes are moral obligation to demonstrate our solidarity with the citizens of closed. We are keeping track of what they say and what they do. the Internationally Disputed Areas of Jammu and Kashmir Let them be happy with their statements published by the news (IDA:JK). media (most of them working to fill their pockets with people like The following Press Release was given about two days after your Hanera Sinh Badal). Let them do their job. They would like to letter of February 16th , 2013 which I saw and had gone through 'distract' you and try their best. But you have to keep on writing receiving in my e-mail and reading it at the www.facebook.com. what is best in the interest of the Guru Khalsa Panth and the After receiving your mail of February 23rd , 2013 (Today here is “Sovereignty, independence and Political Power of the Sikh rd Nation. Sikhs had been the “First Sovereign Nation” of South the morning of February 23 , 2013) just around 06:00 Hrs, I have th gone through the contents of your message to the Guru Khalsa Asia, under Sher-e-Punjab Ranjit Singh 1799 to March 14 , 1849 and the Sikhs' Struggle for Sovereignty has been going on since Panth. You have done your duties to the Sikh Nation, Guru th Khalsa Panth, “robbed” PUNJAB of August 15th , 1947 today's March 14 , 1849. Punjab under the administration of the Akalis (Kaalis) of Hanera This “Struggle for Sovereignty will continue, under the guidance (Prakash) Sinh Badal, anti-Sikh, anti-Sikh Code of Conduct, of Guru Granth Sahibji, the teachings of the Sikh Guru Sahibaans anti-Guru Khalsa Panth forces, etc. Bhai Sahib ji, you have been and the Sikh Traditions.” Let these 3-footy carrier(s) of Teg and doing your duties to the Sikh Nation, presently under the what they (he) distracted from their(His) own affidavit to a judge
24 International Journal of Sikh Affairs 23 (1), June Issue 2013 ISSN 1481-5435 of High/Supreme Court, on Augus 18th , 1989 deleted from his Sikhs Struggle for Sovereignty. Waheguruji knows everything as affidavit that “I have faith in the Indian Constitution of 1950. the 'Farmaan' goes “Ghat Ghat mai Harzu Base Santan kahio This will be and is the weakness of his leadership and the “only Pukaar….” Leader of the movement of Khalistan.” Your intentions are crystal clear. Just remember the Akalpurakh, Please Bhai Sahib, Sirdar Rajoana ji, you spend your time in as you already do, and keep on writing and writing and writings. writing your messages to the Sikh youth, who are the torch- This is a request to you. bearers of the Guru Khalsa Panth. Best wishes and warmest regards to you and Bhenji Kamaldeep Everyone knows about his character, stamina, and honesty for the Kaurji, and lots of love to her daughter. ***** Sirdar Gurmit Singh (Australia) on the Sad Situation of the Delhi State Gurdwara Management Committee (DSGMS) dated March 19th , 2013:
Within a month, newly elected DSGMC Members have started 1978? showing their true colour as can be seen during Gurbani Kathaa It is a well known fact that Shriman PS Badal, his son Sukhbir relayed direct from Gurduara Bangla Sahib between 7-30 and 8- Singh Badal, his daughter-in-law Harsimrat Kaur Badal, MP 30 AM Indian Time. They and their Preachers have become Devi Navjot Singh Sidhu and other lackeys perform Hindu rites. Now Bhagat by narrating bachiter natak and other mythical stories and Orators such as Pinderpal Singh, Jasbir Singh Poantawale, that they will go to any extent with a view to appease their Harjinder Singh Srinagalwale.....have already started singing RSS/BJP Masters as well as their own Hindu Veer PS Badal, his their praises with full backing of SGPC and goluck-paid son, his daughter-in-law and other clan. [treasury] Head Ministers. The Congress had killed the Sikhs and During 2004, then DSGMC President, S. Prahlad Singh destroyed Historical Buildings; whereas, the Badal regime has Chandhok had honoured the killer Jagdish Tytler with wiped out Sikhie [Sikh religion, Sikh traditions, Sikh Code of unsheathed Kirpan. Then another Dealer Thapur delivered a Conduct, etc.] itself where 80% have become apostates as well as lecture on behalf of his Master Badal from the stage of Hindutva addict to drugs, rapes, drinks, smuggling, robberies and all other and praised their Ram Chander by repeating as if the Sikhs pray to evils. him. Media Report also says that killer KPS Gill had visited DDT I am sure during the next communications, S. Kanwaljit Singh [Dam Dami Taksal] where he was honoured with Siropa as well Gill will also enlighten their achievements in resolving the Sikh as a glass of milk. Like the olden days of Dogras and Poorbias, problems. who does not know about the treachery of Shri Badal since April *****
Sirdar Gurmit Singh Khalsa (Australia) writes: Guru Ram Das Sahib's Period was: 1574 – 1581 AD (not 1600 supari and then smoke the Beedi (a product of tobacco made to AD); But Guru Arjan Sahib's Period was from 1581 to 1606 AD. smoke) without ever remembering the Almighty God's True Although Tobacco may have been brought by Vasco da Gama Naam, are always in the fear of death. when arrived through sea on Malabar Coast (Goa). But in Punjab, However, you may wish to do Google Search: it may have been introduced by the Mughals. www.Tobacco – en.wikipedia.org/wiki In the Guru Granth Sahib at page 726, under Tilang Mahla 4, Guru Beedis are thin, often flavoured, South Asian cigarettes, snuff, Sahib says: “Paan Supari Khateeyan Mukh Beediaan Laieeyan. etc. Har Har Kadey Na Chaiteo Jum Pakar Chalaieeya.” (13). The Sikhs have nothing to do with Tobacco or its products. The persons, who are engrossed in vices like eating betel nuts or
