22100 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS, Vol. 152, Pt. 17 November 15, 2006 Today, the TIP Report is the essential ref- In part because of Ambassador Miller’s ef- and holding another 52,000 as political pris- erence for global benchmarks that challenge forts, since 2003 over 30 American pedophiles oners; killing Muslims by the tens of thou- all governments to join the 21st century aboli- have been extradited back to the U.S. and sands in Kashmir, where more than 90,000 tionist movement. The annual Trafficking in sent to jail. have been killed, Gujarat, where between Persons Report serves as the primary diplo- With Ambassador Miller’s prodding, the 2,000 and 5,000 died in a massacre pre- matic tool through which the U.S. Government United States last December became an offi- planned by the government, and elsewhere; encourages partnership and increased deter- cial party to the U.N. Protocol to Prevent, Sup- killing Christians throughout the country, in- mination in the fight against forced labor, sex- press and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Es- cluding over 300,000 just in Nagaland; and ual exploitation, and modern-day slavery. pecially Women and Children, also known as mass killing many other minorities. Yet India ‘‘In our judgment,’’ declared Dr. Mohamed the Palermo Protocol. The Trafficking in Per- proclaims itself the victim of terrorism and pro- Mattar, Executive Director of the Protection sons (TIP) Protocol, which supplements the claims itself a democracy. Well, Mr. Speaker, Project, ‘‘this report constitutes the primary ref- U.N. Convention Against Transnational Orga- it certainly doesn’t act that way. erence and main source of information on ef- nized Crime, is an important multilateral com- The repression and terrorism must be forts made by foreign governments to combat ponent of the worldwide effort to combat mod- stopped. We should end all aid and trade with trafficking in persons.’’ ern-day slavery. It seeks to prevent trafficking, India until such time as the repression ends Armed with the report, Ambassador Miller protect victims, and promote anti-trafficking co- and people enjoy the most basic human has engaged with governments from Japan to operation among nations. rights, and we should throw our full support Jamaica, from Belize to Bangladesh, to bring As chairman of the interagency Senior Pol- behind self-determination in Punjab, Khalistan, about improved law enforcement, victim pro- icy Operating Group, Ambassador Miller has in Kashmir, in Nagalim, and wherever people are trying to be free. In addition, we should tection, and prevention of this odious crime. improved coordination among U.S. agencies, designate India a terrorist state and impose Worldwide, Ambassador Miller’s diplomatic helping to make the panel a decision-making leadership helped spur new or improved anti- the sanctions that that designation brings. body whose participants have furthered the Mr. Speaker, I would like to insert the Coun- human trafficking legislation in 41 countries in U.S. effort against trafficking in person both at cil of Khalistan’s open letter into the RECORD. 2005, along with the establishment of dozens home and abroad. For example, the Depart- It is a frightening record of Indian terrorism. of new survivor shelters. That effort paid huge ment of Justice (DOJ), in 2005 charged 116 dividends: anti-trafficking convictions world- COUNCIL OF KHALISTAN, individuals with human trafficking, almost dou- Washington, DC, October 10, 2006. wide increased from several hundred, before bling the number charged in FY 2004. Ap- OPEN LETTER TO INDIAN PRIME MINISTER Ambassador Miller arrived at the State Depart- proximately 80 percent of those defendants MANMOHAN SINGH: INDIA ISATERRORIST ment, to over 4,700 in 2005. Last year’s fig- were charged under the federal Trafficking STATE, NOT A VICTIM ure—an increase from about 3,000 the year Victims Protection Act (TVPA) of 2000. Forty- DEAR PRIME MINISTER SINGH: On October 4, before—was especially dramatic among coun- five traffickers were convicted, of which 35 you said that India is it victim of tries in Africa (from 29 TIP convictions in 2004 were implicated in sexual exploitation. As of crossborder terrorism. India is a terrorist to 58 in 2005) and East Asia and Pacific na- May 22, 2006, the Department of Health and state itself and should be subject to the pen- tions (from 348 TIP convictions in 2004 to Human Services (HHS) had certified 1,000 alties that are imposed on terrorist states. 