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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 Pal 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
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CONTENTS
Treatment of other nations and minorities in India after decolonization Gurtej Singh, IAS 1 Indira Gandhi...... Unknown Facts!!! Avreet Kaur Grewal 2 Kashmiris in Delhi — Police commit four crimes in a row today 4 Preplanned Genocide of Sikhs by the Brahmins-Hindus elected forces (law makers) 7 Dr Sekhon asks questions to Bhai Amarjit Singh 9 Sirdar Gurmit Singh Khalsa of Australia writes 10 Shattered Heroes: Gandhi's Dark Side" Nannette Ricaforte 11 Fanatacism biggest hurdle in the spread of A S Sekhon 12 The 23rd United Nations Human Rights Council, Violations against women 27th May - 14th June, 2013 A S Sekhon 14 The UN:HRC June 2013 : A S Sekhon 15 Agenda Items 4, 5, & 7; Inter-Cultural & Inter-Religion Forum A S Sekhon 16 The 24th Session of the United Nations: Human Rights Council, September 9th – 27th, 2013 17 Agenda Items 4, 5 & 3 A S Sekhon Dr Sekhon writes to Sardar Simranjit Singh Mann, President, Akali Dal (Amritsar) 21 The 24th Session of the United Nations:Human Rights Council, Geneva, Switzerland, 22 9th – 27th September, 2013: Dr Sekhon Comments on 19th September, 2014
Dr Sekhon responds to Balbir Singh Sooch's concerns and comments 24 Sikhs and Sikh Diaspora in the Brahmins-Hindus' Chakravyuh alias The Vicious Cycle Awatar Singh Sekhon 25 Passage of the Indian armed personnel and armed hardware to the IDA:JK' border with the People's Republic of China A S Sekhon 27 India: the Story You Never Wanted to Hear By Rose Chasm 28 Former Indian spies explain why they went to Pakistan 30 Who is the writer of a few lines in PUNJAB MONITOR? A S Sekhon 31 Hindu terrorism exposed Asif H Raja 32 Defence of Pakistan day Asif H Raja 36 Twenty-nine and one-half (29.5-year) and 29-year After the Sikh Genocides in the Predominantly Brahmins-Hindus India A S Sekhon 37 Memoradum submitted: The 23rd Session of the United Nations:: Human Rights Council, By the Dal Khalsa Alliance (USA), June 2013 39
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Treatment of other nations and minorities in India after decolonization
Gurtej Singh, IAS & IPS (Formerly) Professor of Sikhism
Ever since the decolonization of India, successive To permanently subjugate the Sikhs, she organised the Third governments formed by the permanent cultural majority Agency, outside the normal administrative machinery, to (PCM) have been working to wipe other nations and administer periodic decimation of the Sikhs. minorities (ONAM) out of existence by employing the state She was fully supported by the entire PCM keen on apparatus. establishing the Hindu empire. In the six centuries of their existence, the Sikhs have played a She enacted illegal laws to suppress the Sikhs major role in upholding and defending freedom, in removing Worst of all, she brought the Supreme Court of India on board hunger and in promoting rational, egalitarian and all- The slavish bureaucracy was only too willing to serve the inclusive political ideas. Their part in removing hunger is empress today recognized by Mongolia, Ethiopia, Argentina and half a Her policy and the machinery she erected has by now killed 2, dozen other nations who have requested the government of 50, 000 Sikhs India to send Sikh farmers to repeat the miracle. It is well Experience of the Sikhs since 1984 is that although the known that in 1710, 80 years ahead of the French Revolution, repressive machinery is highly camouflaged, it is efficient they (the Sikhs) established the first “People's Republic” and is doing its macabre job continuously. Its achievements known to history. Their sound civilizational approach is so far have been: likely to impact the development of a new man to promote Religious and political collaborators have been imposed as universal culture. leaders upon the Sikhs. The Sikhs believe they have thereby earned the right to Charlatans of all hues including those of rival faiths, and continued existence. detractors are receiving official patronage In India, the Sikhs are targeted for annihilation. They have The Punjab is inundated with drugs and alien population to more than their share of the intense hatred that the PCM destroy the local youth and the culture harbours for the ONAM. River waters of the Punjab are drained away to non-riparian, From 1900-1947, the Sikhs had supported the development Hindu majority states of a federal constitution for India. It envisaged sovereign Some the judicial pronouncements of the Supreme Court that federating units, weak centre and proportional representation have become the law of the land are significant: to the ONAM. This was included in the Fundamental 1. In Bal Patil v Union of India, the Supreme Court has ruled Resolution of the constituent assembly and in the first draft of that the complete obliteration of minorities is the state policy the constitution. and the agency for it is the National Commission for Everything suddenly changed as the British left India on Minorities which has been set up officially to protect them August 15, 1947. 