***** Dear Dr. Harjinder Singh Dilgeer Thanks a lot for enlightening about 'dasam', but most of the Sikhs Sikh Organizations have become extended arms of the Hindus have forgotten about the first Nine Guru Saahibaans in the Sikh like RSS, VHP, Shiv Sena, Bajrung Dal, RadhaSoamis, Holy Scripture, Granth Sahib ! Naamdharis, nirankaris, sant- samaj's deravaad, etc. I am sure that The Sikh Diaspora and Gurduara Parbandhaks Let us continue to understand and practice Gurbani enshrined in executives) abroad should learn some lesson, and try to discard the Guru Granth Sahib at pages 1-1429; and endeavour to elevate the dirty politics of Punjab influenced by the Hindutva under the our lives based on Guru's Teachings shared during 1469 to 1708 Congress & BJP/RSS. AD. Based on Media Reports, SGPC, SAD, DSGMC and other such With best wishes and Charhdi Kalaa,
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Earlier, I was under the impression that “Agriculture includes the last (20) years, they have encouraged sant-baba culture, Culture” but now after brutal military Operations Blue Star, indecent folk singers and monkey-like dancers. Even The Sikh Black Thunder & Black Laws, the corrupt regime in Punjab under Diaspora abroad is very much influenced by them. CM late Beant Singh, former DGP KPS Gill, former Union Hence, there is a dire need to remove the Heads of such gangsters, Minister Sukhdev Singh Dhindsa, CM Parkash Singh Badal, Dy. who have been protecting them. Such groups have amassed CM Sukhbir Singh Badal, current DGP Sumedh Saini, etc. the illegal money and assets, which need to be looked into by the Sikh Youth has been made to habitual alcoholics, druggists, Indian Taxation Department and Directorate of Revenue rapists, robbers, filmy heroes through cheap & vulgar songs. For Intelligence. But then question arises, Who will bell the cat or rat?
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Sirdar Gurmit Singh Khalsa (Australia) writes to Er M Singh Giaspur
Instead of helping the aggrieved families, sufferers, victims by of conviction for offences; 21: Protection of life and personal extending desired assistance through Daswandh (Tith) of liberty; 22: Protection against arrest and detention in certain Mann+Tann+Dhann, most of the well-wishers have been cases; 23: Right against Exploitation – Prohibition of traffic in making money by producing such Documentaries, Dramas, human beings and forced labour; 24: Prohibition of employment Films, Videos, etc. which is like pouring more oil on the fire or of children in factories, etc; 25: Right to Freedom of Religion – putting salt on the wounds! Freedom of conscience and free profession, practice and As I understand, according to The Constitution of India adopted propagation of religion; 26: Freedom to manage religious affairs; since November 26th , 1949 all the residents viz. Hindus, and so on..... Muslims, Buddhists, Jains, Sikhs, Christians, Parsis and other The Sikhs have not been enjoying any Rights, however. If the minorities are the bonafide citizens of India. For their well being, Sikhs in Punjab and other States of India wish to be treated as Fundamental Rights are already provided i.e. Articles 14: Right equals, they should disassociate from the Congress, RSS/BJP and to Equality; 15: Prohibition of discrimination on grounds of other Political Parties, and stop contesting Elections under The religion, race, caste, sex or place of birth; 16: Equality of Constitution of India, which was not accepted/signed by the Sikh opportunity in matters of public employment; 17: Abolition of Representatives: Late S. Hukam Singh, Late S. Bhupinder Singh untouchability; 18: Abolition of titles; 19: Protection of certain Mann and Sirdar Kapur Singh, ICS, MP, MLA and Professor of rights regarding freedom of speech, etc.; 20: Protection in respect Sikhism.
***** Sirdar Gurmit Singh Khalsa (Australia) replies to [email protected] Subject: Reg: Past WSO Presidents/General Secretaries !!
Dear S. Ajit Singh Sahota (Canada), Thus, information about Gen. Bhullar needs to be read in Waheguru jee ka Khalsa Waheguru jee kee Fateh conjunction with S. Didar Singh Bains and others, who used to Many thanks for your detailed comments. I have both the latest issue Khalistan Passports, Notes and Maps. Where were they for Editions 2005 and 2010. the last (15) years? When I read the details about Gen. Jaswant Singh Bhullar, S. What did they achieve during the past (29) years? Didar Singh Bains, Dr. Gurmit Singh Aulakh (USA), Dr. Jagjit Since I have neither met these persons, nor returned to India since Singh Chauhan, Dr. Sohan Singh, S. Ganga Singh Dhillon (USA) 1983, I have no other information to add. and [Kurums S. Manjit Singh Sidhu & KPS Gill], etc. I come to Accordingly, I close this thread but if any other person is different conclusion. For instance when in 1997, S. Didar Singh interested, he can write to the author directly or to seek Bains was invited by Punjab Chief Minister Shri Parkash Singh confirmation from S. Didar Singh Bains and other players in the Badal, he ceased to play any role in Khalistan Movement. game. Thereafter, no other WSO (World Sikh Organization) President With best wishes and Charhdi Kalaa. took active interest except periodical meetings or looking after other minor issues.