2,347 in 2005). On January 2, 2002, the Washington Times victims of human trafficking since the TVPA reported that India is supporting cross-bor- Specifically, Ambassador Miller’s diplomatic was signed into law in October 2000. In FY der terrorism in Sindh, a province of Paki- efforts helped persuade Japan to vastly re- 2005, HHS certified 230 foreign victims of stan, the very same kind of thing that Prime duce the number of TIP-exploitable ‘‘entertain- human trafficking from a remarkably diverse Minister Singh was claiming is victimizing ment visas’’ Japan issued for young women array of countries. India. In addition, India’s leading newsmaga- from the Philippines—to fewer than 5,000, On a personal note, during his tenure as Di- zine, India Today, reported that the Indan from a high of 80,000 a year. In addition, Am- rector of the State Department’s Office to government created the Liberation Tigers of bassador Miller has carefully honed the re- Tamil Eelam (LTTE), identified by the U.S. Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons, government as a terrorist organization, and port’s system of tier rankings to cultivate glob- Ambassador John R. Miller has been a friend its leaders were put up by the Indian govern- al anti-TIP efforts. This year, for example, Ma- and colleague to those of us in Congress who ment in the finest hotel in Delhi, How can lawi rose from Tier 2 to Tier 1 on the TIP Re- have taken a leadership role against modern- you blame Pakistan when India started port, while Ecuador rose from Tier 3 to Tier 2. day slavery. We wish him well in his future cross-border terrorism with its own actions? Over the last 2 years, Ambassador Miller work as a Professor of International Studies at The Indian government has committed ter- helped enhance the U.S. government’s anti- George Washington University. rorism against its own minorities. It has trafficking efforts to include a greater focus murdered over 250,000 Sikh infants, children, f youth, men, women, and elderly since 1984, against child sex tourism (CST), a crime in COUNCIL OF KHALISTAN HAS as well as more than 300,000 Christians in which people travel from their own country to Nagaland, over 90,000 Mulims in Kashmir, developing countries, such as Laos or Cam- SUCCESSFUL CONVENTION tens of thousands of Christians and Muslims bodia, looking for anonymity and the avail- throughout the country, and tens of thou- ability of children in prostitution. Ambassador HON. EDOLPHUS TOWNS sands of Assamese, Bodos, Dalits, Manipuris, Tamils, and other minorities. A report by Miller’s leadership against CST has netted OF NEW YORK the Movement Against State Repression success, as Time magazine recently ob- IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES served: (MASR) states that 52,268 Sikhs are being Wednesday, November 15, 2006 held as political prisoners in India without Those working to protect children in Cam- charge or trial, mostly under a repressive bodia agree that the police force has recently Mr. TOWNS. Mr. Speaker, recently, Indian law known as the ‘‘Terrorist and Disruptive shown a far stronger commitment to tar- Prime Minister Manmohan Singh publicly stat- Activities Act’’ (TADA), which expired in geting pedophiles. But it’s not just law and ed that India is the victim of cross-border ter- 1995. Many have been in illegal custody since order that is doing the trick. A new political ror. The Council of Khalistan under the leader- 1984! There has been no list published of will to root them out is the result of diplo- those who were acquitted under TADA and matic incentives and pressures, both the car- ship of Dr. Gurmit Singh Aulakh wrote to Prime Minister Singh and reminded him that those who are still rotting in Indian jails, rots of international donors and the stick of Tens of thousands of other minorities are the U.S. State Department, say child protec- India has been sponsoring cross-border ter- also being held as political prisoners, accord- tion workers. . . . But the stick came in 2005 rorism in Sindh, a province of Pakistan, as the ing to Amnesty International. Tell the fami- when the U.S. State Department, fed up with Washington Times reported on January 2, lies of these innocent Sikhs and others that the impunity enjoyed by traffickers here, 2002 and that it created the Liberation Tigers there is no terrorism in India. relegated Cambodia to it lowest tier three of Tamil Eclam, which our government has lndian police arrested human-rights activ- rating on its global trafficking report. Cam- identified as a terrorist organization, according ist Jaswant Singh Khalra after he exposed bodia was lumped in with Burma, Cuba and to Indian Today, which is the leading news their policy of mass cremation of Sikhs, in North Korea, and Washington threatened which over 50,000 Sikhs have been arrested, sanctions against Phnom Penh for its inabil- magazine in India. tortured, and murdered, then their bodies ity to comply with ‘‘minimum standards’’ to It has also sponsored domestic terrorism were declared unidentified and secretly cre- combat human trafficking and convict offi- against the minorities within its borders, in- mated. Khalra was murdered in police cus- cials involved. cluding murdering a quarter of a million Sikhs tody. His body was not given to his family.