2. The Bachan Singh case lays down criteria of 'rarest of rare The new constitution became highly centralized with cases' for inflicting capital punishment. It is a nebulous severely limited powers to federating units. Proportional concept and always works to condemn to death the leaders of representation and cultural autonomy were dispensed with. the ONAM who challenge the domination of the PCM. The constitution established a Hindu colonial empire in place (Davinderpal Singh Bhullar, Jagtar Singh Hawara, Balwant of the British. Singh Rajoana Jaspal Singh are some examples). Article 25 declared the Sikhs, Jains and Buddhists to be Its twin is the doctrine of satisfying the 'conscience of the Hindus. people' (which is a function of the government everywhere Sanskrit the long dead language of Hindu scriptures was to be else). Both work to afford relief to the of criminals of the PCM promoted. commit crimes to suppress the ONAM and as efficiently Hindu[Hindi] was adopted as the national language instead of work to pin down leaders of the ONAM who oppose tyranny Hindustani, the people's language of the majority. Protection of cow, animal sacred to Hindus, was made the 3. Two cases of Balwant Singh Bhullar and Sarwan Singh are state policy Soon Hindu personal laws were adopted The instructive. Sarwan Singh was killed in police custody. Sikhs started agitating peacefully to bring the constitution Investigation report of the Sessions Judge confirmed it. The nearest to the universally approved first draft in which most Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of India and two judges of the earlier promises had been redeemed. saw the report, exonerated the police and ordered the report to Theirs was the only political party which opposed the be sealed without showing it to the parties. It could not be assumption of the dictatorial powers by Indira Gandhi in an used for 15 years. When the seal was finally removed in organised manner by courting arrests regularly on every February 2013 the truth was revealed. single day of the 19 months of the 'emergency [suspension Balwant Singh Multani and two others were made to Civil Liberties]' (February 1975-1977). disappear by the police. An enquiry by the CBI [Central Indira Gandhi decided to pander to the rising sentiment for Bureau of Investigation] revealed the crime. A case of double formally converting India into a Hindu empire. She found it murder was registered. served her dynastic ambitions better. She further decided to The SCI disapproved the procedure leading to the enquiry raise the Hindu empire on the blood of the Sikhs, who had and ordered the cancellation of the case “in consequence” of been constantly agitating for a democratic polity since 1947. defective procedure. Since the crime had been revealed, the
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SC [Supreme Court] had no jurisdiction to prevent minorities, being implemented in India. Injustice is palpable. investigation. A simple reading of the constitution, an elementary analysis In both cases, the Supreme Court protected the criminal cases of the pronouncements of the higher Indian judiciary, along and sanctioned the murder of innocent Sikhs suspected to be with the observation of the implementation (or non- pursuing Sikh concerns. Numerous cases of the kind can be implementation) of prevalent laws, a study of the bias of the quoted. executive and the legislature, suffices to tell the whole story. It has, by such decisions, created a class of citizens who have Efforts are needed to bring this to the notice of the world at no protection of the laws and has made advocacy of Sikh large. Perhaps the existence of an independent mechanism to causes punishable with death. watch and analyse the situation will act as a deterrent. Also the In the last two years dozens of leaders have been jailed on need for an international-conflict-resolving-machinery to false charges of violence. Three of the more prominent ones entertain complaints, to advertise them sufficiently and to are, Daljit Singh Bittoo, Narain Singh and Kulbir Singh nudge the concerned nations to address them, cannot be Barapind. The police have killed several in cold blood. Two overemphasised. It promises to bring relief to victims