THE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SIKH AFFAIRS JUNE 2012 Volume 22 No. 1 Published By: The Sikh Educational Trust Box 276, 9768 - 170th St, NW EDMONTON, AB T5T 5L4 CANADA E-mail: <[email protected]> http://www.yahoogroups.com/group/IntJSA ISSN 1481-5435 INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SIKH AFFAIRS JUNE ISSUE VOLUME 22 EDITORIAL ADVISORS Dr S S Dhami, MD Dr B S Samagh Dr Surjit Singh Prof Gurtej Singh, IAS Usman Khalid New York, USA Ottawa, CANADA Williamsville, NY Chandigarh President, Rifah Party of Pakistan J S Dhillon “Arshi” M S Randhawa Dr Sukhjit Kaur Gill Gurmit Singh Khalsa MALAYSIA Ft. Lauderdale, FL CA Chandigarh AUSTRALIA Editor in Chief: Dr Awatar Singh Sekhon The Sikh Educational Trust Box 276, 9768-170th St, NW Edmonton, AB T5T 5L4 E-mail:[email protected] NOTE: Views presented by the authors in their contributions in the journal are their own and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the Editor in Chief, the Editorial Advisors, or the publisher. SUBCRIPTION: Canadian $85.00 per anum plus 5% GST plus postage and handling (by surface mail) for institutions and multiple users. Personal copies: Canadian $30.00 plus & 5% GST plus postage and handling (surface mail). Orders for the current and forthcoming issues may be placed with the Sikh Educational Trust, Box 276, 9768-10 St, NW, EDMONTON, AB T5T 5L4 CANADA. E-mail: [email protected] The Sikh Leaders, Freedom Fighters and Intellectuals To bring an end to tyranny it is a must to punish the terrorist -Baba (General) Banda Singh Bahadar Sikhs have only two options: slavery of the Hindus or struggle for their lost sovereignty and freedom -Sirdar Kapur Singh, ICS, MP, MLA and National Professor of Sikhism I am not afraid of physical death; moral death is death in reality Saint-soldier Jarnail Singh Khalsa Martyrdom is our ornament -Bhai Awtar Singh Brahma (General) We do not fear the terrorist Hindu regime. We are tireless: we shall return home before freedom of Khalistan -General Labh Singh The coward Hindu regime will never achieve our surrender -Baba Gurbachan Singh Manochahal One must have superior morality and lifestyle than the person he is going to punish -Bhai Harjinder Singh Jinda and Bhai Sukhdev Singh Sukha My real life will begin from the moment of my martyrdom for the Panth Bhai Amrik Singh Khalsa The siege of Darbar Sahib is the siege of the Sikh Nation -Justice Ajit Singh Bains No power on the earth can stop the freedom of the Sikh Homeland - -Simranjit Singh Mann, MP Even they dismember my body, I will not surrender before the terrorist police chief KP Gill -Bhai Kanwar Singh Dhami We are alive, we are awakened, we are struggling and we shall surely win -The Declaration of the Sikh Nation The lessons of Guru Gobind Singh ji must be followed. No Sikh, whether a politician, sarpanch or jathedar, should be followed if they do not openly and unequivocally speak out for a free and sovereign Khalistan and encourage a peaceful movement -Dr Gurmit Singh, President, Council of Khalistan, Washington DC The goal of Khalsa Panth is the Sovereigny of Khalistan. The Akali government has backed away from it. It has lost its credibility with the Sikh Nation. Do not let these Akali leaders get away with it. It is our responsibility to liberate Khalistan. -Dr Gurmit Singh Aulakh Freedom is never given, it is won through preservance and struggle by peaceful means -Dr Gurmit Singh Aulakh Akali Party id dead -Dr Harjinder Singh Dilgeer The top priority of the Sikh Nation is to “Re-establish the Sovereignty of the Sikhs' Holy and Historic Homeland, Punjab, Khalistan, by peaceful means.” -Dr Gurmit Singh Aulakh, President, Council of Khalistan, Washington DC PRINTED IN CANADA ISSN 1481-5435 i INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SIKH AFFAIRS JUNE 2012 Volume 22 No. 1 CONTENTS Bharat in Bhasmasur Mode Gurtej Singh 1 The suicidal missionary C Mitra 14 History is repeating Gurtej Singh 17 Badal's formula for everlasting peace in Punjab Gurtej Singh 21 The colded-murder of Jaspal Singh Gurtej Singh 23 Hanera Sinh Badal and the Akali Dal-Badal…. A S Sekhon 25 The capital punishment…the truth to gallows Kirpal Singh Bathinda 26 Rebuttal to Martin Regg Cohen of the Toronto Star K Petersen 30 The Brahmins-Hindus democracy…. A S Sekhon 33 Dr Sekhon's Commentary: My interview…. H Yousafzai 34 Dr Sekhon replies to…the on-going Sikhs' struggle for sovereignty A S Sekhon 37 The 2nd May saga revisited…. Asif Raja 38 Dal Khalsa Alliance and sister Sikh organizations …Memorandum to the UN:HRC 42 Human Rights Violations against minorities in India 47 Centre for Human Rights and Peace Advocacy A S Sekhon 55 United Nations: Human Rights Council (UN:HRC) A S Sekhon 56 Mr Martin Regg Cohen's views…offensive A S Sekhon 57 PUNJABI SECTIONS Balwant Singh Rajoana's letter , 10th August, 2009, to Chief Justice, P & H High Court 60 Ajoki Babbar Kharkoo Lehar Gurtej Singh 61 Bhai Talwinder Singh Babbar Gurtej Singh 66 General Bhullar di Chaumukhi sewa Gurtej Singh 71 Mangia charrhan nu, milia chukan nu Gurtej Singh 81 ***** Call for papers: Submit your contributions, via electronic mail using the MS Office 10 programme, of academic interest only on the Sikh philosophy and the Sikh Affairs. The authors of the accepted contributions for publication will be notified. Note: Opinions and views expressed in the article(s) are of the author(s) and the International Journal of Sikh Affairs, its management and publishers bear no responsibility. RELEASED: 23rd May, 2012 PRINTED IN CANADA ISSN 1481-5435 ii International Journal of Sikh Affairs 22, No. 1, 2012© ISSN 1481-5435 BHARAT IN BHASMASUR MODE Gurtej Singh, IAS & IPS (Formerly) Professor of Sikhism To the Editor, myself well equipped to hold a viable opinion. I had India Today, the opportunity to observe the Sant closely. I hold the 16 January, 2012 point of view that has been vastly appreciated by the Dear Sir, people of the Punjab and the Sikhs scattered all over I have been reading your very readable magazine since the world. I have written several articles on the Sant it started publication. Though it does a good job by since 1982 and have authored a book on him. and large, it consistently fails to treat the Sikh issues I am enclosing a short article for publication. (The fairly. A recent example of the unfair treatment is your complete article is also enclosed). It constitutes a anniversary number dated December 26, 2011. Your response that is well appreciated in knowledgeable article by Chandan Mitra is in extremely bad taste, full circles, I hope it will be possible for you to carry it in of anachronisms, factual mistakes and biased your rightly esteemed magazine at the earliest formulations. His main thrust that Sant Baba Jarnail convenient opportunity. Singh Bhinderanwale was a foreign agent is contrary I am also enclosing the full response which I do not to all evidence available on the subject. I assure you expect to be carried but I do hope it will be read by that everyone doesn’t ascribe to Chandan Mitra’s those responsible for bringing out India Today just to jaundiced view. The facts conclusively prove him have an idea that the other point of view on the subject wrong. exists and may possibly be more balanced than the I have been a keen observer of Punjab politics and the view aired by Mr. Mitra. Punjab situation for decades. I have written several Thanking you. scores of articles and more than half a dozen books on Yours faithfully, these subjects both in Punjabi and in English. I deem Bharat in Bhasmasur Mode Before the events relating to the recent violent Darbar complex and returned to it after committing the suppression of the Akali political agitation are crime although the Darbar was under a constant siege recalled, a few of the established parameters within by the para-military forces for the entire period of the which a meaningful discussion can take place, may be Akali agitation? delineated. It is now settled beyond a doubt, that the Most of the writings on the events of the bloody agitation suppressed by Indira Gandhi backed by the decades have been done by journalists feigning permanent cultural majority’s (pcm) orthodoxy, was ignorance of the political processes. They chose to political in nature and had demands that were perfectly have no perspective of history or of the spiritual legitimate and constitutional. Several times an agreed aspirations of a people as independent as they were upon solution was found to the issues raised. Every entitled to be under the prevalent basic law. The time, the agitating Akali Dal accepted the compromise journalists substituted the lack of skills and and every time Indira Gandhi, the other party, perspective with an ample measure of newly acquired rescinded it. She indicated thereby that she was not in urban snobbery. They appeared to be supporting the favour of a peaceful settlement. Itching for shedding orthodox hegemonic approach of the overwhelming Sikh blood, she aimed at escalating it into a Sikh pcm wedded to solving every political problem agitation. The only rationale given for the army attack violently according to its tradition. The resultant on the Guru’s Darbar at Amritsar was that India academic discourse is vitiated by ample contempt for wanted to put an end to militant activity supposedly the supposedly ‘less intelligent --- rural underclass,’ originating in the shrine. This was factually incorrect vitriolic language with destructive intent is thrown in as forty other shrines were also attacked.