***** Dr Awatar Singh Sekhon writes to Sirdar Gurmit Singh Khalsa: My dear older brother, Waheguru ji ka Khalsa, Waheguru ji ki Fateh!
Your reply to [email protected] is 100% correct. These people, What have they done for more than 56,000 innocent Sikhs with the exception of Dr. Gurmit Singh Aulakh, President, imprisoned and rotting in the jails of Hanera Sinh Badal, his Council of Khalistan, Washington DC, USA, have no spine and administration of PUNJAB and outside under the control of the gut for the Holy and Historic Homeland of Sikhs alias the Brahmins-Hindus Rats belonging to Congress, BJP, RSS, the "Robbed" PUNJAB of August 15th , 1947. Without their barking Hindu Mahasabhaiits (Mother of all Evils)? Will they keep on for Khalistan the Sovereignty of the Sikh Nation will never stay rotting in jails for 'no crimes at all'? in their public life. Even Dr. Gurmit Singh Aulakh lost his steam a few years ago. His Second, they do not know that "Without the Sovereignty of their leadership became limited to just 5-Slogan of "Khalistan Holy and Historic Homeland, they (the Sikhs in general and Zindabad" and "Khalsa ji, Maya Mastani Ho Gayi Hai." If he wherever they are) do not have a future." The History of the Sikhs wanted to, he could have done far more than what he had done, will judge them from the Sikh point of view, that they do not have my dear brother. As such, there has been no "Sikh Leadership of the spirits of the founder of the Sikh religion, Baba Guru Nanak Sikhs" in PUNJAB alias the "Robbed" PUNJAB of August 15th , Sahib to his 9-successor and The Sikh Traditions. They have 1947 and outside PUNJAB, i. e., Australia, Far East, Europe, handed over their Holy and Historic Homeland, the "Robbed" North America, Latin America, etc. PUNJAB of August 15th , 1947. What a pity! These so-called The Sikh youth, 25-50yr old age groups, have to produce their leaders are nothing but the bootlickers/Chapliachutt of the own leadership WITHOUT looking at anyone present 'Aagoo' Brahmins-Hindus-turbaned Brahmins Rats of the Brahmins- [leaders]. They have to get the Guidance and leadership of Guru Hindus-turbaned Brahmins Rats' democracy, demoncracy, Granth Sahib and The Sikh Traditions. democracy, so to speak. Best wishes and warmest regards. *****
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Tribute President, Rifah Party of Pakistan Writes a Tribute of a Colleague, Air Commodore M.M.Alam (1935-2013) Brig. (R) Usman Khalid Air Commodore M.M.Alam with F-86 Sabre fighter that shot down five Indian aircraft in one sortie This is the third time I am writing a tribute for a departed minority was the Qadiani community which had supported friend. The first time it was the death of an icon – Mr. the PPP led by Mr Bhutto in 1971 Elections. Upon Justice Safdar Shah – when I wrote under the title of 'Death assumption of office Prime Minister Bhutto had appointed of Hope'. The legal fraternity did not rise up against a Qadiani as the Naval and Air Force Chief. General Tikka General Zia ul Haq at that time in response to the call of Mr. was the Army Chief but the next senior most General in the Justice Safdar Shah. But it did rise to the occasion in 2007- Army was a Qadiani. I remember that we often used to joke 2009 when General Musharraf dismissed the Chief Justice that the country was “one heartbeat away” from being and many more judges of the Supreme and High Court. It taken over by the Qadianis. M.M.Alam had a direct and would be no exaggeration to say the defiance of Mr. Justice personal experience of what that meant. There was an Safdar Shah set the stage for defiance of Musharraf by the attempted coup d'état by middle rank officers against legal profession. Today, hopelessness has given way to Bhutto Administration in 1972. Air Marshal Zafar hope and Mr. Justice Safdar Shah has emerged as an icon of Chaudhry, the Air Force Chief at the time, felt so standing up for justice and 'rule of law'. threatened by the widely revered, popular and outspoken The second time it was the death of my dear friend Major M.M.Alam that he included his name among those General M. Imtiaz Ali, Defence Advisor (Minister) in the involved in the 'Rawalpindi Conspiracy Case'. Alam was first cabinet of Benazir Bhutto, who is an unsung hero who arrested and put behind bars in an Air Force cell. There was very few people know as the real father of the missile an outcry in disbelief and Alam had to be released. programme of Pakistan. But he also played an important I had met M.M.Alam again in Ankara (Turkey) where I role as Military Secretary to Prime Minister Bhutto in was the Principal Staff Officer to General Akhtar Malik in doing the right thing in the face of diverse political CENTO and he was commanding the first Mirage pressures. Most of what he did will forever remain outside Squadron, which was being ferried from France to public gaze but there is one thing of importance that I will Pakistan via Turkey. I had remained in touch with Alam reveal now as it concerns Air Commodore M.M.Alam who ever since. When he got on the wrong side of the Air Chief died on March 17th , 2013. Alam was my course mate (6TH he came to see me at my house in Gulistan Colony in JSPCTS) and a life long