of prominent examples are Jaspal Singh and Kulwant Singh. mindless aggression and will remove threats to potent By constitutionally declaring the Sikhs to be Hindus, by cultures and to productive people. Maybe there is also a case destroying their places of worship at will, by periodically for sponsoring bodies and individuals inside the conflict decimating the Sikh population, by killing or incarcerating zones who can constantly pass on authentic information, their leaders and by foisting political and religious which can (to) be processed by the watchdog bodies of the collaborators upon them to guide their destinies, by UN. Maybe a simple solution can be a UN administered inundating their homeland with people of an alien culture and media centre in conflict zones to advertise the malicious drugs, by constantly carrying on adverse propaganda against intent. them through the controlled media and by several such Guided by an incomparable scripture, the Guru Granth Sahib, measures, the Sikh people have been reduced to the position and by the Order of the Khalsa, the Sikhs reaffirm their of slaves. Their homeland, the Punjab is rendered a veritable divinely ordained spiritual goal to ever stand by the worthy colony. Despite all this, India is able to dodge international mission of helping to create a harmonious tension free treaty obligations and to ignore the covenants it has signed. universal human society. The Sikhs and their scripture have Those it is refusing to sign are even more significant – for contributed much to the concept and have much more to instance, the Convention on Enforced Disappearances and contribute. We hope, with help from civilised societies Torture. It refuses to place a moratorium on the death penalty. everywhere, no bigotry or savagery will suffice to cut short The Sikhs being less than 2% of the country's population are this wholly benign world ameliorating cultural experiment, not able to cope with the might of the world's fourth largest launched by the Order of the Khalsa for the first time in military power and the prevailing ample, everlasting hatred history. for them. They expect help from international bodies such as [Read at the 24th Session of the UNHRC Geneva, on the UN Human Rights Council. Nations need to become September 19, 2013] aware of the scheme for the elimination of other nations and
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INDIRA GANDHI...... UNKNOWN FACTS!!! Unknown Facts of Indira Gandhi - interesting. Avreet Kaur Grewal
Indira Priyadarshini perpetuated immorality in the Nehru So, Nehru asked the young man Feroze Khan to change his dynasty. Intellectual Indira was admitted in Oxford surname from Khan to Gandhi. It had nothing to do with University but driven out from there for non-performance. change of religion from Islam to Hinduism. It was just a case She was then admitted to Shantiniketan University but, Guru of a change of name by an affidavit. And so Feroze Khan Dev Rabindranath Tagore chased her out for bad conduct. became Feroze Gandhi, though it is an inconsistent name like After driven out of Shantiniketan, Indira became lonely as Bismillah Sarma. Both changed their names to fool the public father was busy with politics and mother was dying of of India. When they returned to India, a mock Vedic marriage tuberculosis in Switzerland. Playing with her loneliness, was instituted for public consumption. Thus, Indira and her Feroze Khan, son of a grocer named Nawab Khan who descendants got the fancy name Gandhi. Both Nehru and supplied wines etc. to Motilal Nehru's household in Gandhi are fancy names. As a chameleon changes its colour, Allahabad, was able to draw close to her. The then Governor this dynasty have been changing its name to hide its real of Maharashtra, Dr Shriprakash warned Nehru, that Indira identity. was having an illicit relation with Feroze Khan. Feroze Khan Indira Gandhi had two sons namely Rajiv Gandhi and Sanjay was then in England and he was quite sympathetic to Indira. Gandhi. Sanjay was originally named as Sanjiv that rhymed Soon enough she changed her religion, became a Muslim with Rajiv, his elder brother's name. Sanjiv was arrested by woman and married Feroze Khan in a London mosque. Indira the British police for a car theft in the UK and his passport was Priyadarshini Nehru changed her name to Maimuna Begum. seized. On Indira Gandhi's direction, the then Indian Her mother Kamala Nehru was totally against that marriage. Ambassador to UK, Krishna Menon misusing his power, Nehru was not happy as conversion to Muslim will jeopardize changed his name to Sanjay and procured a new passport. her prospect of becoming Prime Minister. Thus Sanjiv Gandhi came to be known as Sanjay Gandhi.
