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5933 Hon. Mike Rogers Hon. Jo Bonner April 7, 2005 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 5933 Khalsa’’ (‘‘the Khalsa shall rule’’) every The Akali Dal has lost all its credibility. IN RECOGNITION OF MRS. BETH morning and evening? Has he forgotten our The Badal government was so corrupt openly FREEMAN heritage of freedom? How can the spiritual and no Akali leader would come forward and leader of the Sikh religion deny the Sikh Na- tell Badal and his wife to stop this tion’s legitimate aspiration for freedom and unparallelled corruption. HON. MIKE ROGERS sovereignty? Is he not stung by the words of If Jathedar Vedanti opposes freedom and OF ALABAMA one of his predecessors, former AkalTakht sovereignty for the Sikh Nation, then he is IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Jathedar Professor Darshan Singh, who said, not fit to sit in Akal Takht, in the seat of Wednesday, April 6, 2005 ‘‘If a Sikh is not a Khalistani, he is not a the Khalsa Panth. The Sikh Nation should Sikh’’? Is Akal Takht occupied by a person have a Jathedar who is committed to sov- Mr. ROGERS of Alabama. Mr. Speaker, I who does not believe in Sikh values and Sikh ereignty. rise today to pay tribute to a distinguished apsirations? public servant of Alabama’s Third Congres- The flame of freedom continues to burn The Council of Khalistan has stood strong- brightly in the heart of the Sikh Nation. No ly and consistently for liberating our home- sional District. force can suppress it. On Republic Day, Sikh land, Khalistan, from Indian occupation. For Mrs. Beth Freeman, hired just two months leaders raised the Sikh flag in Amritsar and over 18 years we have led this fight while after she turned 18, has worked for the people made speeches in support of Khalistan. 35 others were trying to divert the resources of Alabama for more than 30 years. Over her Sikhs were arrested for raising the Kesri and the attention of the Sikh Nation away career she has progressed from answering Nishan. Eleven of them continue to be held from the issue of freedom in a sovereign, phones and clipping newspaper articles to and they have been denied bail. Is this the independent Khalistan. Khalistan is the only way that Sikhs will be able to live in free- handling nearly every issue addressed by the freedom that Guru Gobind Singh bestowed Federal government, from military affairs to upon us? Is this the ‘‘glow of freedom’’ that dom, peace, prosperity, and dignity. It is Nehru promised us when Master Tara Singh time to start a Shantmai Morcha to liberate Social Security. and the Sikh leaders of the time chose to Khalistan from Indian occupation. She has been a faithful and non-partisan take our share with India? The Akal Takht Sahib and Darbar Sahib public servant, having served with the four Punjab’s Chief Minister, Captain are under the control of the Indian govern- most recent officials representing this office, Amarinder Singh, was declared a hero of the ment, the same Indian government that has including the late Congressman Bill Nichols; Sikh Nation for asserting Punjab’s sov- murdered more than a quarter of a million Congressman Glenn Browder; and then-Con- ereignty and preserving Punjab’s natural re- Sikhs in the past twenty years. The Jathedar gressman Riley. source, its river water, for the use of Punjab of the Akal Takht and the head granthi of While I have only known ‘Ms. Beth’ since farmers by cancelling Punjab’s water agree- Darbar Sahib toe the line that the Indian taking office in 2002, in that short time I have ments. In so doing, Amarinder Singh and the government tells them. They are not ap- Legislative Assembly explicitly declared the pointed by the Khalsa Panth. Otherwise they developed a deep appreciation for her hard sovereignty of the state of Punjab. In De- would behave like a real Jathedar, Jathedar work and dedication to the people of Alabama. cember former Member of Parliament Gurdev Singh Kaunke, rather than like In- Families and seniors across this district have Simranjit Singh Mann again reverted to pub- dian government puppet Jathedar Aroor called upon her expertise for years, and relied lic support of Khalistan. He pledged that his Singh, who gave a Siropa to General Dyer for upon her persistence to get their problems party will lead a peaceful movement to lib- the massacre of Sikhs and others at solved. She will be missed here in this office, erate Khalistan. Obviously, Mr. Mann is Jallianwala Bagh. These institutions will re- and across East Alabama. aware of the rising support of our cause. main under the control of the Indian regime Beth, on behalf of the citizens of Alabama’s Mann joins Sardar Atinder Pal Singh, Sardar until we free the Sikh homeland, Punjab, D.S. Gill of the International