friend. He is more than an icon; he Rawalpindi. I went with him to General Imtiaz who was became a legend in his life time – a symbol of fearless then MS to the Prime Minister. He listened attentively to valour. He shot down five Indian aircraft in one sortie – in Alam, asked us to wait in his office and went to see the less than a minute – a world record. If I remember correctly Prime Minister. He came back after several minutes and the total number of Indian aircraft he shot down during the asked who would be a good Chief of the Air Force? Alam 1965 Indo-Pakistan War was fourteen (14). named Air Commodore Zulfikar who was the senior most Air Commodore M.M.Alam hailed from East Pakistan. but was on leave pending retirement (LPR). We left not His family migrated from West Bengal in 1947. He would knowing what might be the decision. The next day the often tell his friends that when travelling from Calcutta to news was splashed all over that the Air Marshal Zafar Dhaka, young boys took great pride in overwriting the Chaudhry had been relieved and Air Marshal Zulfikar names of cities on milestones in Urdu. It was taken for promoted and appointed Air Chief. Clearly, General Imtiaz granted, he would tell, that Urdu would be the common had tied up all the loose ends. language of both East and West Pakistan. But then politics There were four witnesses of that event. Prime Minister got in the way. It was considered 'prudent' by Bengali Bhutto, General Imtiaz and Air Commodore Alam. They politicians most of who spoke Urdu at home and could not are all dead. I am the only one alive. If I do not tell the story read or write Bengali, to demand that Bengali be a 'state the truth will never become known. I have to tell this story language'. He was one Bengali who was Pakistani first and because M.M.Alam was much more than just 'brave'. He was completely at home in West Pakistan among brother was a true Mujahid who stood up against the internal as officers. He always stressed that it was the need of Bengali well as the external enemy. He never married and his Muslims more than West Pakistanis to be accepted as a part legacy is not children or property. In his later years he was a of the mainstream. He has since been proven right. true Muallim, who never tired of speaking what others are Separated from West Pakistan Bangladesh is being afraid to speak about. Sheikh Mujib was a traitor who was Hinduised and is in danger of becoming absorbed by India. an enemy collaborator as bad as Mir Jaffer of Bengal and Recognizing the foreign enemy is an essential part of Sadiq of Deccan. We secured our freedom from British rule crystallizing national personality. Some times, because we called Mir Jaffer and Sadiq as traitors. recognizing the internal enemy is even more important in Bangladesh would get deeper into the clutches of India if order to preclude subversion. In East Pakistan, the Hindu its people did not put Sheikh Mujib alongside Mir Jaffer minority were the obvious potential fifth column but and Sadiq. More important, if Sheikh Mujib continues to because of the practice of caste apartheid by them its role be celebrated as a hero and liberator, there will be more of was confined and limited. But in West Pakistan that them – in Baluchistan, Sindh and elsewhere in Pakistan.. *****
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Dr. Awatar Singh Sekhon responds to Sardar Harbans Singh Aujla;
Piare Bhai Sahib Sardar Harbans Singh Aujla Subject: FW: [IHRO] 30 percent higher taxes on Sikhs, Waheguru ji ka Khalsa, Jains, Buddhist if they don't declare themself as Hindu Waheguru ji ki Fateh! My apologies I had wanted to respond to your message much To, sooner and I could not do so. I will do within the next 24 hours. Indira Prahst I would like to state for your information that the Sikh Chair Department of Sociology organizations in North America, Europe, Far East and Australia Langra College.Vancouver B C have virtually failed as far as the "Sikhs Sovereignty" is [email protected] concerned, although they have collected enough funds, have been Madame, running Gurdwaras where Sikh concerns are not allowed to be See it yourself under huf tax act Sikh, Jainas, and Buddhist have discussed. Come here, listen to hymn singing (Keertan), take to sign up and give up their separate distinct identity in India prasad and the Guru-da-Langar and that is all your Khalistan or [Brahmins-Hindus-turbaned Nrahmins Rats' alleged Indian the Sovereignty of the Sikh Nation. This situation is NOT 100% demoncracy, demoncracy, democracy and declare that they are at all. Still Guru-de-Sikh are out there who think of their Sikh Hindus, to recieve a 30% tax right off. Tough luck for Muslims Nationhood and Khalistan. Virtually 99% are NOT aware of their and Christians of India they cannot file and recieve 30% tax right Sikh History from the Sikh Point of View. off. What the India's secularism and democracy! Well, the highlighted ones are the fired guns/ or do not have any Article 25 and these tax laws, force Sikhs to live under the Hindu vision. Should you wish to communicate with them it is your references, and definitions in India are the cause of the problems. decision. Enjoy the movie Sada Haq. Best wishes and warmest regards. Regards H S Aujla ***** From: "Harbans Singh"