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It is a known fact that after Rajiv's birth, Indira Gandhi and Imperial College, London but, again left it without a degree. Feroze Gandhi lived separately, but they were not divorced. K. N. Rao in the above said book alleges that Rajiv Gandhi The book The Nehru Dynasty (ISBN 10:8186092005) by K. became a Catholic to marry Sania Maino. Rajiv became N. Rao states that the second son of Indira (or Mrs Feroze Roberto. His son's name is Raul and daughter's name is Khan) known as Sanjay Gandhi was not the son of Feroze Bianca. Quite cleverly the same names are presented to the Gandhi. He was the son of another Muslim gentleman named people of India as Rahul and Priyanka. Mohammad Yunus. In personal conduct Rajiv was very much a Mughal. On 15th Interestingly Sanjay Gandhi's marriage with the Sikh girl August 1988 he thundered from the ramparts of the Red Fort: Menaka took place in Mohammad Yunus house in New Delhi. Our endeavour should be to take the country to heights to Apparently Yunus was unhappy with the marriage as he which it belonged about 250-300 years ago. It was then the wanted to get him married with a Muslim girl of his choice. It reign of Aurangzeb, the jeziya master and number one temple was Mohammad Yunus who cried the most when Sanjay destroyer. Gandhi died in plane crash. In Yunus book, Persons, Passions The press conference that Rajiv Gandhi gave in London after & Politics (ISBN-10: 0706910176) one can discover that taking over as prime minister of India was very informative. baby Sanjay was circumcised following Islamic custom. In this press conference, Rajiv boasted that he is not a Hindu It is a fact that Sanjay Gandhi used to constantly blackmail his but a Parsi. Feroze Khan's father and Rajiv Gandhi's paternal mother Indira Gandhi, with the secret of who his real father is. grandfather was a Muslim gentleman from the Junagadh area Sanjay exercised a deep emotional control over his mother, of Gujarat. This Muslim grocer by the name of Nawab Khan which he often misused. Indira Gandhi chose to ignore his had married a Parsi woman after converting her to Islam. This misdeeds and he was indirectly controlling the Government. is the source where from the myth of Rajiv being a Parsi was When the news of Sanjay Gandhi's death reached Indira derived. Mind that he had no Parsi ancestor at all. His paternal Gandhi, her first question was Where are his keys and his grandmother had turned Muslim after having abandoned the wrist watch? Some deep secrets about the Nehru-Gandhi Parsi religion to marry Nawab Khan. Surprisingly, Parsi Rajiv dynasty seems to be hidden in those objects. The plane Gandhi was cremated as per Vedic rites in full view of Indian accident was also mysterious. It was a new plane that public. nosedive to a crash and yet the plane did not explode upon Dr Subramanian Swamy writes that Sonia Gandhi's name was impact. It happens when there is no fuel. But the flight register Antonia Maino. Her father was a mason. He was an activist of shows that the fuel tank was made full before take-off. Indira the notorious fascist regime of Italy and he served five years Gandhi using undue influence of PM's office prohibited any imprisonment in Russia. Sonia Gandhi have not studied inquiry from taking place. So, who is the suspect? beyond high school. She learnt some English from an English The book The Life of Indira Nehru Gandhi (ISBN: teaching shop named Lennox School at the Cambridge 9780007259304) by Katherine Frank sheds light on some of University campus. From this fact she boasts of having Indira Gandhi's other love affairs. It is written that Indira's studied at the prestigious Cambridge University. After first love was with her German teacher at Shantiniketan. Later learning some English, she was a waitress at a restaurant in she had affair with M. O. Mathai (father's secretary), then Cambridge town. Dhirendra Brahmachari (her yoga teacher) and at last with Sonia Gandhi had intense friendship with Madhavrao Scindia Dinesh Singh (Foreign Minister). in the UK, which continued even after her marriage. One Former Foreign Minister K Natwar Singh made an interesting night at 2 AM in 1982, Madhavrao Scindia and Sonia Gandhi revelation about Indira Gandhi's affinity to the Mughals in his were caught alone together when their car met an accident book Profile and Letters (ISBN: 8129102358). It states that- near IIT Delhi main gate. In 1968 Indira Gandhi as the Prime Minister of India went on When Indira Gandhi and Rajiv Gandhi were Prime Ministers, an official visit to