INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SIKH AFFAIRS
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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 sovereign 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 DCPRINTED IN CANADA
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CONTENTS
Introduction Usman Khalid 1 From Tagore to Gandhi to Armed Forces’ attack on the Guru’s Darbar in 1984 Gurtej Singh 8 Everything is fine in the Sikh Homeland, Punjab (Under the Occupation of the alleged Indian democracy since 15th August, 1947). is it really so? Awatar Singh Sekhon 19 Dr Sekhon speaks at the XI session of the UN Human Rights Council 22 An undeclared war on the Sikh nation, Punjab: “Operation Bluestar” of June, 1984 Awatar Singh Sekhon 25 The Swiss Sikh Federation: Memorandum to the United Nations Human Rights Council 43 Preface: 25 years after assault on Durbar Sahib laying foundation of Khalistan Usman Khalis 44 Dr Sekhon writes to the Sikh leaders in Punjab
NEWS, VIEWS, SHORT ARTICLES, ETC. 46
Immediate Press Release 11th November, 2009 Awatar Singh Sekhon 47
I am an important witness to Hhopal gas tragedy (India) B S Goraya 56 Joint Statement of Manipur people and other eastern states 59 China protect ‘Gwadar Port’ & topple Indian plot Shahid Qureshi 59
Dr Sekhon writes to : Sirdar Gurmit Singh Khalsa 48 The Hon Ansar Burney 49 Saleh [email protected] 51 Janab Randhawa 53 Hon Stephen Harper, Prime Minister of Canada 55 [email protected] 48 Sardar Gurdip Singh Bains 48
The live scene of fight between two rival groupsat Vienna, Austria, Gurdwara 25
Slave nations 54
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(in “25 Years After 1984 Assault on Durbar Sahib Complex Laying Foundation of Khalistan (ed) Dr Awatar Singh Sekhon June 2009 ISBN 0-9548929-4-1.) Usman Khalid Director London Institute of South Asia
I knew very little about India or the Sikhs until I started the The Government of India has used political carrot and sticks London Institute of South Asia. As its Director, I have come know to sideline the issue of Khalistan. It has sought to subvert the about the complex ethnic and caste mosaic, which is India. Behind faith by several gimmicks the purpose of all of which was to its colorful diversity there is a lot of pain inflicted by systematic ‘divide’ the Sikh nation. Such measures can be classified into two repression. Some have been the victims (the ‘untouchables’ who categories: are 65% of the population of India today) for so long that their cries of anguish are still inarticulate and their objectives still 1.Those that sharpen caste division within the Sikh nation by unclear. But there are three areas where the people are unable as measures like ‘reservation’ of seats in education and jobs for ‘low- well as unwilling to Hinduise. These are: 1. Muslim majority caste’ Sikhs. This has had the effect of splitting and polarising the Jammu and Kashmir, 2. Sikh majority Punjab, and 3. the tribal Sikhs and at the same time ‘hinduising’ them. That is because the peoples of Assam. Caste System is abhorrent to the Sikhs faith while it is the central feature of the Hindu faith. In the name of ‘positive discrimination’ The Kashmiri and Assamese struggles for self-determination of the low caste Sikhs, the central feature of the Hindu faith crept are the oldest, having started well before the partition of the back into the Sikh faith. British Empire in India in 1947; they are essentially international in nature. The Kashmiris wants to join Pakistan 2. Creating new sects or redefining old ones has been continually with which it shares its polity. Besides, their state is physically employed to ‘divide and rule’. Ravidasis now have separate linked to India by a few fragile bridges over River Ravi. Gurdwaras and wish to be classified as Dalits rather than Sikhs. Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) is still a part of India because of the Leaders of the Nirankari sect have been used by the Indian ineptitude of the Pakistani rulers – civil as well as military. The Intelligence to raise distractions whenever a new popular Sikhs seven states of Assam (with Sikkim as the eighth member of the leader came on the scene to espouse a popular cause. Nirankaris group) are starkly different to India in their culture, history, were used against Sant Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale. More language and religion. These eight states of Assam also have a recently an impostor calling himself Gurmit Ram Raheem is very tenuous link with mainland India through the Siliguri preaching a composite faith asserting that all religions are the corridor. Left to decide their own destiny, they would choose same except that they call God by different names. There are even Myanmar and Tibet over India with whom they share history and new Sikh scriptures Dasanth Granth in circulation attributed to the long borders. It is only the Sikh struggle for self-determination Tenth Guru Gobind Singh, which is almost pornographic. that is entirely indigenous; it is also the most robust. Despite 25 years of efforts - offering every incentive and putting every Countless Hindu NGOs have emerged all over India ostensibly constraint - the Sikh national identity has crystallised even more, to ‘help’ the minorities in their fight against ‘State repression’. its leadership has alacrity and wisdom, and its objective is clear. There are many Hindu organisations demanding ‘impartial investigation’ of the events of 1984 – the assault on Durbar The objective of the Sikh nation is to have a sovereign state of Sahib in June and pogroms against the Sikh in Delhi in November their own – Khalistan - in areas where the Sikhs are in majority. the same year. Many of those have a sinister purpose. Hindu India The area of Khalistan was delineated in the Rajiv-Longowal is trying to say that it is only a few ‘bad apples’ responsible for the Accord and it has been the demand of every administration in the all too frequent genocidal massacres; much of India is secular and Punjab that its capital, Chandigarh, and Sikh majority districts of treats every body equally. But that is not true. The Sikhs have neighbouring states should be included in the Punjab. The Council suffered atrocities at such a massive scale and ignored by India of Khalistan, banned in India, has not just kept the flag of and the world so routinely that it must be the most horrid story yet Khalistan flying but has won huge international support. The to be told. The Sikh youth in villages on Punjab’s border with President of the Council of Pakistan were rounded up by the police, blindfolded, lined up along irrigation canals at dusk, mowed down by machine guns, Khalistan, Dr Gurmit Singh Aulakh, is a leader with impressive and dead bodies floated downstream where they were recovered personality, great dignity, palpable wisdom and alacrity. When a and cremated as ‘unidentified’. When the Sikh Human Rights movement has a clear cause, committed following, and trusted Activists Jaswant Singh Khalra publicised the truth about the scale leadership, it can achieve its objective by political process alone. of genocide of the Sikhs in the Punjab, he was murdered by the If India allowed a political party in the Punjab to put Khalistan on Police. its agenda, it would sweep the polls. That is not just the case now, that has been the reality in every decade and every year in the Punjab for all the sixty-two years of India’s existence as a Hindu ruled state. International Journal of Sikh Affairs 19, No. 2,2009© government should consider an alternative solution. A controversial decision was made to replace him with General The systematic repression of the Sikhs (and other minorities) is Arun Vaidya
Operation Bluestar (3–6 June 1984) The Indian Army stormed the Golden Temple
In 1982, Bhindranwale and approximately 200 followers moved Commando Attack. Between 10:00 and 10:30 on 5 June, into a guest-house called the Guru Nanak Niwas, in the precinct of commandos the Golden Temple. From here he met and was interviewed by the
Whatever its aim, Operation Blue Star desecrated the holiest Casualties & Aftermath religion shrine of the Sikh faith and reduced the temple to rubble. Places of worship of all faiths are respected by members of every faith except it seems by the Hindus. Sant Jarnail Singh The official figures of casualties are: Bhindranwale was no threat to the Government in Delhi or of Punjab. Clearly, the assault was planned, in Indospeak, to ‘teach the Sikhs a lesson.’ It did indeed teach the Sikhs a lesson. The 1) Military: 83 killed, 248 wounded lesson is: “To the Hindu rulers of India ‘betrayal is statesmanship’, 2) Sikh Casualties: 492 Killed (100 women and 75 which they call raj neti. Only fools trust them. Never again would children), 86 wounded (7 women and 4 children). the Khalsa nation trust them.” The plan of the assault and its execution are summarised below: Independent historians placed the figure at:*
1 Military: 700 Artillery Bombardment.
General A S Vaidya
On May 2
3. escape. There are allegations that the government destroyed evidence and In May 1988, army troops were called in again to remove shielded the guilty. The Asian Age militants from the temple. The operation from 12-18 May
In June 1990, the Indian government ordered the area surrounding On July 31, 1985, Harjinder Singh Jinda the temple to be vacated by local residents to try to stop the
Harjinder Singh Jinda and Sukhdev Singh Sukha also assassinated Delhi High Court Congress (I)
Narula Committee In December 2007, however, Jasbir Singh, who is now living in California
On Apr 9, 2009 over 500 protesters from various Sikh organisations from all over the country gathered outside the shows that the Punjab is tinderbox where violence can erupt any court which was scheduled to hear CBI’s plea of closing the time on mere rumours and hurt feelings. The three issues listed case against Congress leader Jagdish Tytler in the 1984 anti- above have the potential of provoking an insurrection in the Sikh riots case. Later in the day, Tytler announced his decision to Punjab. pull out of the Lok Sabha elections, saying he did not want to The appointment of a Sikh – Manmohan Singh - as the Prime cause embarrassment to his party. The embarrassed Congress Minister of India has placated the Sikh somewhat but they remain Party withdrew its tickets to Jagdish Tytler and Sajjan Kumar for angry and on edge. India did not allow the press to take any Lok Sabha elections 2009. pictures of the assault on Durbar Sahib but the memory of the Sikh men, women and children being burnt alive inside their Gurdwaras and their homes while the police kept away any help is too vivid to be erased. The screams of Sikhs who died in the inferno were too real to turn away from. Every Sikh has seen another Sikh he knew being torched alive or a picture of one. The Sikh will never trust Situation in the Punjab Today the Hindus. The fateful three days in June and three days in November 1984 did make Khalistan inevitable. Sant Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale said that the attack would "lay the foundation of Khalistan". A quarter century after his death, the * INTRODUCTION is the chapter contributed by Usman Khalid, fury of the Sikh nation is unabated; he is proving to be right. The President, London Institute of South Asia, in “25 Years After 1984 objective of the attack was to crush the movement for freedom, Assault on Durbar Sahib Complex Laying Foundation of but it revitalised the support for Khalistan. The Khalsa have not Khalistan (ed) Dr Awatar Singh Sekhon June 2009 ISBN 0- allowed the memory of the 1984 Assault on Durbar Sahib or the 9548929-4-1. massacre in Delhi in the wake of the assassination of Indira Gandhi to be erased. Official apologies even from Prime Ministers NOTE: President Usman Khalid, London Institute of South Asia have not been sufficient. The view that the Sikh rage has since was ‘invited’ by the Editor of the above title, released in the dissipated is clearly not correct. Commemoration of 25th Anniversary of a brutal military In 1978, the Akalis passed the Anandpur Sahib Resolution (see “Operation Bluestar” of June 1984. The editor, Dr Awatar Singh Appendix). This was before major Akali leaders of the Punjab Sekhon, regards “Operation Bluestar” of June 1984 as “An conspired with the Congress Party leadership in New Delhi to let Undeclared War by the Indian administration and its armed forces the assault on the Golden Temple to take place. In April 1986, the (army, air force and navy) on the Sikh Nation, Khalistan, Panthic committee passed a resolution for an independent PUNJAB, the First ‘Sovereign and Secular Nation of South Asia’, Khalistan and then in 1987, the Panthic Committee formally i. e., The Punjab of a Sikh Monarch Ranjit Singh, 1799 to 14th declared Khalistan independent. The Council of Khalistan has March, 1849. been the Government of Khalistan in exile ever since. At this time the Sikh nation is dealing with distractions continually created. However, there are three long-standing demands that are The Sikh Educational Trust takes pleasure to reproduce President important for the Government of the Punjab and have to be dealt Usman Khalid’s contribution before the National and International with by the Union Government in Delhi. readership. 1. The Rajiv-Longowal Accord called for the capital of the Punjab - Chandigarh - and Sikh majority Punjabi-speaking areas of *Note: The exact numbers of Sikh casualities of the genocide in Rajasthan, Haryana and Himachal Pradesh to be returned to the name of a brutal military “Operation Bluestar” June, 1984, Punjab. will never be known until the Ministry of Defence, Government of 2. The farmers in Punjab are forced to buy fertilizer at well above India opens it records of May to October, 1984, before an the market price and forced to sell their produce at uneconomic International Commission, to find out the numbers of soldiers prices well below the cost of production. The farmers of the discharged, lost in the war and sent home for the reasons known Punjab want to sell their produce at international prices. only to the Government of India, in the Editos’s opinion.
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From Tagore to Gandhi to Armed Forces’ attack on the Guru’s Darbar in 1984 Gurtej Singh, IAS & IPS (Formerly)
In the Modern Review, Calcutta, of April 1911(starting at democratic representatives, the `Five Beloved Ones'. One page 334), there appeared a paper entitled, "The rise and and all have commented favourably on this unique fall of the Sikh power." Ostensibly, it had been written happening in the history of faiths. It is the culmination of earlier by Rabinderanath Tagore (May 7, 861-August 7, transferring divinity to people, the proposition with which 1941) in Bangla and had then been translated to English by Guru Nanak had initiated during his ministry. Though many the well known historian Sir Jadunath Sarkar. A cursory historians coming after Tagore accepted just a few of his reading of it will convince anyone that it is extremely formulations, they felt compelled to ignore this one in strange in nature. The following aspects of this write up are particular. noteworthy: 7. The Sikh people, after having been reawakened by the 1. Regardless of the title, the paper is actually a detailed new religious ferment of the Singh Sabha, were on the comparison of the author's understanding of both the Sikh verge of initiating militant activity. In the same year Tagore and the Maratha situations. composed his Jan Gaan (now the national anthem of India) 2. The ‘fall’ is taken to be a fact in the relation to the Sikhs to welcome George V on the occasion of his visit to India. even before setting out to examine the issues. If language In this, throwing all self-respect and national pride to the and approach are an indication, it is this proposition which winds, he eulogises the head of the colonial power as the the author appears to have set out to establish and not `god of India's destiny'. Within less than two years Tagore merely to examine. The aim clearly is to establish the was selected for the Nobel Prize for literature. These superior nature of Maratha ethos and to support the circumstances are extremely significant and have to be imaginary phenomenal ‘Rise’ of those people. treated as interconnected. It gave a measure of prestige to 3. It is extremely significant that Rabindernath Tagore, his formulations against militancy which must be who is not known as a historian and to whom no significant appreciated in the background of the well known English work of history is attributed, chose to express an opinion dread of Western style militant movement in India. on a subject of history. The irreverent would prefer to From the above it is possible to suggest that the project believe that Jadunath Sarkar wrote it and the poet translated undertaken by Tagore was perhaps suggested to him by the it to Bangla and owned responsibility for writing it. circumstances then prevailing in India. It is more likely that Jadunath’s deep-rooted bias against the Sikhs is a fact that the inspiration came from some organization or authority, would lend credence to this theory. Jadunath would not lend or may be a multiplicity of authorities, which accepted him his name to the motivated and prompted production as it is as an ideologue or hoped to be able to project him as one. sufficient to discredit a historian having even elementary The greatness about to be bestowed on him in the near acquaintance with the Sikh and Maratha history. future was perhaps a part of the calculation. 4. Though the essay is so obviously defective that it does There is scope for the existence of a perspective in which not deserve even the passing attention of a casual reader of Rabinderanath Tagore was a part of the myth built up to Sikh history, yet ostensibly one of the well established serve the design of a colonial power. It was hoping to enjoy historians chose to translate it for the English reading perfect peace during the remaining period of its stay in public. He also gives his comments in conformity with the India. Although a colonial power, it entertained the dream author's theme to lend it a respectability of sorts. His of exiting at will with a large measure of subject support it support to the distorting of Sikh history was considered hoped to depart honourably. Responsible de-colonization valuable. Later, this historian was dubbed as a Knight of the required the projection of India as a country fit for freedom. British Empire for his services. To keep the coming `freedom struggle' within defined and 5. Tagore appears to have owned the project with a definite safe limits, it was necessary to project a self-restrained aim to promote a skewed view of Sikh culture and history. intellectual overflowing with enthusiasm for colonial He chose to use, somewhat superficial knowledge of Sikh masters as the ideologue of the new dawn. The spinning of history for the ultimate purpose. Yet its influence on later myth around Tagore was calculated to serve both purposes Hindu (particularly) Bengali leaders and political leaders of equally well. In a special way, Tagore was developed into a India (in particular on M. K. Gandhi) was of great representative of the Hindu thought. This was necessary magnitude. Almost all his concepts of Sikh history were since the bulk of the Indian population subscribed to that accepted by them as axiomatic and can be detected in the faith and their attitude to the rapidly developing political mental make up of those who ordered the attack on the scenario was of the greatest importance. It would determine Darbar Sahib in 1984. Gandhi would, henceforth, accept the character and direction of the coming stage managed Rabinderanath Tagore as his `divine teacher' ("gurudev"). India’s struggle for freedom. 6. Incredible as it may seem, it was Tagore who for the first Before the inauguration of the twentieth century, two time felt that abolition of personal Guruship was a aspects of the colonial rule had become very clear: firstly, retrogressive step. It involved the bestowing of Guruship on that the British imperialism had already started on a course the Guru Granth and on the Khalsa Panth through its true which would fructify in its being extinguished on some not International Journal of Sikh Affairs 19, No. 2,2009© very distant date. The process of de-colonization had come sought to build a society outside the Vedic social sphere out of the domain of mere pious assertions and had entered and notably, outside the Hindu system of caste. Secondly, it the melting pot stage. Secondly, since it was certain that the British rule would wither away and the process would repudiated the religious authority of the Vedas and claimed finally conform to democratic norms prevalent in England. to be a sovereign dispensation. Sikhi embodied the revealed It was apparent that the Hindus had the immense advantage explanation of the sacred and the profane, of the of numbers which would eventually decide who would relationship between the two states. It was organized enjoy political power after the British had wound up their around a revealed text embodying the expression of concern in India. This necessitated the development of a spiritual truth exclusively relevant to the new tradition. role model society which would make it possible for the Obviously it could not be ignored for these reasons. That much fragmented Hindu people to put up semblance of a would leave it in the reckoning for a real invigorating and struggle for freedom and a united front for capturing power transforming renaissance when and if it came. This could when the opportunity came. upset many an applecart. The larger design that Hindudom Any person who has studied the behaviour of Indians under had reserved for itself was to revert to the concepts the imperial Mughals and the British powers, would find prevalent in remote antiquity. So Sikhi had to be considered very few honourable entities who had consciously and condemned as unsuitable for new India. In a significant maintained their dignity and had not succumbed to the comment on the innate nature of those deeply engrossed in temptation of harvesting slavery for base material the mundane world, the fifth Nanak says, ‘donkey loves to advantage. Looking back, it is again possible that the Sikhs, roll in the dust and is ever enthusiastic about washing off Rajputs and Marathas were the only people who could be the sandalwood paste if applied to it.’ So Sikhi had to be developed into role models for the future Indian society. written off from the minds of the Bengalis of the age who Between the Marathas and Rajputs, there was nothing much were increasingly succumbing to the charms of Japuji, the to choose. It was easy to reject the Rajputs who, with few transforming recitation of scripture at the Darbar and the exceptions, had cooperated fully with Mughal imperialism indomitable spirit of the Khalsa. deemed particularly despicable by the Hindu psyche The project was to depict Sikhi as an inadequate overloaded with hatred of Muslims. Geographically they religion unable to sustain a new society and another were a people on the periphery. Such regions were society was to be projected as one quite qualified to lead distrusted by imperial powers and had traditionally enjoyed India into the future. For this it was necessary to divest, at a degree of autonomy conferred upon them by strategic least on paper, the Sikh society of known traits and to thrust location and by the inhospitable, barren terrain in the case these attributes elsewhere where they did not exist. Clearly, of Rajputs. Both Marathas and Rajputs supported a culture any historian would be reluctant to make a statement based on deeply ingrained inequality and had nothing but a against the existing and well known facts. In these mountain of meaningless ritualism to uphold in the name of circumstances a poet with the proverbial poetical licence religion. Further both of them had held out much promise in was selected for the job. With just a little more than usual history and both had never delivered. Both the political degree of credulity, which is anyhow a prominent trait societies had parochial, feudalistic, racial undertones and of the Hindu society, the task could be accomplished by connotations. Both had most of their history behind them mere assertion; regardless of facts. Aided by the general and it did not seem to square up with the spirit of the new intellectual apathy of the Sikhs, this was achieved ever so age, which was thrusting itself with considerable force on smoothly. The fact that Sikhi had come to acquire its own the slowly awakening sub-continent. Spirit of equality, personality was particularly painful to Tagore. Ignoring the freedom, universal approach, the single-mindedness to strongly manifested spiritual message of Sikhi, of which oppose oppression everywhere involving the willingness to resistance to tyranny was one integral part, he asserted that make sacrifices for the wellbeing of the common man, the Sikhi had no universal appeal and was the religion of mere tendency to build a just society based on fairness and soldiers. According to his particularly distorted vision scientific temperament were some of the requirements of initially the Sikh faith was rooted in Hinduism but the future but these had never manifested in either of the somewhere down the line it disassociated from it two political societies before us. and its spirituality and suffered further diminution by Most of the desirable traits and concepts required as embracing political concerns. Consequently it dwarfed building blocks of the new society were present in itself and became alienated from its past. A long unbroken abundance in Sikhi (the Sikh faith) and the Sikh movement. tradition of spiritual and social striving was necessary for a It was capable of becoming the nucleus of a vibrant potent society to be projected as a model. Tagore found this nation without the necessity to weave myths around it for wanting in the Sikh society where it existed in abundance respectable presentation. For perceptible reasons, which and discovered it in ample measure amongst the Marathas need not be discussed here again, it was thought undesirable who had none of it. to project Sikhs and Sikhi as model for the free Indian Tagore made a distinction between the prophetic vision of society after decolonization. Main consideration must have Guru Nanak and that of the later Gurus, particularly that of been that though Sikhi preserved all that was best in the Guru Gobind Singh. Of Nanak he admitted that his "heart religious traditions the Indian sub-continent, it nevertheless had gained emancipation from the bondage of such a narrow Pauranic religion." It is implied that he released a International Journal of Sikh Affairs 19, No. 2,2009©
"force that was making for liberty" and he, initiated form of religion worthy of emulation. In incredibly abusive "spiritual unity" of the Sikh people, which was presumably language, Tagore asserts that the Guru nurtured by the succeeding eight Gurus. He completely had "an intense longing to be liberated from earthly ignored the basic Sikh doctrine of unity of Godhead and enemies", and a "blind desire to serve the temporary Guruship. There was no Guru who was anyone else than need of the sect." He forgets that the Guru had no such Nanak. The absolute uniformity of thought was the desires and that he was a teacher charged with the task of condition of succession. The truth revealed to the first Guru teaching the eternally valid righteous path. He also is the by God, the original and the ultimate Guru was the one who made manifest the Order of the Khalsa that has insurance against distortion by any human agency. In universal import Tagore asserts that he imparted "martial matter of every minute detail actions of the succeeding qualities" to the Sikhs and consequently, "here their Gurus had to conform to written pronouncements of the progress ended". Since he "left the seat of the preaching realised truth made by Guru Nanak. Guru vacant" and caused the great truth to be "confined in a The author stuck to drawing distinction between the Gurus book.” He appears to be unaware that the Word was always in spite of recognizing the universal import of Guru Gobind hailed as the Guru since the time of Nanak and that the Singh’s message. Preaching of religion, "the great truth scripture had been compiled by the Fifth Guru, Guru proclaimed by Nanak" is projected to be his sole aim. Gobind Singh merely accorded formal recognition to the Contrary to all known facts, it is implied by the poet that already prevalent doctrine by declaring in the very last days Guru Nanak did not mean to found a religion or a society of his Guruship that henceforth the Granth would reign based on the truth revealed by him. Nanak’s own utterances eternally as the Guru. Maligning the most altruistic people and his act of appointing a successor is ignored. The in all history, Tagore continues, “-- the Sikhs very rapidly existence of a very coherent, perceptible spiritual society became greedy and uncontrollable". The remarkable during the time of Nanak himself is testified to by restraint, the religious and military activity exhibiting contemporaries including Guru Angad and Guru Amardas. wonderful discipline and the festival of altruistic activity Bhai Gurdas a near contemporary holds the same views. exhibited by the Sikhs in particularly the seventy years after Tagore found it necessary to doubt the continuity of the the creation of the Khalsa has been universally recognized Sikh spiritual tradition, which on the contrary, is but Tagore was blind to it all. remarkably coherent. This he achieved by projecting the There were occasions, like the attack on Kasur, when five prophetic visions of Gurus Nanak and Gobind Singh to be Sikh Misls would march to battle just to rescue a single distinct. Tagore was not the first one to do that. To a great (Hindu) girl from the clutches of depraved rulers. The extent, this was the stance of Aurangzeb as reflected in his rescue of twenty-two thousand Maratha women after the own recorded utterances about the Guru and the Khalsa. Battle of Panipat in 1761 CE from the army of the This interpretation is totally contrary to the established Sikh victorious Ahmed Shah Abdali, is a chivalrous act which belief preached in Guru Granth Sahib or the utterances of has no parallel in history. Unfortunately, it was not Tagore's the succeeding Gurus and the instructions given to his brief to consider facts. successor by Guru Nanak. It is contrary to facts of authentic The creation of Khalsa, hailed by the world at large, Sikh history depicted in some of the Gurbilases and too is misunderstood by him: "thus he called in the human Panth Prakashas. Independent observation, all Sikh energy of the Sikhs from all other sides and made it flow literature and all expositions of gurbani in a particular direction only". Even Toynbee, who mostly support the proposition that all Ten Gurus were one and laps up what was served to him by Tagore, had to admit preached the same doctrine. Without doubt it was the same that the Order of the Khalsa was the result of the most sovereign independent doctrine that all the Gurus preached. creative act in history, having a parallel only in the No matter how contrary to facts his assertions were, Tagore Communist Party of Lenin that came some two centuries insisted upon using them to heap adverse criticism on Guru later. The other example given by him does not withstand Gobind Singh. He was the target. It is he who is supposed closer scrutiny as brought out by Sirdar Kapur Singh. This to have "checked the work of preaching the religion -- and is what J. D. Cunningham (History of the Sikhs) had said of made it his life's mission to form the Sikhs into a strong Guru Gobind Singh in relation to creation of the Khalsa: body". It is disapproved of with harsh words, "this is not the "he effectively roused the dormant energies of a vanquished work of a religious teacher". Incredible as it may seem, people, and filled them with a lofty although fitful longing Tagore presumes to know more about the God ordained for a social freedom and national ascendancy, the proper mission than the prophet of the faith and the illustrious adjuncts of that purity of worship which had been preached successor of nine prophets knew. According to Tagore, by Nanak. Gobind (Singh) saw what was yet vital, and he under the Tenth Guru the "chief aim was changed, -- to the illuminated it with Promethean fire. A living spirit public defence of their own community from destruction possesses the whole Sikh people, and the impress of Gobind and oppression". He completely failed to understand that (Singh) has not only elevated and altered the constitution of the Guru was affirming and was acting upon universal their minds but has operated materially and given amplitude principles for all societies of which resistance to tyranny to their physical frames. The features and external form of a was the cardinal aspect. Tagore’s implication is that the whole people have been modified." societies which do not defend themselves and get destroyed There was a tremendous spurt in spiritual activity as a result of lack of effort, of necessity uphold a higher immediately after the creation of the Khalsa. For the first International Journal of Sikh Affairs 19, No. 2,2009© time India saw the spectacle of the Guru was preaching for most of the rest. The doctrine of ordinary religious people owning up their beliefs to use of force for defence and for a righteous cause was basic the extent of becoming martyrs for the faith. For the first time in history, the word `martyr' was Indianised. It was at to Sikh belief from the time of Guru Nanak himself and has least a seven decade long continuous festive celebration of to be considered a higher stage of spiritual development. the highest spiritual elevation of the human spirit. It was The right of self-defence is recognized by all jurisprudence, one long victory march of the ethically developed human ancient, medieval and modern. To believe that it constitutes being. Every Sikh man and woman of the age was a fine a fall to any degree is to betray gross ignorance of human example of the spiritual heights obtainable by a God- affairs. Had Tagore been honest he could have arrived at a oriented individual. Bota Singh and Taru Singh were made proposition contrary to the one supported by him. He could of common clay but the life sprinkled into their hair was have recalled the plight of millions of his co-religionists not vanquished by `fearful odds' in the battlefield or in the who did not resist and were reduced to abject slavery. They medieval Mughal torture houses where severance of head led the lives of beasts of burden for more than a thousand was routinely accepted as an alternative to abandoning years. Noble Buddha’s followers were eliminated from commitment to serve higher spiritual forces, the ultimate India when the crafty Brahmin persuaded them to believe Truth. These are the pages of Sikh history of which every that ahimsa (non-violence) was parmodharam (the religious person regardless of belonging to any other paramount religion). religion or denomination can be proud. In a total distortion of facts and disregard for the universal Tagore failed to appreciate that the life affirming Sikh nature of the Guru’s struggle, Tagore states, that "the wars movement, true to Indian tradition, began as a profound waged by Guru Govind were merely wars of the Sikh sect. spiritual thought expressed through Sikh