Dr Awatar Singh Sekhon writes to Sardar Harbans Singh Aujla:
Piare Bhai Sahib Sardar Harbans Singh Aujla Waheguru ji ka Khalsa,Waheguru ji ki Fateh! because of his stupidness, went in the orbit of the Brahmins- For the delayed response to your message, an apology has Hindus, the Sikhs' enemies. Later on, Pratap Kairon, Beant Sinh, already been given this morning. I am writing further than what I Hanera Sinh Badal, Surjit Sinh Barnala, Zail Sinh, Swaran Sinh, wrote you this morning. Bhai Sahib Sardar Harbans Singh ji, I am KP Gill, SS Virk, Sumedh Saini, Harchand Longowal, Balwant of the view that "Sikhs cannot Survive without Regaining their Ramoowalia, Didar Bains, etc., followed them to the orbit of the Sovereignty, Independence and Political power and the struggle Sikhs' enemies like the Brahmins-Hindus. I need not to write the for this has been going on without any interruption since March name of these Hindus-Brahmins-Baniyas as you are well aware 14th , 1849." However, the Sikhs' morale of the "Robbed" of these. PUNJAB of August 15th , 1947 is being continually degraded by The Sikhs walk with head high, because of Shaheed-Bilas Saint- the 'turbaned Brahmins', who have become collaborators with soldier Jarnail Singh Khalsa, the Sikhs' Religious and Political the Brahmins-Hindus of the alleged Brahmins-Hindus Rats' leader of the 20th century. It is martyrdoms of Shaheed-Bilas, democracy. Among these collaborators, as you already know Bhai Shahbeg Singh, Baba Thara Singh, Bhai Amrik Singh, Bibi because you know much better the history of the Sikhs of Upkar Kaur and Babbar lioneses and more than 270,000 PUNJAB than the turbaned Brahmins-Hindus like Master Tara innocent Sikhs, we talk on the "Sovereignty of the Sikh Nation Sinh Akali (born in a Brahmin family, raised in a Hindu family and the Sikhs have no future without their Sikh Nation, "Robbed" and then turned out to be the leader of Akalis (Kaalis), and started PUNJAB of August 15th , 1947 alias Khalistan." Sardar Harbans licking boots of the Brahmins-Hindus well before August 15th , Singh, Bhai Sahib ji, the upaasaks of Sant Singh Sekhon and 1947. This traitor of the Sikh Nation, PUNJAB "annexed" to the Gurbax Singh Preetlarrhi are nothing but the cowards and more British Empire had killed a Sikh young man named Hari Singh closer to the communism doctrine. The Brahmins-Hindus- and his entire family when he told that "Janab MA Jinnah has turbaned Brahmins may have brought them a drink of water. accepted all Sikhs demands" in an Akalis' meeting presided by They have nothing to do with the "Sikhs' Struggle for Sikh Nation's traitor Tara Sinh. The latter asked the young man, Sovereignty." Many people call them 'opportunists'. They have “Who sent you to attend Jinnah's meeting in Lahore? The young no knowledge of Gurbani, the Sikh Traditions, Sikh Code of man, Sardar Hari Singh's family, had been exterminated by the Conduct, the Sikh Nationhood. They don't even know that they next morning by the goons Tara Sinh used to keep. He himself were the 'First Sovereign and Secular Nation' of South Asia, said that, "He was fearful of Muslims that they would kill him." along with better 'fire power' than the British Empire. Included among Tara Sinh's supposed killing include the Muslim I have no trust whatsoever on the Sikh leaders of Punjab, North League's leader, Janab MA Jinnah. America, Akalis (Kaalis), Europe, Far East, Australia or Latin You will know that it was Tara Sinh Master, although a leader of America, as they are "Devoid" of their own history. The Sikh Sikhs, refrained himself from signing any paper which had been leadership is with the "Guru Granth Sahib and The Sikh related to the "Sovereignty of the Sikh Nation, PUNJAB." He Traditions." Concurrently, the Sikh youth between 25 and 50- always used Sardar Baldev Singh instead. He abused Sardar year-olds have to give the leadership to the Guru Khalsa Panth Baldev Singh, as far as my judgement is concerned. Tara Sinh, alias the Sikh Nation.
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Only the issues like "Kirpan one day, Karrah after that, followed 1998, when he deposed Bhai Sahib Ranjit Singh, then Custodian by the Dastaar, Kachherra, Kangha, etc." are NOT the Sikh of The Akal Takht Sahib. issues. They are issues for those who are interested in the Only shouting slogans, outside gurdwaras or in the four walls of 'Leederee or so-called Leadership only'. They have drifted far Gurdwaras, 'Khalistan Zindabad' will not "Regain the away from the "Sovereignty of the "Robbed" PUNJAB alias Sikh Sovereignty of the Sikh Nation, "Robbed" PUNJAB of August 15th , Nation of August 15th , 1947." They do not know "Without their 1947." For this, they have to seek the guidance and leadership of Sovereignty, they are or will be reduced to a Brahmin-Hindu like Guru Granth Sahib and The Sikh Traditions. Hanera Sinh Badal and his "joe boys and joe-girls," Chief and One should not try to write me because he/she is the "greatest associated scoundrels placed in The Darbar Sahib Complex by historian" of the Sikh nation. Hanera Sinh Badal. They do not know that this Hanera Sinh Badal had desecrated The Darbar Sahib Complex in February, With best wishes and warmest regards. *****