Afghanistan. Natwar Sing accompanied her PM's security used to go to New Delhi and Chennai as an IFS officer in duty. After having completed the day's international airports to send crates of Indian treasures like long engagements, Indira Gandhi wanted to go out for a ride temple sculptures, antiques, paintings etc. to Rome. Arjun in the evening. After going a long distance in the car, Indira Singh as CM and later as Union Minister in charge of Culture Gandhi wanted to visit Babur's burial place, though this was used to organize the plunder. Unchecked by customs, they not included in the itinerary. The Afghan security officials were transported to Italy to be sold in two shops named Etnica tried to dissuade her, but she was adamant. In the end she went & Ganpati, owned by Sonia Gandhi's sister Alessandra Maino to that burial place. It was a deserted place. She went before Vinci. Babur's grave, stood there for a few minutes with head bent Indira Gandhi died not because her heart or brain were pierced down in reverence. Natwar Singh stood behind her. When by bullets, but she died of loss of blood. After Indira Gandhi Indira had finished her prayers, she turned back and told was fired upon, Sonia Gandhi strangely insisted that bleeding Singh Today we have had our brush with history. Worth to Indira Gandhi should be taken to Dr Ram Manohar Lohia mention that Babur was the founder of Mughal rule in India, Hospital, in opposite direction to AIIMS which had a from which the Nehru-Gandhi dynasty have descended. contingency protocol to precisely deal with such events. After It is difficult to count how many institutes of higher education reaching Dr Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital, Sonia Gandhi are named after Rajiv Gandhi but, Rajiv Gandhi himself was a changed her mind and demand that Indira Gandhi should be person of low calibre. From 1962 to 1965, he was enrolled for taken to AIIMS, thus wasting 24 valuable minutes. It is a Mechanical Engineering course at Trinity College, doubtful whether it was immaturity of Sonia Gandhi or a trick Cambridge. But, he left Cambridge without a degree because, to speedily bring her husband to power. he could not pass exams. Next year in 1966, he joined *****
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Sardar Gurmit Singh Khalsa writes:
Dear Mr Singh, Waheguru jee ka Khalsa Waheguru jee kee Fateh! (1) 27 March 1970 to 14 June 1971, followed by (2) 1977-1980, Perhaps, you may be knowing that with the cooperation and (3) 1997-2002, (4) 2007-2012 and now Fifth time from 14 March encouragement of Late Partap Singh Kairon (Congress Political 2012...... During his long inning, he and his son have acquired a Leader and CM Punjab), Shri Parkash Singh Badal was elected to lot of black money and assets. Hence they can buy any person, the Punjab Legislature Assembly in 1957 as a Congress organization, cult, etc. Most their stooges are involved in candidate. After the dismissal of Kairon in 1964, Badal could not robberies, drugs, alcoholic business supported by all the five get any boost athis own. But when Punjab Government was evils. Since the Central Government has also been involved in shaky under Justice Gurnam Singh and Laschman Singh Gill, such shoddy deals, they have become Bhai Bhai like olden days Shri Badal sought refuge under Jan Sangh and became CMfrom India-China Bhai Bhai !! If Nehru/Gandhi family at the Centre, Badal family in Punjab. *****
Kashmiris in Delhi — Police commit four crimes in a row today The Milli Gazette Online / Delhi police sabotages hunger strike, arrests Yasin Malik, cancels press conference and forcibly prevents 150 Kashmiris from protesting
New Delhi (May 3 2013): Delhi police today committed four the suppression of all dissenting voices. This is the first time the crimes in a row: it cancelled the two-day hunger strike led by Press Club of India canceled such an event at the venue in the JKLF chief Yasin Malik against brutalities in Kashmir and the name of 'protecting sentiments'. Further, the officials, along with press to demand the release of the body of Afzal Guru which lies the Delhi Police and right wing organizations gathered at the buried inside Delhi's Tihar jail. The second crime was to arrest venue, bodily pushed and heckled Vara Vara Rao and others Yasin Malik, torture him and pack him to Srinagar where he has attending the Press Conference. been admitted in a hospital. Delhi Police's third crime was to Vara Vara Rao said to the press, “Today, while Jantar Mantar has prevail upon the Press Club of India management to cancel the been shut for the