VerDate Sep 11 2014 14:44 May 19, 2017 Jkt 049102 PO 00000 Frm 00081 Fmt 0689 Sfmt 0634 E:\FDSYS\BOUNDRECORD\BR15NO06.DAT BR15NO06 ejoyner on DSK30MW082PROD with BOUND RECORD November 15, 2006 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS, Vol. 152, Pt. 17 22101 No one has been brought to justice for the Kare Ga Khalsa.’’ Now is the time to act on HONORING THE MILLS-PENINSULA kidnapping and murder of Jaswant Singh it. Do we mean what we say every morning MEDICAL CENTER GROUND Khalra. The only witness to the Khalra kid- and evening? BREAKING napping, Rajiv Singh Randhawa, has been re- The flame of freedom continues to burn peatedly harassed by the police, including blightly in the heart of the Sikh Nation. No having been arrested for trying to hand a force can suppress it. Recently, Dal Khalsa note to then British Home Secretary Jack and the Shiromani Khalsa Dal announced HON. TOM LANTOS Straw. Last year, 35 Sikhs were charged and that they are uniting for sovereignty for OF CALIFORNIA arrested in Punjab for making speeches in Khalistan. This was met with chants of support of Khalistan and raising the ‘‘Khalistan Zindabad.’’ The Punjab Legisla- IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Khalistani flag. How can making speeches tive Assembly proclaimed the sovereignty of and raising a flag be considered crimes in a Punjab when it cancelled the water agree- Wednesday, November 15, 2006 democratic society? ments. Only by liberating Khalistan can we The police never released the body of put an end to the repression and terrorism Mr. LANTOS. Mr. Speaker, on November 1, former Jathedar of the Akal Talkht Gurdev against the Sikh Nation by the Indian re- 2006 is a day that will long be remembered in gime. Now is the time to rededicate our- Singh Kaunke after SSP Swaran Singh Burlingame, California, as the ground breaking Ghotna murdered him, He has never been selves to the liberation of Khalistan. Last year, Sikh farmers were expelled from for the construction of the Mills-Peninsula tried for the Jathedar Kaunke murder. In Uttaranchal Pradesh and their land was Medical Center. This medical facility, located 1994, the U.S. State Department reported seized. They were beaten up by the police. that the Indian government had paid over in my Congressional District, is a continued Their homes were bulldozed by paratroopers. 41,000 cash bounties for killing Sikhs. The example of why the Bay Area continues to be Their homes in many cases were built using MASR report quotes the Punjab Civil Mag- their life savings and by their own hands. We at the forefront of nation’s healthcare system. istracy as writing ‘‘if we add up the figures condemn this act of state terrorism by the of the last few years the number of innocent The New Mills-Peninsula Medical Center, government of Uttaranchal Pradesh. As you scheduled to open its doors to the public in persons killed would run into lakhs [hun- know, Sikhs are prohibited from buying land dreds of thousands.]’’ The Indian Supreme in Rajasthan and Himachal Pradesh. Now 2010, will be an extraordinary facility inte- Court called the Indian government’s mur- Uttaranchal Pradesh joins that list. Yet grating the latest environmentally friendly tech- ders of Sikhs ‘‘worse than a genocide.’’ there are no restrictions on land ownership nology design into a state-of-the-art $528 mil- Missionary Graham Staines was murdered in Punjab by non-Sikhs. People from any- lion 450,000-square-foot building. This newly along with his two sons, ages 8 and 10, by a where can buy land in Punjab, including peo- constructed modern marvel will boast an mob of militant, fundamentalist Hindu na- ple from Rajasthan and Himachal Pradesh. tionalists who set fire to the jeep, sur- India is trying to subvert Khalistan’s inde- emergency room 40 percent larger then that of rounded it, and chanted ‘‘Victory to pendence by overrunning Punjab with non- the existing Mills-Peninsula Hospital, and will Hannuman,’’ a Hindu god. Missionary Joseph Sikhs while keeping Sikhs from escaping the also provide 243 patient beds in all-private Cooper was beaten so badly that he had to brutal repression in Punjab. It is incumbent rooms. This new hospital will also have space spend a week in an Indian hospital. Then the on the Sikh diaspora to free Khalistan. We designated for accommodations for family Indian government threw him out of the must redouble our efforts. That is the only members of patients, allowing for those who country. None of the people involved has way to keep these atrocities from continuing been tried, The persons who have murdered and to protect the Sikh Nation and the Sikh have traveled great distances the ability to re- priests, raped nuns, and burned Christian religion. main close to sick loved ones. The blueprints churches have not been charged or tried. Po- The Akali Dal conspired with the Indian also include an attached office building that lice broke up a Christian religious festival government in 1984 to invade the Golden will offer space for physician offices, a new Temple to murder Sant Bhindranwale and with gunfire. Recently, militant Hindus from parking garage and gardens for people to get the Bharatiya Janata Yuva (a youth move- 20,000 other Sikhs during June 1984 in Pun- ment affiliated with the BJP and the Fascist jab. Among those who conspired with the away from the hustle and bustle of the hos- RSS) attacked the Convent of Loreto and the government, according to Chakravyuh: Web pital. school there. A spokesman for the BJP, Mr. of Indian Secularism, were Dr. Chohan, Mr. Speaker, the Mills-Peninsula Hospital Ganga Singh Dhillon, and Didar Singh Bains H. Dikshit, demanded an investigation of the has been in existence for nearly 100 years school! It appears the Indian regime is even willing The murderers of 2,000 to 5,000 Muslims in to arrest its own agents to suppress the and is consistently held up as a beacon of ex- Gujarat have never been brought to trial. An movement for Khalistan! Now Badal and cellence for hospitals in the Bay Area. The Indian newspaper reported that the police Chief Minister Amarinder Singh have been hospital has been a recipient of numerous were ordered not to get involved in that mas- accusing each other of being tied in with awards and recognitions including, being ‘‘terrorists.’’ These leaders view support for sacre, a frightening parallel to the Delhi named the Best Hospital in San Mateo County massacre of Sikhs in 1984. The most impor- Khalistan as terrorism, as the Indian govern- ment does. They have shown where their loy- 14 years running by the readers of the San tant mosque in India, the Babri Mosque, was alties lie. How will these so-called Sikh lead- destroyed by militant Hindu fundamentalists Mateo County Times as well as being named ers account for themselves? Remember the who have never been held responsible for the best place to work in the Bay Area for two words of former Jathedar of the Akal Takht their actions. consecutive years by the Business Journal Professor Darshan Singh: ‘‘If a Sikh is not a It is good that you have admitted the guilt Khalistani, he is not a Sikh.’’ Publications. Professional recognitions include of the Indian government for the Delhi mas- Sikhs will never get any justice from being designated as one of the top eight hos- sacres, in which over 20,000 Sikhs were Delhi. Ever since independence, India has pitals in the State of California for cardio- killed, by apologizing for the massacres, but mistreated the Sikh Nation, starting with vascular surgery by the California Office of what good does it do the Sikh Nation? Where Patel’s memo calling Sikhs ‘‘a criminal Statewide Health Planning and Development. are the apologies for the Golden Temple at- tribe.’’ What a shame for Home Minister tack, the destruction of the Akal Takht, and Patel and the Indian government to issue Mr. Speaker, the ground-breaking and the desecration of Darbar Sahib, and the this memorandum when the Sikh Nation planned opening of this hospital has come to other atrocities? Where is the compensation gave over 80 percent of the sacrifices to free fruition due to the tireless efforts of the mem- for the victims’ families? That operation was India. There is no place for Sikhs in sup- bers and board of the Peninsula Health Care yet another act of Indian domestic ter- posedly secular, supposedly democratic rorism. India. Our moment of freedom is closer than District, Mills-Peninsula Health Services, and The Guru granted sovereignty to the Sikh ever. Sikhs will continue to work to make Sutter Health, as well as the extraordinary Nation, saying ‘‘In Grieb Sikhin Ko Deon certain that we shake ourselves loose from support of community leaders and residents. Patshahi.’’ We must remind ourselves of our the yoke of Indian oppression and liberate Without their spectacular efforts, this state-of- heritage by raising slogans of ‘‘Khalistan our homeland, Khalistan, so that all Sikhs the-art facility would be nothing more then a Zindabad’’ and beginning a Shantmai may live lives of prosperity, freedom, and dream. I urge all my colleagues to join me in Morcha to liberate our homeland, Khalistan. dignity. Whoever is honest and dedicated in leading Sincerely, congratulating the Mills-Peninsula Hospital that Shantmai Morcha deserves our support. GURMIT SINGH AULAKH, community on the successful ground breaking Every rooming and evening we recite, ‘‘Raj President. of their new hospital.

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