Dr. Awatar Singh Sekhon writes further to Sardar Harbans Singh:Sardar Harbans Singh ji,
Piare Bhai Sahib Sardar Harbans Singh ji, Waheguru ji ka Khalsa, Waheguru ji ki Fateh! Thank you kindly for the reply sent to all the "recipient of 30% what had happened to the Buddhists people. These non- higher taxes on Sikhs, jains, Buddhists if they don't declare Brahmins-Hindus are not familiar with the teaching of Brahmins' themselves as Hindu." manusamriti and Shankryacharya" "Pahale Shaashter Se Maro, Indeed, I do write on the Sikhs' Struggle for Sovereignty, Jo bach Gaye Hain Unkno Shashter Se Maro." That's what the Independence and Political power, going on since March 14th , Brahmins-Hindus and intelligence services have been doing with 1849 and will continue until the last drop and breath of the Sikhs Tamils of Sri Lanka, Eastern Pakistan now Bangladesh, and and the Guru Khalsa Panth. I write on this subject because I nations of its periphery. belong to the Guru Khalsa Panth and am duty bound for the These turbaned Brahmin Rats do not know that more than Sovereignty of the "Robbed" PUNJAB of August 15th , 1947. 200,000 Sikh farmers families have committed suicide, because I request my brothers, younger and older, the Sikh youth as well they could not pay the heavy burden of the taxes and did not get as those who have been struggling for their Sovereignty, the non- enough water to irrigate their crops. They do not know that the Sikhs, put under the 'slavery' of an artificial entity, called by Sikhs and citizens of the "Robbed" PUNJAB of August 15th , mistake, the largest and progressive democracy, democracy, 1947, have no control over their "Waters and by-products." West demoncracy of the Brahmins-Hindus-turbaned Brahmins Rats' of the "Robbed" PUNJAB of August 15th , 1947, the RIVER RAVI India. I wish them well. The artificial entity, nation of nations, is has dried up, because of the Brahmins-Hindus' animosity with the infested with disease like AIDS/HIV, hunger as more than 86% of "Muslim brothers" of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, to say the its total population goes to bed/sleep hungry since the least. "Subservient" were presented their 'freedom on a platter by the How would these Brahmins and their followers will have respect British agent on August 15th , 1947. Under this 'freedom', the Sikhs for non-Brahmins-Hindus, when a Brahmin woman is a of PUNJAB had been "robbed" on August 15th , 1947; Muslims of 'commodity'. Didn't Hindu Lord Indra have an illicit relationship the IDA:JK, Muslims in general; Christians, 8-sister of Assam, with her own daughter? The creations of the Brahmins-Hindus Dalit, Bodos and non-Hindu-Brahmins have been paying as spell out another 'Genocide of Female Sex' in the near future. "Slaves" to the Brahmins-Hindus. They have no knowledge as to Best wishes and warmest regards. *****
Sardar Harbans Singh responds to Manmeet Grewal: Dear manmeet grewal, Punjab is not shining, it is in deep debt. So is shining India 800 Why did they not write including Muslims and Christians billion United States dollars. How are you going to pay all this? religion in this clause? Because the Hindu Rashtar does not Maybe by keeping 60% of Indians in miserable poverty. Living in consider them part of Hindus and their -ism but you are. open air sewer systems and slums for a long time to come. And Your claim to Sikhism as sovreign religion adri [asli] azad hasti “Operation Bluestar” is not finished. or Sovereign people, Khalsa, as it claimed by the Sikh gurus is If that's what you mean by Bluestar is history. Ask the Hindi eaten up, kicked, and kissed good bye by this legislation. You are Hamko- Tumko people, King Ravna is History, you said. You told you can live only in India under the Hindu [means chor, have read Sikhs are second class citizen of India, but you never dakku, dacoit, scoundrel, rehzan] definition and not by the Sikh felt it of yourself. What you are? The Hindu Rashtar rulers put it definition. You can marry, adoption by Sikhs, maryada (Sikh in fine prints constitution of India, article 25. That in sub clause Code of Conduct alias the Sikh Rahit Maryada, but you will be [b] the references to Hindus shall be construed as including a stamped under as a Hindu [maryada]. The Sikh peoples are references to persons professing the Sikh religion. forced to live under the Hindu code in India. That is where the Do you know what does this means? It means you are part and Sikhs are denied a dignified life in India. parcel of the Hindus [which is neither a religion nor a culture]. regardsH S Aujla For your knowledge, the Sikhs did not sign this document, Note: Punjab is our shining Pole Star, Blue-Star is a history endorsed or accepted it. *****
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THIS IS THE EXTRA PART THAT WAS E-MAILED SEPARATELY.
Brahmins-Hindus-turbaned Brahmins' GIFT to the Guru Khalsa Panth alias The Sikh Nation
Bhai Sahib Sirdar Balwant Singh Rajoana ji. C/-Bibi Kamaldeep Kaur ji
Piare Bhai Sahib Sirdar Balwant Singh Rajoana ji and Bibi Kamaldeep Kaur ji,
Waheguru ji ka Khalsa, Waheguru ji ki Fateh!
Thank you very kindly for writing and expressing your thoughts Hindus who are neither a Religion nor a Culture. on the present state of the Guru Khalsa Panth and the Without Sikhs' political and religious leadership, no program can representatives of the Shiromani Gurdwara Prabhandhak be given to the Sikh youth of the "Robbed" PUNJAB of August Committee (SGPC) A committee who went to Goa's westernized 15th , 1947. Today's Sikh youth do not know that "they do not have beaches to collect and discuss and did not prefer to get together any political, social, educational, or religious rights, etc., because anywhere on the banks of the Guru Khalsa Panth's rivers, along the Sikhs' elected member of parliaments, Sardar Hukam Singh, with a sixth river created by the administration of the Akali Dal- Sardar Bhupinder Singh Maan and Sirdar Kapur Singh, ICS, MP, Badal Private Limited Incorporation. The 'River of Alcohol and MLA and Professor of Sikhism, have not accepted the Indian Narcotics' was merely created to drown the Sikh youth by the Constitution of 1950, in its drafts and final forms, to date. Rather, Badal's (Hanera Sinh) administration. Further, Bhai Sahib ji, the Indian Constitution of 1950 was REJECTED in the Indian what could be expected from a person who is the parliament on behalf of the Sikh Nation, PUNJAB, on the bootlicker/Chapliachutt of the Brahmins-Hindus-turbaned recommendations of the SGPC, SAD, Sikh Students Federations, Brahmins of the anti-Sikh political parties of the Brahmins- Gurdwaras, and the Sikh academics. The latter had recommended Hindus, including the Rashtriya Sikh Sangat (RSS) created by to their parliamentarians that "it would be like committing Hanera Sinh Badal, a wing of the Brahmins-Hindus' Rashtriya suicide if the present constitutional document is accepted." And Swamsewak Sangh (RSS), Bhartiya Janta Party (BJP), Shiv the Sikh parliamentarians "REJECTED" the Indian Constitution Sena, Bajrang Dal, Congress formed by Indira Gandhi, who had of 1950 in 1948, November 29th, 1949, 1950 and September6th, waged an 'undeclared' war on the&nb sp;"Robbed" PUNJAB of 1966. That's what you had said on February 4th , 2013, in the August 15th , 1947 alias the PUNJAB re-divided by Indira Gandhi Patiala Court that "I (Balwant Singh Rajoana) have no trust in the in 1966 to dilute the Sikhs' strength in PUNJAB, in the form of a Indian Constitution 1950 and so on." brutal military "Operation Bluestar" of June, 1984. Hanera Sinh Badal and Harchand Longowal's Akalis played their role against Our Sikh people get busy in 'signature compaign(s)' in foreign the Sikh Nation "Robbed" PUNJAB of August 15th, 1947. Since countries that "Professor Devinder Pal Singh Bhullar" should not Hanera (Prakash) Sinh Badal joined the Congress party and then be sent to 'gallows' or given the Capital punishment, even Mrs. moved to the SAD (Shromani Akali Dal), he did not learn any Bhullar made such an appeal for her husband. I was not surprised lesson in favor of the Guru Khalsa Panth, but played his best at all when I read the messages of the U K'S Sikh Organizations against the Sikh Nation because he is 'turbaned Brahmin' who, and watched at the NDTV of India today. "Devinder Pal Singh's unfortunately, is the leader of the Sikhs, so to speak. He has appeal to commute his Capital punishment has been bankrupted the "Robbed" PUNJ AB of August 15th , 1947. Other "REJECTED" by the President of India. I feel pity on the Sikh Aagoos, who joined anti-Sikh political parties, have no interests organization who even do not give a thought "on what special of the Guru Khalsa Panth at their hearts. Rather, one of them has relationship, the Brahmins-Hindus-turbaned Brahmins Rats' become the'lap dog' of his Madam Sonia Gandhi (nee A. maino of administration will accept their appeal to reduce Devinder Pal Italy, married to Roberto Gandhi alias the son of Maimuna Singh Bhullar's capital punishment to life imprisonment?" Begum alias India Gandhi and Feroze Gandhi). This is the 'selfishness' of all turbaned-Brahmins Rats of the "Robbed" The Sikhs, especially the Sikh youth, must wake up. Their only Punjab of August 15th , 1947. survival is "To Struggle To Regain Their Lost Sovereignty of the Sikh Nation, of March 14th, 1849 independence and political Bhai Sahib ji, "Robbed" PUNJAB on August 15th , 1947 alias the power, going under the guidance of the Guru Granth Sahib and Sikhs' Holy and Historic Homeland. PUNJAB, is 'leaderless' and the Sikh Traditions." "Without their Sovereignty, the Sikhs of the this situation of the Sikhs' Holy and Historic Homeland, "Robbed" PUNJAB of August 15th, 1947 have no future." Wake PUNJAB, all religious and historical places, with special up the Sikhs! reference to The Darbar Sahib Complex, including Supreme Seat of the Sikh Polity, The Akal Takht Sahib, have been rendered May Waheguru ji shower His blessings on you, Bibi Kamaldeep ineffective by appointing the politically and religiously impotent Kaur, her daughter, and Jagtar Singh Hawara, Parmjit Singh Chief and associated scoundrels (jathedars) by the Punjab's Bheora, and 56,000 Sikhs imprisoned since "Operation Bluestar" Chief Minister, Hanera Sinh Badal. He (Badal) and his "joe boys of June 1984 era, without trials and cases, in Hanera Sinh Badal's and joe girls" of the Badal Akalis have thrown the world's 6th Punjab and outside PUNJAB. largest religion and Sikh Culture in the orbit of the Brahmins- *****
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Standing order of Siri Guru Granth Sahib To all Sikhs Follow the Guru Granth Sahib and obey.
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LEST WE FORGET (Betrayals, BrokenPromises, GENOCIDES and more....)
“It was Guru Nanak who rejected the Hindu thread, (the Sikhs). When pressed further Gandhi said that Janeu, in his childhood” Sikhs would be justified in drawing their swords out “The Khalsa will enjoy his blessing as long as it does of the scabbards as Guru Gobind Singh had asked not surrender its sovereignty to brahmin or bipran, them to, if Congress would resile from its and does not adopt brahminical rituals” commitment.” — Guru Gobind Singh, the Tenth Master of the Sikhs — Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (Young India, March 19, 1931) “The Nehru Report (August, 1928) was unanimously rejected by the Sikhs.” ''In 1940, Dr Vir Singh Bhatti demanded the — Master Tara Singh, The Sikh Leader formation of Khalistan.” — Dr Vir Singh Bhatti “...in future, the Congress shall accept no constitution which does not meet with the satisfaction of the “...Master Tara Singh saw me on his return from Sikhs” Delhi, and seemed really concerned at the — The Lahore session of the Congress Party approaching departure of the British. He demanded December 31, 1929 Khalistan, with transfer of population, or a new state from Jumna to Chenab, in which the Sikhs would not “...the brave Sikhs of Punjab are entitled to special be oppressed” considerations. I see nothing wrong in an area set up — Sir E. Jenkins (Governor of the Punjab), 15th April, in the North of India wherein, the Sikhs can also 1946 experience the glow of freedom.” — Jawahar Lal Nehru, Lahore Bulletin, January 9, 1930 “In 1942, Master Tara Singh demanded the Azad (sovereign and free)Punjab.” “I ask you to accept my word and the Resolution of “You have seen the Hindus as co-slaves and you will the Congress that it will not betray a single individual know when they will be your masters and you (the much less a community. Let God be the witness of Sikhs), their slaves” the bond that binds me and the Congress with you — Janab Mohammad Ali Jinnah, Quid-e-Azam
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“The Sikhs as a community are a lawless people and a “Let us teach these bastards (the Sikhs) a lesson.” menace to the law-abiding Hindu community. The — Rajiv Gandhi, October 31, 1984 deputy commissioners should take special measures against them.” “The Sikh nation declared independence on 29th April, — An official circular of the Government of India, 1986” October 10, 1947 — Sarbat Khalsa held at the Darbar Sahib Complex
“Mulak Hindu ka, Raj Tikri ka (trio, Jawaharlal Nehru, “the Sikh nation declared independence on October 7, V. B. Patel and Chandu Lal Trivedi), Guru (the Lord) 1987 forming the sovereign country of Khalistan.” Rakha Bhai Sikhre ka” — The Council of Khalistan, Washington, D. C. — Sirdar Kapoor Singh, Indian Civil Service, National Professor of Sikhism “Freedom of Khalistan was the only proper solution of the Sikh nation's future.” “Kya main taqat dushman (the enemy -the Sikhs) ke — Brig. Gen. Ben Blaz, Member of the United States haath main de dun (How can I entrust power into the Congress, October 7, 1989 hands of the enemies).” — Jawahar Lal Nehru (1961) “Nowhere in the world has any government pursued the kind of genocidal policies against a religious minority as “Kill the language, kill the culture and kill the in India since the Second World War.” literature, ultimately one succeeds in destroying a — Lt. Col. Pratap Singh, President, Khalsa Raj Party (1991) community” — Pritam Singh Gill, M. A., 1975 Principal, Doaba College, “... a threat to the villagers that all males would be killed Jalandhar and their women taken to army camps to breed a new race if there was any militant activity in their village.” “...the individual known to common Indian masses as — Brig. R. P. Sinha, Indian Army, March 8, 1991 chacha (uncle) Nehru, the so-called messiah of peace and secularism, was, in fact, the main architect of anti-Sikh “You do not know the might of our armed forces. We policies and practices, in India and abroad” will eliminate 10,000 Sikh youths and the world will — Dr Harjinder Singh Dilgeer know nothing about it.” — Chander Shekhar, former Prime Minister of India (1991) “Sikhs are the finest soldiers in the world because they have the best combination of mental and physical “...that the Sikhs are Sikhs just like East is East and endurance” West is West and twin shall never meet. We have no — General Atiqu-ur-Rehman, Pakistan Army choice but to seek our independence in a sovereign state, the Republic of Khalistan.” “Mrs Gandhi has admitted that she was opposed to — Sardar Simranjit Singh Mann, President, Shromani Akali demands for Punjabi home province, for fear of losing Dal, in his letter of 12th July, 1991 to the Governor of Hindu votes. She was prepared to block the creation of Punjab, O. P. Malhotra a Punjabi-speaking province, in 1966 or ever” — Indira Gandhi (My India) “to preserve the unity of India, if we have to eridicate 2- kror (20-million) Sikhs, we will do so” “Indira Gandhi rewarded the Pandey brothers with — Balram Jakhar, a former Indian Cabinet Minister and Congress (I) tickets for U. P. legislative assembly colleague of the former Indian Prime Minister, P. V. elections, when they highjacked an Indian Airlines' Narsimhanrao plane to secure her (Gandhi) release from jail in 1970s.” — S. Jalandhari, 1983 “the world's largest democracy is really a tyranny willing to commit any act of brutality or terrorism to “Physical death I do not fear, death of conscience is a maintain its corrupt occupation of Khalistan. ...showing sure death” the American public that India's claim of being a — Saint-soldier Jarnail Singh Khalsa (Bhindranwale) democracy is just more disinformation.” — Gurmit Singh Aulakh, President, Council of Khalistan “I don't give a damn if the Golden Tenple and whole of (The Washington Post, April 25, 1994) Amritsar are destroyed, I want Bhindranwale dead” — Indira Gandhi communicating with Gen.Vaidya during “It (Hinduism) is like the boa constrictor of the Indian “Operation Blue Star” forests. When a petty enemy appears to worry it, it winds round its opponent, crushes it in its folds, and finally “We have broken the back of the Sikhs and we will get causes it to disappear in its capacious interior....Hinduism them elsewhere.” has embraced Sikhism in its folds; the still comparatively — M. M. K. Wali, Indian Foreign Secretay, June 7, 1984 young religion is making a vigorous struggle for life, but (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Radio 740, As It its ultimate destruction is, it is apprehended, inevitable Happens) without State support.” — Max Arthur Macauliff (1903)
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The editorial advisors, managing editor and Editor in Chief of the International Journal of Sikh Affairs (IJSA), the official organ of The Sikh Educational Trust, would like to convey their profound thanks to our brothers, sisters, elders and donors, who whole heartedly supported the work presented herein (the journal). Without their generous support, the work presented herein would not have been possible.
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