democratic right to protest, now even the Press booking for a press conference today at 3:30 pm and the fourth Club of India has been shut to our fundamental right to freedom of crime was to forcibly prevent 150 Kashmiri victims and relatives, expression.” He added, “The Press, which is supposed to be the victims, men, women and children, to proceed to the Press Club fourth pillar of democracy, has fallen prey to the control of the of India from Jamia Nagar to take part in the press conference. Indian State, its Police force and the right wing organizations.” In This led them to sit in protest outside A-72 Abul Fazal Enclave light of this, we see the clear collusion of the Indian State, the (Next to Jamia Nagar Police Station, Delhi) where they are Police, and the right wing forces to suppress all voices of dissent. putting up during their stay in Delhi. Women and children held Aam Aadmi Party cadres were seen holding placards wearing placards condemning Indian brutality in Kashmir and demanding party-caps along with many other right wing organizations and the return of their husbands, sons and fathers who have simply did not allow this press conference to take place. “disappeared” in Kashmir after their arrest or kidnap by the The press conference was called in protest of the arrest of Yasin security forces. Malik as well as the denial to express the anguish of hundreds of For more information please contact Dr SAR Geelani, chairman Kashmiri families through the democratic means of protest in the of the Committee for Release of Political Prisoners at 0- form of a two-day hunger strike at Jantar Mantar. These Kashmiri 9810081228 or thearrested1[@]gmail.com families have been victims of persecution as members of their Meanwhile the Committee for Release of Political Prisoners family have either been the target of forced disappearances or issued the following statement after the Press Club of India have been languishing in Indian jails for many years and in some prevented them from holding the press conference: cases even decades. Not only were the democratic right to protest and their demand the for the release of these political prisoners Press Statement denied, these families are also being harassed by the Delhi Police, We, the undersigned, wish to express our outrage at the manner in threatened with arrest, surrounded and detained by the police which the Press Club of India canceled the booking of the Press force. Conference called to condemn the illegal detention of Yasin We strongly condemn the decision to cancel the booking at the Malik and the refusal to allow the fundamental right of Press Club of India by the Press Club officials, the Delhi Police democratic protest to Kashmiris (families of victims of under the instructions of the Indian State. “disappearances” and those languishing in jails over years) at SAR Geelani, Vara Vara Rao, G N Saibaba and others. Jantar Mantar today. Under the clear instructions of the Indian Committee for Release of Political Prisoners State, the Press Club officials (themselves journalists) canceled thearrested1[@]gmail.com the booking for the Press Conference at the last minute. The officials used the language of the state by branding it 'anti- Working President: SAR Geelani (09810081228) national' which again is the language of the Indian State to justify Public Relations Secretary: Rona Wilson (09810149990) *****
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Dr Awatar Singh Sekhon responds to Janab Yousafzai's posting; http://www.firstpost.com/india/patriotism-and-a-govt-job- Janab Bhai Sahib Habib ji, former-spies-explain-why-they-went-to-pakistan-746293.html Aslaam O Alaikum!
Thanks for you write up on the Sikhs. I wish to put a few May 2, 2013 - points quite clear, i.e., "to put a horse before a cart":
1. Indian Constitution Article 25, Sikhs are homogenized under In 2004, authorities of Lahore's Kot Lakhpat prison reprimanded the Hindu (neither a religion nor a culture, according to several Hindu academics, including JL Nehru in his title Discovery of Sarabjit Singh. Singh's transgression was that he hugged a fellow India and Sir VT Rajshekar, Editor in Chief, Dalit Voice, Mangalore) religion; Sikhism is not even a recognized religion in inmate, Karamat Rahi, who had also been arrested by Pakistan on India, because the deceitful Brahmins-Hindus and their -ism DO charges of espionage. A native of Punjab's Gurdaspur district, NOT know that the Sikhism is the 5th largest Religion of the world and is the Sikh Culture as well. Rahi had been vocal about his rights inside the prison and outside.