religion. Till today He did not extend his aim beyond his own followers". The it has retained that characteristic. It helped in unshackling aim of Guru Gobind Singh has always been perceived as the soul of man and brought within his reach limitless the elimination of oppression in any form on any human possibilities for self-realisation and the realisation of being anywhere. This was the reason that the Guru could highest spiritual truths. Fighting for righteousness and elicit willing support from Muslim saints and even Mughal opposing oppression was just one of the avenues of spiritual soldiers like General Sayid Khan. Tagore's poetic licence advancement open to an enlightened people. This was the served him well and he was not wary of making any injunction of Guru Nanak who preached, `it is the privilege unfounded statement. of the brave to die fighting for a cause approved of by God.' The remarkable inner coherence that the faith of Nanak That was the beginning of the Sikh doctrine of Miri-Piri gave to the society constituted by his followers is sought to (essential unity of the mundane and spiritual) and struggle be lightly dismissed by the author. His explanation for the for a cause in furtherance of values which are attributes phenomena is simply that the external pressure did of God. According to Bhai Gurdas and Bhai Mani Singh, "solidify the Sikhs into a compact nation". Competent Adit Saini, a Khatri belonging to the fighting classes, was observers have known that the Sikhs were already a well advised by Guru Arjan to entertain no hatred and to `wield knit nation at the time of the ministry of the Fifth Guru. the sword for the cause of Dharma for the love of the Amongst others it is testified to by ‘Mohsin Fani’ and people and in order to remove oppression on the helpless'. Emperor Jahangir. The external pressure of which Tagore To a professional soldier the same Guru had said, `remain talks, came as a consequence of recognition of this fact and steadfast in your duty to fight (for righteousness) but because of the fears it inspired in the ruling quarters. He entertain no violence in your heart'. Can anyone hold that also brushes aside the role of spiritual training of two this preaching is in any manner different from the centuries. Sikhi was a promising movement leading one and essence of Srimad Bhagwatgita? The above statements all towards exciting new spiritual and worldly goals. It of the non-fighting Gurus lay down the conditions under evolved a brand new and remarkably sensitive human. All which wielding the sword has always been sanctioned as a those whose innate nature was stirred by higher spiritual part of the Sikh spiritual training and achievement of ideals flocked to it enthusiastically. Turning its back on summum bonum. Guru Gobind Singh introduced no new worldly responsibility and action here has never been its doctrine and in no way deviated from the spiritual purpose inclination. Yet it has held fast to the many faceted of his Guruship. All the Sikh Gurus scrupulously avoided splendors of the spirit and has always maintained right sort taking up the sword for worldly gains even though of relationship between the physical and the supra-physical. prophets of the Old Testament, companions of It was this balance which allowed it to release immense Jesus, Prophet Muhammad and ‘incarnations’ like Rama vitality, all embracing creativity in the lives of the people and Krishna had done it much before them. who came under its influence. For the first time in many While making his unbecoming observations, the author centuries it demonstrated to the world that God-ward turned completely forgets that all battles of the Guru were fought mind and soul is beyond caste and is filled with love for all in self-defence and that he has never been found to be an creation. To deny that it was not the basic concern of any of aggressor by any assessment. It is also conveniently the Gurus is to be guilty of deliberate distortion. forgotten that of the thirty-three or so years of his ministry, Very generous view of the above appreciation is that, in only about five were spent in the field of battle and that spite of his thorough familiarity with the teachings of Gita, Tagore did not understand the original Sikh concept of International Journal of Sikh Affairs 19, No. 2,2009© miri-piri and was genuinely misled into making a wrong he convincingly shown that since no self defence was assessment. For those not willing to stretch generosity to organized by Kabirpanthis, and consequently they were the limit of gullibility, it is obvious that the motive for the wrong assessment is to be read in the context of the broad able to make it to the pinnacle of spiritual glory, he would undertaking, the deeper import of Tagore’s article and the have been taken seriously. The fact, however is that use that decolonized has made of concepts evolved by him. Kabirism, which did not take up the sword made no The history of Buddhism in India should have sufficed to spiritual or material progress and is hardly heard of as a make Tagore aware of the truth of the Sikh doctrine that living force in history. Like a small stream in the middle of evil has to be resisted and that it is the duty of the God- Sahara it has almost vanished from history without leaving oriented persons to resist it. Buddhism did not resist and it a trace. It had nothing to show for not taking a vow to resist was violently wiped out mainly by the just a few thousand tyranny and injustice. The same would be true of several armed followers of Adi Shankracharya. Thus was lost the scores of sects which made a short appearance within the greatest opportunity of by-passing the medieval ages. Had pail of Hinduism, did not defend themselves or their Buddhism defended itself, India and perhaps most of the spiritual heritage according to the requirement of the world would have descended straight into the modern age at age, became redundant and having nothing to justify their least two thousand years earlier. The consequence of not existence, vanished into the darkness of the past leaving a defending people’s culture by the people who own it up few imperceptible foot prints on the sand of time. should also have been apparent to Tagore who had the Arnold Toynbee, at least, could have been misled. Maybe, Buddhist example in India before him. The ochre robes at the back of his mind was the history of Papacy were erased from this land by a handful of sword and staff which he has discussed in his monumental Study wielding hordes of a young militant. Tagore’s most of History. It could have been possible for him to prominent, self-ordained pacifist acolyte Gandhi would, generalize against violence on examining the conduct according to Wavel find bloodbath justified as an of Popes generally from the eleventh to the thirteenth alternative to accommodating Muslims as equal partners in centuries. Much can also be said to show how that is political power in united India. Finding no pacifist answer irrelevant to the basic moral proposition embodied in the to Hitler's violence, Gandhi recommended England to concept of mir-piri and in a large measure to even the surrender and was so frustrated that he contemplated history of the Church. Personal ambitions and failings of suicide. In its four confrontations with China and Pakistan Popes and Emperors also introduced distortions which may since 1947, no follower of Gandhi, Aurobindo or be the relevant causes of the seamier side noticed by Tagore recommended non-violent resistance even for the Toynbee. He has himself referred to such factors, as "the sake of form. To this extent is ineffectiveness the peaceful hardness of men's hearts and the perversity of their pursuits in the face of deliberate violence. Tagore went ambitions". In that context his drawing attention to, another on to hold that pacifism was the ideal human conduct variable, namely, the "dangerous game of fighting force under all circumstances. It is inconceivable that he did not with force, which is justifiable within limits which may be realize the philosophically untenable nature of divined by intuition but which are perhaps impossible to pacifism or that violence, under certain circumstances was, define --- " may not be as relevant as he thinks it is. He more compassionate action than non-violence. This also ignored the spiritual training (`the defining of limits') proposition has been quite clear to prophets, incarnations, of two centuries which preceded the creation of the Khalsa. the Ten Gurus and the Khalsa. Its validity is axiomatic to One is still left wondering whether the Church would common man. have at all survived had Hildebrand (Later Gregory VII), on Some later day Bengali historians of the Sikhs followed a being appointed guardian, not taken militant measures lead or two given by Tagore and looked upon the Guru's act to protect the Papal treasury and the Pope’s person. as ‘Transformation of Sikhism.’ Tagore’s assessment Surely, Tagore must have also understood that the dynamic influenced M. K. Gandhi who, throwing all propriety and impact that Sikhi had on history is primarily due to its good sense to the winds, went to the uncouth extent of exposition of the concept of miri-piri. This particularly calling Guru Gobind Singh a "misguided patriot." It was but involved resistance to injustice and oppression. If God is a small step from Tagore to Bengali historians to M. Just and is Truth, as no doubt S/He is, how can a K. Gandhi and thereafter to Arnold Toynbee. He too felt believer remain indifferent to strife involving truth and that Sikhi stood spiritually dwarfed because of having taken justice? The ultimate aim of a spiritually awake Sikh has measures to defend itself. He forgot that Jesus been laid down to see the establishment of a just order free had asked his followers to sell their cloaks and to of coercion. Those eminently Christian powers that fought purchase swords. Ignoring the overturning the the two world wars will testify to this truth in spite of doubt moneychangers' tables must have come easily to a and confusion possessing some very enlightened person who even failed to appreciate that Jesus accepted individuals. crucifixion for social and spiritual causes. Most of the key It is not surprising, in view of the predetermined character phrases used by Toynbee are lifted straight from Tagore. He of the writing and the general peevishness of disposition writes this in a chapter in which he has discussed `Kabirism exhibited by the Tagore towards the Sikh Panth in general, and Sikhism', consciously bracketing the two together. Had that he rarely has a word of praise for the Tenth Guru. The only good thing about the Guru, according to him, is, ‘at International Journal of Sikh Affairs 19, No. 2,2009© blow from Guru Govind the already weakened caste system would have revealed to Tagore that the Sikh tumbled down to the earth'; and it is possible that Commonwealth was the most just state India had ever seen. this is a left-handed compliment designed as a reminder to It reawakened the Indian mind to free activity for the first the Hindu orthodoxy that the Guru created a new society time in centuries. The Muslims were more satisfied then, totally outside the Hindu caste society. Message to the than Sikhs, Christians and Muslims are now in the modern, Hindu masses was clear. It was that the Khalsa Panth, secular, democratic India. associated by him particularly with Guru Gobind Singh, The Sikhs can be proud that jumping straight form the was not to be the model for the new society sought to be medieval Mughal torture dens on to the throne of the built up in decolonized India. Hindudom never forgave Punjab as conquerors, they did not contemplate revenge Sikhism for the revolutionary denunciation of every even for a moment. This reflects the true grandeur of decadent principle of the old culture. Sikhism and the greatness of Ranjit Singh's character. This For the same reason, the ‘People’s Republic led by the remarkably responsible behaviour was most becoming of a Khalsa’ is looked down upon. The Hindu ideal polity was people spiritually trained by the Ten Masters for two much different. Consequently, Ranjit Singh comes in for a centuries. Toynbee has referred to the universal reaction in lot of unfair and even mean criticism. He "firmly tied the other similar cases. Considering the character of Egyptiac Sikhs together by stratagem, force and policy" and "merely insurrection against the Ptolemaic regime, of Jewish stands as an example of restless cunning and sleepless insurrection against the Seleucid, the Roman policy of perseverance in self-aggrandizement". His Hellenization and several dozen other such cases the world striving “enabled Jat peasants to grow great." That appears over, Toynbee observes: "When we come to examine how to be Ranjit Singh’s greatest crime. He reversed the caste these victims of injustice reacted to their fate, we shall not order. Fear of the Jat peasantry coming to political power be surprised to find that one of their reactions was an was not displayed by Tagore for the first time. Hill Rajas, explosion of savagery which surpassed in violence the cold- the contemporaries of the Guru were his worthy blooded cruelty of their oppressors and exploiters". (p.433) predecessors Jawaharlal Nehru, Indira Gandhi and Rajiv The chivalrous behaviour of the Khalsa in protecting the Gandhi were their worthy successors. Many heinous crimes women of the vanquished and never resorting have been justified by the modern Indian state on the to killing beyond the field of battle, is indeed remarkable. pretext of preventing Jats from garnering political influence Echoes of this exceptional Sikh behaviour can still be heard in the Punjab. Tagore further continues about Ranjit Singh, at the battle fields of 1971 war for Bangladesh. that "there was no limit to his greed and no restraint on When the hour of the sword came for Ranjit Singh's his voluptuous sensuality." His legacy was "disunion, Sikh Commonwealth, Muslims, Sikhs and Hindus stood mutual distress, lawlessness". This could very well have united against the British to defend it. The fight that they been the report of a gutter inspector. gave was remarkable in many ways (the British lived All evidence is to the contrary. The Punjab stood united for through ‘a night on which the fate of India trembled in a the first time in many centuries. Recognition of Ranjit balance' observed one Governor General and "another such Singh's efforts and later those of the Panj Kaunsali (Council victory will shake the British Empire to its very of five elected democratically) to unite all Indians and to foundations" said the other Governor General at the end of expel the foreign occupiers – ‘to throw the English leopard war with the Punjab). By many well informed historians into the sea’ as Ranjit Singh put it in a letter to the Muslim Ranjit Singh is hailed as the most humane potentate in the King of Hyderabad, to the Maratha potentates history of the East. Lord Acton praised him as a sovereign and the orthodox Hindu King (the ‘incarnation of Vishnu’) who never took life. He was completely free of of Nepal. This is a chapter which deserved mention in cruelty, even in relation to animals and wild beasts. He golden letters in the history of this country. Just before the designated the Empire as ‘Peoples’ Commonwealth led by commencement of the Anglo-Sikh Wars, the British the Khalsa' (Sarkar Khalsa Jio). His qualities of the head Governor General and the Commander-in-Chief had agreed and heart are almost universally admired. Ignoring all this, that the Sikh democratic example was too dangerous for the Tagore chooses to dig the dirt of attributed personal existence of foreign occupiers and must be eliminated. This failings. Personal morality is not relevant to an assessment became the final cause of the immoral assimilation of the of ruler's governance. Particularly the sexual morality, after Punjab, the territory belonging to an ally that the British all, is no more than the self-imposed limitation and social Indian Empire had solemnly promised to protect during the conduct assumed by the individual in the interest of minority of Dalip Singh. This all too significant regulating social life rationally and temperately. It may not predicament of the East India Company arouses no be proper to condemn an individual for personal conduct curiosity in Tagore. It means nothing to him that these were particularly if it has not attracted wide social disapproval. the first rays of the sun of democracy in the sub-continent. Tagore's worst is still to come. Basing himself on the above He ‘knows’ that Ranjit Singh was a despot. subjective analysis, he glides effortlessly to the pre- Peace prevailed in the Sikh Commonwealth and all determined conclusions. The Sikh movement had to be enlightened travellers have testified to it. For the first time pushed out of the reckoning and he thought he had in a millennium, the Sikhs and Hindus along with the presented enough material for doing so. He knew that the Muslims had an equally effective share in the governance audience addressed by him would easily gloss over all of this part of the country. Even a cursory investigation irrationalities and some ‘terminological in-exactitudes’ with International Journal of Sikh Affairs 19, No. 2,2009© some gross distortions thrown in for the desired effect. It unknowable nature of Ultimate Reality'. A people who was all in the cause of Hindu Dharma. Those with sectarian believe this do not go about waging wars of religion (as are devotions have often resorted to gross distortions and taking place even in the twenty-first century) for they outright lying to promote their favourite version of the accept that all faiths are equally valid. Had Jews, ‘truth.’ Muslims and Christians believed that, there would have Tagore comes to the conclusion that the Sikhs "sank down been no Crusades and nothing of much that can be seen for ever". The emphasis is on for ever. This has come at a looming on the not too distant horizon today. Sikhi time when the Sikhs were putting up one of the stiffest goes one step beyond the monotheism of these battles against the British occupiers of India. Singh Sabha two most monotheistic of faiths by asserting the totally Movement, with substantial political content and great unequivocal Fatherhood of God and the brotherhood of expectations in that field, had just put the Sikh house in man. It takes the world miles ahead of the illogical `Jew and order. Guran Ditta Kumar and Taraknath had brought Gentile, Christian and Heathen, Muslim and Kafir' home the first rumblings of Ghadar Rebellion. From the syndromes. It widens the boundaries of faiths and creates Maratha Lodge at Calcutta, the place identified by the ample meeting grounds. Most remarkable of all, it Criminal Investigation Department as the meeting place of eliminates the desirability of conversion. Thus ridding revolutionaries, and a place where both these persons religion of so much of the irreligious, faith based acrimony. connected with the Ghadar used to stay. When there is only one God the fountainhead of all The first tidings must have been broadcast to the anyone creation, of all faiths, of all actions, of all history and of all who mattered in Calcutta and in India. The effect of nations, whom do you convert to what and what for? Its periodicals Sansar, Free Hindustan, Swadesh Sewak and implication legitimately extended to abandoning belief in Vande Mataram on the Sikhs in Canada and America was ‘God's own chosen people'. In spite of its philosophical known to the British Indian Government. Ghadar activists soundness, this doctrine has not as yet found like Bhag Singh, a veteran of Tenth Bengal Lancer universal acceptance amongst even monotheistic faiths. Regiment had burnt his honourable discharge certificate in With Sikhi it is five centuries old already. The qualitative 1909 as that reminded him of British slavery. Bhai change in peoples' psyche in consequence of the world Bhagwan Singh connected with militant activity in the having become a global village and the tremendous Punjab in 1907 had been arrested twice in Hong Kong for advance in rationality refreshingly bathed in the new dawn spreading disaffection amongst the Sikh troops stationed of the twenty-first century, has not brought people nearer there. Babbar Akalis were poised to jump on the stage of to accepting it. Christianity and Islam are not prepared to history in a decade or so. The Kuka Sikhs had been see the futility of conversion even today when interfaith ascending the gallows in the cause of freedom every now dialogue is so intense. Religious wars, in continuation of and then since 1850. Ever since the birth of their faith, the Crusades are being waged in several theatres. Under the Sikhs have never stopped making history. The time alien influence, even Hinduism of late has been seeking at which Tagore's article appeared, revolutionaries had conversions and re-conversions although it has been come to have a hold on the imagination of young Bengalis doctrinally opposed to both. also. The inspiration for Tagore's present article was clearly Yet this is the original, integral part of the Sikh faith and the dread, the strong apprehension that the Sikhs, who had has been consistently believed in and practiced ever since beaten the English in every battle of the Anglo-Sikh Wars, its inception. It is considered remarkable that during the were preparing to intervene in history of the British the Sikh rule in about a dozen Sikh states, together adding colonialism in a big way; Tagore’s objective clearly was to up to an empire bigger than that of Ashoka, there were prevent such an intervention. never any forcible conversions or even Most perfidious was Tagore’s assertion that "there is no conversions by inducement or fraud as are being resorted to force of progress amongst the Sikhs - - they have not added even today by the Roman Catholics. This was in spite of any new wealth to the world's stock of knowledge, faith or the background of gruesome medieval action". persecutions in which at least three times it was officially Let us test the veracity of his statement by, at random, declared that the Sikhs had been completely wiped out, ‘the recalling the Sikh contribution to world of faith and action. name of a Sequa was not heard of in the Mughal dominion'. He missed the originality of Sikh mysticism which for the The Sikhs are so totally devoid of religion based hatred that first time emphasized the human form as vehicle of God's during the last disturbed decade, although literally at a Will and rescued human personality from the ideal of thousands of places, Hindu mobs killed individual Sikhs, at complete annihilation or final dissipation of it as no place was ever a single Hindu killed by a Sikh mob. hitherto believed to be the basis of mukti or nirwana. The Every Sikh considers this to be the glory of Sikhism. So it God of Sikhi has chosen to reveal Himself on His own is. Where else has Tagore noticed all this? Why did these volition and takes interest in the development of history not appear to him to be the profoundest contributions, through the Godward inclined men and women. The ideal holding immense potential for world peace and harmony? person of Sikhi is one who is earnestly seeking universal Had Tagore delved deep into Sikh doctrines, he would have welfare as the vehicle for God's Will. noticed that Sikhi for the first time accepted that the human Sikhi for ever put an end to the concept of female is capable of highest spiritual experience and has the a `sectarian God' by promoting the doctrine of `essentially innate capacity to give guidance in the field of religion. International Journal of Sikh Affairs 19, No. 2,2009©
Guru Amardas appointed women to manage religious jurisprudence is tyranny. It is a crime according to any institutions and they continue to head seminaries and jurisprudence prevalent in any civilized country. Gurdwaras even today. The Sikh belief that addresses God Tagore did not consider the alternate proposition. The also as a female is still to be appreciated. Hindus temples were destroyed by the Mughals and other Since he was working for a sectarian purpose and for a invaders before them. Their sacred statues doctrinally desired effect, Tagore did not notice the equally benign deemed as gods, went to build steps to mosques from concept of miri-piri which is another Sikh gift to the world Calcutta to Baghdad or became butcher’s stones in that social and political order. It did away with asceticism and region. Hindu women and young boys were routinely monasticism for ever and went ahead to promote the carried away as slaves. The name Hindukush is a memorial fixation of social, spiritual and mundane responsibility on to the countless massacres of Hindus enacted there. Hind each and every believer of any faith. The remarkable vision lay prostrate before alien invaders for many thousand years. of the Guru which made him embrace martyrdom for the No Hindu contemplated revenge or had a dream of putting freedom of faith went totally unnoticed by Tagore. Its an end to the oppression. On the contrary the most implication, that the Order of the Khalsa is the defender of honourable in Hindudom, including the much eulogized freedom of worship of all people everywhere, was also lost Rajputs established family ties with Mughal despots. It is on him. The astonishingly original nature of the Order of universally known that in this respect it did not slip from the Khalsa has been highlighted even by Toynbee. If we the ‘pinnacle of human perfection.’ Can it be said that probe further into the political field, we will find a dozen thereby, Hinduism reached the pinnacle of national glory? fresh concepts which owe their origin to the teachings of No Hindu organization celebrates the occasion of Jodhabai the Gurus. To name only two, the concept of Open entering the Mughal emperor’s harem. Diplomacy and a political party wedded to carrying out a For the purpose of dwarfing the universal Sikh spirit he universal idea in history, are no mean achievements. talks of the Sikh "race" which to him was "a petty sect." Neither is the establishment of primacy of the spiritual and Sikhs were not a race. Sikhi attracted adherents from all moral needs of society over the coercive authority of the races and countries. Neither was it a petty sect. As early as political state, thus laying the foundations of a pluralistic the time of Guru Arjun, it had followers from Bay of society as the ideal political organization. No unbiased Bengal to Baghdad and no major city was without its person setting out to read Sikh history can miss all that and adherents. Sikhi for Tagore failed completely in every much more to draw attention to which more space is possible way. This is the course his wishful thinking takes. required than is available here for this purpose. To an objective observer, it had achieved every object Much can be said about each one of Tagore's observations placed before it by the Gurus. His assertion "the end of Sikh being quoted in this paragraph. Sikh message is universal history appears very sad to me," is the imaginary and the Guru lays claim to being the Jagadguru, of course sankhnaad (auspicious conch blowing) of a race poised to with perfect justification. The Guru lays stress on values inherit political power in India with collaboration of the valid for all regions and all times. Yet Tagore says, "- Sikh colonial power then ruling over it. It is also despicable history had lost its aim at the attraction of revenge expression and of most hideous-faced ingratitude, possible or some other petty object and had slipped down from the only from a representative of the Hindu race. It appears as if plane of human perfection, but it failed to achieve any glory wiping out of Sikhi is being determined by him as a goal for even in the lowest stage of national success". For the future rulers of India. It is no wonder that having been commenting on this aspect, let us recall the founded by such a person, the Shantiniketan soon came to most remarkable career of Banda Singh Bahadur. He be seen as “the original hot-bed of all that is weak, false and ravaged Sarhind where the younger sons of Guru Gobind pretentious in contemporary Bengali life.” (Nirad C. Singh, aged nine and seven had been bricked alive Chaudhuri, From the Archives of a Centenarian, Mitra in a wall. This is the oft quoted example of revenge seeking Ghosh Publishers Pvt Ltd, Calcutta, 1997, 96.) Sikhs. He established his Capital on the other side of the He expresses sadness but that appears to be a deceptive present railway line and yet did not touch the mausoleum of mode of communication. He appears to relish the idea that Shaikh Ahmed Sarhandi Mujjadad Alif-e-Sani, the sworn he is sounding the death knell of a people inconvenient to enemy of Hindus and Sikhs, the man responsible for the his scheme of things. Even with the sort of material and the judicial murder of the Fifth Guru and almost all subsequent sort of use he decided to make of it, the conclusion he acts of oppression on the Sikhs by the Mughal draws is hardly possible. In spite of the finality of his administration. Banda’s was clearly not revenge venture judgment the Sikhs have continued to make history though it presented itself as one to the crude and the ill- all these years. The idea of a commonwealth led by the non- informed. It was a living man’s reaction to tyranny, it was sectarian Khalsa was the truest example of democratic righting the historical wrong. It was an attempt to do away functioning and heralded the modern age in Indian politics. with the regime that had become oppressive to the extreme This much we can say on Tagore’s own authority. To even in the eyes of the co-religionists of the ruling despot. justify the construction suggested here, we need to The killing of minor sons for the imaginary sins of the recapitulate his interpretation of Maratha history. father is opposed to the principles initiated in the last Maratha endeavor under Shivaji is much lauded. For preaching of Prophet Muhammad. The execution of Tagore, it had a universal import` chiefly, ‘because’ the children who are deemed (innocent) ‘masoom’ in Islamic Hindu race and Hindu creed, which Shivaji was supposedly International Journal of Sikh Affairs 19, No. 2,2009© resolved to emancipate from Muslim rule' was more working to establish individual human Gurus amongst the widespread. ‘Hence it is beyond a doubt that Shivaji's aim Sikhs. Namdharis, Radhaswamis, Nirankaris, and host of was to reconstruct the history of all India'. That Shivaji’s others are a product of this thought. It is reasonable to see a field of operation and main concern was a part of South co-relation between the pronouncement of Tagore, the India, is ignored. This compliment is paid to Shivaji merely echoes of which are constantly heard in the writings and because his aim appears to be in favour of one religion and deeds of Gandhi and the faithful follow up by the definitely against the other. Shivaji is, however, most government of decolonized India. lauded in India for his imaginary bid to humble Islam. He Surprisingly Tagore sees the creation of the Khalsa as supposedly acted to establish hegemony of Hinduism and is highly retrogressive: ‘Sikhs who had been advancing therefore admired for his `pure ideal'. Much superior gloriously for several centuries to be true MEN, now approach of Guru Gobind Singh under the same suddenly stopped short and became mere SOLDIERS; circumstances ‘appears desolatory’ to the deliberately blind. and here their history ended’. The announcement of end of Shivaji's battles ‘were not mere outbursts of passion, not Sikh history embodies Tagore’s hope and is not the mere wrangles’ but had been endowed by a observation of a fact. One whole century, in which the ‘grand sequence’ at the poet’s command and were only the Sikhs continued to make history in a significant way, primary steps of a vast plan’ (that existed nowhere except in emphatically belies his assertion. The use of capital letters Tagore’s imagination). Careful comparative study of the points to Tagore's strong feelings against militancy. Later two situations would reveal the remarks he makes about on, after demitting power in behalf of the British, Lord Shivaji to be truer of actions and intentions and actions of Mountbatten the last Viceroy would say that the British Guru Gobind Singh. It is he who had a catholic never could have ruled over India for so long without the universal approach. His primary aim was to establish the consent of Indians. The small number of Englishmen in rule of Dharma and not that of any favoured denomination. India throughout the colonial period is also a pointer in the Politically, it was the Guru's aim to empower the most same direction. Later day historians would affirm that the backward, the most deprived and the most downtrodden. He western style revolutionary activity was what the British in had no quarrel with Islam but the oppressive Mughal rule. India dreaded the most. It must also be remembered that the That, he declared to be the aim of his pontificate. first decade of the present century was the time of unrest in In comparison with Shivaji's movement, Guru’s India and was sure to end up in revolutionary activity as it was certainly the most humane, democratic and universal in eventually did. The Sikhs, with whom militant activity character. was a part of the practice of religion, had never given up Shivaji's experiment failed because ‘road' had not violent resistance to the British occupation of their been ‘opened for spreading the idea among the general homeland and were likely to become involved in such public of the land'. And because, of ‘our mutual separation' activity in a big way in future. First rumblings of the that is because ‘in our society there are endless differences - impending Ghadar movement had already reached in religion, work, food, pleasure, social intercourse, the Indian shores. Tagore, with his ear to the ground, must everywhere we have diversity'. In contrast the Guru, ‘totally surely have heard its earliest whispers, the government he rooted up the caste system which was a strong obstacle' and served was certainly aware of it. The first national agitation yet when he took the next step that Shivaji took without it, against the British rule had already taken place in he somehow ended up merely, converting opposition to the partition of Bengal by Lord Curzon in ‘this spiritual unity of the Sikhs into a means of 1905. Dark clouds were gathering from the British point of worldly success' and ‘dwarfed the unity---into an view and drastic remedies were required. instrument of political advancement'. The political His analysis indicated that Shivaji failed and ended up advancement sought by the Guru was that of people weaving ‘ropes of sand' essentially because of the caste at large and not personal, dynastic or that of a caste, of an system. The “heterogeneous society he wanted to make ethnic entity or a favoured religious denomination. triumphant over all India" was an ‘impossible undertaking.’ For him stopping of ‘the succession of Tagore’s desire to preserve a caste based society ruled by Gurus' was the source of dethroning of Sikhi from the ‘twice born’ as the ideal form of social organization commanding spiritual heights to a complete failure comes out clearly from this observation. in every way. The Guru, however, stopped the succession Where does the poet's analysis leave us? According to of an individual human Guru and bestowed the Guruship on him, both Guru Gobind Singh and Shivaji reacted to Guru Granth, that is, the Doctrine and upon the Khalsa the same situation, their responses were identical, but the Panth or of the Sikh people collectively. This, along with work of Shivaji was commendable and that of Guru Gobind the creation of the Khalsa, have been hailed as two of the Singh was deplorable. Shivaji failed because of the divisive most revolutionary steps in the history of religion caste system the Guru brought about the end of Sikh and therefore, of humankind. This arrangement has been the history although he eradicated the caste reckoning from most potent force in Sikh history and has imparted the life human affairs. It is amply clear from the facts of history impulse to the Sikh people at several crucial moments. It that the Maratha appeal was severely limited in this raised them to superhuman plane of activity at the Great that it left even many whole caste groups in Holocaust. It is, however, significant that the Indian Maharashtra cold, was certainly oppressive to Sudras, and political establishment since 1947, has been consciously yet it is lauded as a great effort on a wider, almost universal International Journal of Sikh Affairs 19, No. 2,2009© scale. Both failed, according to Tagore, but one From the Archives of a Centenarian, Mitra Ghosh for want of eradicating the caste system and the other in Publishers Pvt Ltd, Calcutta, 1997, 95). They had a grand spite of eradicating it. The Guru created the Khalsa in design of maintaining order in India through the influence accordance with the logical goal of Sikh effort of two and of Bengali culture, the leaders of which they were in a half centuries and still was deemed to have cut himself position to nurture and build into intellectual giants by asunder from the past. On the other hand, Shivaji was who patronage of the state. The trick was tried also subsequently wove ropes of sand around the innocuous sayings of saints in India. describable as belonging to the neo-Vaishnavism school There is some direct evidence that R. N. Tagore was treated although much separated by time and space and as a benefactor of the white colonial race by all concerned. imaginatively clubbed together in the so called Bhagti His aristocratic birth and his dislike by the Bengali Movement, was supposed to have sponsored a patriotic intellectuals as a class, made him additionally vulnerable to endeavour having roots in antiquity. British manipulation. In his address after receiving the The above discussion leaves no doubt that the purpose of R. Nobel Prize, he expressed special thanks to the West N. Tagore in writing this article was two-fold. One was to through which God had recognized his talent. “--He to make it possible for the British to lay down their own whom I had offered my handful of worship – was extending schedule for the de-colonization process in India, His right hand to accept it from the western shores.” He was undisturbed by Western style revolutionary activity. pro-British at heart and after receiving the Nobel Prize, It served to make their remaining stay comfortable and free went on a Western tour to project a favourable image of the from violence. Secondly, it was to eliminate the Sikhs and colonial administration. This becomes particularly Sikhi from the contest of providing a model for the free significant when seen in the context of the tempers against Indian society which had already been conceived in the the British running high both in the Punjab and Bengal. The womb of time. He charted out non-violent expression of Ghadar Party had been formed by Indians, mainly Sikhs political opinion for the future Indian freedom fighter. This and Bengalis, in the United States with an aim of expelling only he could have done with the background of his the British from India by violent means. immense prestige in the field of letters and his support of Tagore appears to have been deliberately built up as a good- the British administration. He thus provided three or four will ambassador for the British colonial power. A question vital clues for the future ‘struggle for India's may be legitimately asked whether procuring the Nobel independence' to Gandhi and the Indian National Congress. Prize for him was a part of the build up? It can also be For once (and perhaps for the only time) Gandhi was telling asked whether the subsequent western tour was a part of the the truth when he acknowledged Tagore as Gurudev. price for the Prize that he had agreed to pay? It is certain The British in India were no less grateful. Their expression that he was seriously engaged in the business of providing of gratitude came two years later (1913) in the form of the safeguards to the violent overthrow of the British Empire in Nobel Prize for literature. Incidentally, the mystery of his India. Was that why he visited San Francisco, the writing of the “Jan Gan” in praise of the British sovereign headquarters of the Ghadar Party? It was the fear of and its adoption as the national anthem by the violence which has eventually convinced the British to Indian National Congress, also stands explained to a very withdraw from India. Mainly, it was the suspected large extent. It is a vital link or rather a missing link of the disloyalty of the Sikh forces which had come under the collaboration thesis. influence of the militant propaganda that made the British It must be observed that had the Sikhs understood the true finally decide on quitting. import of Tagore's formulations in time, they could perhaps The poet visited the United States in 1916. He was staying have avoided spilling too much blood in the spurious in San Francisco at a local hotel. On October 5, 1916, while struggle for independence and would have been able to he was giving an interview to a journalist of the local paper, gauge the hollowness of the liberal political promises The Portland, a group of armed men tried to force their way being then made to them. Alternative measures could have up to him. The British government blamed the members of been taken. There would not now be cause to lament that the Ghadar Party for the attempted attack. This incident was these have been falsified. Should they, today come to form widely reported in all the American papers. Next day the a correct appraisal of it, they could salvage the remnants of following report appeared about the incident in The World their nation and build upon it in future to emerge as the Tribune, “Hindu poet safe after wild fight under model society for the oppressed and the depressed in India bodyguard.” The San Francisco California Examiner wrote, and everywhere else. “plot to slay Sir Rabindranath Tagore nipped in San II Francisco.” The Los Angeles California Express noted, Englishmen generally believed that they had erected Bengal “Detectives guard Hindu philosopher.” The Birmingham into an intellectual capital of India. They hoped that its Alabama Ledger was more explicit, “Hindu poet Tagore westernising influence would spread to the rest of the threatened by Indian assassins. Pro British utterances of country. Henry Maine who had been an Executive Member Nobel Prize winner endanger his life. – As a result Tagore of the Viceroy’s Council, wrote in 1871 that the educated has cancelled some of his speaking engagements in class in Bengal and “its peculiar set of ideas is probably the California. Prof. Bishen Singh – from Stockholm was chief source from which the influence proceed which are seeking to persuade Tagore to refrain from his pro-British more or less at work everywhere.” (Nirad C. Chaudhuri, utterances – was assaulted in the street. ” On October 7, International Journal of Sikh Affairs 19, No. 2,2009©
1916, The Examiner, wrote an editorial condemning the as a sex maniac.” (1) One affair he mentions is with Lady attack on the poet. The strangest part is that according to the Ranu Mukherjee younger to Tagore by 47 years. She came Asian Age, this story has “remained a closely guarded secret in contact with him (“with no clothing on my person”) all these years.” The documents relating to it are still not when she was just 12 years old. “It was known to everyone available to the general public. (See, The Asian Age, April that Tagore used to write songs for her and would sing them 11, 2003, p.1) in her presence. He dedicated his play Rakta Karabi (Red The Tribune, (April 15, 1999, quoting The Hindustan Oleander) to her. In her unpublished autobiography -- Ranu Times, says, “But few are aware that the poet – was also the mentioned an incident that took place on February 3, 1933 president of the Bengal Provincial Congress conference at when Tagore was 72 and she 25. She was in Santiniketan Pabna, now in Bangladesh, in 1907. It was just a year after with her husband. ‘I was supposed to go to (Rabindranath) the Surat Congress when the party was sharply divided again, but I dared not -- what the poet wants from me I between the moderates and the extremists. – Tagore can’t give it to him, I can’t, I can’t.” The poet’s act of presiding over the Bengal Provincial Congress (the Bengal seducing a young child of 12 when he was 59 is as party was known by that name then) delivered a rousing disgusting as his attempt to seduce a married woman by speech in which he compared the Congress with a big living weaning her away from her husband by taking advantage of tree sprouting afresh from the point where it is hacked. his capacity of a host. (2) Tagore who pretended to be an Tagore’s name for the office was proposed by Sri advocate of women’s liberation and authored Streer Patra, Aurobindo Ghose and seconded by Abdullah Rasul the married Mrinalini who was 10 years old at the time of leading barrister of Bengal and later a state Congress marriage. He also gave dowry to get his daughters married president.” This certainly helps to explain the exact off. (3) Indira Devi Chowdhury, was the poet’s niece and position of Tagore and his role in dousing the fires of was 11 years younger than him. “Tagore’s letters hint at an militarism. affair” with her. From his letters to her preserved at III Santiniketan, “Words or lines that could reveal something,” R. N. Tagore has disapprovingly written about the moral are carefully obliterated and “can hardly be deciphered laxity of Ranjit Singh. He has cited Ranjit Singh’s supposed today.” (4) He had an affair with a girl from Argentina. She sexual misdemeanor although he did not care to find out was Victoria Ocampo (thirty years junior to him) in whose how much of it was official propaganda of the British villa he recuperated from illness. In Ocampo’s diary we usurpers of the People’s Commonwealth that they find the words, “He (Tagore) touched my breast like advertised as the Sikh Empire for tactical reasons. The plucking a flower.” (5) Perhaps as disgusting as the severity of his condemnation and the far reaching incestuous affair and the Ranu affair was his attachment to conclusions he draws upon the attributed trait of Ranjit Kadambari, his elder brother’s wife. Surely as a highly Singh appears to indicate that the poet was a very strict cultured person familiar with cultural traditions of the east, moralist, at least a monogamist if not a celibate. It would be he knew that an elder brother’s wife was to be regarded as interesting to put some known facts of his personal sexual almost a mother. Here we may recall Laxman’s regard for behaviour together in an endeavour to know whether he Sita. (6) A recent book by one of Gandhi’s descendants was using this misinformation stick to beat Ranjit Singh affirms that both Tagore and Gandhi shared a common with or he was really perturbed about his laxity in that field. mistress. The following is condensed from: Stanley Thomas, “Lord Such is the person who cast the first stone at Ranjit Singh. of the butterflies,” The Week, April 22, 2001, Kochi, 48-50 Now we know what to make of his accusing finger. It was and Nityapriya Ghosh, “Cupid’s Confusion,” 54, and Sunil nothing but character assassination of a Sikh having an Gangopadhyay’s interview by Tapash Ganguly, 51-53. eminent position in Sikh history. He particularly comes out as the most reluctant one at IV confessing. He did confess to one pre-marital affair There is a considerable amount of literature commenting on eventually in his Chhelebela (My Boyhood Days). That was the ‘nobility’ of the Nobel Prize for literature. It appears as perhaps because he had alluded to it in his interview with a if the Prize has always been so inextricably mixed up with composer Atulprasad Sen and singer Dalip Ray at the age politics that some competent commentators have constantly of sixty-six (in 1927) and had skipped it in his Jivansmriti tried to unravel the mystery about how it was given away. (My Remembrances) written when he was fifty. He was Award for peace and literature, have always been suspected visiting a Bombay family “for a few days,” (actually six of being influenced by political considerations. They are weeks in August and September 1878). He composed songs deemed to be rewards for correct political stances by the in praise of the girl of that family and sang one to her to authors to whom it has been awarded. This suspicion please her and gain favours. persists to this day. In the year 2006, it was awarded to a Sunil Gangopadhyay is a novelist author of Ranu-O-Bhanu, Turkish novelist Arhan Pamak who wrote in Turkish, a First Light a translation of Pritham Aloe, has something to language severely limited in its geographic spread. The say on the same subject. The Week, dated April 22, 2001, citation mentioned that the author had become a symbol for 51-53, “Cupid’s confusion,” carries excerpts from his books those opposing restrictions on freedom of expression. For as well as his interview. He has talked of several of many years in the past the award has always gone to those Tagore’s love affairs. It is notable that he was accused of poets and novelists who have bitterly criticised the trying “to tarnish Rabindranath’s image by portraying him administration and the political set up in their own International Journal of Sikh Affairs 19, No. 2,2009© countries. In 2005, it went to the British dramatist Herald Geir Lundestad is that the Academy did not want to destroy Painter who had criticised the role played by the prime the good relations existing between its country and Great minister, Tony Blair in the Iraq War. In his speech at the Britain. (See, “Why Gandhi was denied Nobel Peace prize,” crucial ceremony connected with the prize, he advocated The Times of India, October 17, 2006, 7). It certainly is prosecution of George Bush and Tony Blair for crimes significant. The Nobel Prize for Literature is to politics against humanity. what the Miss Universe title is to fashion industry: it One doesn’t have go whole hog with Roger Strauss that the follows the clientele. Nobel Prize is “a joke” but the highly euphemistic What the Academy did not know was that Gandhi had characterisation of it by Charles McGrath editor New York always been a violent person in thought and deed, racist to Times Book Review, as “a great mystery” is difficult to the core and when his feigned patience was exhausted, he discount. Knut Ahnlund, one of the eighteen members of had reverted to his innate nature that was red in tooth and the Swedish Academy, commented on the 2004 Prize to claw. Gandhi ought to be assessed by what he did to the Elfriede Jelinek the Austrian feminist to say in the Svenska Sikh people, the Zulus during the Zulu ‘war’ and the Dagblat, “degradation, humiliation, desecration and self- Pathans rather than by what he professed. His role in disgust, sadism and masochism are the main themes of partition of the country leading to six million deaths and the Jelinek’s work” to the exclusion of all other aspects of uprooting of much larger number of people was the cruelest human life. The New Criteria magazine agreed that the act perpetrated by any individual in history. The still selection of Jelinek was “a new low” of the Prize that had continuing violence in Kashmir stems directly from his already been “cheapened” by being given away to James views on the subject. The roots of all these happenings must Morrison in 1993. The more one goes back in time, the be traced to Tagore, Gandhi and Aurobindo if it is true, as is truer the statements become, until dawns the realization that generally held and almost universally implied, that the “the Prize is indeed a platform for sending political ‘country’s ethos (1900-1921) was built around the thought messages.” In 1999, Marks Gellerfelt agreed with a New mainly of Aurobindo, Tagore and Gandhi.’ (See, Adwaita Yorker article that “the ideal candidate for a Nobel Prize P. Ganguly, Netaji Subhas and the Indian Ethos 1900-1921, today would be a lesbian from Asia.” The New Criterion is Vedantic Research centre for Comparative Civilizations, nearer to the truth when it says that more and more, it “has Dehra Dun, 2003. The book seeks to delineate ideological gone to a person who has the correct sex, geographical basis of India’s ‘struggle for freedom’). Now we know for address, ethnic origin and political profile.” Direct evidence certain that Tagore chose to malign the Gurus and to of it having been given away for political considerations, denigrate the Sikh movement in order to see the caste based has never been scarce. Polish poet Czeslaw Milosz won it Hindu padpaadshahi (Hindu orthodox rule) established in in 1980 and the Solidarity movement took birth the same India. year. W. B. Yeats won it in 1923 and a year later Ireland V won its independence. [The information contained in this Now a word about Sir Jadunath Sarkar will be in order. His paragraph is borrowed from Susan Salter Reynolds, other sarcastic comments and uncritical, unfounded “Nobility lost,” (LA Times-Washington Post, reproduced in observations about the Gurus and Sikh history are equally The Tribune, October 4, 2006, 11)]. notorious. Together they bear testimony to his perverse The two factors that favoured Tagore winning the Nobel nature, shallowness of his thought and above all to deep Prize for Literature can now be easily identified. England rooted hatred of the Sikhs. For instance, Guru Arjan, the had the best of relations with Norway in the relevant years. martyr Guru, was for him a common revenue defaulter who Secondly, the position of the British in India was destined met his gruesome fate by refusing to pay the fine imposed to become more and more precarious with the rise of the by authorities. His other comments are as untrue as they are militant movements in the Punjab and Bengal. It was derogatory. Many of them find an echo in Tagore’s (?) perceived that this had the potential of developing into a present essay. dangerous situation. Agitation against the partition of Very significantly, this thesis came at a time when the Bengal must have been fresh in the minds of the colonial dread of revolutionary activity was beginning to grip the power. A collaborator, who ostensibly was an intellectual British administration. From about 1870 onwards, India leader, was required. His projected brief was ability to experienced the expansion of Western education. It condemn the Sikh tradition of militarism and at the same provided clerks and junior officials for the administration, time to influence the Bengali patriots with his pacifism. but it also helped spread extremism. While the moderates of Choice of Tagore was a master-stroke of British policy. So the Indian National Congress whom the British patronised, also was that of M. K. Gandhi’s, the political leader chosen remained faithful under all circumstances, some of the to laud and follow him. Both were ably assisted by educated, who could not be accommodated as clerks, Aurobindo Ghosh the sage. Now it is known that Gandhi became resentful against the British. They turned had almost bagged the Nobel for Peace had he not faltered revolutionary and sought to overthrow the British and to at Chaura Chauri and had he not connived at violence undermine the moderates. During Lord Minto’s viceroyalty during the Quit India Movement. These doings convinced (1905-1910) the danger from such disgruntled elements the Swedish Academy that Gandhi had revised his views on advocating violence as means of liberation from an alien pacifism. The most charitable explanation of the denial is and unsympathetic government was perceived as great. The given by the Secretary of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, government responded by extending concessions to the International Journal of Sikh Affairs 19, 20-- No. 2,2009© moderate nationalists. This found expression in the Asiatic Society of Bengal. He found that in the work of Morley–Minto Reforms of 1909. (See, Michael Edwardes, Irvine edited by Sarkar, he had merely reproduced the The Last Years of British India, (1963), The New English above mentioned writings regarding the Sikhs without any Library, 1967, pp. 19-20). As a corollary of the same, editing whatsoever. (See, Sikh Studies Quarterly, July- various methods of combating the deadly revolutionary September 2000, Institute of Sikh Studies, Chandigarh, pp. virus appear to have been devised. 72-78) In a commemorative volume on Sarkar, K. R. Qanungo The richly decorated, much acclaimed and highly quoted him as saying, if “—I had not used my discretion in evaluated (a “Bengali Gibbon;” the “greatest historian of omitting much of what Irvine had written against the Sikh India beyond comparison”) turned out to be just a base community, I would have by now become a martyr.” (H. R. calumniator endowed with tricks that bear him out to be a Gupta, Life and Letters of Sir Jadunath Sarkar, Panjab common trickster as his very name (Jadunath – ‘master University, 1958, p.62) This statement was repeated by magician’) suggests. It is a little wonder that he cooperated several uncritical historians thereafter. with Tagore to provide an anti-Sikh theme to Gandhi and Surinder Singh examined Sarkar’s remark. He looked his cohorts looking for crumbs from the table of the up two of William Irvines articles on the Sikhs written by imperial British enslaving their land. him prior to 1894 in the Asiatic Review and the Journal of
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EVERYTHING IS FINE IN THE SIKH HOMELAND, PUNJAB (Under the Occupation of the alleged Indian democracy since 15th August, 1947). is it really so? Dr Awatar Singh Sekhon
“Mathe Tikka Terrh Dhotti Kakhai Hath Chhurri Jagat Indian parliament that “if the draft is accepted it would be Kasai” means The Brahmin is the Butcher of our world - like committing suicide for the Sikhs, Sikhs’ holy and Guru Baba Nanak Sahib, the founder of the Sikh Religion historic Homeland, PUNJAB.” Consequently, the Indian “We have broken the back of the Sikhs in Punjab, and now Constitution was ‘rejected’, on behalf of the Sikh Nation we will get them elsewhere” - MMK Wali, Secretary of and its Sikh citizens, repeatedly in the parliament in 1948, Foreign Affairs, Government of (alleged) the Indian 26th November, 1949, 1950 and 6th September, 1966, by democracy (In his interview with Madam Barbara Frum Sardar Hukam Singh, Sardar Bhupinder Singh Maan and (deceased), Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, CBC Sirdar Kapur Singh, Indian Civil Service (ICS), MP, MLA Radio 740, “AS IT HAPPENS” on 7th June, 1984, at and Professor of Sikhism (all Members of Parliament). 18:30 – 19:30 Hrs) Since 15th August, 1947, when a broad day light ‘robbery’ When the alleged India’s administration ruled by the took place to make the Sikhs of Punjab ‘landless’. After Brahmins-Baniya clique since 15th August, 1947, swallowing the Sikh Nation’s land, it became extremely dishonoured their broken promises, made in the pre-15th essential to deny the Sikhs all ‘Constitutional rights’. The August, 1947, deceits, declared the Sikhs the ‘lawless Sikhs fought ‘democratically’ for their denied rights, but people and dangerous to the law-abiding Brahmin-Hindus’ they did not realize that what a ‘priceless’ political game on 10th October, 1947, within 7-weeks post their they have lost against the dishonest, deceitful and butchers independence by firing Sirdar Kapur Singh, because he of the world, although the founder of their religion taught revealed the anti-Sikh policies of the ‘unelected’ leadership them that the ‘Brahmins’ are the butchers of the of the Brahmins-Baniya leadership of the Hindu India’s world (see above, the first quote of the founder of their administration.. Within next couple of months, the religion). When Guru Nanak Sahib had been teaching them Brahmin-Baniya cliques introduced the ‘draft’ their that the Brahmins are the ‘butchers’ of the world, the Sikhs democracy’s Constitution, to be introduced in the paid a much heavy price and came to know only in the post- parliament for discussions and its implementation. The 15th August, 1947, era. It was too late and they realized that drafts of Indian Constitution declared the followers of the their Akali leaders like Master Tara Sinh, Fateh Sinh, Sikh religion, one of the 5th largest religion of the world, as Chanan Sinh, Pratap Sinh Kairon, his clan, Parakash Sinh the ‘long-haired Hindus’, knowing perfectly well that the Badal, his clan, Badal’s ‘joe boys and joe girls’, the band Hindus are ‘neither a religion nor a culture’. In the draft, leaders or jathedars, with one or two exceptions, the Akali the Brahmin-Baniya politicians ‘assimilated’ the Sikhs into Dal factions, the only political party of Sikhs, betrayed Hindus and exterminated ‘The Sikh Identity’, took away the them and made the Sikhs of the Sikh Nation, Punjab (see ‘Sikh Way of Marriage or the Sikhs’ Anand Marriage Sardar Ram Singh of the United Kingdom). Ceremony and replaced with the Hindu Marriage Code Bill J L N e h r u a l i a s M o b a r k A l i (later became the Hindu Marriage Act). When the Sikhs’ (www.krishnajnehru.blogspot.com 6/8/2009), the first institutions studied the draft of Indian Constitution Article Prime Minister of the alleged Indian democracy, became 25, the Sikh Intelligentsia, Sikhs’ political and religious the architect of the anti-Sikh policy. Similarly, his all institutions, the Sikh Students Federations and Gurdwaras, successors, from LB Shashtri to Manmohan Sinh (1964 – to all advised to the Sikhs’ elected representatives to the this day of writing), became the champions to ‘strangulate’ International Journal of Sikh Affairs 19, No. 2,2009© the Sikhs’ of the Sikh Homeland, PUNJAB (under Indian Flight 182 (Toronto-Montreal-London-Delhi/Bombay), on occupation since 15th August, 1947). JL Nehru wanted to 23rd June, 1984, off the western coast of Ireland. The ‘exterminate’ the Sikhs in his life time, but his intelligence advised to him that it would be like committing a ‘suicide’ aircraft exploded and took the lives of 329 passengers. Of for him. He died his ambitions unfulfilled. His successor, 329, more than 50% were the Canadian Sikhs. What a LB Shashtri followed his anti-Sikh policies and died his heinous crime committed by India and its intelligence ‘unnatural’(?) death. Indira Gandhi succeeded Shashtri and personnel! Every news media bought the Indian story that continued the anti-Sikh policies of her father at the the Air India explosion has been carried out by the ‘Sikh ’extreme’. To fulfill her father’s dream, she waged an terrorists’. It was the Indira Gandhi administration and her ‘undeclared’ war on the Sikh Homeland, by suspending all son Rajiv Gandhi’s, who wanted to make the Sikhs means of communications, land and air, in a brutal military worldwide ‘terrorists’. The Indian administration and other “Operation Bluestar” of June, 1984. This undeclared war on administrations had a meeting in a hotel in Rome, Italy, in the Sikh Homeland took a toll of more than 260,000 early 1990s, to use explosive to carry out another Air India innocent Sikh infants, children, male and female folks and aircraft explosion in Europe. Unfortunately their plan elderly. More than 10 divisions (consisting of armoured, remained unsuccessful (Kilgour D 1994 Betrayal The Spy artillery and infantry disciplines of the Army) and more Canada Abandoned ISBN 0-13-325697-9), India and her than 20,000 professional soldiers were employed to friends came empty handed. ‘exterminate’ the Sikhs of Punjab, Sikhs’ Darbar Sahib Manmohan Sinh (1993), as the Head of Indian Delegation, Complex, the Supreme Seat of Sikh Polity, The Akal United Nations Commission Human Rights, Vienna, Takhts Sahib, all historic Gurdwaras and the Sikh AUSTRIA, 15-25 June, said on behalf of the Indian institutions. The ‘undeclared’ war, officially began on 4th administration that “there had been no human rights June and ended in the morning of 7th June, 1984. The Sikh violations of the Sikhs in India.” What a lie coming out of Homeland, PUNJAB, was a war torn country, where the his teeth! Joe-boys and joe-girls of Manmohan Sinh sing his Sikh female folks had to keep their infants alive on their glory that ‘Sinh is a truthful and honest person.” What else sweat and urine. one could expect from them. Since “Operation Bluestar” of June, 1984, the Indian armed Every Sikh institution or Gurdwara has been infested by the forces, army brass, Indian intelligence and foreign Indian intelligence since 1980s, according to the writer and intelligence advisors, on the instructions of the Chief, authors of ‘Soft Target’, published from Canada, following Council of Ministers, the New Delhi administration (NDA), Air India explosion of 1985. Indian intelligence personnel deliberately killed the Saint-soldier Jarnail Singh Khalsa are a ‘bunch of liars’, and anti-Sikhs. They have primarily (Bhindranwale), the only ‘Religious and Political’ leader of been posted in foreign countries to cause ‘Disruption in the the Sikhs, who had been demanding the ‘Restoration of Lives of the Sikhs and Disturb Peace in the Houses of Law and Order’ in Punjab, to turn Punjab peaceful, so that Worships of Sikhs, i. e., Gurdwaras. Beside intelligence the citizens of Punjab could live peacefully, as equal personnel, the holy men, Sadhs, players or sportsmen, partners, equal civil rights, but not as ‘subservient’, as the cultural groups, including ‘folk singers’, etc., are assigned Brahmins-Hindus had been for more than 1,500 years to ‘disturb’ the lives of the Sikhs abroad. To bring bad before 15th August, 1947. A flood of multicolor name to the Sikhs, to distract the Sikhs from their primary turbans/Dastaars had been following the ‘Leader of motive of the “Sikhs Struggle of Sovereignty, Independence Punjab’, Shaheed-Bilas Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale and Political Power by peaceful means, going on since 14th (Khalsa). This flood of people, before “Operation Bluestar” March, 1849.” This was the time the Sikh Nation, Sikh Raj, of June, 1984, frightened the cowards like Harchand of monarch Ranjit Singh 1799 to 14th March, 1849, was the Longowal, Gurcharan Tohra, Jagjit Chauhan, Balwant ‘First Sovereign and Secular Nation of South Asia. The Singh (Secretary to Harchand Longowal), Balwant word ‘India’ did not exist in the dictionary and/or Ramoowalia, Major-Gen Jaswant Bhullar, Didar Bains of Encyclopedia of the English language. And the Sikhs’ the United States, Prakash Sinh Badal, Surjit Barnala and Struggle To Regain Their Sovereignty has been continuing their men regardless they were the Akalis or and will continue until they Succeed in their struggle. elsewhere. Many of them were bought by or have had their Additionally, ‘Parvaasi’ a Punjabi language reported that links with the Research and Analysis Wing (RAW), Indira ‘Four Transmitters’, with the range of more than 5,000 Gandhi and her administration, to execute the ‘undeclared’ miles transmission, had been discovered in the Toronto war on the Sikh Homeland. For the ‘cover up’, the Indian suburb, when a wall of the kitchen of a Gurdwara was administration of India Gandhi started sending their brought down for further construction. Who planted these intelligence personnel to work in and outside of Indian transmitters in the Gurdwara wall and for what purpose, it missions abroad. These intelligence personnel have had is anybody’s guess! recruited their ‘joe boys’ to inform them of the activities of It appears that a Gurdwara incident carried out in Vienna, the Sikhs of North America, Europe, Far East and every Austria (see below), pending the Austrian Police’s country outside India. These RAW and/or intelligence investigation, is probably the work of the Indian personnel carried out the criminal activities on the foreign intelligence, its mission, RAW, etc., especially when the soil. Most prominent is the mid air ‘explosion’ of Air India European Headquarters of the RAW is in Belgium. This is because the Sikhs, throughout the world, have been International Journal of Sikh Affairs 19, No. 2, 23-25, -009©
Commemorating the 25th Anniversary of an ‘undeclared’ Sikhs were sitting, this person with the pitcher emptied the war, in the form of a brutal military “Operation Bluestar” pitcher by pouring hot water at the Granth Sahib and the of June, 1984. Granthi or person who was reciting the Holy Scripture. When the Indian press, news media, and administration Nothing happened. No news coverage and no action by the claim that ‘Everything is fine and dandy, peaceful and police. This tells the story of the Sikh institutions of the normal, is it really so? The imposition of curfew in the Sikh Homeland, PUNJAB, that how tightly they are under Sikh Homeland, PUNJAB (under Indian occupation since the ‘control’ of the Brahmin-Baniya clique’s NDA 15th June, 1947), as reported by the Asian Television administration and their ‘stooges (the Badal Akalis)’. Network in Canada, replacing the law-enforcing personnel Nothing happened to the lives of Punjab. Yesterday, when with the Indian Army, stay home, closing of Bazaars, etc., an incidence of ‘law and order’ took place in a Vienna is the indication that “Everything is fine?” Gurdwara, AUSTRIA, whole Punjab was placed under It is hoped that the ‘Brahmins-Baniyas and their pros’ do curfew, control given to the Army, but before that Jalandhar not have something else in their minds. City was put in flames. Two clean shavens/Hindus had been Within the last two weeks, one so-called psycho- Hindu boy seen wielding swords, hitting the Bus windows, kicking jumped inside Darbar Sahib, went from the ‘keertan gallery vegetables, and so forth, so on. When the ‘Law and Order’ or hymn singers sitting area to the ‘peerrha-sahib or the is broken deliberately, the Chief Minister of Punjab had seat on which the Granth Sahib is placed and opened’, start been or has been ‘Prakash (Hanera/Darkness) Sinh Badal’ telling the Sikhs present that “I am a messenger of Guru who, in addition to being Chief Minister, is the Chief of the Nanak and Guru Gobind Singh...”. This was the humiliation Akali Dal Badal Private incorporation Private Ltd. This act of Hindu boy, his activities unacceptable to the Sikhs. indicates that he is only controlled by the RAW but a The police was informed. They let the boy go but they ‘weak’ politician, incapable to address the ‘Law and Order’ charged about 25 Sikhs. This was the act of humiliation. of the Sikh Homeland. He is a sycophant of the BJP and of None of the Indian news agency carried this news. A few LK Advani. Shame to Prakash (Hanera) Sinh Badal. days later, one person with a pitcher of hot water entered Where is MMK Wali, who said that we have broken the the Akal Takht Sahib and went straight to the place where back of the Sikhs in Punjab? Indeed, what the Indian the recitation of Granth Sahib was taking place. While some stooges have been behaving like is that they are ‘shameless’ creatures and a bunch of criminal politicians.
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DR SEKHON SPEAKS AT THE XI SESSION OF THE U NITED NATIONS HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL
Chair: Dr Charles Graves
Room: IX
DATE: 11th JUNE, 2009
TIME: 16:00 - 18:00 Hrs
Palais des Nations, 11th Session of the United Nations Human Rights Council, Geneva, SWITZERLAND
SPEAKER: Dr Awatar Singh Sekhon, International Journal of Sikh Affairs ISSN 1481-5435
THE 25TH COMMEMORATING ANNIVERSARY OF AN UNDECLARED WAR IN THE FORM OF A BRUTAL MILITARY "OPERATION BLUESTAR" OF JUNE 1984, ON THE SIKH NATION, PUNJAB, SIKHS AND SIKHS' HOLY AND HISTORIC INSTITUTIONS
“Mathe Tikka Terrh Dhotti Kakhai Hath Chhurri Jagat Radio 740, “AS IT HAPPENS” on June 7th, 1984, at 18:30 Kasai” means The Brahmin is the Butcher of our world - – 19:30 Hrs) Guru Baba Nanak Sahib, the founder of the Sikh Religion EVERYTHING IS FINE IN THE SIKH HOMELAND, We have broken the back of the Sikhs in Punjab, and now PUNJAB (Under the occupation of the alleged Indian we will get them elsewhere” - MMK Wali, Secretary of democracy since August 15th, 1947). Really is it so?, Foreign Affairs, Government of (alleged) the Indian questions Dr. Awatar Singh Sekhon. democracy (In his interview with Madam Barbara Frum When the predominantly Hindu India’s administration ruled (deceased), Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, CBC by the Brahmins-Baniyas clique, since August 15th, 1947 International Journal of Sikh Affairs 19, No. 2,2009© and receiving their 'freedom' from their British master, Nation, Punjab (see Sardar Ram Singh of the United showed their true colors relating to the broken promises, Kingdom ISBN 978-0-9811360-6-6). made in the pre August 15th, 1947 era. Deceits declared the JL Nehru, the first Prime Minister of India alias the alleged Sikhs ‘lawless people and dangerous to the law-abiding Indian democracy, became the architect of the anti-Sikh Brahmin-Hindus’ on October 10th, 1947 within 7-weeks policy. Similarly, all his successors, from LB Shashtri to post their independence, they took their vendetta by firing a Manmohan Sinh (1964 – to this day of writing), became the Sikh civil servant, Sirdar Kapur Singh of the Indian Civil champions to ‘strangulate’ the Sikhs’ of the Sikh Service (ICS). Sirdar Kapur Singh, a graduate of the Homeland, PUNJAB (under Indian occupation since Cambridge University, was the Sikh who revealed the true August 15th, 1947). JL Nehru wanted to ‘exterminate’ the colors of the ‘unelected’ leadership composed of the Sikhs in his lifetime, but his intelligence advised against it Brahmins-Baniya clique and their 'joe boys' and/or stooges. and told him that it would be like committing a ‘suicide’ if Within the next couple of months, the Brahmin-Baniya he proceeded such an action. He died with his ambitions clique introduced the ‘draft’ of Indian democracy’s unfulfilled. His successor, LB Shashtri followed his anti- Constitution and handed over to the parliamentarian Sikh policies and died his ‘unnatural’(?) death. Indira representatives, so that the parliament could discuss it, Gandhi succeeded Shashtri and continued the anti-Sikh following its acceptance. The drafts of the Indian policies of her father at the ’extreme’. To fulfill her father’s Constitution declared the followers of the Sikh religion, one dream, she waged an ‘undeclared’ war on the Sikh of the 5th largest religions of the world, as the ‘long-haired Homeland, by suspending all means of communications, Hindus’, knowing perfectly well that the Hindus are land and air, in a brutal military “Operation Bluestar” of ‘neither a religion nor a culture’. In the draft, the Brahmin- June, 1984. This undeclared war on the Sikh Homeland Baniya politicians ‘assimilated’ the Sikhs into Hindus and took a toll of more than 260,000 innocent Sikh infants, their so-called –ism, Hinduism, exterminated ‘The Sikh children, male and female folks and elderly. More than 10 Identity’, and took away the ‘Sikh Way of Marriage or the divisions (consisting from armored, artillery and infantry Sikhs’ Anand Marriage Ceremony and replaced it with the disciplines of the Army) and more than 20,000 professional Hindu Marriage Code Bill (later became the Hindu soldiers were employed to ‘exterminate’ the Sikhs of Marriage Act). When the Sikhs’ institutions studied the Punjab, Sikhs’ Darbar Sahib Complex, the Supreme Seat of draft of Indian Constitution Article 25, the Sikh Sikh Polity, The Akal Takhts Sahib, all historic Gurdwaras Intelligentsia, Sikhs’ political and religious institutions, the and the Sikh institutions were attacked in this brutal Sikh Students Federations and Gurdwaras, all advised to the military "Operation Bluestar" of June, 1984. The Sikhs’ elected representatives to the Indian parliament that ‘undeclared’ war, officially began on June 4th and ended on “if the draft is accepted it would be a suicide to the Sikhs, the morning of June 7th, 1984. The Sikh Homeland, Sikhs’ holy and historic Homeland, PUNJAB.” PUNJAB, was a war torn country, where the Sikh female Consequently, the Indian Constitution was ‘rejected’, on folks had to keep their infants alive on their sweat and behalf of the Sikh Nation and its Sikh citizens, repeatedly in urine. The Sikh Homeland, PUNJAB, was no less than a parliament in 1948, November 26th, 1949, 1950 and "Concentration Camp" September 6th, 1966 by Sardar Hukam Singh, Sardar Since “Operation Bluestar” of June, 1984, the Indian armed Bhupinder Singh Maan and Sirdar Kapur Singh, Indian forces, army brass, Indian intelligence and foreign Civil Service (ICS), MP, MLA and Professor of Sikhism intelligence advisors, on the instructions of the Chief, (all Members of Parliament). On August 15th, 1947 in Council of Ministers, the New Delhi administration (NDA), broad day light a ‘robbery’ took place to make the Sikhs of deliberately killed the Saint-soldier Jarnail Singh Khalsa Punjab ‘landless’. After swallowing the Sikh Nation’s land, (Bhindranwale), the only ‘Religious and Political’ leader of it became extremely essential to deny the Sikhs all the Sikhs, who had been demanding the ‘Restoration of ‘Constitutional rights’. The Sikhs fought ‘democratically’ Law and Order’ in Punjab, to turn Punjab peaceful, so that for their denied rights, but they did not realize that what a the citizens of Punjab could live peacefully, as equal ‘priceless’ political game they have lost by agreeing to the partners, with equal civil rights, but not as ‘subservient’, as dishonest, deceitful and butchers of the world, although the the Brahmins-Hindus had been for more than 1,500 years founder of their religion taught them that the ‘Brahmins’ before August 15th, 1947. A flood of multicolor are the butchers of the world (see above, the first quote of turbans/Dastaars had been following the ‘Leader of the founder of their religion). When Guru Nanak Sahib had Punjab’, Shaheed-Bilas Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale been teaching them that the Brahmins are the ‘butchers’ of (Khalsa). This flood of people, before “Operation Bluestar” the world, the Sikhs, after paying a heavy price came to of June, 1984, frightened the cowards like Harchand know only in the post August 15th, 1947 era. It was too late Longowal, Gurcharan Tohra, Jagjit Chauhan, Balwant and they realized that their Akali leaders like Master Tara Singh (Secretary to Harchand Longowal), Balwant Sinh, Fateh Sinh, Chanan Sinh, Pratap Sinh Kairon, his Ramoowalia, Major-Gen Jaswant Bhullar, Didar Bains of clan, Parakash Sinh Badal, his clan, Badal’s ‘joe boys and the United States, Prakash Sinh Badal, Surjit Barnala and joe girls’, the band leaders or jathedars, with one or two their men regardless they were the Akalis or whatever. exceptions, the Akali Dal factions, the only political party Many of them were bought by or have had their links with of Sikhs, betrayed them and made the Sikhs of the Sikh the Research and Analysis Wing (RAW), Indira Gandhi and her administration, to execute the ‘undeclared’ war on the International Journal of Sikh Affairs 19, No. 2,2009©
Sikh Homeland. For the ‘cover up’, the Indian was brought down for further construction. Who planted administration of India Gandhi started sending their these transmitters in the Gurdwara wall and for what intelligence personnel to work in and outside of Indian purpose, it is anybody’s guess! missions abroad. These intelligence personnel have had It appears that a Gurdwara incident carried out in Vienna, recruited their ‘joe boys’ and hired hands to inform them of Austria (see below), pending the Austrian Police’s the activities of the Sikhs of North America, Europe, Far investigation, is probably the work of the Indian East and every country outside India. These RAW and/or intelligence, its mission, RAW, and the holy men of India, intelligence personnel carried out the criminal activities on etc., especially when the European Headquarters of the the foreign soil. Most prominent was the mid air RAW is in Belgium. This is because the Sikhs, throughout ‘explosion’ of Air India Flight 182 (Toronto-Montreal- the world, have been Commemorating the 25th Anniversary London-Delhi/Bombay), on June 23rd, 1984 off the of an ‘undeclared’ war, in the form of a brutal military western coast of Ireland. The aircraft exploded and took the “Operation Bluestar” of June, 1984. lives of 329 passengers. Of 329, more than 50% were the When the Indian press, news media, and administration Canadian Sikhs. What a heinous crime committed by India, claim that ‘Everything is fine and dandy, peaceful and its administration and India's intelligence personnel! Every normal, is it really so? The imposition of curfew in the Sikh news media bought the Indian story that the Air India Homeland, PUNJAB (under Indian occupation since June explosion has been carried out by the ‘Sikh terrorists’. It 15th, 1947) as reported by the Asian Television Network in was the Indira Gandhi administration and her son Rajiv Canada, replacing the law-enforcing personnel with the Gandhi’s, who wanted to make the Sikhs worldwide Indian Army, stay home, closing of Bazaars, etc., is the ‘terrorists’. The Indian administration and other indication that “Everything is fine?” international administrations had a meeting in a hotel in It is hoped that the ‘Brahmins-Baniyas and their pros’ do Rome, Italy, in early 1990s, to employ explosives to carry not have something else in their minds. out another Air India aircraft explosion in Europe. Within the last two weeks, one so-called psycho- Hindu boy Unfortunately their plan remained unsuccessful (Kilgour D jumped inside Darbar Sahib, went from the ‘keertan gallery 1994 Betrayal The Spy Canada Abandoned ISBN 0-13- or hymn singers sitting area to the ‘peerrha-sahib or the 325697-9), India and her friends came empty handed. seat on which the Granth Sahib is placed and opened’, start Manmohan Sinh (1993), as the Head of Indian Delegation, telling the Sikhs present that “I am a messenger of Guru United Nations Commission Human Rights, Vienna, Nanak and Guru Gobind Singh...”. This was the AUSTRIA, June 15-25, said on behalf of the Indian humiliation act of Hindu boy, his activities unacceptable to administration “there had been no human rights violations the Sikhs. The police were informed. They let the boy go of the Sikhs in India.” What a lie coming out of his mouth! but they charged about 25 Sikhs. This was an act of Joe-boys and joe-girls of Manmohan Sinh sing his glory humiliation. None of the Indian news agency carried this that ‘Sinh is a truthful and honest person.” What else one news. A few days later, one person with a pitcher of hot could expect from them? water entered the Akal Takht Sahib (The Supreme Seat of Every Sikh institution or Gurdwara has been infested by the Sikh Polity) and went straight to the place where the Indian intelligence since 1980s, according to the writer and recitation of Granth Sahib was taking place. While some authors of ‘Soft Target’, published from Canada, following Sikhs were sitting, this person, with the pitcher, emptied the Air India explosion of 1985. Indian intelligence personnel pitcher by pouring hot water at the Granth Sahib and the are a ‘bunch of liars’, and anti-Sikhs. They have primarily Granthi or person who was reciting the Holy Scripture. been posted in foreign countries to cause ‘Disruption in the Nothing happened. No news coverage and no action by the Lives of the Sikhs and Disturb Peace in the Houses of police. This tells the story of the Sikh institutions of the Worships (of Sikhs, i. e., Gurdwaras). Beside intelligence Sikh Homeland, PUNJAB, that how tightly they are under personnel, the holy men, Sadhs, players or sportsmen, the ‘control’ of the Brahmin-Baniya clique’s NDA cultural groups, including ‘folk singers’, etc., are assigned administration and their ‘stooges (the Badal Akalis)’. to ‘disturb’ the lives of the Sikhs abroad. To bring bad Nothing happened to the lives of Punjab. Yesterday, when name to the Sikhs, to distract the Sikhs from their primary an incidence of ‘law and order’ took place in a Vienna motive of the “Sikhs Struggle of Sovereignty, Independence Gurdwara, AUSTRIA, whole Punjab was placed under and Political Power by peaceful means, going on since curfew, control given to the Army, but before that Jalandhar March 14th, 1849.” This was the time the Sikh Nation, City was put in flames. Two clean shaven Hindus had been Sikh Raj, of monarch Ranjit Singh 1799 to March 14th, seen wielding swords, hitting the bus windows, kicking 1849, was the ‘First Sovereign and Secular Nation of South vegetables, and so forth, and so on. When the ‘Law and Asia'. The word ‘India’ did not exist in the dictionary Order’ is broken deliberately, the Chief Minister of Punjab and/or Encyclopedia of the English language. And the had been or has been ‘Prakash (Hanera/Darkness) Sinh Sikhs’ Struggle To Regain Their Sovereignty has been Badal’ who, in addition to being Chief Minister, is the continuing and will continue until they succeed in their Chief of the Akali Dal Badal Private incorporation Private struggle. Additionally, ‘Parvaasi’ a Punjabi language Ltd. This indicates that he is only controlled by the RAW reported that ‘Four Transmitters’, with the range of more but is a ‘weak’ politician, incapable to address the ‘Law and than 5,000 miles transmission, had been discovered in the Order’ of the Sikh Homeland. He is a sycophant of the BJP Toronto suburb, when a wall of the kitchen of a Gurdwara and of LK Advani. Shame to Prakash (Hanera) Sinh Badal! International Journal of Sikh Affairs 19, No. 2, 25-41, 2009©
Where is MMK Wali, who said that we have broken the since 1992; more than 12,000 innocent Assam and the 7- back of the Sikhs in Punjab (please see above)? Indeed, sister of Assam nationals since 1992; tens of thousands of what the Indian stooges have been behaving like is that they Dalits. This is the 'largest Indian democracy', so to speak. are ‘shameless’ creatures and a bunch of criminal Mr. Chairman, Dr. Graves, co-panelists, respected ladies politicians. and gentlemen, I would like to express my thanks to you all The Indian administration has exterminated more than 3.2 for your kind patience and listening to me with your very to 3.4 million Sikhs, more than 500,000 Muslims in kind attention. The Sikh Nation has been 'Struggling to general, more than 312,500 Christians since August 15th, Regain Their Sovereignty and Political power since March 1945; more than 110,000 innocent Muslims of the Jammu 14th, 1849 and it would continue until we, the Sikhs and Kashmir area since 1988; more than 12,000 Tamils Reclaim our Sovereignty by peaceful means’
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AN UNDECLARED WAR ON THE SIKH NATION, PUNJAB: “OPERATION BLUESTAR” OF JUNE, 1984* (under the occupation of the alleged Indian democracy since 15th August, 1947)
Dr Awatar Singh Sekhon
Undeclared war on the Sikh Nation Punjab: “Operation genocide against the Sikhs of the House of Baba Guru Bluestar” of June 1984, The Brutal Military Operation of Nanak Sahib. They did their inhuman, humiliation and the Indian administration and its armed forces: In the early dehumanization acts knowingly and deliberately that the 1940s at the Annual Conference of National Congress followers of Guru Baba Nanak Sahib should not follow and Party, Madan Mohan Malviya (MMM), a staunch Brahmin, practice their Guru’s teachings, especially when the Guru said while conversing with the Sikh representative, Giani defined the Brahmin in his teachings, inscribed in Guru Sher Singh of the Shromani Akali Dal, said that “Giani Granth Sahib, the Sikhs’ Holy scripture, “Mathe Tikka ji, Aap Fikar naa Karen, Mulak ke Azad Ho Jaane do, hum Terrh Dhotti Kakhai, Hath Chhurri Jagat Kasai.” Guru’s (the Hindus/Brahmins and their pros) Apni Vidhya teaching means that the Brahmin has painted his forehead Prannali Mei Sanshodhan Kar Ke Musalmaano Kee Saari has a white cloth (Dhotti) around his waste, a lethal weapon Musalmaani Nikaal Deynge,” which meant that Giani ji, do in his hand (now the same Brahmin possess the nuclear not worry about the Muslims, the followers of Janab M A arsenal), and he is the ‘Butcher of the world’. What was Jinnah, the leader of the Muslims, “let the country (the true in the 15th century, during Guru Baba Nanak’s time, Hindus/Brahmins) get its freedom from the‘Slavery of the has been proving right in the 20th and 21st centuries. _If the British Empire’, we will take care of the Muslims by Sikh leaders like Giani Sher Singh and Master Tara Sinh (a making appropriate changes in the Educational Syllabus of traitor of the House of Guru Baba Nanak Sahib and the the British India, to suit the Brahmins-Baniya (elite-trader Guru Khalsa Panth; please see Ram Singh 2009 Second caste Hindus) clique and their followers.” The quote of ed.,”Betrayal of Sikh Nation by Master Tara Singh with MMM reflects one of the designs of the Brahmins-Hindus British Documents of Transfer of Power 1947, Master Tara against the Muslims in particular and other non-Hindu and Singh Da Sikh Kaum Naal Visahghat, in Punjabi ISBN non-Brahmin minorities in general. Whether they dealt with 978-0-9811360-6-6; one of the co-foundrs of the militant the Muslims or not, but the present write up is indicative of and terrorist organization of the Brahmins-Hindus, the the Brahmins’ hatred towards the Sikhs, since the Vishwa Hindu Parishad), the latter being a well-wisher of ‘subservient’, the of the Afghans, Mughals, Sikhs, British, the Brahmins as he himself was a convert Sikh from a Portuguese, and other for more than 3,500 years committed Hindu family. Master Tara Singh (alias Nanak Chand persecution, terrorism, educational, social, cultural, political before becoming Tara Singh) spent most of his time International Journal of Sikh Affairs 19, No. 2,2009© fighting to become the Sikh leader to depose and independence of the Sikh nation’, until March 15th, the ‘uncrowned’ king of the Sikhs Baba Kharak Singh of 1849. To expand further the question as how and why, the the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD). Indeed, he succeeded in Brahmins-Hindus, the peace-loving creatures, would like to his intentions, but this coward had no courage and teach ‘a lesson’ to the Sikh Nation, is examined below. The knowledge to become a politician and statesman of the Sikh teachings of the founder of the Sikh religion, Baba Guru Nation, the nation, which has been struggling to regain its Nanak Sahib defined the Brahmin as the ‘butcher of the sovereignty, independence and political power by peaceful world’. This is the prime factor that the Brahmins-Hindus means since March 14th, 1849. This was the day when the feel most insulted from the Sikh religion for their very Sikhs surrendered their sovereignty to the forces of the existence, as it exposes them, their supremacy of the caste British Empire. Master Tara Singh ignored the role of the system, apartheid and their intentions to make them their earlier Sikh leaders like Mehtab Singh, Shivdev Singh, ‘slaves or the Enslavement of the Brahmins’. The House of Shobha Singh and ‘uncrowned’ King of Sikhs Baba Kharak Baba Guru Nanak Sahib and the Sikhs of Punjab always Singh, to say the least. He and his Akalis, although had posed a threat to their very survival, and the followers of been demanding the ‘sovereign, Azad (independent) Punjab, the casteism, including apartheid. This had been true until Khalsa ji de Bol-Bale, which meant the sovereignty to the the day of their ‘freedom’, so to speak, since August 15th, Sikhs. Hollow promises were made by the ‘unelected’ 1947. However, they knew it that they cannot keep their Hindu-Brahmins leadership of the pre August 15th, 1947 era freedom without the Sikhs to be on their side. They also to please the Sikhs and get them on their side. He (Tara knew that they cannot expect to live peacefully with the Singh) capitalized on the hatred ness against the Muslims Sikhs because of the Brahmins-Hindus’ ‘ulterior’ motives. brothers and followers of Janab MA Jinnah. The ‘Hindu- The reason being the Sikh Religion is the 5th largest Brahmin’ clique deliberately overlooked that the religion of the world, believes in the wellness of all the first ’Secular and Sovereign nation’, Punjab or the Sikh Raj, humanity, their equality, and is against the discrimination in of the South Asian region’s status was “annexed” to the the human race; whereas, the Hindus-Brahmins are anti- British Empire, but not its amalgamation to the British humanity and the followers of apartheid. There has not been Empire. Master Tara Singh also forgot that any protection to the women’s rights in the Hindus’ caste the “annexation” the Sikh Raj (March 14th, 1849 – August system; whereas, the equality is the basis for both the 15th, 1947) was for the administration purposes only. It gender in the Guru Nanak’s House. The Sikhism as the 5th should be noted that when the British Empire, divided the largest religion of our world has been the cause of their British India Empire, into the predominantly Hindu India headache as against the Brahmins-Hindus who are ‘neither and the Muslims of Pakistan, under the leadership of Janab a religion nor a culture’, according to the Hindu academics, MA Jinnah, the status of the “annexed” Sikh Nation, Sir VT Rajshekar, the Editor in Chief, Dalit Voice. The Punjab, the Sikh Raj of monarch Ranjit Singh, or Khalistan Hindus-Brahmins had no choice but to plan well before the [a term coined by Dr (Bhai)Vir Singh Bhatti in 1940; British hand over political power to the ‘Brahmin-Baniya’ Khalsa means Sovereign + Stan means Land = Khalistan] clique. The clique had to plan how to deal with the Sikhs, remained as “annexed”, even after the political power was using their ‘divide and rule’ policy? How to make the best handed over to the ‘unelected’ Brahmin-Baniya clique, or use of their divide policy as far as the Sikh nation and the ‘predominantly Hindu India’. This was done despite Tara remaining Muslims, after Pakistan is formed and separated, Singh’s own protests and the protest of the Sikh Nation, to are concerned? Besides, they have to keep on working go with the Hindu India (Sekhon and Dilgeer 2003, 2006 quietly until the political power is brought to them, after ISBN 0.9695964-8-0; Dilgeer HS and Sekhon AS 1992 Pakistan comes into being. They had been looking forward ISBN 0-9695964-1-3; Sekhon AS 2005 ISBN 0-9548929-0- to it so eagerly to see their own rule after their enslavement 9; Sekhon et al 2008 ; Sekhon AS 2008; 25 Years After of more than 3,500 years, prior to pre August 15th, 1947 1984 Assault on Durbar Sahib Laying Foundation of period. The Brahmins-Hindus realized that they had not Khalistan 2009 (ed) Dr Awatar Singh Sekhon ISBN 0- devised any ‘freedom’ policy against their British masters 9548929-4-1)), which Tara Singh has forgotten or down or even before, because they were used to the political played the saying of MK Gandhi, “We (the Brahmins- power while enslaved and/or ‘subservient’. The facts may Baniya Hindus) have nothing common with the be realized that MK Gandhi, who later became the father of Sikhs. Additionally, the Brahmins-Hindus clique took a turn the predominant Hindu nation after August 15th, 1947 was to create a wedge and hatred for the Sikhs in the recently indeed held a rank of the ‘Sergeant-Major’ in the British acquired predominantly Hindu India. In the years to come, Red Cross, had been responsible for the genocide of the MK Gandhi’s statement and the Hindus’ policy against the Zulu tribe during his time in Africa, and he had advised the Sikhs, the Muslims and other non-Hindu, non-Brahmin British man of the 20th century, Sir Winston Churchill, to minorities took entirely a different turn, as reflected from accept the leadership of the Nazi Germany and of Adolf time to time since 1929 (see below the quotes of MK Hitler. Sir Winston Churchill’s hatred of Gandhi may be Gandhi, JL Nehru, etc.). It ultimately culminated into their interpreted from his own words used for Gandhi as a ‘naked policy of hatred, in order to teach ‘a lesson’ to the Sikhs. faqir’. MK Gandhi was famous to sleep naked, to test his Subsequently, the Brahmin-Baniya clique, the unelected ‘male hood’, with young girls and quite a few female leadership of the Hindus will never recall the ‘Sovereignty, politicians who had been the cabinet members in the post International Journal of Sikh Affairs 19, No. 2,2009©
August 15th, 1947 India. According to the author, the so- though it might be good in parts, it is a rotten egg. It might called freedom struggle of India was, indeed, a ‘pseudo- be edible, but only as a measure of courtesy, as it is devoid freedom struggle of the Hindus-Brahmins’ or a ‘hoax’, if of nutritional qualities and since its putrefaction is forgone, that was a struggle for freedom of the ‘Brahmins-Hindus’ in it is really unfit for human consumption. He said that, “I the British India Empire, at all. In fact, the Brahmins- am convinced that it is deleterious for the Sikhs however Hindus leaders high jacked the “Sikhs’ struggle for strong their stomachs might be supposed to be, as Hon’ Sovereignty, independence, going on by peaceful means, able Mr Tyagi hints. I oppose this bill, on behalf of my since the Sikh Raj surrendered its sovereignty on March constituents and reject it on behalf of my parent party, 14th, 1849. A detailed account of the struggle is given Shiromani Akali Dal. I do so for three reasons, firstly, it is elsewhere (Sekhon AS 2005 Authentic Voices of South conceived in sin, secondly, it has been delivered by an Asia (ed) Usman Khalid ISBN0-9548929-0-9), one should incompetent and untrained midwife and thirdly, it is see the peaceful demonstrations of the Sikhs and Punjabi opposed to the best interests of the nation, as it will almost communities of more than 500,000 under the leadership of certainly lead to weakening of national integration and loss the ‘uncrowned’ king of the Sikhs, Baba Kharak Singh (The of faith in the integrity of those who exercise political Times published from London, December 29th, 1929). As power in the country.” Sirdar Kapur Singh said further that compared to the Brahmins-Hindus under the leadership of “SIKHS RESOLVE AND PROCLAIM their determination MK Gandhi, ML Nehru son of Ghyasuddin alias to resist, through all legitimate means, all such attempts to Gangadhar Kaul, his son JL Nehru alias Mobark Ali, etc., devalue and liquidate the Sikh people in a free India, and which hardly attracted more than 35,000 people at the consequently, DEMAND that the following steps should be maximum. When the Brahmin-Hindu leaders like MK taken forthwith by the rulers of India to assure and enable Gandhi, ML Nehru and his son, JL Nehru, etc., saw this the Sikh to live as respectable and equal citizens of the procession and read about it in newspapers, they all were Union of India, namely, First, the Sikhs deliberately and stunned and speechless. After a few days, these ‘Brahmin- internationally cut off and not included in the new Punjab Hindus’, the so-called the ‘Brahmin-Hindu’ leadership, to be set up, namely, the area of Gurdaspur District approached the Sikh leader, Baba Kharak Singh, and including Dalhousie, Ambala District including requested him “Babaji, we need your help and support for a Chandigarh, Pinjore, Kalka and Ambala Saddar, the entire noble and common cause of ours against a common enemy. Una Tehsil of Hoshiarpur District, the areas of Nalagarh, The ‘uncrowned’ king of the Sikhs agreed with the called Desh, the Tehsil of Sirsa, the sub-Tehsils of Tobana deceitful Hindu-Brahmin leaders, who could not attract and Guhla, and Rattia Block, of District Hissar, Shahabad more than 30,000 to 35,000 people at the maximum, in any block of district Karnal, and the contiguous portions of the of gatherings they had. What these deceitful Hindu- Ganganagar District of Rajasthan must now be Brahmin leaders call their ‘freedom struggle of India, which immediately included in the new proposed Punjab so as to did not begin the way the Sikhs have been carrying out bring contiguous Sikh areas into administrative unit, to be theirs. Only record is the ‘revolt’ in the times of Laxmibai the Sikh Homeland, wherein the Union of India. And of Jhansi in 1857. The 1857’s struggle was for her kingdom SECOND, such a new Punjab should be granted an of Jhansi and not for India, as no ‘India’ was around at that autonomous constitutional status on the analogy of the time, with the exception of the small kingdoms of Rajputs status of Jammu and Kashmir as was envisaged in the and Mughals, of course. Constitution of India (1950): The Constitution Act of India in the year 1950. I am coming to a Sikhs’ elected representatives, Sardar Hukam Singh, Sardar close. Madam, on behalf of the Sikh people represented by Bhupinder Singh Mann and Sirdar Kapur Singh, ICS, MP, the Shromani Akali Dal, I reject the entire schemata of this MLA and the National Professor of Sikhism (all members Bill, and oppose it. I call upon the Government to take of parliament), ‘rejected’ it repeatedly, in its draft and final necessary legislative measures to solve the problem of forms, in 1948, November 26th, 1949, 1950 (the day it Punjab in the light of Resolution of the Shiromani Akali Dal became effective on January 26th, 1950) and September 6th, just referred to (Betrayal of Sikhs, Appendix, “E”, 1965. They ‘rejected’ it because of the advice received September 6th, 1965. In Saachi Saakhi means True Story by from the Sikhs’ political party, the SAD, the SGPC, all Sirdar Kapur Singh; Singh G 2008 Constitution of India & executives of the Sikhs’ religious institutions (Gurdwaras), www.khalistannews.com).” the Sikh Students Federation and its units, the Sikh academics and the intelligentsia. The latter called the draft Unfulfilled and broken promises of the Brahmins-Hindu of constitution, a ‘Death warrant for the Sikhs’ if leaders, as promised in the Pre- and Post-August 15th, 1947 accepted by their representatives on behalf of the Sikh to the Sikhs of the Sikh Homeland. After declaring the nation. The reasons were obvious that the ‘Brahmins- Sikhs as a law-less community, a menace to the law-abiding Hindu’ clique termed the Sikhs as ‘long-haired Hindus’ Hindus on October 10th, 1947, by an official circular, the Hindus, wiping out their Sikh religion, The Sikh Identity, Sikhs were made second class citizen in their and Sikhs’ social, religious and political traditions and the own ‘robbed’ Sikh Nation, Punjab. Consequently, Sirdar Sikh culture constitutionally. Before ‘rejecting’ the Indian Kapur Singh, ICS, a district commissioner was suspended constitution in the parliament, Sirdar Kapur Singh, M P, by the Governor of Punjab, Chandu Lal Trivedi, a Brahmin. expressed in the house and said that, “Like the curate’s egg, This was the first gift of the predominant Hindu India to the International Journal of Sikh Affairs 19, No. 2,2009©
Sikh Nation, just 7-week following the independence of the relating to the warning of an English historian of the predominantly Hindu India. J L Nehru administration had Sikhism, and the Associate Director of the British asked the intelligence to submit a report on the Sikh Intelligence, D Petri, who warned his administration in Homeland, Punjab, as he wanted to teach ‘a lesson’ to the England, on the (Brahmins-Hindus) designs and virtually Sikhs. His plan included a military operation in early 1950s impossible survival of the Sikhs without the State support, in Punjab, especially on the Darbar Sahib Complex. The following independence: intelligence reportedly reminded him that Indian army’s seven out of 10 Generals were Sikhs and more than one- "It (Hinduism) is like the boa constrictor of the Indian third strength (personnel) of armed forces was of Sikhs. If forests. When a petty enemy appears to worry it, it winds he wants to undertake a military operation in Punjab and at round its opponent, crushes it in its folds, and finally causes the Darbar Sahib Complex, it would amount for him no less it to disappear in its capacious interior....Hinduism has than committing a ‘suicide’. Consequently, he had to embraced Sikhism in its folds; the still comparatively young abandon his plans, with great disappointment, of attacking religion is making a vigorous struggle for life, but its the Sikhs militarily. However, his anti-Sikh activities were ultimate destruction is, it is apprehended, inevitable intensified in the civil as well as in armed forces. JL Nehru without State support."-Max Arthur Macauliffe (1903) [the son of Thussu alias Swaroop Rani and Mobark Ali (Motilal’s Boss), Jl Nehru wascircumcised; http://krishnajnehru.blogspot.com
"I don’t give a damn if the Golden Temple and whole of In 1940, Dr Vir Singh Bhatti demanded the formation of Amritsar are destroyed, I want Bhindranwale dead" -Indira Khalistan." -Dr Vir Singh Bhatti Gandhi (alias Maimuna Begum) communicating with Gen. Vaidya during "Operation Blue Star" "In 1942, Master Tara Singh (a traitor of Sikhs, anti-Sikh, etc., according to Sardar Joginder Singh Mann in Betrayal "We have broken the back of the Sikhs and we will get of Sikh Nation with British Documents of Transfer of Power them elsewhere."-M. M. K. Wali, Indian Foreign Secretary, 1947 by Ram Singh 2009 Second Edition ISBN 978- June 7, 1984 (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Radio 9811360-6-6) demanded the Azad (Sovereign and 740, As It Happens). Independent) Punjab."
"Let us teach these bastards (the Sikhs) a lesson."-Rajiv "You have seen the Hindus as co-slaves and you will know Gandhi (circumcised according to Islamic rites; later when they will be your masters and you (the Sikhs), their changed his name to Roberto and married the Italian slaves"_-Janab Mohammad Ali Jinnah, Quid-e-Azam, The Catholic Christian, now Sonia Gandhi), October 31, 1984. Father of Pakistan.
"The Sikh nation declared independence on April 29th, "...Master Tara Singh saw me on his return from Delhi, and 1986" -Sarbat Khalsa held at the Darbar Sahib Complex seemed really concerned at the approaching departure of the British. He demanded Khalistan, with transfer of population, or a new state from Jumna to Chenab, in which "the Sikh nation declared independence on October 7, the Sikhs would not be oppressed"_-Sir E. 1987 forming the sovereign country of Khalistan." -The Jenkins (Governor of the Punjab), April 15th, 1946. Council of Khalistan, Washington, D. C. According to Mr Campbell Johnson, on June 3rd, 1947, “Weakness lay in structure of Sikh leadership, there was "Freedom of Khalistan was the only proper solution of the lack of high command leadership. Sikh leaders were not Sikh nation’s future." -Brig. Gen. Ben Blaz, Member of the realistic. They were not in Delhi at such a time when the Congress of the United States, October 7, 1989. fate if the Sikh-nation was going to be decided. There were International Journal of Sikh Affairs 19, No. 2,2009©
"Nowhere in the world has any government pursued the 25th), 1993? The same Manmohan Singh, then Finance kind of genocidal policies against a religious minority as in Minister of the PV Rao administration, said that “…he India since the Second World War." -Lt. Col. Pratap Singh, being Sikh finds no abuses of Human Rights of Sikhs much President, Khalsa Raj Party (1991) less any minorities in India.” And another person, Manmohan Singh’s colleague of Islamic faith, “…a threat to the villagers that all males would be killed Shahabuddin, said the same for Muslims of India as did and their women taken to army camps to breed a new race Manmohan Sinh for the Sikhs’ regarding abuses of Human if there was any militant activity in their village." -Brig. R. Rights in the Sikhs’ holy and historic Homeland, Punjab, P. Sinha, (Saffaronized) Indian Army, March 8, 1991 Khalistan (under the Indian alias the Brahmins (elite) autocracy’s occupation, since August 15th, 1947). Manmohan Sinh’s statement was ‘refuted’ in the strongest "You do not know the might of our armed forces. We will possible words by the human rights and peace loving eliminate 10,000 Sikh youths and the world will know citizens (delegates) of North America and elsewhere. nothing about it."_ -Chander Shekhar, One of the former st Additionally and most importantly, the NDA (JL Prime Ministers of India (CK, October 21 , 1991) Nehru alias Mobark Ali to LB Shashtry) remained unsuccessful and highly disappointed to accomplish the "...that the Sikhs are Sikhs just like East is East and West is Brahmin-Hindu administrations’ agenda to ‘wipe out’ the West and twin shall never meet. We have no choice but to Sikhs of the Sikh Homeland, Punjab. Even after acquiring seek our independence in a sovereign state, the Republic of the Sikh Homeland, by ‘robbing’ the heirs of Sikh monarch Khalistan." -Sardar Simranjit Singh Mann, President, Ranjit Singh, in a day light on the day of their independence Shromani Akali Dal, in his letter of July 12th, 1991 to the on August 15th, 1947. They had contemplated that the Governor of Punjab, O. P. Malhotra Hindus-Brahmins will accomplish their task to wipe out the Sikh religion, its followers, the Sikh culture, Sikhs’ Holy scripture, Guru Granth Sahib, the Sikhs’ language, Punjabi "to preserve the unity of India, if we have to eradicate 2- script Gurmukhi, by making appropriate changes, to their kror (20-million) Sikhs, we will do so" -Balram Jakhar, a advantage and satisfaction, in the Indian Constitution to be former Indian Cabinet Minister and colleague of the former instituted following their being coming political masters of Indian Prime Minister, P. V. Narsimhanrao the predominantly Hindu India, i. e., the post August 15th, 1947. The predominantly Hindu-Brahmins state failed very "the world's largest democracy is really a tyranny willing to badly to accomplish their ‘ulterior’ motives through the commit any act of brutality or terrorism to maintain its Constitutional process, by using the democratic procedures corrupt occupation of Khalistan. ...showing the American in the Indian Constitution 1950. The administrations met public that India’s claim of being a democracy is just more defeat as far as the wiping out the Sikhs was concerned. disinformation."_-Gurmit Singh Aulakh, President, With these failures, there was no alternative left for them Council of Khalistan (The Washington Post, April 25, but to wage an ‘undeclared’ war on the Sikhs of the Sikh 1994) Homeland. Indira Gandhi (alias Maimuna Begum), who was the President of the Congress Party during her father’s Indian democracy led by AB Vajpayee has carried out the administration, Information minister in the successive 21st Century’s genocide of innocent Muslims in Gujarat regime headed LB Shashtry, the successor of her father, and State (February-, 2002-). The genocide in which more than became India’s third prime minister chosen by the 700 Muslims (unofficially more than 15,000) were killed. ‘illiterate’ three top notch stalwarts of the Congress party. This was done that being a woman, she would not go against the wishes of three ‘king makers’. As such, the male The excerpts of Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Sinh chauvinist of the Congress party agreed to her nomination (Singh) made at the United Nations session on Human th for the prime minister’s post. She was obliged with their Rights in Vienna, AUSTRIA, on June 24 , 1993 appear in favour granted her the post of prime minister. Shortly inverted commas below: thereafter, her eldest son ‘Sanjoy (alias Sanjiv Gandhi)’ benefited the most. His mother had to face the political Many belonging to the Sikh faith as well as the propaganda problems domestically and the impact of the 20-point of Brahmins autocracy have propagated the thought that programme to win the forthcoming election. The Manmohan Singh, the only choice to his master, Madam programme appeared highly unpopular and diminishing Sonia Gandhi, and his non-Sikh, anti-Sikh party, Congress- Indira Gandhi’s popularity. With a drop in popularity, I, is Mr Clean. Now a Sikh is a prime minister of Brahmins Indira Gandhi had to face a bombshell dropped by the autocracy, or devious, discriminatory and apartheid verdict of the Allahabad High Court, which declared her practicing India, so what? Has any Sikh, who calls election void. She had no choice but to interfere in the Manmohan Singh an honest and clean person examined his judiciary of India. She used the summer recession judge of state-delivered address before the Human Rights the Supreme Court to set aside the ‘verdict’ of the junior Commission in Vienna, Austria, on June 24th (June 14th to court. Right after the declaration of the Supreme Court International Journal of Sikh Affairs 19, No. 2,2009© verdict in her favour, which resulted in enormous Messenger ISSN 0266-9153), along with the ‘subversive opposition from every sphere of life, she assumed the extra- and international criminal activities’ of the Indian ordinary constitutional powers. She imposed ‘Emergency in intelligence and its foreign missions. Saint-soldier Jarnail the Indian state’, or which according to the democracy of Singh Khalsa, his advisors and supporters of the Sikh western nations could be termed as the ‘autocratic rule’ and Nation, knew perfectly well what the Indira Gandhi’s NDA ‘suspension of civil liberties’ in India, with special powers was up to, relating to anti-Sikh and anti-Guru Khalsa Panth to the law-enforcing agencies and the army, to handle any motives. They was, precisely, nothing but to destroy the situation to control any unrest of the Indian masses (K Sikh Nation and to teach ‘a lesson’ to the Sikhs. Indira Nayar 1978 In Jail ISBN 0 7069 0647 0). The Sikhs, Gandhi (alias Maimuna Begum) and her administration had however, through their Akali Dal and the SGPC no intention to resolve the Sikhs’ problems as far as the institutions, gave her an ultimatum to lift her ban on the disruption of the ‘law and order’ situation was concerned. ‘Civil liberties’ immediately. Discussing with the Chiefs of Besides the Akalis, the executives of the SAD, SGPC, their the SGPC and Akali Dal, she agreed to suspend the membership at large, including the dishonest Akali Dal ‘Emergency imposition’ in Punjab only, the Sikhs’ holy and leaders Prakash Singh Badal, his colleagues, traitors of the historic Homeland only. The Sikh leaders’ rejected her Sikh Nation had become the “joe boys” of Indira Gandhi offer out rightly. They asked her to remove her draconian and her NDA’S RAW. Saint-soldier Jarnail Singh Khalsa, laws and autocratic rule not only in Punjab, but throughout his team of advisors and supporters knew it very well that the nation also. The Sikhs’ proposal was unacceptable to the time is being bought by the deceitful politicians not only her. In return, the Sikh representatives told her that a for the destruction of the Sikh Nation, its Darbar Sahib peaceful demonstration of the Sikhs, 5 in number, will start Complex, the Supreme Seat of the Sikh Polity, The Akal courting arrest until she ‘suspends’ her unconstitutional Takht Sahib, and all Gurdwaras, but to destroy the Sikh powers and declares general elections, to seek a fresh Nation, Punjab also. Later, after the execution of mandate to rule. Pending her announcement on the “Operation Bluestar” of June 1984, made everything crystal suspension of the civil liberties and the date of general clear, The calculation of Saint-soldier Jarnail Singh Khalsa elections, the number of the Sikhs courted arrests and went and his supporters (Sekhon AS 2009 to jail was more than 50,000 (from the day the Sikhs began courting arrests until the day the ‘Emergency rule lifted’). It must be noted that only the Sikhs told Indira Gandhi in no www.khalistannews.com
2002 ISBN 81-7205-283-9; Sekhon AS and Dilgeer HS (“Operation Bluestar” of June, 1984): The Indira Gandhi’s 2006 ISBN 0-9695964-8-0). administration spent more than US $1.5 billion or Rupees 4,500 crors to brand the Sikhs ‘terrorists’ in Punjab and Celebrations by the ‘Brahmins-Hindus’ Following the Fire outside Punjab, i. e., the international communities of ceased: Hindus offered sweets and cheers when they Europe, Far East, Europe, North America, South America, offered sweets to the armed personnel near the Darbar etc. This was the tab Sikhs paid for their annihilation during Sahib Complex and in the City of Amritsar._ “Operation Bluestar” of June, 1984 (Sekhon AS. 2000 J Sikh Affairs 10, No. 1, ISSN 1481-5435); whereas, to bring peace in Punjab, to satisfy the Indian master of the NDA, Removal of Dead Bodies: The dead bodies of the Indian Rupees 8,700 crors or the US $ 3.7 billion were spent under armed personnel were carried out in the military and other the imposed administrations of Surjit Barnala, Congress and means of transportation to the Amritsar Airport where the other Akali administrations, whose strings were pulled by heavy Air Force transport planes were parked. Dead armed the Brahmins autocracy alias the alleged Indian personnel bodies were airlifted to Bikaner, Jodhpur, Barmer democracy.The total cost of the ‘undeclared’ war on the and other places in Rajasthan for their last, according to the Sikh Nation, Punjab, was imposed on the Sikhs, the citizens personnel who made the blue prints of “Operation of the Sikh Nation, Punjab. In the author’s opinion, the total Bluestar’. The frog men of the Indian Navy Services were tab of the ‘undeclared’ war may be equated to used to recover the bodies of the soldiers which had been the ‘jazia’ tax per head during the Mughal Empire._The floating in the ‘sarovar or the tank or nectar’. However, the first interview of the Foreign Secretary of India, a right losses of the Indian personnel exceed far beyond the hand man of Indira Gandhi, to a Canadian calculations of the blue prints makers. According to the interviewer:_“We have broken the back of the Sikhs in reliable sources, the Indian army’s casualties were more Punjab and now, in the next few phases, we will get them than 26,000 (Sekhon 2000 Int J Sikh Affairs Vol 10 ISSN (the Sikhs) elsewhere, that is, the Sikhs living outside 1481-5435). Sekhon states that to know the exact figure of India” –MMK Wali, India’s Foreign Secretary, June 7th, the army’s casualties, one has to go through the ‘discharge 1984 interview with Mrs Barbara Frum (now deceased), and/or missing’ records of the Ministry of Defence of India, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, AS IT for the months of June to October 1984). As far as the dead HAPPENS 18:30 – 1900 Hrs Radio 740 _According to bodies of the Sikh pilgrims and other Sikhs are concerned, Inderjit Singh (1984 Sikh Messenger ISBN 0266-9153) it is learned that before the governmental administration “The massacre of the Golden Temple has totally changed could make arrangements for their removal from the the Sikh attitude. Most Sikhs now believe that there is no premises of the Darbar Sahib Complex only, it took more future for them in the Indian Union of today. Indira than three days. Dead bodies had starting decaying; blood Gandhi’s tanks and machine guns have destroyed far more and flesh could be seen all around the Darbar Sahib than a major historic shrine of the Sikhs’, they have also Complex. The Dalits whom the Brahmins-Hindus call them destroyed the humbug of ‘the nonviolent creed of the untouchables, carry the human waste/excreta on their heads, Congress’, which Mahatama Gandhi, in a remarkable were bribed and made agreeable to the terms that whatever speech on March 19th, 1931 said, ‘was the best guarantee of belongings the dead bodies had been carrying, they will be the Sikhs’ security in a free but Hindu dominated India’. taken by these untouchables. Most of them will be supplied Today’s Indian Constitution, supposedly framed on with free armed forces liquors. The Amritsar City democratic and secular lines, has been shown to be hollow Corporations’ waste carrying trolleys had been arranged, sham, a license for persecution and repression in the name dead bodies were thrown in these trolleys, limbs were seen of Indian unity; a unity based on total coercion.”_Sardar hanging outside from them, and they were taken to Inderjit Singh, following his comments (above), questioned unknown places, where kerosene was used to burn the “what hope then for the future?” The answer to his question bodies of the Sikhs. This state of removing the dead bodies may be given by the ‘genocide of Muslims, Assamese and from the Darbar Sahib Complex continued for days. While other non-Brahmins and non-Hindus by the armed forces of the dead bodies were thrown into the trolleys, an infant was the Brahmins autocracy alias the alleged Indian democracy seen sucking the breast of the dead mother. Some armed in the post-“Operation Bluestar” era; including rape, personnel held the infant from the leg and threw against the humiliation and dehumanization of the female folks. It wall. This reflects what sort of love these Hindus’ armed would be sufficeint to sate that the raping of even pregnant personnel had for the Sikhs. Later (see below), Sardar Muslim women following slashing their stomachs and Jaswant Singh Khalra found out from a few mutilation of the sexual parts in Gujarat State in 2002, attendants/chowkidars’ records that in six districts of when more than 15,000 Muslims (unofficial figure) were Punjab only, the records revealed that more than 50,000 killed in the NDA-blessed and Narender Modi’s bodies were burned, using fire logs and kerosene by the administration blessed pogroms in the State of Gujarat. Punjab police and other armed personnel of India, without More recently, the Indian armed personnel tortured the informing their next of kin. Muslims of Hyderabad, according to the Human Rights Watch agency, Cost of the ‘undeclared’ war on the Sikh Homeland www.wichaar.com
Sikhism, Unholy Terror, Blue Star Operation, Punjab doctrines to use one minority against another to keep their Under Siege, India Commits Suicide, India: Million administration secure. On April 22nd Dr. H. S. Sandhar, the Mutinies, India: The Siege Within, Diary De Panne then President, World Sikh Organization (Edmonton (Punjabi), Khalistan Di Twarikh (Punjabi), Ki Khalistan Chapter), wrote to the Indian Prime Minister, P. V. Banega (Punjabi)?, Dooja Jafarnaama, Dahishatgardi Narsimhan Rao. On the 9th Anniversary of the Declaration Dian Jarhan Kithe (Punjabi), Khalistan Maazi Ka Khawab of Independence of Khalisthan, Dr. Sandhar asked Rao Mustakil Ki Haqiqatby Tarriq Ismail Sagar, and Bharat since the Constitution of India enshrines India as a secular Wich Qaumi Tahriq by Mohammed Jahangir state, why has the supremacy of Brahminical rule been Tamimi. Unholy Terror is the most un-academic work maintained for the last 45 years? If the Constitution regarding Sikhs and Blue Star Operation by K. Brar. The guarantees freedom to practice one's religion, why are reviewers perceive that the book has been written under the Christians, Muslims and Sikhs miss-treated by your directions of the Research and Analysis Wing’s assigned government, Para military forces, armed forces and Hindu writer(s), for K. Brar (The Sikhs: Past and Present 4, 22-26, fanatics? On April 8th Prof M. Singh wrote to the publisher 1994). Foreign Secretary, Ministry of External Affairs, New and Editor in Chief of the Sikhs: Past and Present, “Punjab Delhi July 21, 1994, SECRET IMMEDIATE, No. 110109- continues to suffer as a colony of Indian state. After the FS/94, Dr L. M. Singhvi, High Commissioner of India, annihilation of a large number of Sikh youth, the state is India House, ALDWYCH, LONDON WC2 4NA. My Dear indulging in mass transfer of Indian populations into Mr Singhvi, Govt. of India has sent Prof. Manjit Singh Punjab, large-scale land-grab and exploitation of Acting Jathedar of Shri Akal Takhat Sahib Amritsar; the groundwater and other resources of Punjab.” Simranjit highest Sanct Place of Sikhs, with a special Mission to Singh Mann, the detained Sikh leader is steadfast in his USA, UK, Canada. We have completed all the official mission and approach. A fact-sheet on his detention is formalities for his departure. As you are already aware that enclosed. We are concerned about the proposed Indo- UK has a maximum number of supporters of Sikh Militants Canadian Treaty of Extradition. Please post us with the who have been spreading disturbances in Northern India for latest developments in this regard, so that we can mount a long time. Prof Manjit Singh has a special place in the pressure on the Canadian embassy here. Simranjit Singh hearts of Sikh Militants. And he has agreed to help us in Mann, who is in prison, joins me in sending good wishes to carrying out this mission. Research and analysis wing you and your family [The Sikhs: Past and Present 5(1), 52, (RAW)’s senior officials had a detailed meeting with 1995]. The Sikh politicians of Akali Dal and non-Akalis (of jathedar Manjit Singh of Kes garh. Those who arranged the the non-Sikh parties, e. g., Congress and other parties) meeting settled to pay Rs 1.5 crore which has been paid to became visionless, politically impotent and the slaves of the him in Foreign currency. Our Mission is only to maintain Brahmins autocracy alias the devious and discriminatory integrity and unity of the country to save it from Divisive alleged Indian democracy. Their lips are ‘sealed’ because of Elements. Manjit Singh is an eminent scholar of Sikhism. intimidation by the Brahminical slavery. Just to put it rather He can take out future plans of the militants as well as briefly, the Sikh politicians when talking to the news media, influence them to come back in the main stream. You they are so afraid of their Brahminical masters of the kindly help us by providing top secret security on Prof. Hindus’ fundamentalist and militant party(ies), the Bhartiya Manjit Singh kindly maintain the secrecy. Also watch Prof. Janta Party, or any other non-Sikh party, they always will Manjit Singh’s movement and convey the needful speak in the language of the ‘subservient’, the Hindi and do information everyday to New Delhi Control Room. I hope not speak in their own language, the language of the Sikhs you will carry out this Mission in a top secret manner. With is Punjabi, script Gurmukhi; whereas, the news media’s best wishes, Yours sincerely, Signed (K. Srinivasan). Hindus reporters/commentators asks their questions in [Source: The Sikhs: Past and Present 1994, 4(2), Punjabi. Prakash 9Darkness/Hanera) Singh (Sinh) Badal 40]._According to an Indian newspaper, The Hitavada, the and his cabinet colleagues are the perfect example of the Union Government made available Rupees 4,500 crore (US Hindus-Brahmins’ intimidation (ATN, Asian Televison $1.5 billion) to the Punjab Governor, Surendra Nath (killed Network’s Punjabi news segment, monitored in Canada). in a helicopter crash), to prop up terrorism in Punjab and This reflects how the ‘Dastaardhari/turbaned Hindus in Kashmir (1984-1994). Under this state-sponsored ‘The Sikh Identity’ have become ‘cowards’ or toothless terrorism, the Hindu Indian democracy committed terrorist tigers. These ‘Dastaardhari/turbaned Hindus in ‘The Sikh acts against innocent people, family members of Punjab Identity’ are no less than the parasites of the Sikh Nation. police, teachers, doctors, engineers, news media personnel They are the parasites of the Guru Khalsa Panth as well as and public personalities, in an effort to label Sikhs the parasites on the Sikh Nation’s coffer. as terrorists and justify its occupation of Punjab, Khalistan (Dr Aulakh’s letter of Feb 3rd, 1995 to the Indian Prime The jathedars or band leaders, Hymn singers/Keertanyes, Minister). Granthis, Kathakaars alias orators and pseudo-holy men like the Sadhs, Derewalas, etc.: These jathedars or band 1995 – April 1st: The New Delhi administration sent 11 leaders, especially Puran Sinh of Luv and Kush, who under Sikh Regiments of the Indian Army to oppress and the pressure of the NDA and his Akali Dal master, Prakash persecute the Kashmiri Musalmaans. This is in accordance Sinh (Singh) Badal, said that the “Sikhs are Hindus” and with the Brahmin, Manu, Chankya and Shankracharya are from the lineage of the Luv and Kush. The latter are the International Journal of Sikh Affairs 19, No. 2,2009© sons of Rama, the chief character of the mythological epic, on the Sikh Nation’s holy and historic places like the ‘Ramayana’. It is amply clear that Puran Sinh of Luv and Darbar Sahib Complex, Supreme Seat of Sikh Polity, The Kush does not know his own history, the history of the Akal Takht Sahib and making the Sikh Homeland a Sikhs from the Sikhs’ point of view.” He is contempt of the ‘concentration Camp’ during “Operation Bluestar” of June, teachings of Guru Granth Sahib, the Sikhs’ Holy Scripture. 1984? More than a million Sikhs were eliminated in the He has done a major disservice to the Guru Khalsa Panth. decade of 1980’s, for which you had been responsible, Mr. Puran Sinh of Luv and Kush is the member of the Hanera Sinh Badal. Will you deny the genocide of Sikhs? Saffaronized Party of the Dastaardhari Hindus in ‘The Sikh You, Hanera Sing Badal and colleagues, collaborated with Identity’, called the Rashtriya Sikh Sangat alias the wing of the Sikhs’ enemies, the Bhartiya Janta Party, its chief, a the Rashtriya Swamsewak Sangh and the Sang family. In criminal AB Vajpayee, LK Advani, and all other non-Sikh fact, a vast majority of the Dastaardhari/turbaned Hindus criminal politicians, to hang on to your ‘kursi’ or political in ‘The Sikh Identity’ have been members of the office. Didn’t you, Hanera Sinh Badal? Why did you saffaronized Rashtriya Sikh Sangat. They are used to introduce ‘fee for service or another form of bribery’ in the conspire against the Sikh Diaspora while visiting foreign Sikh Homeland? What Constitutional rights does the Indian countries. They are sent to foreign countries to disrupt the Constitution 1950 provide to you and the Sikhs in the Sikh lives and peace in the Gurdwaras abroad. Prakash Sinh Homeland, Hanera Sinh Badal? Do you know, Hanera Sinh Badal himself is due to pay his visit to the United States of Badal, that none of the Sikhs elected Members of America (www.khalistannews.com October 16th 2009, on Parliament has signed/endorsed/accepted the Indian October 26th. Dr. Sekhon wrote an open letter to Prakash Constitution? Do you know, Hanera Sinh Badal, that Sardar Sinh Badal with his queries and asked him certain Hukam Singh, Sardar Bhupinder Singh Mann and Sirdar questions. “Hanera (Prakash/Darkness) Sinh Badal is well Kapur Singh, ICS, MP, MLA and National Professor of known to the Sikh world, in the Sikhs’ Holy and Historic Sikhism repeatedly ‘rejected’ the Indian Constitution, in the Homeland Punjab, the Sikh Nation, Khalistan (presently Indian parliament in 1948, November 26th, 1949, 1950 and under the occupation and enslavement of the devious, more recently on September 6th, 1965? So what discriminatory and apartheid practicing alleged Indian Constitutional rights do you have, Hanera Sinh Badal and democracy alias t h e B r a h m i n s colleagues, including the Sikhs of Punjab? Are you still an autocracy/Zamhooriat/Zulamhooriat. Hanera Sinh Badal is agent of the RAW, Hanera Sinh Badal? Would you care to the ‘person’, a Brahmin in ‘The Sikh Identity’, who has left tell that the coffer of the Sikh Nation, Punjab, Khalistan, no stone unturned to demonize the Sikh Nation, Punjab, has been made bankrupt by the Hanera Sinh Badal’s ever since he became an Akali for his ulterior political administration? Would you tell why you suspended, fired motives. Being the Chief of the Akalis-Badal Private and re-hired Dr. Harshynder Kaur of Patiala and her Limited Incorporation, he has proved to be a disgrace to the husband in June, 2009, after she returned from her Guru Khalsa Panth. He has made the Sikhs’ holy and assignment at the U N Human Rights Council (June 2009 historic Homeland an ‘illiterate’ state. He has proven to be Session of the United Nations Human Rights Council, the biggest obstacle in providing an ‘international airport’ Geneva, Switzerland? You are the enemy of the Sikh in the Sikh Homeland. When elected following an Nation, Sikhs’ Homeland, Punjab, Khalistan, as I perceive undeclared war on the Sikh Homeland in the form of a it. How long you plan to hang on to your ‘kursi’? Let me brutal military “Operation Bluestar” of June, 1984, he made tell you, Hanera Sinh Badal, the Destiny of the Sikhs and a promise that after getting elected he will punish the their Sikh Nation is the ‘Sovereignty, Independence and ‘guilty’, who were in contempt with basic human rights. Political Power of the Sikhs’ and there is no one to stop However, there has been not a single one who has been them attaining to their goal. Hanera Sinh Badal let me tell punished. The fact, on the other hand, is he has spent more you that the alleged Indian democracy has been committing than US $20 million to protect the ‘Butchers of the Sikh ‘International Crimes’, like the destruction of Air India Homeland’, like KP Gill and numerous of his colleagues. Flight 182, on June 26th, 1985 off the western coast of Ireland and another crime to destroy another Air India flight Dr Sekhon questions the imprisonment of more than 7000 in Europe in 1994. However, the latter plan did not or could prisoners (Sikhs), some of them born in jails, named Jail not be materialized. Among the people who discussed the Singh or Jail Kaur depending on their sex, kept in the high foiled plan in Hotel Canada, Rome, were two security and other jails of the Sikh Homeland and in the Brahmins/Hindus in ‘The Sikh Identity’ like the identity of jails outside Punjab. Why are they kept in jails without Hanera Sinh Badal and/or your colleagues. Why are you trials and crimes, Mr. Prakash Singh Badal alias Hanera giving and wasting Sikh Nation’s natural resources, like (Darkness) Sinh Badal? In fact, Badal, his clan and cabinet river waters, electricity, etc., to give ‘free’ to non-Sikhs, the colleagues ‘must be’ behind bars and the Sikh prisoners be Sikh nation’s enemies, the Hindus-Brahmins, etc., outside released and enjoy their ‘freedom’. Why Bhai Daljit Singh Punjab? Other states and the federal administration owe the Bittu and his associates have been put in jails when they Sikh Homeland more than Rupees 55,000 cror, for the Sikh claim that they have not committed any crime, the Chief Nation’s natural resources they have used. Have you Minister of Punjab? Are you not an agent of the RAW, Mr. recovered the money from the criminal politicians of the Hanera Sinh Badal? Were you not one of the members of devious, discriminatory and apartheid practicing alleged Akali Dal who had been involved in the ‘Undeclared war Indian democracy? Would you make the apex Sikh International Journal of Sikh Affairs 19, No. 2, 41- 43, 2009© institutions, the Darbar Sahib Complex and Supreme Seat The Sikhs and the Sikh women who sacrificed their lives for of Sikh Polity, The Akal Takht Sahib free from the ‘Tight the Sikh Cause (the Sovereignty and Honour of the Sikh Control’ of your administrative machinery as well as the Nation): The Sikhs whose name will be remembered by the federal armed and intelligence personnel? Sikh Nation, for their sacrifices are more than 1.1 million since the decade of 1980s and to date. You are expected to answer the above questions, The Sikh NOTE: Part of this topic has been published earlier by the Nation cannot expect anything as far as their role to the author in “25 Years After 1984 Assault on Durbar Sahib Guru Khalsa Panth is concerned. The army of jathedars do Laying the Foundation of Khalistan (ed) Dr Awatar Singh not realize that the Sikh Nation is under the ‘Slavery of the Sekhon, a publication of the London Institute of South Asia Brahmins-Hindu India. It does not matter to them as long as July 2009 ISBN 0-9548929-4-1. they have been doing their anti-Sikh services and their Although known it widely, no one from the Sikh academic duties like a ‘Hindu Puzaris’ of a Hindu temple. They have community has dared from the Sikh Nation, Punjab, that the become and made religiously and politically impotent by second “Operation Bluestar” was to take place in the chief, Akali Dal, and their employer. Similarly, the so- November, 1984, on the Sikh Nation, because of the failure called corrupt saints or sadhs, Derewalas (maintaing their of an ‘undeclared’ war on the Sikh nation in June, 1984. As vast vote bank), folk singers, entertainers, hymn singers, the Indian prime Minister, Indira Gandhi alias Maimuna granthis, Akali Dal-Badal Private Limited members are Begum’s assassination took place on 31st October, 1984. used to work against the Sikh Diaspora and spread rumours Instead of “Operation Bluestar II”, the genocide of Sikhs and distort the truth of the “Operation Bluestar”, as you was carried out in Delhi and elsewhere in the devious, have been conspiring against the Sikh nation, Prakash Sinh divisive and the alleged Indian democracy, says the Editor Badal. in Chief, Int J Sikh Affairs ISSN 1481-5435.
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MEMORANDUM
Office of the High Commissioner Attention: Deputy High Commissioner – South Asia United Nations High Commission for Human Rights 2nd November, 2009 Human Rights Council Palais des Nations, CH 1211 Geneva 10 SWITZERLAND
Your Excellency the Deputy High Commissioner,
HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS AND GENOCIDE IN PARTICULAR OF SIKHS IN THEIR HOLY AND HISTORIC HOMELAND LAND, PUNJAB, AND THE NON-HINDU MINORITIES I IN GENERAL IN PREDOMINANTLY HINDU INDIA We, the Sikhs of Europe, North America, and the Sovereignty An Historical Perspective (ed) A T Kerr ISBN international Sikh Diaspora, would like to apprise you, your 0-9695964-1-3 University of Alberta P O, Edmonton, AB Excellency, of human rights abuses of the Sikhs in T6G 2S5, Canada; Sekhon AS Dilgeer HS 1999 A White particular, and other non-Hindu minorities in India, taken Paper On Khalistan (A True Story) The Sikh Nation (ed) place since August 15th, 1947. This was the day when the AT Kerr ISBN 0-9695964-8-0;3 Sekhon AS Dilgeer HS British India authorities transferred political power to the 2002 India Kills the Sikhs, 3rd Ed, ISBN 0-9695964-9-9; ‘unelected’ ‘Brahmins-Hindus’ leadership. The non-Hindu Sekhon AS 2005 India’s Genocides of Sikhs, 1981-1991: minorities, especially the Sikhs, were left at the mercy of History Revisited Int J Sikh Affairs 15(2), 28, 2005 (Chief the Hindus (approx. 4% elite or Brahmins, 10 – 12% Guest Editor: AT Kerr) ISSN 1481-5435; The International Hindus) and pro-Hindus, which control over 80% of the Journal of Sikh Affairs 18, June Issue, 2008 ISSN 1481- non-Hindus minorities). Since receiving political power by 5435). Since the brutal military “Operation Bluestar” of the British Empire, despite the protest of the Sikhs at large June, 1984, more than 260,000 innocent Sikh infants, and their leadership for not returning their ‘sovereign and children, youth, male and female folks have been secular’ Sikh Raj of their forefathers and monarch, Ranjit slaughtered [Int J Sikh Affairs 10(2): 27-29, 2000 ISSN Singh (1799 - 14th March, 1849). The predominantly Hindu 1481-5435; Sekhon AS 2000 Proc 8th Sikh Edu Conf, India has exterminated more than 1.4 to 2.3 million Sikhs Toronto, ON, Sept 23; Walia AS Sudan TS 2001 Genesis of (more than one million in the decade of 1981-91 (Singh S State Terrorism in Punjab. Released by Justice A S Bains, 1995 The Sikhs in History ISBN 0-96475555-0-5; Dilgeer [email protected]; July 14, 2001; Kumar RN et HS and Sekhon AS 1992 The Sikhs’ Struggle for al.2003 Reduced To Ashes: The Insurgency and Human International Journal of Sikh Affairs 19, No. 2,2009© In Punjaband elsewhere. Interestingly, many prisoners born Rights in Punjab ISBN 99933-53-57-4 www.safhr.org in jails, still live in jails, their parents have named them
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25 Years after Laying the Foundation of Khalistan
(A publication of the London Institute of South Asia)
Preface*
A democracy delivers a government that closely The events of 1984 changed all that. The ferocity resembles the society. In India, that certainly is the of the assault on the Sikh Vatican ˆ Durbar Sahib case. The Brahmin-Hindu society is iniquitous, Complex in Amritsar ˆ using mostly Sikh Police devious and deceitful. So is the democratically and General Officers brought home the point that elected Government of India. The Sikhs are the we could either be traitors to our own community nemesis of the Hindus ˆ egalitarian, enterprising, or be treated as traitors and terrorists in India. truthful and sincere. We could not have got along There is no middle ground; there is no scope for together. The Hindus understood that, but we did accommodation. Sant Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale not. In this book there is a chapter based on was right to warn that if Durbar Sahib was research by Professor Gurtej Singh that Brahmin- attacked, it will lay the foundation for Khalistan. Hindu intellectuals including Nobel Laureate R.N The Sikh nation now has no honourable alternative Tagore, saw and wrote about the Sikhs being a to continuing its struggle for a sovereign state ˆ threat. But the Sikhs hail from the Punjab where Khalistan. This book reviews the torment suffered the majority before the Partition were Muslims and and sacrifices made by the Sikh nation during the the Hindus were not allowed to own land. We 25 Years during and since the fateful year of 1984. really did not know the Hindus. The leader of the It nails the Indian propaganda that the resolve of Muslims - Mr Jinnah ˆ warned the Sikhs against the Sikh nation is shaken; no Sikh leader dares trusting the Hindus. He said ‘we would know their demand Khalistan. A fitting response was given true nature when the Hindus become the rulers’. by the President of the Council of Khalistan, Dr Now we know how right he was! Gurmit Singh Aulakh, who wrote in Authentic Voices of South Asia, 2005, page 120: The Sikhs always wanted a sovereign country of their own ever since their Kingdom was annexed “The Sikh nation has been ‘crushed’ at least twice by the British Empire in India on 14 March 1849. before in its history and it emerged triumphant Since there was no area where the Sikhs were in each time it was pronounce dead. Once again the majority, they had to rely on one of the two news of the demise of the Sikh nation appears to majority communities ‘Hindus and Muslims’ to be exaggerated. Arrogance is the hallmark of secure our aspirations. It was indeed unfortunate Imperialism and it is no surprise that ‘imperial that our leaders at that time trusted the Hindu arrogance‚ leadership of the Congress Party. We should have relied on the Muslims who were the majority in characterises the conduct of India even though it the Punjab. We are paying dearly for that mistake masquerades as the ‘largest democracy in the of our leaders. That notwithstanding, after the world’. The Sikh ask the rulers of India, Why demand for Punjabi Suba (province) was doesn’t India uphold democracy and allow the grudgingly half met (the capital at Chandigardh Sikh nation a free vote to decide if they have and Sikh majority areas of Haryana, Himachal and indeed abandoned their dream? Rajasthan are still not a part of the Punjab, despite Rajiv Clearly the dream as well as the resolve to realize the dream is still there. But the Sikh nation has Logowal agreement), the Sikhs were resigned to since realised that there are many other nations in be content with ‘autonomy’ of the Punjab. India who also dream of breaking free of India and the diabolical stranglehold of the Brahmin over the International Journal of Sikh Affairs 19, No. 2, 45, 2009© Winston Churchill. That is how it has been and it society and the state. The Sikh nation has a is. The earlier the many nations in India secure common cause with the Untouchables, the their right of self-determination the better. Muslims and Christians in India, as well as well the peoples of the seven states of Assam. This *25 Years After 1984 Assault on Durbar Sahib book underlines our awareness of the common Laying Foundation of Khalistan (ed) Dr Awatar cause (in fact a bond with every quest for freedom Singh Sekhon, published by London Institute of and equality) and the need to secure international South Asia ISSN 0-9548929-4-1 (E-mails: support for the cause. India is no more a
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FLYER DISTRIBUTED DURING DEMONSTRATION BEFORE THE UNITED NATIONS, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND
The Swiss Sikh Federation informs you the following, * The' Law and Order’ was deliberately allowed to relating to the deceptive, discriminatory, and apartheid deteriorate, despite repeated reminders by the Sikhs’ practicing of the alleged Indian democracy rules by the religious and political leader, Shaheed-Bilas Sant Jarnail ‘Brahmins-Hindus’, since 15th August, 1947: Singh Khalsa (Bhindranwale), the leader of all walks of life in PUNJAB. *The Sikhs of Punjab (under the occupation of the alleged Indian democracy, since 15th August, 1947) have no * The ‘Breakdown of ‘Law and Order’ created by the ‘Constitutional R i g h t s ’ . New Delhi administration, aided by the Prakash Singh Badal’s led Akalis, culminated in an ‘Undeclared War on * None of the Sikhs elected representative to the alleged the Sikhs Nation, Punjab, in the forms of brutal military Indian parliament has accepted the Indian Constitution attack “Operation Bluestar” of June, 1984. This Since 15th August, 1947 ‘Undeclared War on the Sikhs’ killed of more than 1.2 million Sikhs since the decade of 1980s and to date. .* Since 15th August, 1947, the Sikhs’ elected representatives ‘Rejected’ the Indian Constitution *This is what has been happening is the alleged Indian ‘repeatedly’ in 1948, 26th November, 1949, 1950 and democracy of the ‘Brahmins-Hindus’ Additionally, Indian more recently on 6th September, 1965. democracy has carried out genocide and pogroms of 3.2 million Sikhs, more than 500,000 Muslims in general; 110,000 Muslims of the Jammu and Kashmir since 1988; * The Sikhs’ representatives who ‘Rejected’ the Indian Constitution were Sardar Hukam Singh, Sardar Bhupinder more than 312,000 Christians; 12,000 Assamese; 15,000 Singh Maan and Sirdar Kapur Singh, ICS, MP, MLA and Tamils and tens of thousands of Dalits, since its inception. the National Professor of Sikhism. Unnder what Constitutional Rights the Sikhs are being *In 1966, Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi ‘DIVIDED’ Kept in the alleged Indian democracy?Issued on: 2nd the Sikhs’ Holy and historic Homeland, PUNJAB, into November, 2009 Punjab, Himachal Pradesh and Haryana, to dilute the Sikh population in the Sikhs’ PUNJAB. * Denotes signed by permission. ***** In 1978, 13-Sikh were massacred in Punjab, by the Indian and Punjab law-enforcing personnel, by the Punjab administration of Prakash Singh Badal.
DR SEKHON WRITES TO THE SIKH LEADERS OF THE SIKH NATION, PUNJAB, INVOLVED IN THE SIKHS’ STRUGGLE FOR SOVEREIGNTY, IDEPENDENCE AND POLITICAL POWER
Sardar Simranjit Singh Mann Sardar Daljit Singh Bittu President, Shromani Akali Dal (Amritsar) President, Panch Pradhani PUNJAB PUNJAB International Journal of Sikh Affairs 19, No. 2,2009© and Hindus’ policies will always bring you all head on. Supplemented with the policies of a Dastaardhari Hindu in Sardar Kanwar Pal Singh Dhami ‘The Sikh Identity’ of the Punjab administration of Prakash Dal Khalsa Punjab (Hanera/Darkness) Sinh (Singh) Badal, the Badal clan, PUNJAB Badal’s “joe boys and joe girls”, the members at large of the Akali Dal-Badal Private Limited Incorporation, Piare Sardar Sahib Mann ji, Daljit Singh Bittu and Kanwar supported by a huge army of the illiterate jathedars (Band Pal Singh Dhami, leaders), Granthis, hymn singers (Keertanyes), Kathavaachucks or orators, etc. For example, just see what Waheguru ji ka Khalsa, the Custodian or jathedar of the Supreme Seat of Sikh Waheguru ji ki Fateh! Polity, The Akal Takht Sahib, Gurbachan Singh, has been doing with Professor Darshan Singh Khalsa, one of the SIKHS’ STRUGGLE FOR SOVEREIGNTY, SINCE former Custodians of the Supreme Seat of the Sikh Polity. 14th MARCH, 1849 Also, please do not forget the case of Professor Bhag Singh Sardar Simranjit Singh Mann of Ambala, who had been excommunicated by the illiterate President, Shromani Akali Dal (Amritsar) jathedars and at least one of the Kathavaachuks of the Guru PUNJAB Khalsa Panth, Sant Singh Maskeen (now deceased; please Sardar Daljit Singh Bittu see Dr. Harjinder Singh Dilgeer’s Akal Takht da Falsafa President, Panch Pradhani published in the mid 1990s, by Singh Brothers, Amritsar). PUNJAB Piare Sardar Sahibs ji, the present administration of Prakash and (Hanera/Darkness) Sinh Badal of Punjab and the Chief, Sardar Kanwar Pal Singh Dhami[Sardar Harcharanjit Singh Council of Ministers, the New Delhi administration (NAD), Dhami] Manmohan Sinh, a stooge and ‘lap dog’ of his Madam Dal Khalsa Punjab Sonya Gandhi alias Sonia Maino (a Catholic from Italy), PUNJAB just out for the character assassinations of SSM and DSB, Piare Sardar Sahib Mann ji, Daljit Singh Bittu and Kanwar and the state-controlled news media of the ‘Brahmins- Pal Singh Dhami, Hindus’ have been instructed not to provide any coverage Waheguru ji ka Khalsa, Waheguru ji ki Fateh! to SSM and DSB. If the Tribune Chandigarh carry any SIKHS’ STRUGGLE FOR SOVEREIGNTY, SINCE 14th news coverage to KPD and his party, that is only in the MARCH, 1849 interest of the ‘divide and rule’ policy of the ‘Brahmins- Hindus’; together with to create ‘Distraction’ in the Sikhs’ Although you all know, I wish to share my views with you struggle for sovereignty. Piare Sardar Sahibs, please do not all that the Sikhs have no future without their sovereignty. I ever forget the teachings of the founder of the Sikh religion, know it, but I wish to inform you that (i) the Sikhs have to the 5th largest religion of our world, Baba Guru Nanak have the ‘road map’ for their sovereignty. (ii) These Sahib, that “The Brahmins are the Butchers of our world.” leader(s) have no place in the Sikhs’ sovereignty struggle as Guru Baba Nanak Sahib’s teachings to his Sikhs, as they have no ‘road map’. Their only input in the Sikhs’ inscribed in the Sikhs’ Holy Scripture, Guru Granth Sahib, struggle for sovereignty is to raise fierce slogans of are “Mathe Tikka Terrh Dhotti Kakhaii, Hath Chhurri ‘Khalistan Zindabad or Long Live Khalistan’ in front of the Jagat Kasai.” The Brahmins-Hindus have painted their Gurdwaras Congregations. It has come to the point that, forehead, have a white cloth around his waste and He “Khalsa ji, we need your financial support, as no office or (Brahmin) is the Butcher of our world. In essence, my dear no struggle can be operated without financial resources. If brothers, what was true in the 15th century is also true in the they do not have any ‘road map’, then all efforts are futile. 21st century, according to the teachings of Guru Baba This may be the situation in the Sikhs’ Holy and historic Nanak Sahib. homeland, Punjab, Khalistan, which is under the occupation The Brahmins-Hindus’ and their blessed administration of of the ‘Brahmins-Hindus’ alleged Indian democracy. The Manmohan Sinh (an ‘Unelected’ member to the ‘Brahmins- world’s largest democracy, so to speak, which has been the Hindu’ parliament) have been creating ‘rifts’ between the fractioned of the ‘apartheid’ practice of the ‘Brahmins or Dalits of Punjab and the Sikhs of the ‘House of Guru Baba the elite class of the Hindus’. The ‘Brahmins-Hindus’ are Nanak Sahib. Just think, what else the ‘Brahmins-Hindus’, neither a culture nor a religion’. These Sikh leaders are no Akali-Dal-Badal, RAW and NDA would do? Just to bring less than the pseudo-saints, sadhs, Derewalas, or the people the Sikhs and non-Hindu and non-Brahmin minorities head propagated by the Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) of on. This is the game the ‘Brahmins-Hindus’ have been the ‘Brahmins-Hindus’ democracy of the alleged Indian playing ever since August 15th, 1947. state. I would request of you, my brothers, please ‘Do not forget Dear brothers, you might have differences on certain points that the Sikhs’ Struggle for Sovereignty, Independence and and your differences are no exception to anybody, as we all political power began on March 14th, 1849 by peaceful are human beings. However, you all have to remember that means and it has been continuing since then by peaceful the alleged India’s democracy’s RAW and the ‘Brahmins- means’. The ‘Brahmins-Hindus’ struggle began for their f International Journal of Sikh Affairs 19, No. 2, 46- 2009© 6. Distorted the Ardas removing reference to the Sikh reedom sometime after the ‘annexation’ of the first Gurus, distorted the greetings of Waheguru Ji ka Khalsa – Sovereign and Secular nation of South Asia, i. e., the Wahegure Ji Ki Fateh and Bole So Nihal, Sat Sri Akaal.. Punjab of a Sikh monarch Ranjit Singh, 1799 to 14th March, 7. Encouraged the idle worship of Guru Ravidas Ji in 1849. The word ‘India’ did not exist in any dictionary or temples and bhavans, instead of ‘Shabad Guru’. encyclopedia of the English language until March 29th, 8. Divided Ravidas communities across the world 1849. This points out that the ‘Brahmins-Hindus’ struggle undermining the significance of the Bani (teachings) of for freedom began much after the “Sovereignty Struggle of Guru Ravidas Ji and its significance in Guru Granth Sahib the Sikhs.” The ‘Brahmins-Hindus’ have cleverly been high Ji, causing conflict and misunderstanding. jacking the Sikhs’ struggle for sovereignty. 9. Preaching to sangat that Guru Grant Sahib Ji is a mere Further the Sikhs’ traitor, Master Tara Singh alias Nanak a Granth and not the ‘immortal devine light’ of Guru Chand Malhotra betrayed the Guru Khalsa Panth, please see Nanak Sahib to Guru Gobind Singh Sahib Ji, in the form of Betrayal of Sikh Nation By Master Tara Singh With British Shabad Guru. Documents of Transfer of Power 1947 by Ram Singh 2009, 10. On numerous occasions dialogue between the preachers Second Edition, ISBN 978-0-9811360-6-6. and representatives from the Sikh and Ravidas communities Additionally, the RAW, NAD, Indira Gandhi alias Maimuna in UK and Europe had raised concerns that their preaching Gandhi, and all prime ministers starting from JL Nehru was causing a division within the Ravidas community, and alias Mobarak Ali had/have been practicing the anti-Sikh, between the Sikhs or the ‘Guru Khalsa Panth’. anti-Guru Khalsa Panth policies and they made the Sikhs a I have heard the above from many people, and do not claim ‘landless’ Sikh Nation, PUNJAB, on August 15th, 1947. This that any of the above has any truth. It is a time for the Sikh was a day light ‘robbery’ of the Sikh Nation. And the Sikhs world to come together and condemn the incident in Vienna have to “Reclaim their Sovereignty, Independence and the , as well as all the incidents of violence, arson, rioting and Political boundaries of their Sikh Nation. looting in India. I hereby request you all to form a common front to drive the ***** ‘Brahmins-Hindus’ out of the Sikhs’ Holy and Historic Homeland of August 15th, 1947. May the Khudawand Dr. Sekhon writes to Sardar Gurdip Singh Bains and Bakhshinda bless His ‘Guru Khalsa Panth’ and the Sikh family: Nation, PUNJAB (under the occupation of the alleged Bhai Sahib ji, thank you very kindly for sending me the Indian democracy.) ‘Attachment’. It was not that I was not aware of what has Best wishes and warmest regards. been going on around us for the ‘Character Assassination of Best wishes and warmest regards. the 10th Master, Guru Gobind Singh ji’. Indeed, I have ***** been keeping myself informed on the subject. You have seen on the ‘Sikh-e-group’, which I hardly get to see it, NEWS, VIEWS, SHORT ARTICLES, ETC. because of my involvement with quite a few e-groups of [email protected] 26th June, 2009. ‘yahoo.com and at googlegroups.com. Indeed, I do try to [email protected] June 26th, 2009. answer those who are busy in the ‘Character assassination We all regret the incident that took place in Vienna at a of Guru Sahib, especially the 10th Master Guru Gobind place of worship and the loss of life, but to date a lot of Singh Sahib. rumors have surfaced. Please, can the Sangat shed light on The people who are in the front row of writing against the the following rumors regarding the two preachers form Sikh Guru Sahibaans and Guru Granth Sahib ji, our Holy Ravidas sampardava: Scripture, are the one Mr. Gurcharanjit Singh Lamba (a 1. Sit on a higher Mangi than Guru Granth Sahib Ji when Poorbia according to various Sikh circles), Editor in Chief, preaching at Guru Ravidas temples/bhavans (Building) Sant Sipahi, one Dalip Singh of the United States, and 2. Encourage their followers to pay homage to them (Matha many more. I have been answering their mails, too. Tek or Bow or pay respect) in the presence of Guru Granth However, I cannot spare my 100% time against these Sahib Ji. people, but have to devote my time on the International 3. Refer to themselves has[as] Guru’s in the presence of Journal of Sikh Affairs ISSN 1481-5435, and on other Guru Granth Sahib Ji and the Sadh Sangat [congregation]. writings. I believe, I have personally handed over two 4. Have encouraged their followers to boycott Sikh books in the months of July and August 2009. I am busy in Gurdwaras and the Sikh Community, and encouraged the third one. Everything, my dear younger brother and sangat to set up bhavans/temples with Guru Granth Sahib Ji family, demands money, which I have been getting, with in them. the grace of Waheguru ji, but it is not easy to bring the 5. Removed the Bani (teachings of Sikh Guru Sahibaans) of financial resources in. Besides, I have to keep on going to Guru Ravidas from Guru Granth Sahib Ji and placed it in abroad to plead for the Sikh Cause, i. e., the “Sovereignty, Gutka Sahibs to be sold in India. These Gutka Sahibs carry Independence and political power of the Sikh Nation and its the pictures of the two preachers, along with the picture of struggle to reclaim it, which has been going on since Guru Ravidas ji. March 14th, 1849, by peaceful means.” Let me ask you, my dear brother, sister and the Bains children, on how many Sikh websites do you see the International Journal of Sikh Affairs 19, No. 2,2009© birth of our Guru Sahibaans, for example, Guru Baba articles and/or news about the ‘Sovereignty of the Sikhs’? Nanak Sahib and Guru Gobind Singh Sahib ji. I am Each of my writings deals with the ‘Sovereignty of the Sikh repeating my question asked earlier to Pal S Purewal, but he Nation. Without our Sovereignty, the Sikhs cannot survive. had no spine or courtesy to answer it. Now, I am repeating That’s why I seek your support, beg for the support, to keep it again. The question is “Would Pal S Purewal change his my work going on behalf of us all. own date of birth than what has been appearing on his I am not a jathedar, hymn singer, orator, Katha-vaachak, Canadian Passport and the records of the Revenue Canada? granthi, or so on. I believe in the straight talk and where I By doing so, would he be getting his new passport, from have to keep the work going on behalf of the Guru Khalsa Passport Canada, and his ‘Canada Pension and Old age Panth. cheques’ from the Canadian Pension Services? This is the My apology for the words you might have not liked. question before you, once again, Pal S Purewal if you However, they were not to offend you, if you do find some would care to answer it. of your dislike. Maybe you will deceive the Guru Khalsa Panth as long as With best wishes and regards. the Sikh Nation is under the ‘Tight grip’ of the deceitful, P S: Gurcharanjit Singh Lamba, a poorbia, contacted over devious, discriminatory and apartheid practicing alleged phone sometimes in the first half of 2009, identified himself Indian democracy/Zamhooriat/Zulamhooriat. One as the Editor, Sant Sipahi. However, Dr. Sekhon politely suggestion to you regarding Surajvanshi Pal S Purewal, is asked Mr. Lamba that he has no desire to speak to him over try to change the dates of birth of some of your family phone. members, then you will see how many questions you would ***** have to be liable to answer. Dr. Awatar Singh Sekhon writes to Sirdar Gurmit Singh Khalsa: It is that you are serving the Guru Khalsa Panth. The fact With regard to your recent message to the Editor, Rozana remains that you have been carrying out the ‘ulterior’ Spokesman, Chandigarh, PUNJAB, what I would like to motive(s) of the anti-Guru Khalsa Panth and anti-Sikh add one point relating to the date of birth of Guru Baba Nation forces. Nanak Sahib, as mentioned in the ‘Purewal-jantri’. My Best wishes and warmest regards. point is that Pandit Pal S Purewal plays with the dates of *****
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The November 11th , 2009 The day of November 11th has special significance as the Sikhs remember‚ their nearly Today is Remembrance Day, being 100,000 Sikhs, who laid down their lives, on celebrated throughout the world. This day of behalf of the British Empire’s armed forces, to November 11th has special significance in the preserve peace in the entire European continents, hearts of the followers of Guru Nanak Sahib, the in the World Wars I & II. Along with the dead founder of Sikh religion in 1469, about more than soldiers of the British ‘annexed‚’Punjab not 540 years ago. In this time span of 540 years, the ‘amalgamated’ to the British Empire on March Sikh religion has become the 5th largest religion of 29th, 1849, the first ‘Sovereign and Secular our world. Nation of South Asia, of a Sikh Monarch Ranjit Singh, 1799 to March 14th, 1849 India Army, more than 104,000 injured Sikh armed personnel Remembrance days significance in the Sikh world of the British India Army. We, the children of the is that, ever since its inception, Guru Nanak Sahib British India Army’s Sikh personnel, remember, was the first Guru who raised his voice for the with great pride, that our forefathers had been protection of the Œhuman rights‚, regardless of responsible to preserve peace in Europe. The Sikhs religion or sex, before the ruler of the his time, the fought side by side with their colleagues from Mughal Emperor Baber. Second, Guru Nanak Canada, United States of America, Great Britain, Sahib gave his message to his followers of the France, Belgium, Germany and other nationalities ‘House of Guru Nanak Sahib’ (i) to earn your livelihood by fair means, (ii) share your food with of Europe, for the same cause. The universal the needy ones, who have no means to earn their cause to Preserve Peace in the European continent‚. The Sikhs not only remember their livelihood and (iii) Truth is high, still higher is the Sikh forefathers, but they remember, with the truthful living. It was Guru Nanak Sahib who gave same respect and pride, the Muslims soldiers of not only equal, but more equal rights to women, according to his teachings inscribed in the Holy the ‘annexed’ Punjab to the British Empire. scripture of the Sikhs, Guru Granth Sahib. International Journal of Sikh Affairs 19, No. 2,2009©
We also remember our Sikh soldiers, who their lives to preserve the honor, dignity, integrity sacrificed in India’s imposed three wars on the and to restore deliberately broken Law and Order‚ Islamic Republic of Pakistan and a war which had situation in Punjab in an ‘Undeclared War on the been the JL Nehru’s Debacle on the Peoples’ Sikh Nation, PUNJAB, by the Indira Gandhi and Republic of China in 1962. Our Sikh soldiers her administration of India, in the form ‘of a sacrificed their lives to keep peace in South Asia, brutal military “Operation Bluestar” of June knowing perfectly well that the Sikhs have no 1984, which took the toll near ‘ Two‚ million Constitutional Rights in the Indian Constitution of Sikhs’ since the decade of 1980, according to the 1950. These Sikh soldiers knew that their ‘Sikh Sikh historians‚. religion’ has been ‘swallowed’ by the hungry mouths of the ‘Brahmins-Hindus’, since August Finally, we pay our tributes to the Sikhs and non- 15th, 1947. The Sikhs know that the ‘States of Sikhs who sacrificed their lives to preserve peace Faridkot in Punjab, Bikaner in Rajasthan and not only in the European Continent, but elsewhere Hyderabad‚ have not signed the ‘Accession since August 15th, 1947. May the PEACE be upon Document to the Indian Union’. us.
The Sikhs pay their tribute, on this Remembrance Issued by Dr. Awatar Singh Sekhon day, to those Sikhs (infants, children, youth, male and female folks, and their elderly) who sacrificed *****
Dr. Awatar Singh Sekhon responds to Sirdar Gurmit Singh Khalsa
Please accept my since thanks for the time you Khalsa Panth, the Sikh Nation, Punjab, Khalistan have spent rectifying the ‘Brahminical mistakes (under the occupation of the apartheid practicing created deliberately by joint work of the Guru alleged Indian democracy since August 15th, Khalsa Panth’s traitor, Gurcharan Tohra – now 1947). They all (the ‘Brahmins-Hindus’ in ‘The deceased – in the collaboration of PS Purewal of Sikh Identity) are, as written to you and elsewhere, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, many others who in the premises of the Darbar Sahib Complex for were brought deliberately by PS Purewal on his the control/abuse the coffer of the Darbar Sahib side, for the ‘Disservice to the Sikh historians and Complex, which includes the Sikhs’ Supreme Seat insults to the Sikh Guru Sahibaans, by changing of Polity. It is a big shame, my dear older brother, their birth dates, to demonize the Guru Khalsa Sirdar Gurmit Singh ji. Further, the administration Panth, the Sikh Nation, Punjab, and Sikh Nation’s of the Badal Akalis in the conjunction with the Holy and historic institutions by PS Purewal. He BJP has made the Sikh Nation, Khalistan, Punjab a has left no stone unturned to make the ‘Guru ‘bankrupt’ state. Khalsa Panth’ in the eyes of anti-Sikh forces, especially the ‘Brahmins-Hindus’ and their pros, What you have written below on the Guru like the ‘Brahmins-Hindus’ in ‘The Sikh Identity’. Sahibaans dates is perfectly clear and accurate. These pro-Brahmins-Hindus Sikhs in ‘The Sikh The fact of the story is that in the name of Identity include the members of the Rashtriya Sikh ‘Nanakshahi/Purewalshahi’ calendar, the enemies Sangat, a branch of Rashtiya Swamsewak Sangh of the Sikh Nation, Khalistan, Punjab, are all out to and the other Sangh Parvaar families, with destroy and/or disrupt the history of the Sikhs, particular reference to the mother of all evils, the from the Sikh point of view. This is the back door Hindu Mahasabha. A huge army of jathedars, entry, using the Purewalshahi calendar to make the Puran Sinh of Luv and Kush, Gurbachan Singh, Sikh Nation a ‘Nation of Illiterate people’. The Vedanti Joginder Singh Saran, jathedar Avtar Sikh Nation’s educational system is in a bad state, Singh Makkar of the Shiromani Gurdwara highly in need. The credit goes to the ‘illiterate’ Prabhandhak Committee (SGPC), all have been, at army of jathedars/band leaders, who are nothing one time or another, the members of the Rashtriya more than the ‘jee-hazooryes’ of their ‘ring Sikh Sangat, including their ‘ring master’ of the master’ Prakash Sinh Badal; a Mukatdhari, Chief Minister, Prakash (Darkness/Hanera) Sinh worshipper of the fake saints, Babbas, and a (Singh) Badal, his clan, Badal’s “joe boys and joe ‘Brahmin in ‘The Sikh Identity’. girls” and the entire membership of the Akali Dal- Badal Private Limited Incorporation Private Keeping Pandit PS Prewal in the front, the Limited. These Akalis do not deserve to be in the ‘Brahmins-Hindus’ and their pro-Brahmins- office of the Punjab administration, even for a Hindus have been trying to destroy the Sikh second. They are corrupt, criminal and anti–Guru history from the Sikh point of view. Purewal International Journal of Sikh Affairs 19, No. 2,2009© enjoys it as he is the creator of the so-called Guru Nanak Sahib said “Mathew Tike Terrh ‘Nanakshahi/Purewal Shahi’ calendar. What else Dhotti Achaia Hath Chhurri Jagat Kauai.” Kauai does he want? He never answers any criticism. means the ‘Butcher’. Do these dastaardhari and Mukatdhari or who sit in the Hindus’ Hawans, Indeed the Sikhs need a calendar and that may be apply Guru Baba Nanak Sahib’s definition to under the name of the ‘Nanak Calendar’, which themselves? will ‘omit’ all Puniyas, Pooranmasis, Sangrands and other dates related to the ‘Brahmins-Hindus’. I The army of jathedars and their ‘joe boys and joe would like to bring up one point as you have girls” committee will not lead to the Guru Khalsa suggested amply clear. My suggestion to Purewal Panth anywhere. As such, the matter of the Nanak is that he must try to change his own date of birth, Calendar should be left as it is and the Sikh along with the birthdates of MK Gandhi, JL Nehru Nation, Guru Khalsa Panth should concentrate on alias Mobarak Ali, August 15th, 1947 when the the Sikh cause, i. e., “To claim the Sovereignty, Sikhs were ‘robbed’ of their Sikh Nation land and Independence and Political power of the Sikh were made a landless nation and other ‘Brahmins Nation, by peaceful means, for which the Sikhs and Hindus. Let him see the reaction of the struggle has been going on since March 14th, ‘Brahmins and Hindus both. 1849, without any disruption.
It is amply clear from the meaning of the ‘Hindus’ The Sikh Nation has to guard herself from the in the Persian and Arabic languages. The traitors like Master Tara Singh, Fateh Singh, dictionaries state the meaning of Hindus as ‘chor, Gurcharan Tohra, Harchand Longowal, Jaswant daku, dacoits, oochaka or scoundrel. Those Bhullar, or Chandus, Gangus, Mir Jaffars of the dastaardhari in ‘The Sikh Identity’ should apply Sikh Nation etc. the word Hindus meaning in the Persian or Arabic dictionaries, and think that, do they fit in the Best wishes and warm regards. meaning of the Hindu provided in the Persian and Arabic dictionaries?
Further, Guru Baba Nanak Sahib defined the Brahmins as the ‘Butchers of our peaceful world.
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Dr. Awatar Singh Sekhon congratulates to the Honorable Ansar Burney
The Hon Janab Ansar Burney
Recipient of the Human Rights Award 2009
On behalf of the Sikh Nation (under the occupation of the apartheid practicing alleged Indian democracy, since August 15th, 1947), I wish to offer you our congratulations.
May the Khudawand Bakhshinda bless you, your family and the great people of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan.
Best wishes and warmest regards.
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Dr. Awatar Singh Sekhon replies to I am ‘Not’ surprised at all about the reading that Khalsa Panth, but now seems to be at the ‘service’ has appeared on a site, which claims to the well of the apartheid practicing alleged Indian wisher of the Guru Khalsa Panth. However, I am democracy and the rouge democratic state called surprised of the cut and paste job, similar to one the world’s largest democracy, my dear Sardar ‘adms’ who was once the well wisher of the Guru Sahib, [email protected], has not been making International Journal of Sikh Affairs 19, No. 2,2009© his/her own assessment. This is a tragedy of my ‘Sangh family. What would you say about them or brothers/sisters who claim that they have been have you written any word about them? These working for the interests of the Guru Khalsa Panth. people, including one ‘unelected’ but selected I deeply regret that my dear brother has simply Chief, Council of Ministers, the New Delhi picked up the posting of www.panthic org. What a Administration, Manmohan Sinh with the ‘Sky sad state that he has not added even a single word Blue turban’ is/are the ‘enemies of the Guru from his side and has not been expressing his own Khalsa Panth, Piare Sardar Sahib ji. If you do not views about Dr. Harjinder Singh Dilgeer and/or believe, please see the proceedings of the Professor Darshan Singh, one of the former (?) Commission, United Nations Human Rights Acting Jathedar/Custodian of the Supreme Seat of Commission, August 15-25, 1993. You will find the Sikh Polity. I would make only two or three out on your own. points to make any remarks, but to clarify how much my brother, Sardar [email protected], is Let me make my point: genuinely interested in bringing up the matters of the Guru Khalsa Panth before the members of the 1. Did you notice or make your objections to the Guru Khalsa Panth, the Sikh Nation, Khalistan, the www.panthic org when it has been publishing the Sikhs’ Holy and Historic Homeland, under the articles of one Bhai, calls himself a Doctor, his occupation of the discriminatory, deceptive and name is Bhai Amarjit Singh Khalsa, entered into apartheid practicing alleged Indian democracy, the United States of America, as the ‘Spokesman, since August 15th, 1947. Panthic Committee of Dr. Sohan Singh? Who is this Bhai Amarjit Singh, where did he obtain his This apartheid practicing alleged doctorate, in what subject, which university Indiademocracy/Zamhooriat/Zulamhooriat or the granted him the degree of Philosophy (Ph D), MD, Democracy of genocide has killed 3.2 to 3.4 LLD, D Litt, or what? Do you know anything million Sikhs; 500,000 Muslims in general; more more than what I have written to you Sardar than 110,000 Muslims of Jammu and Kashmir [email protected]? Do you think that Dr. known as the Internationally Disputed Areas of Harjinder Singh Dilgeer and/or Professor Dasrshan Jammu and Kashmir, since 1988; more than Singh Khalsa are worse than the person who does 15,000 Tamils, 12,000 Assamese and 7-sister of not answer questions put to him? Without knowing Assam’s innocent citizens since 1990; hundreds of what kind of the credentials Bhai Amarjit Singh thousands Dalits, and tens of thousands of carries, www.panthic org carries his articles and ‘Adivaasis or Moolnivaasis’ since August 15th, portrait on the www.panthic org. As far as I am 1947. Dear brother, [email protected] this is the concerned, www.panthic org is equally to be tragedy of the Sikhs who seldom pick up their pen blamed. and/or approach the keyboards of their computers to call their own brothers ‘rouge’. Please see 2. Maybe Dr. Harjinder Singh Dilgeer is not above. Let me make it amply clear that a human familiar with the politics of the apartheid being is after all a human being, and a human practicing alleged Indian democracy in our he/she makes mistakes. However, when gurdwaras, especially in Europe, North America, deliberately one goes to insult his own brother, not Far East and other continents, and Executives of the evils of the society, no word is spared in their our Gurdwaras, outside the alleged Indian writings to call the brothers ‘rouge’ , or any other democracy. Maybe he knows it, but does not grasp name calling. the ‘dirty politicians’ in ‘The Sikh Identity’. Give him a chance to explain. If he does not answer I wish I had seen your writings about Prakash you, then do whatever you would like. According (Darkness/Hanera) Sinh (not Singh) Badal, his to Sardar Tarlochan Singh Jalwehra’s text of 2008, clan, his “joe boys and joe girls” , the army of one organization of the European Sikhs has lost its jathedars, hymn singers, orators, Katha-vaachaks, credibility. Working in the name of Guru Khalsa sentries, the members of the Akali Dal Prakash Panth’s interests, this organization has failed to Sinh Badal faction Private Limited, etc., who are attract a single Sikh academic. Whose fault is this, the parasites of the Guru Khalsa Panth’s coffer and let me ask you? the Guru Khalsa Panth’s coffer is used/abused for the personal matters of the member of the 3.It was no one, but Professor Darshan Singh Research and Analysis Wing. These all “boys and Khalsa who bluntly ‘refused’ Prakash joe girls” and the Akali Dal Badal faction Private (Darkness/Hanera) Sinh Badal, when he offered Limited Incorporation are the ‘Members’ of the him to be next ‘Jathedar/Custodian’ of The Akal Rashtriya Sikh Sangat, a Branch of the Rashtriya Takht Sahib; simply on the grounds that he would Swamsewak Sangh and the other members of the listen only to the Guru Khalsa Panth for the International Journal of Sikh Affairs 19, No. 2,2009© personnel, Babbes, Dale-jit of Chicago, Maan Sinh Peehova like people have been demonizing the interests of Guru Khalsa Panth. He would not like Guru Khalsa Panth and the Sikh Nation, Punjab, to be a ‘Sarkari or State appointed jathedar’ like Khalistan (under the occupation of the apartheid Puran Sinh of Luv and Kush, Vedanti Joginder practicing alleged Indian democracy, since August Singh Saran, Gurbachan Singh, etc. I have nothing 15th, 1947). to comment on Professor Darshan Singh Khalsa ji, as he is far, far more competent than this brother I am sorry my dear brother if I had written of yours who is writing to you. anything of your disliking in explaining my views on the term ‘rouge’. A sub-point but not a full point, Piare Sardar Sahib ji, the buyer (alleged Indian democracy) is in the NOTE: The above is the last reply of Dr. Sekhon market and it is up to the one whether he/she is for relating to Dr. Harjinder Singh Dilgeer. In fact, sale, whether he/she would like to do the ‘shitty’ Dr. Dilgeer has to take care the criticism made job for a buyer at the expense of the Guru Khalsa over the www.panthic.org Panth. Many derewalas, political prostitutes, as Sir Winston Churchill used to call the news media ***** On 11/12/09 4:47 PM, "Saleh" the Sikh Guru Sahibaans taught us to fight in the ***** International Journal of Sikh Affairs 19, No. 2,2009© Janab Saleh Rehman Malik caught lying in the open and so did ISLAMABAD: The government has decided to Mr. Gilani, who both said repeatedly that Black issue an ordinance regulating security companies, water is not in Pakistan....We need our government which will stop them from working with some to explain, who are these foreign private military foreign Private Military Security Companies or companies, and who have allowed them in? WE PMSCs. NEED EXPLANATIONS AND THEIR ROLE IN THE BOMBINGS! We want them all out of our Sources told DawnNews that the decision has been country...Pakistan is not Iraq or Afghanistan! And taken following reports that some local security why is the word "some" used and which foreign companies were affiliated with American Private private military organizations are excluded...and Military Security Companies. what is going on in our country? Do we have a parliament? http://www.dawn.com/wps/wcm/connect/dawn- content-library/dawn/news/pakistan/03-new- New ordinance to regulate security companies ordinance-to-regulate-security-companies-ss-05 ***** Dr. Awatar Singh Sekhon Comments: The author is not a political scientist. However, he continue to struggle for their sovereignty until they has deep interests in the political affairs of South become sovereign, knowing perfectly well that Asia. Many of my brothers of the Islamic Republic their leader Master Tara Singh and his ‘joe boys’ of Pakistan seems worried about the future of their betrayed them and their nation ( Betrayal of Sikh country, founded under the able leadership of Nation by Master Tara Singh With British Janab M A Jinnah. Please remember it is Janab Documents of Transfer of Power by Ram Singh Jinnah, the only statesman of South Asia in the 2009 ISBN 978-0-9811360-6-6). The task is not days since 1940s. Janab Jinnah was not only the that easy, but it is not impossible either. person who gave ‘Sovereignty’ to the present Pakistan. He had a big team of sincere, staunch Coming back to Pakistan, my dear brothers, sisters supporters, with their full faith in their leader and and elders, please look for the best and play your they had been well determined and devoted to the cards carefully, despite having a hopeless vision that Janab Jinnah. The vision the latter had administration of 10% Xardari and his ‘joe boys’. for his people. Let me make a long story short that Latter are not more than three people. What I think South Asia has not produced any person so far is that Pakistan is far better equipped and strong who had or has been able to understand the mind despite being challenged by the enemy at your of the deceitful Brahmins as well as the Hindus, eastern border. This enemy is deceitful and stupid, when dealing with the problems of the South deceptive and apartheid practicing alleged Indian Asian region. This was the main reason that the democracy. I would give one example to you to unelected ‘Brahmins-Hindus’, the so-called decide. That is, what proportion of the Pakistan’s leaders found themselves in the corner or the place Awam make only US$0.05 to 0.10 cents per day? from where they had no place to go, this was the In the apartheid practicing alleged Indian situation which appeared unbearable to them and democracy, more than 70% of the population earns helpless. This was the main reason for their saying only $US 0-05 to 0-01. Is there anyone in the that “It was MA Jinnah who broke up the British world who could spend his/her day on US$ 0.05 to India Empire.” 0.01 cents? You know the answer of the question, which I have asked you. This is the progress of the There had been a third party, rather the people who apartheid practicing alleged Indian democracy. It were the first ‘Sovereign and Secular’ nation of is all the propaganda of the ‘Brahmins-Hindus’, South Asia. This was the rule of a Sikh monarch, which has been going on since August 15th, 1947. Ranjit Singh, 1799 to March 14th, 1849. Since It is highly unfortunate that you have on the their surrender to the British Empire, the heirs and Eastern border, the Sikhs, who are the ‘Slaves’ of followers of the Sikh Monarch Ranjit Singh have the ‘Brahmins-Hindus’, do not have any been “Struggling to Regain Their Lost Constitutional Rights, Sikhs’ elected Sovereignty, Independence and Political Power by representatives have ‘rejected’ the Indian peaceful means, since the very day they Constitution four times, since August 15th, 1947, surrendered to the British Empire.” The Sikhs will and they are treated like dirt. Their apex religious International Journal of Sikh Affairs 19, No. 2,2009© and political institutes are under the ‘tight control’ brothers, sisters and elders, that despite unpleasant of the ‘Brahmins-Hindus’ and the Sikhs’, who may situations from the Afghanistan side, penetration be equated with ‘Mir Zaffer’ of the Mughal period. by the RAW Research and Analysis Wing in the This Mir Zaffar of the Sikhs is Prakash Sinh Badal Swat valley and playing all dirty tricks against and his “joe boys” of Akalis. Let me tell you that Pakistan, the country is still holding remarkably India can ‘never’ go to war with Pakistan, as the well. Credit goes to the Pakistan’s armed forces, ‘Brahmins-Hindus’ know perfectly well that the intelligence and the civil personnel. Indeed, ’scenario of war’, if it happens in the 21st century, Pakistan’s biggest problem is Mr. 10% and his joe- will be much disastrous, even beyond their boys. This situation is temporary. It is just the expectation, than in the past. Further think, my matter of time, when the 10% will be on the go. The Awam has to exercise its duty to perform surgery to cure the problem of the ‘Vision of Janab MA Jinnah’. May the Khudawand bless you ALL. ***** Older brother Randhawaji comments on Dr. Awatar Singh’s comments to Janab Saleh: Dear Sardar Awatar Singh jee, Present, situation in Pakistan is very clear to the people of Pakistan. Bhutto was first, who Wahay (Waheguru) Guru jee da Khalsa, Wahay dismembered Pakistan by saying TUM outher (in Guru jee di Fatay! this side) HUmM eether (you are on that side Me this side) to Mujiburrahman. They both paid for their crimes. Bhutto was first to ask ISI to make Khudawend Bukhshenhar, has given you great command over the affairs of the Pakistan, Punjab files of politicians to black mail them. and India. We were young then, when this movement started, but knew well that Hindus have I know it was bad for Ayub, Zia & Musharraf to trapped Tara Singh jee and other sikh leaders and take over and get stuck to the chair [the political this resulted in the ‘end’ of long friendship among power]. The civilians are equally responsible for Muslim and Sikhs. this, however. The USA is having sleepless nights because they see al QAIDA in their dreams, some even saw Osama sitting at a breakfast table with We (the older lot) in Pakistan are very clear what Bush and now Obama in the white/black house. Hindu stands for i.e. till one lala is alive, they will How scared are they? The USA has gotten itself in not stop planning against Pakistan and they will shit like the frog mama, who has filled her tummy never be friends either. Their vision only is one To Remove Pakistan From the Map Of the World, (a with air to match the cow, but soon went to bits. dream which shall never come true). The USSR could not carry on although they had a direct border with Afghanistan, how can they? I am a strong believer of this fact that, MANY Soon their bones will be without any flesh HINDUS came to Pakistan in 1947/48 as Muslim (begging money from China to support war, at immigrants and advertised that they are SYEDS, knowing full well that Muslim in this part respect present each US citizen is under debt of $ 31,000.00 and hope their bones can walk to USA.) the family tree of the Holy Prophet (PBAUH). It is time they went back, leaving every one to For the past 60 years they have maintained contacts in India and have invited many relatives wash their dirty Lenin in their back yard. to visit Pakistan and the fact is that 60 % of them never went back; but were able to get forged However, these people will not learn a lesson from documents as Pakistanis and stayed back. the USSR mistakes. This has resulted in a big lot of the Hindu lovers in I am sure the people of Pakistan are getting to the Sind area, which gave birth to MQM. They know the slaves of America who are running their have been hypocrites all along, and have been Government, that these leaders are not from their working against Pakistan. INSHA ALLAH, they Pakistani blood, but are like the Khandan-e- will fail. Ghulamian. (you remember that we read that khaldan-e-ghulamian are like Al Tamashetc). Soon these installed or imported leaders will disappear International Journal of Sikh Affairs 19, No. 2,2009© or will be honored/Tajposhed. They are digging Hindus, we never worry about them, the only point their own graves by creating Atta (whear flour), to worry is the SOB’s who live within Pakistan, Sugar, Electric, Water, etc. problems and hoarding eat our wheat yet sing ‘Baggen’, i. e., songs, ram these things. The public is awake, only one has to ram japana parayia mall apna) of India or other just start the march forward. countries. Then all Amerikees, their friends and their killer Hold on to your horses, soon surely, you will have companions will disappear in thin air. Punjab free from Hindu lallas. Just pray that we can contribute in good ways for With blessings and good wishes. the progress of our beloved Pakistan. ***** Tragedy of Slave Nations This is the tragedy of the slave nations that they of Guru Gobind Sahib. He further confirmed that condemn their own heroes to make their masters this is not the opinion of Professor Darshan Singh. happy to obtain worldly gains. As per the analysis of Mr. Teerat Singh Dhillon on the Punjabi radio Therefore, the writer is of the opinion that (Punjabi Lehran) Professor Darshan Singh said Maharaja Ranjit Singh, Sirdar Kapoor Singh Sant that some Raggis, Thadis and Keertanies Hindus Jarnail Singh Bhindrawala Shaheed and Professor under the guise of Sikhs have attributed some Darshan Singh Khalsa Sahib are the heroes and the mature substance to the saying of Tenth Master nation should be proud of them Guru Gobind Sahib. This is not the actual saying . ***** Dr. Awatar Singh Sekhon responds: This is no surprise at all. The Sikh History is full Puran Sinh of Luv and Kush, Prakash of Chandus, Gangus and alike. As in the Mughal (Hanera/Darkness) Sinh Badal, the Badal clan, period, there was only ‘one’ Mir Zaffer. Here, in Badal’s “joe boys and joe girls”, Vedanti Joginder Guru Khalsa Panth, Revealed by Sahib Guru Singh Saran, jathedar Kirpal Singh (who lied to Gobind Singh ji on March 30th, 1699 the Khalsa the world in an interview following “Operation Panth, the Guru Khalsa Panth, the Sikh Nation, Bluestar” of June, 1984, the President, Shiromani Khalistan, Punjab (under the occupation of the Gurdwara Prabhandhak Committee (SGPC), ‘Brahmins-Hindus’ of the alleged Indian SGPC’S membership at large, members of the democracy, since August 15th, 1947), the Guru Akali Dal Badal Private Limited Incorporation, the Khalsa Panth have many ‘Mir Zaffers’. These Mir Chief Minister Prakash Sinh Badal (he has/had Zaffers are Master Tara Singh (please see been an agent of the Research and Analysis Wing “Betrayal of Sikh Nation ny Master Tara Singh (RAW), Dr Jagjit Singh Chouhan, etc., to name a With British Documents of Transfer of Power few, along with supported by a big army of 1947 by Ram Singh 2009, Second edition ISBN jathedars, hymn singers or Keertanyes, 978-0-9811360-6-6, published by The Sikh Kathavaachaks or orators. These all are in the front Educational Trust, with Acknowledgements and A row of the Sikh Nation under the ‘Enslavement of Few Words of Thanks by Dr. Awatar Singh the ‘Brahmins-Hindus’, since August 15th, 1947. Sekhon of Canada), Giani Kartar Singh, Comrade Indeed, the above enjoy their ‘Slavery’ under the Harkishen Surjit (deceased), the traitors of the ‘Brahmins-Hindus’. Best wishes and regards. Sikhs Gurcharan Tohra, Harchand Longowal (both deceased), Balwant Singh (Secretary of Harchand Prakash Sinh Badal, Chief Minister, of the Sikh Logowal), Harjinder Singh Nagra, Balwant Nation, because of the ‘Democracy of the Ramoovalia, Jaswant Bhullar (a retired Maj Gen of Brahmins-Hindus’ have been abusing the Sikh the ‘Brahmins-Hindus’ Indian Army), Sant Singh Nation, keeping the Sikhs’ apex institutions under Maskeen (involved in the ‘excommunication’ of the ‘Tight Control’ of the ‘Brahmins-Hindus’ and Professor Gurmukh Singh of Ambala, jathedar the Akali Dal-Badal Private Limited Incorporation. International Journal of Sikh Affairs 19, No. 2,2009© However, the question is how long? The answer to early 1990s. The prime minister of Canada the question is ‘not’ very long. The Sikh Nation is embarrassed the Sikhs while visiting the Darbar tired of them and that’s why the “Sikhs’ Struggle Sahib Complex on November 19th, 2009. Hon S for Sovereignty, Independence and political Harper ‘refused’ to eat ‘langar’ and take ‘Prasad’, power, has been going on, without interruption, by the blessing of the Almighty. S. Harper’s Sikh peaceful means, since March 14th, 1849.” Prakash members of delegate did not tell him, forgot to tell Sinh Badal’s joe boys and joe girls are just like the him, or they themselves did not know the comedian named ‘Birbal’ in the Emperor Akbar’s ‘significance and importance of the ‘langar’. They time. forgot to tell him that even the Emperor Akbar, of the Mughal Empire, had to sit in the langar to have Just this morning, I saw a disgusting photograph of the ‘langar’ first with the Guru-di- the Canadian Prime Minister with the son of the Congregation/Sangat, before he could have his ‘Sikhs’ Mir Jaffer, Prakash Sinh Badal (The audience with the Guru Sahib, i. e., Guru Amardas Edmonton Journal November 19th, 2009). The ji name of the person who was standing with the Hon S. Harper was Sukhbir Badal. The latter had My dear brother, Habib Sahib, we, indeed have found his way out from the ‘Back door’ of the many “joe boy and joe girls,” who do not know building where he was appearing with Surjit their own Sikh History from the Sikh point of Barnala, another Mir Jaffer of the Sikhs, in the view. What a tragedy, the tragedy of the Slaves, of the ‘Brahmins-Hindus’, means the Chors, Dakkus, Dacoits, Oochakkas and Scoundrels (Means the ‘Brahmins-Hindus’) in the Arabic languages. ***** Dr. Sekhon writes to Hon S. Harper, Prime Minister of Canada: The Hon Sirs, The world in general only knows that “Everything is fine in The following is the dispatch to various e-groups of the India”, and if the lawmakers of Canada say the same, I am Yahoo.com and Googlegroups.com, which have been sent not surprised at all. Also, I am submitting another clip seen in reply to Mr. Habib Yousafzai. One of the paragraphs on the web regarding Prime Minister S. Harper maintaining deals with the recent visit of the Canadian Prime Minister to silence while visiting the Darbar Sahib Complex, Amritsar, India and to the Darbar Sahib Complex (mistakenly known PUNJAB, the Sikh nation. as the Goldren Temple Complex), which includes the Best wishes and warmest regards. Supreme Seat of Sikh Polity, The Akal Takht Sahib. It is NOTE: Dr. Sekhon closed his reply to Janab Habib nothing hidden that the Sikhs’ apex institutions, religious Yousafzai, relating to the ‘Mir Zaffers of the Sikh Nation and political, are under the ‘Tight grip’ of the apartheid (please see p.??). Also, enclosed is the title “Why the practicing alleged Indian democracy. Canadian PM kept Quiet at Amritsar?” ***** Why the Canadian PM Kept Quiet at Amritsar? Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper visited Amritsar Swamsewak Sangh] ideology is the moolmantra or the on Nov. 18. He didn't address the media. This has guiding spirit of Indian governance. immediately reminded me of Queen Elizabeth's visit to Amritsar in 1997. While we now know why Queen was not This policy became the reason for the Queen's silence in allowed to speak I think Harper's silence must have the 1997 and in my opinion is the reason Harper also remained same kind of reasons. silent because of the same approach of Government. We know that most Indian or Hindu’s are a decent, The approach in this case is that Amritsar belongs to the innocent and God fearing people while their rulers are the Sikhs and the Indian Government wants the Sikhs to not get worst kind of crooks. The root of the Indian wicked any encouragement as a separate community. This became governance is the secret guiding policy of the successive known in 1997 after the visit of the Queen to Amritsar governments. Though everybody feels it, its existence has when it was insisted upon that she would not utter a word only been admitted by a retired senior Intelligence Officer while at Amritsar. MK Dhar in his book Open Secrets. The RSS [Rashtriya International Journal of Sikh Affairs 19, No. 2, 56-59, 2009© It so happened that a Punjabi journalist who belonged to Temple look alike (Durgiana Mandir) in her tour. We later BBC revealed all what IK Gujral the then Indian Prime found that the touts of secret agencies were arranging minister confided with him. Gujral told the journalist protests during the queen’s visit. Now again on Harper’s something like this, "Look with great difficulty we have visit a similar kind of protest was arranged for some managed the Sikhs, we don't want any encouragement to incidence of 1914. We therefore have reason to believe that them so queen should avoid Amritsar from her itinerary." it is the Indian Government which might have insisted that But the purely professional journalist revealed it all much the Canadian Prime minister remain silent while at to the embarrassment of Gujral Govt. We remember how in Amritsar. In 1997 I had published "Why Queen Kept 1997 there used to be a threat published daily: "If the Queen Quiet". The same page is republished here along with didn't go to Jallianwala Bagh and didn't apologize for the Harpers visit clippings including 7 photos: 1919 incidence she will witness a flood of blood." There were also threats that she should include the Golden www.punjabmonitor.com/misc/Harper.htm It is really very unfortunate ***** I am an important witness to Bhopal Gas Tragedy (India) B S Goraya, Moderator, Punjab Monitor Those were hard days of my life. We were still under the a week. It was part of my duties to visit the factory where traumatic conditions of anti-Sikh wave and massacre of ever some accident occurs and seize the relevant records. Sikhs in Delhi and elsewhere. In the first week of Nov. a Now I repent what kind of a person I am that I risked my boy from nearby lane had ignited a cracker in front of my life and went to the factory along with my peon Mr. Ajay house but before he could run away I could spot and Aggarwal. My family still criticizes me for this rash identify him. I straightaway went to the house of his father decision. But I remember I had telephoned the management Mr. Mishra who apologzed and the matter did not who said they were right in the premises. When I was in the precipitate. My son (Robol Singh) was born on Oct. 22. factory a rumour broke out that gas has once again leaked We were living in a rented house at a colony called Koh-e- out. My wife immediately telephoned the office only to fiza on Indore road. At the dead of night on Dec. 3, 1984, hear the tragic news that I was in the factory. Obviously I the newly born baby had some trouble. I and my wife woke was then dead for the people. But I was alive since it was a up to hear unusual vehicular noise on the road. We just mere rumour. I then realised that a person's blood does ignored and continued to attend our baby and slept. count in the performance of his duties. I then thought may Early in the morning my south Indian neighbour woke us be I come from army men's family that I am less coward. I up to tell the tragic news of gas leak in Union Carbide thought may be it is because of my Sikh background. factory. I could have an idea of the damage it might have My family also reminds me how in the 1965 war when fire caused because I had heard apprehensions about it in my and bombshells were passing over our heads and when official capacity. entire border village had been evacuated I (then 14 years I was then working as Manager of Employees State boy) stayed back with a few people. I remember how every Insurance office at Bhopal. Industries covered under ESI day we will cook a fresh hen and a remain glued to a radio Act in and around Bhopal were under my charge. Only transistor. Now when I am remembering my past I think about a fortnight before the accident a trade union leader may be my opponents are right who say I am a stupid. Mr. Yadav had brought in my notice how a `time bomb' Bhopal was then a city of rumours. A joke was also current, was lurking on the heads of Bhopalites. "Look in Bhopal gas three things have had no harm: 1. I thought we were all going to die because I thought we Makhi (fly) 2. Machhar (mosquito) and 3. Sardar (the Sikh). must have inhaled the gas and I was aware of the power of I remember one day I was standing in the sun in the open cyanide MIC gas as a killer. But we got the news how on Hamidia Road that a middle aged man shouted, "I want nearby Govt Hospital was full of dead bodies. So I was explanation why no sardar has died in gas? This needs to be relieved because I thought who so ever have inhaled have probed." A mature person Mr. Chorasia (ESI, PF died. The whole Bhopal city was in panic and people had consultant) pacified him and no harm was done to me. A abandoned their houses. We didn't move. Later people week after the incidence cashier Mr. Sidhwani and head commented on me that I was a stupid person who has risked clerk Mr. Jain came to my chamber in a serious mood to tell his life. me that some suspicious person was asking as to where was Not only this. I went to my office and was surprised to see your sardar manager. They were suggesting me to exercise 50% of the staff was on duty. On my way I saw the lawn of caution. I then realised what it means in India being a man Gandhi Medical College and Hospital was full of dead from minority community. Media was emiting poison bodies which were laid in lines. None of my staff member against Sikhs. was living in the gas prone area except our legal adviser Right on those days on an another occasion they had Mr. Shrivastava. We got the news about his death only after informed my that some Intelligence Bureau officer was International Journal of Sikh Affairs 19, No. 2,2009© asking for me. But he left his telephone number asking that disburse genuine claims which otherwise had procedural Goraya should talk to him. I thought they might be taking shortcomings. But I always had grudge against the so called steps about our security in view of the environment. I honest officer who would not exercise their powers. They phoned him. He told his name was Kashyap and he needs would say, "Why should I do?". May be they were honest some information about me as to which place in Punjab I but coward. belonged to. He knew that I owned a Bullet motorcycle Later I have gave up job in 1999 completing 20 years with which I had bought from Delhi and drove to Bhopal some the view that I would get pension but now the touts have months back. I was then realising my stupid youthful come in the way of my pension and my resignation is still actions. I later learnt that some one sought all my not accepted till this date. Yes. It is pending for 10 years particulars from my senior i.e Regional office at Indore. I while they say and shout slogan, "Mera Bharat Mahan." But was still a communist and then started realising that for I think there should be addition to it, it should be, "Mera others I was a staunch Sikh. Bharat Mahan: Tout hamara bhagwan." Jai ho. The other thing I can't forget about the gas tragedy is my B.S.Goraya's Message Archives at: role in the disbursement of claims. I never took bribe from http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Kartarpur/messages the industrial workers. And I cultivated the impression that B.S.Goraya I can exercise my powers to any extent. I had survived the Editor: tragedy naturally my sympathy was with the workers. I thus www.punjabmonitor.com helped them out of the way and even beyond my powers. www.kartarpur.com As a manager I was to compensate their salary which they 60, Diamond Avenue, Majitha Road, Amritsar were loosing by way of this accident. But I could do only in Tel: 0091-9417064262(Mobile) 0091-183- such cases where the worker is sick and for that a medical 2421915(Landline) certificate was needed. But who will bother to give a (Email : [email protected]) certificate when the people were running helter skeltor to From: Sonika Sethi to pressures from the survivors, their supporters and activits We request that you spread the message far and wide and in Bhopal. join hands to ensure that 'No More Bhopal' happens WHEREAS, We are in awe of the courage and anywhere in the world. perseverance of the survivors and activists who continue to be dedicated to the cause of justice in Bhopal and keep the More information: focus on the people suffering from this continuing disaster. Their struggles, marches, fasts and tours that have also 1. 1984 to Now: The Ongoing Disaster in Bhopal brought survivors to Atlanta on two occasions, continue to inspire us. 2. What can you do to get justice to all? WHEREAS, We also recognize that tangible efforts to bring justice are needed to begin to reconcile the events of 3. News stories from google on 25th anniversary 25 years ago and since, and is a necessary step toward healing. WHEREAS, Reconciliation can come only when Justice is Resolution of Remembrance achieved. Bhopal Remembered on the 25th Anniversary of the NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED THAT: World's Worst Chemical Disaster We shall never forget the thousands of people who were Atlanta Area Human Rights Groups Unite in Remembrance killed, directly and indirectly injured, and those who on the 25th Anniversary of the Bhopal Disaster, December continue to be affected by the consequences of the worst 3rd, 2009 industrial event to ever affect humanity. December 3, 2009 We remember with reverence all who have sought justice WHEREAS, On December 3rd 1984, several tons of for the last 25 years. Methyl iscocyanate (MIC) and other poisonous gases We demand justice for the victims and survivors of Bhopal. leaked from the Union Carbide facility in Bhopal exposing We call for the demands of the victims to be met by the more than 500,000 people to the chemicals. corporation (Dow Chemical/Union Carbide) that is WHEREAS, Estimates of those who died within the first responsible for the disaster without any hindrance from the week of the disaster range from 3,800 to 8,000. The US or Indian government. continued effects of the exposure have resulted in 20,000- We call for the demands of the victims to be met by the 25,000 deaths in the last 25 years. local and national Indian government, including their right WHEREAS, Tens of thousands of people, families and to land and water free of contamination. children still suffer from the exposure today. We call for all governments to implement and have the WHEREAS, Tons of hazardous chemicals that Union right to implement effective mechanisms to protect Carbide left around its facility have seeped into the ground humanity from the potential of such a disaster by and local drinking water. Even today, the site is said to be implementing unequivocal laws that prohibit exposing contaminated by "thousands of metric tons of toxic communities to dangers presented by industrial (global or chemicals including lead and mercury." local) production of materials and energy. WHEREAS, Compensation for victims families and health We demand that the accountability of global corporations services to the survivors are shameful and inadequate and must extend globally. do not represent a just outcome of the negligence of Union BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED THAT, we shall be mindful Carbide. that justice, reconciliation, and healing of those affected WHEREAS, Dow Chemical acquired Union Carbide in shall be our overall humanitarian goal. 2001 and refuses to take the responsibilities of Carbide's liabilities in Bhopal, including the clean-up of the Sign here contamination and effects of the ongoing exposure to the -- contamination. Sonika WHEREAS, An outstanding warrant and criminal charges are still pending against the former CEO of Union Carbide, "We're not even handed. We have our own agenda - that of Warren Anderson, and former Union Carbide India Limited political engagement.. . to put an end to the structural employees. violence that keeps the poor poor." - Binayak Sen WHEREAS, We recognize that many strides have been Order 2010 calendars at made and the disaster in Bhopal has not been forgotten due http://calendar. aidindia. org/ ***** International Journal of Sikh Affairs 19, No. 2, 59-60, 2009© JOINT STATEMENT OF Manipur People’s Liberation Front (MPLF), National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB) , National Liberation Front of Twipra (NLFT), Tripura People’s Democratic Front (TPDF) and United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) 09 December 2009 of our Region now engaged in liberation struggles feel betrayed in their hour of need by this act of the Bangladesh government. This Joint Statement is hereby issued in solidarity with ULFA and the peoples of Assam in view of the recent arrest of Chairman However, we of the national liberation forces know that such Rajkhowa and other leaders of ULFA. setbacks are attendant in any liberation struggle. Therefore, we will give maximum effort to overcome such setbacks by our collective wisdom and strength. However, will not in any way After several days of speculations and denials it is now confirmed react in sentimental vengeance. We know that the spirit of that Chairman Rajkhowa and other leaders of ULFA were arrested freedom has always prevailed, even against the strongest power on in Bangladesh by security agencies of that country and earth. And we believe that in the spirit of freedom the people of subsequently handed-over to India. What is the import of this Bangladesh will have sympathy and support for our liberation development? struggle transcending their government’s contrary policies. Certainly, the arrest and hand-over of Chairman Rajkhowa and On the other hand, we would emphasise that the liberation forces other leaders of ULFA by the Bangladesh government has deeply of our Region should not commit any such act that may be hurt the sentiments of the peoples of our Region who contributed construed as open infringement upon the sovereignty of our in no small way to the liberation war effort of Bangladesh in 1971. neighbouring countries and hurt the sentiments of the people It may be recalled that our Region served as the much needed rear concerned. In the same spirit, we consider it unwise to make the base of the Bangladesh liberation war. The peoples of Ass people to people relationship a victim of the anti liberation stance of the government concerned. Meghalaya and Tripura provided generous shelters to hundreds of thousands of Bangladesh freedom fighters. And now our Region Lastly, we appeal to all concerned not to be misled by provides shelter for livelihood to hundreds of thousands of mischievous misinformation propaganda of India. migrant Bangladeshis. It is, therefore, only natural that the peoples “Unite to fight together!” ***** China Protect ‘Gawadar Port’ & topple Indian Plot Dr Shahid Qureshi The London Post "MQM (members) had travelled to India on diplomatic land, and ports are in the jurisdictions of the central governments? passports provided by the Indian government and "were playing In many countries if someone finds a historical treasure on his into the hands of India" General Moin Haider land that becomes property of the state not local council? Surely business community feel pressures from ‘MQM’s jeans- “Silence is betrayal to the Pakistani Nation now”, said a senior bike terrorism’ in Karachi but how far they would go to protect security official. He was talking to me exclusively in the context their business interests and state interests? There is no excuse for of MQM’s agenda and Indian triple game with Pakistan. Dr any individual or media group to let itself used against the national Farooq Sattar leader of the MQM said in ARY TV Channel interests? program on 28th November 2009 with a planted anchor that, The ARY Channels are owned by ‘petty gold smugglers’ who use “…total control of Port (Gawadar) and all the resources gas…” to be ‘gold mules’ smuggling from India during 1970s. The should be handed over to the province. The program was fully question is who were their handlers on the Indian side? Coming loaded with Indo-US propaganda and lines? from a Memon family based close to “Thatati Compound” near Indian Naval Chief, Admiral Sureesh Mehta said in February 2008 ‘Light House Cinema in Karachi the owners have now become that the Gwadar port has "serious strategic implications for India." billionaires in short time? "Being only 180 nautical miles from the exit of the Straits of The Washington Post published a story about their businesses Hormuz, Gwadar, being built in Baluchistan coast, would enable activities. Douglas Farah reported on Tuesday December 19, 2006, Pakistan take control over the world energy jugular and “ARY Gold and Terrorist Finance”, In early 2002, I wrote a story interdiction of Indian tankers," he said. in ‘The Washington Post’, outlining the role Dubai based ARY The Indians and USA are alarmed by the new Chinese plans as Gold had in helping the Taliban and al Qaeda move their assets Indians feel they are encircled by China from three sides - out of Afghanistan before U.S. troops took control. The leader of Myanmar, Tibet and Pakistan. To counter that India has brought ARY Gold, Abdul Razzak, threatened to sue me, but the story Afghanistan and Iran into an ‘unholy’ alliance. prompted a multinational investigation into the company and the India has built Chabahar Port in Sistan-Balochistan province of use of gold and other commodities by terrorists and transnational Iran just adjacent to Gawadar. Gawadar port is also called the criminal organizations. Chinese Gibraltar by US. On the other hand Indians are also On August 30, 2005, ARY's status as an associate member of the helping Iran in building a 200 km road that will connect Chabahar London (Gold) Bullion Market Association was revoked. Razzak's with Afghanistan. There are reports that Indians have used this group of ARY companies (ARY are the initials of its owner, route for military transport into Afghanistan. Abdul Razzak Yacoub, and most of his companies use the name in MQM is backstabbing Pakistan and clearly blackmailing the state? some form) are under investigation for large scale money In many countries including Britain mineral resources in Sea, are, laundering and the operation of illegal ‘hawalas’, or money International Journal of Sikh Affairs 19, No. 2,2009© transfer systems. Razzak is a leader of the Memons, the mankind’’ reported Sonia Trikha, 12th July 2001, The Indian descendants of low-caste Hindus in Pakistan who converted to Express. He further said, “The Two Nation Theory, which argues Islam many years ago”. that Muslims and Hindus are two separate nations which have to By becoming part of ‘View Asia’ an Indian channels package, live separately and is the basis of the creation of Pakistan "was a promoting Indian movies and dramas ARY channels have become farce." part of the Indian propaganda and subliminal conditioning of While sitting in his 40+ staffed MQM International Secretariat in Pakistanis as well as ‘Psychological Warfare’. The channel has London Altaf Hussain want LOC (Line of Control) in Kashmir tracks of Zardari Empire as Javeed Pasha started it; Hussain Lawai should be declared permanent border i.e. forget about 92685 ran/running it? Javeed Pasha is reportedly working for Indian iron killings, 115877 arrests, 15665 home demolitions, by Indian magnet Laksmhi Mittal, who was interested in Pakistan Steel Security Forces, and 22675 widows and 107218 orphans? His Mills. comments on Kashmir are not only unacceptable to Kashmiri It is not a rocket science to inference that MQM (Muthada Qaumi community but also deplorable as mindless. More than 600,000 Movement) and Altaf Hussain are extensions of foreign agencies, Kashmiris are living in the United Kingdom and do not accept his and involved in activities to destabilise Pakistan. On 12th January anti Kashmiri and pro Indian remarks. Altaf Hussain’s views and 2009 MQM tabled a “Provincial Autonomy’ Sine qua non for a comments about Kashmir and Pakistan are very offensive and Federation, Draft Bill for Constitutional Amendments to Provide treacherous. “Pakistan a failed State”, said Syed Tariq Mir, Complete Constitutional Autonomy to Constituent Units”. It is Member of the Central Co-ordination Committee, in the SAPRA, quite strange that a party (MQM–A) which bank on the votes of conference in India in October 2000. people who migrated and some emigrated later from India and had “No one would be allowed to go scot-free after making anti- no roots with any province of Pakistan is allegedly involved in the Pakistan statements” said Interior Minister Lt. Gen (Rtd) Indo-US plot of disintegration of Pakistan. So what will happen to Moinuddin Haider in Lahore on 2nd October 2000. General those who are not Punjabis, Sindis, Baluchis, Pathans, and Haider further said that, “a report has been sought from the Kashmiris living peacefully in Pakistan? Another episode of Pakistan High Commission in India and action would be taken ‘Biharis - Pakistanis’ living camps in now Bangladesh? accordingly”. On Tuesday, 3rd October 2000, the Pakistani “It was 1974 constitution of former Yugoslavia which caused the Information Minister, Javed Jabbar said that the Interior ministry break of the state”, said Antonio Moneo Lain a visiting fellow at was seeking details of the MQM delegation's visit to India. LSE in his lecture at London School of Economics on 2nd “General Moin Haider a Mohajr later told newsmen that the MQM December 2009. I told him that although, “USA is a union of (members) had travelled to India on diplomatic passports provided States but no such facility like choice of becoming independent by the Indian government and "were playing into the hands of country is available to the states as the issue of state autonomy is India." kept vague”. Altaf Hussain did not go to Pakistan but he went to India on his It seems that MQM’s minders have the ‘Soviet Union Model’ in British Passport? MQM workers and local leaders based in mind because in modern times international plotters use Pakistan should make up their minds as: (a) how they want to live constitutional loopholes or constitutional amendments to in Pakistan (b) like a modern political party loyal to the state of disintegrate countries. For example in dismantling of the USSR Pakistan or a mercenary group facilitator of US Black Water or the international plotters used constitutional provisions which had Xe? (c) London based corrupt and compromised leadership will been placed intentionally. The breakup of the USSR was provided never come back to Pakistan (d) MQM should look for a local in two of the Articles of the USSR constitution. Article 70 Stated: leader with local ties and disown mafia of East India Company? “Union of the Soviets Republics is a unitary, federal, multinational While looking at the ingredients like Zardari, Rehman Malik, state, formed on the Free Self Determination of Nations”. Article Salman Farooqi, Wajid Shamsulhassan, Hussain Haqqani, Wajid 72 was more explicit and stated: “Each Union Republic retains the his wife Farah Isphani minder of Zardari in the presidency in right freely to secede from the Union of Soviet Socialist power any sane person would shiver. It is not matter of democracy Republics”. and dictatorship in Pakistan but loyalty and treachery. Corrupt Although a union of States interestingly USA has no such and compromised leadership has learnt the trick of treachery, mechanism available in its constitution and according to US which is: how to by pass the system and get ‘treacherous things experts “the (US) constitutional language is sparse’. It is up to the done by bypassing the system’. For example no one in the current Congress to give meaning to that language”. We all know who regime taking responsibility of allowing private mercenaries of control and got the majority in the Congress? Black Water/ Xe but whole regime is protecting them? Altaf Hussain and MQM do not agree with Pakistan’s stand on Kashmir and also do not recognise the ‘State of Pakistan’ and its (Dr Shahid Qureshi is award winning journalist and writer on legitimacy! Well that is Indian line? Mr Hussain said “Pakistan’s foreign policy & security based in London, creation was a ‘‘mistake’’ and a ‘‘blunder in the history of www.thelondonpost.com) ***** The presented issue is devoted to the D V INC International Journal of Sikh Affairs19, No. 2, 2000© PRINTED IN CANADA ISSN 1481-5435