Human Rights Khalistan, from Indian occupation and op- Third Congressional District, thank you for Organization, and other Sikh leaders in Pun- pression and sever our relations with the your service to our state. We wish you all the jab in supporting freedom for Khalistan New Delhi government. best in your retirement. openly. Jagjit Singh, President of Dal The Sikhs in Punjab have suffered enor- f Khalsa, was quoted in the Deccan Herald as mous repression at the hands of the Indian HONORING THE MEMORY OF THE saying that ‘‘the Indian government can regime in the last 25 years. Over 50,000 Sikh never suppress the movement. Sikh aspira- youth were picked up from their houses, tor- HON. HOWELL HEFLIN tions can only be met when they have a sepa- tured, murdered in police custody, then se- rate state.’’ There is no other choice for the cretly cremated as ‘‘unidentified bodies.’’ Sikh nation but a sovereign, independent HON. JO BONNER Their remains were never even given to their OF ALABAMA Khalistan. Every Sikh leader must come out families! Another 52,268 are being held as po- openly for Khalistan. We salute those Sikh litical prisoners. Some have been in illegal IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES leaders in Punjab who have done so. custody since 1984! Even now, the capital of Wednesday, April 6, 2005 Any organization that sincerely supports Punjab, Chandigarh, has not been handed Khalistan deserves the support of the Sikh over to Punjab, but remains a Union Terri- Mr. BONNER. Mr. Speaker, the entire state Nation. However, the Sikh Nation needs tory. How can Sikhs have any freedom living of Alabama recently lost a dear friend, and I leadership that is honest, sincere, consistent, under a government that would do these rise today to honor him and pay tribute to his and dedicated to the cause of Sikh freedom. things? memory. Leaders like Dr. Jagjit Singh Chohan, Senator Howell Heflin was a devoted family Harchand Singh Longowal, Didar Bains, Sikhs will never get any justice from Ganga Singh Dhillon, the Akali Dal leader- Delhi. The leaders in Delhi are only inter- man and dedicated public servant throughout ship, and others who were complicit in the ested in imposing Hindu sovereignty over all his entire life, someone who devoted nearly a attack on the Golden Temple cannot be the minorities to advance their own careers quarter-century in public service to the resi- trusted by the Sikh Nation. The evidence and their own power. Ever since independ- dents of Alabama. against them is clear in Chakravyuh: Web of ence, India has mistreated the Sikh Nation, Born on June 19, 1921, the son of Rev- Indian Secularism. The Sikh Nation cannot starting with Patel’s memo labelling Sikhs erend and Mrs. Marvin Heflin, Senator Heflin believe that these leaders will not betray the ‘‘a criminal tribe.’’ What a shame for Home Minister Patel and the Indian government to was a native of Poulan, Georgia, and spent cause of Khalistan, just as they betrayed the his childhood moving from one Alabama com- Sikh Nation in 1984. We must be careful if we issue this memorandum when the Sikh Na- are to continue to move the cause of freedom tion gave over 80 percent of the sacrifices to munity to another before his family settled in for Khalistan forward in 2005 as we did in free India. Colbert County. He was a 1942 graduate of 2004. How can Sikhs continue to live in such a Birmingham-Southern College. Within a short The Akali Dal conspired with the Indian country? There is no place for Sikhs in sup- time following his graduation, he joined the government in 1984 to invade the Golden posedly secular, supposedly democratic United States Marine Corps and served during Temple to murder Sant Bhindranwale and India. Let us make Viasakhi Day a day of World War II in the Pacific Theater of Oper- 20,000 other Sikh during June 1984 in Punjab. freedom. Let us dedicate ourselves this ations. He was wounded twice during his serv- Even the Pope spoke out strongly against Vaisakhi Day to living up to the blessing of ice and was awarded the Silver Star for gal- this invasion and desecration of our most sa- Guru Gobind Singh. Let us take the occasion cred shrine. How can these so-called Sikh of Vaisakhi Day to begin to shake ourselves lantry in action before being discharged in leaders connive with the people who carried loose from the yoke of Indian oppression and 1946. Following the completion of his military it out? If Sikhs will not even protect the liberate our homeland, Khalistan, so that all obligations, he enrolled in the law school at sanctity of the Golden Temple, how can the Sikhs may live lives of prosperity, freedom, the University of Alabama and graduated from Sikh Nation survive as a nation? and dignity.
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