2. As far as Master Tara Singh (born in a Brahmin family, grew up “They thought that I would influence Sarabjit,” said Rahi, who in a Khatri Hindu family, converted as a Sikh, and to disgrace to returned to India in 2005, while recalling his last meeting with the Sikhs became the Akali (Kaali) leader) is concerned, he was loyal to the Hindus-Brahmins cause. Singh. While Singh passed away following a brutal attack in jail
3. It was a conspiracy of the Brahmin-Hindu's press to last week, others like Rahi live on to narrate the tale of Indian disseminate that he burned the Muslim league flag in Lahore on spies who have worked in Pakistan. The hope of a better life – March 14, 1947. How would this be possible when he was not able to stand even for 10 minutes on his own feet; how would he thanks to assurances of easy money and a government job – make climb to the Legislature Building, reach the flag pole and cut the flag of the Muslim League? some men cross the border for meagre amounts.
4. This action was done in order to give two messages to the For others, the permission to smuggle material which cannot be British. First, that the Sikhs don't want a separate state, even brought into India legally, is the temptation. And a third category though they have been 'struggling to regain their lost sovereignty since March 14th, 1849, by the deceitful Brahmins-Hindus and of people agree to become anonymous soldiers in order to serve Arysamajists, to create a wedge and ill feelings between the Sikhs and Muslims. In fact, by disseminating the false news, it their country. Irrespective of their motivations to cross the border, brought the Two martial Qaums/Nations head-on. However, the their stories have a common feature: the Indian intelligence Brahmins-Hindus' conspiracy has failed since June, 1984. agencies' willingness to abandon them as soon as they come 5. The Brahmins-Hindus would not want the world to know that they had been "subservient" to Afghans, Mughals, Sikhs, British, under Pakistan's radar. As a young lad, Rahi used to work as a Portuguese, etc., for more than 3500 years up until the morning hours of August 15th, 1947 and until the British agent presented construction laborer. In 1983, when he was 32-years-old, two them, Hindus-Brahmins, their so-called freedom. men approached him without anyone referring his name to them, You are requested to please clarify these points in your future Rahi said. writings. “They know their targets well,” as he realized during his two Best wishes and regards. years of training when he came across his fellow workers who ***** were of a similar age-group, background and aspirations. Sharma
{GRP}165+ Separatist Movements in India Today! and Bajwa - who Rahi says were his field officer and reporting True Story of India which will be destroyed Insha Allah soon. This here is the actual situation in India. The Indian media boss - trained him in photography, reading maps and developing always tries it's best to either hide, or downplay the actual false identities. He was paid Rs 1,500 per month. It was decent story. But today there are over 165 (and growing) different separatist movements in India - All seeking freedom from money in those days for someone who hadn't studied beyond Indian oppression. This video is of course created to function as aid for students and historians. class five, he said. But in the summer of 1998, when Pakistan http://vimeo.com/14134656 police arrested Rahi, he became a man who belonged to neither of ***** the countries. Former Indian spies explain why they went to Pakistan
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“I was asked to serve my country (Hindia). But when I was “I was on my own. I used random Muslim identities. I was arrested, my country did not back me. I am still a patriot. But I Abdullah in one district. Hanif in another. I befriended don't know about the people who hired me. I am not sure people. All I had were my own interpersonal skills. “Imagine about the officers above my bosses, sitting in New Delhi. living like that in a country like Pakistan. And that too, when They pray that people like me should remain in Pakistan,” you are there to spy on people,” said Singh, who returned to Rahi said. Since the day he arrived in India in March 2005, India after spending close to three decades in Pakistan's Rahi has been fighting for recognition. Bajwa, his reporting prisons. Although they contribute to the country's intelligence boss had vanished by the time Pakistan released Rahi. agencies by accessing crucial information, spies are never “Higher authorities offered me Rs 2 lakh not to raise the given formal identity cards for obvious reasons. matter,” he said, without revealing which authorities which “The salwaar kameez, the traditional attire of Pakistan, was tried to cut the deal. Rahi says that as a father he feels guilty my only identity,” said Daniel Mashi, a native of Gurdaspur, that he isn't able to afford education for his only child, Ranjit. who was in a Pakistani prison between 1993 and 1997 for His son did not study beyond school and now helps his father charges of spying. His recruiter, identified only as 'Kashmiri in running a dhaba in their village. Staring at a bleak future, saab', told him that if was caught, he should not reveal that he Rahi says he was lucky, at least in one aspect. He was told the was working for India's Research and Analysis Wing. Mashi do's and don'ts of his job, something not every spy sent to followed the instructions and when caught, he claimed he was Pakistan was informed of. a smuggler after he was told that the punishment for Kashmir Singh, is a case in point. He was in his late twenties smuggling was lesser than that for espionage. when he quit the Indian Army. A man in his village was a clerk “I cannot forget the beating they gave me,” he said. A father of in the organization whose people hired Singh to go to three, Mashi now pulls cycle rickshaw for a living. Two boys Pakistan “for a mission.” Singh landed in Pakistan without from his village are still in Kot Lakhpat jail. “Let's see what receiving any kind of training on executing covert operations, happens to them,” he said, watching TV news of Sarabjit and worked there for five years- photographing strategic Singh's body being flow to India. locations of military troops and following people he was asked to keep an eye on by his bosses.
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Copy From FaceBook PREPLANNED GENOCIDE OF SIKHS BY THE BRAHMINS-HINDUS ELECTED FORCES
I'm not an Indian...I feel ashamed when I represent my Congress MP's are ordered to make pacts with known natioanlity as an indian..I was happy when damini was raped 'criminal gangs' in their area's to eliminate Sikh men, rape in Delhi...I wish for some rapes too so they gotta know what their women and loot their belongings. was 1984 .... (I'm not sure what is being said in the sentence A memo is sent out to ALL Delhi police stations ordering the above ~ it doesn't make sense immediate 'stand down' of ALL Sikh police officers till Benti a ek var ahh padeo jaroor... further notice AND for all Sikh police officers that are #IncredibleIndia #Neverforget84 equipped with fire arms to return their fire arms to the local police station as of immediate effect. We humbly request EVERY ONE to please read/share this post, we apologise for this VERY LONG post, but we feel 1000's of photocopies of Voters lists are being printed, ALL should know what happened to the Sikhs of India in containing ADDRESSES of Sikh houses and businesses in 1984. Please refrain from referring to this very dark period and around Delhi. in India's history, as the 1984 Anti-Sikh riots. This was not a Organized and well equipped gangs of ruffians set out in riot, it was a planned genocide and should be known as the different directions from AIIMS. 1984 anti-Sikh Genocide! The violence, including violence towards Sikhs and This was what happened: destruction of Sikh properties, spreads. A Timeline of events: Rajiv Gandhi is sworn in as the Prime Minister. First day - October 31st 1984 Senior advocate and BJP leader Ram Jethmalani, meets 9:20 am: Indira Gandhi is shot by Sardar Beant Singh ji and Home Minister P.V. Narasimha Rao and urges him to take Sardar Satwant Singh ji at her residence, No. 1 Safdarjung immediate steps to protect Sikhs from further attacks. Road, and is rushed to All India Institute of Medical Sciences Delhi's Lt. Governor, P.G. Gavai and Police Commissioner, (AIIMS). S.C. Tandon, visits some of the affected areas. 10:50 am: Indira Gandhi dies. Late evening, Delhi transport corporation buses are making 11:00 am: All India Radio listeners learn that the two security their way out of Delhi to surrounding states to pick up paid guards who shot Indira Gandhi were Sikhs. hooligans/mobs. 4:00 pm: Rajiv Gandhi returns from West Bengal and reaches NIGHT of October 31st 1984 AIIMS. Stray incidents of attacks in and around that area. Meetings are still taking place AND now truck loads of Iron Rajiv Gandhi has already by this time spoken to some high rods and tyres are coming into Delhi from surrounding states. ranking congress officials and politicians. Train and tankers full of kerosene oil are also making their 5:30 pm: The motorcade of President Zail Singh, who is way to OLD Delhi. returning from a foreign visit, is stoned as it approaches EMPTY, