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CONGRESSIONAL RECORD— Extensions of Remarks E394 HON. DAN BURTON E394 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — Extensions of Remarks March 17, 2004 The Council of Khalistan recently put out an ment in Punjab’s history. His government glot empire thrown together under one roof open letter to the Sikhs in Punjab, Khalistan. was so corrupt, they even came up with a for the administrative convenience of the They called for Sikhs to use these elections to new term for bribery: ‘‘fee for service.’’ If British colonialists. It has 18 official lan- you didn’t pay the fee, you didn’t get the elect officeholders who are committed to free- guages. History shows that such countries service. The Badal family was so adept at re- are doomed to fall apart. India will collapse ing the Sikh homeland, Khalistan. ceiving bribes that Mrs. Badal could tell how just like the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the Mr. Speaker, this is the only way to end the much money was in a bag just by picking it Soviet Union, and other multinational states repression that has killed over 250,000 Sikhs up! We are pleased that Chief Minister such as Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia. since 1984, with more than 52,000 being held Amarinder Singh is prosecuting the Badal The Indian government has murdered over as political prisoners. Some of the prisoners family for its corruption. Clearly, the Akalis 250,000 Sikhs since 1984, according to figures are army officers who refused to participate in do not merit the Sikh Nation’s support. compiled by the Punjab State Magistracy the brutal military attack on the seat of the Badal also broke his campaign promises of and human rights groups and published in 1997. He promised to release all the political Inderjit Singh Jaijee’s excellent book, The Sikh religion, the Golden Temple, in 1984. prisoners. Yet according to the Movement Others are simply those who participated Politics of Genocide. India has killed over Against State Repression (MASR), the In- 300,000 Christians in Nagaland since 1947 and peacefully in the movement to liberate dian regime admitted to holding 52,268 Sikhs murdered priests, raped nuns, burned church- Khalistan. as political prisoners. They are being held es, and destroyed Christian schools and pray- India claims to be a democratic country. It without charge or trial, some of them since er halls. They expelled missionary Joseph also claims that there is no support for 1984! How can a democratic state hold polit- Cooper from the country after militant Khalistan. Why not simply hold a vote on the ical prisoners? He promised to punish police Hindu nationalists beat him up so badly that issue, the democratic way? Instead, this coun- officials who have committed atrocities he had to be in the hospital for a week. Mis- try that loudly proclaims that it is secular and against Sikhs since 1984. No such action was sionary Graham Staines and his two young democratic imposes the most brutal repression ever taken. Where is the punishment of sons were burned to death while sleeping in Swaran Singh Ghotna, who murdered their jeep by a mob of militant Hindus on the Sikhs and other minorities such as Jathedar Gurdev Singh Kaunke? Where is Christians in Nagaland and elsewhere, Mus- chanting ‘‘Victory to Hannuman,’’ a Hindu the punishment of the police officers who god. Since they were allied with the pro-Fas- lims in Kas-hmir and throughout the country, kidnapped and murdered Sardar Jaswant cist RSS, the parent organization of the rul- Tamils, Dalit ‘‘Untouchables,’’ Bodos, Assam- Singh Khalra? He promised to appoint a ing BJP, they were able to commit this ese, Manipuris, and others. commission to study the human-rights viola- atrocity with impunity. Muslims were mas- I join with the Council of Khalistan in urging tions against the Sikhs. Yet when such a sacred in Gujarat while the police were the Sikhs and all the minorities suffering under commission was formed by concerned Sikhs, under orders to stand aside and let the mas- Indian oppression to vote for honest can- he used the power of government to shut it sacre occur, a frightening parallel to the 1984 down and deny it a meeting place. Delhi massacres of Sikhs. A policeman told didates committed to freedom for their people. The Congress Party is no better. It is the This is the best thing that they can do to free an Indian newspaper that the Gujarat mas- party that invaded and desecrated the Gold- sacre was planned in advance by the govern- themselves from this brutal tyranny. en Temple and 125 other Sikh Gurdwaras We can help by stopping American aid to ment. throughout Punjab in June 1984 to murder India is a fundamentalist Hindu theocracy, India until all people’s basic human rights are Sant Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale and 20,000 not secular or democratic at all. Remember respected and by declaring our support for a other Sikhs, including General Shabeg what Narinder Singh, a spokesman for the free and fair plebiscite on the question of inde- Singh, Bhai Amrik Singh, and over 100 Sikh Golden Temple, told America’s National pendence. These measures will press India to religious students ages 8–13 who were taken Public Radio in 1997: ‘‘The Indian govern- begin living up to the democratic values that out into the courtyard and shot. If Sikhs will ment, they are always boasting that they are not even protect the sanctity of the Golden they so loudly proclaim. democratic, that they are secular. They have Temple, how can the Sikh Nation survive as nothing to do with a secularism, nothing to I would like to place the Council of a nation? No conscientious Sikh can support Khalistan’s message to the Sikh Nation re- do with a democracy. They just kill Sikhs the Congress Party. It is the enemy of the just to please the majority.’’ On December 5, ECORD garding the elections into the R at this Sikh Nation. President Bush told me ‘‘I am aware of the time. Sikhs must speak for, work for, and vote Sikh and Kashmiri problem.’’ COUNCIL OF KHALISTAN, for candidates committed to freeing our Soon Kashmir will be free from Indian oc- Washington, DC, March 2, 2004. homeland, Punjab, Khalistan, from Indian cupation. Now America is involved in it. As occupation. Let us take this opportunity to Open Letter to the Sikh Nation L.K. Advani predicted, ‘‘When Kashmir goes, put people in office who will work for Sikh India goes.’’ We agree with him and we urge PUNJAB ELECTIONS SET FOR MAY 10 OPPOR- freedom and will work to give the Sikh Na- TUNITY FOR SIKH NATION TO CLAIM FREEDOM the Indian government to hold a free and fair tion a free and fair plebiscite on freedom for plebiscite on the question of independence CHOOSE HONEST LEADERSHIP COMMITTED TO Khalistan. and to sit down with representatives of the SIKH FREEDOM—DON’T MISS THIS PEACEFUL, Sarbjit Singh, the son of Sikh martyr Sikh Nation to negotiate the boundaries of a DEMOCRATIC OPPORTUNITY TO LIBERATE Beant Singh, has been given a ticket in a re- sovereign, independent Khalistan. Sikhs KHALISTAN served constituency in Bhatinda by the must use the upcoming elections to elect Akali Dal (Amritsar.) He deserves the sup- DEAR KHALSA JI: WAHEGURU JI KA representatives who will make certain that port of Sikh voters, but Sikhs should not KHALSA, WAHEGURU JI KI FATEH! India does that. Sikhs must claim their Elections in Punjab have been set for May support Simranjit Singh Mann, who changes birthright by liberating Khalistan. Only by 10. This is an opportunity for Sikhs to install his colors on Khalistan almost daily. Mann freeing Khalistan will we put an end to this honest, dedicated leadership. Choose only is under the control of the Indian govern- corruption and restore control of Punjab and leaders who are committed to Khalsa Raj. ment, as shown by his letter to the Chief its assets to the people, to whom it right- Only when Khalistan is free can Sikhs live in Justice of India, which is reprinted in the fully belongs. A sovereign, independent prosperity, security, and dignity. Only when book Chakravyuh: Web of Indian Secularism, Khalistan is a must for the survival of the Khalistan is free of Indian occupation can by Professor Gurtej Singh. Mann has been in Sikh Nation and will provide an optimal en- Punjab’s farmers get a fair price for their Parliament for the past few years. What has vironment for the Sikh Nation to progress to crops. Only when Khalistan is free will our he done to advance the cause of Sikh free- its optimum potential politically, reli- water stop being diverted to nonriparian dom? Has he even made a single speech on giously, and economically. Let us take this states. We must do everything that we can to behalf of freeing our homeland? opportunity to free Khalistan. free our homeland, Punjab, Khalistan, from We call on distinguished Sikh leaders such Panth Da Sewadar, Indian occupation. These elections provide as Justice Ajit Singh Bains, General DR. GURMIT SINGH AULAKH, an opportunity to reclaim our freedom demo- Narinder Singh, Professor Gurdarshan Singh President, Council of Khalistan. cratically and peacefully. Dhillon, Professor Gurtej Singh, former MP The Guru granted sovereignty to the Sikh Atinder Pal Singh, and others to run them- f Nation, saying ‘‘In Grieb Silkhin Ko Deon selves or find candidates who reflect their Patshahi.’’ The Sikh Nation must achieve its views. And we call on them to give a ticket DISTURBING STATEMENTS OUT OF independence to fulfill the mandate of the to deserving, educated political prisoners. EL SALVADOR Guru.
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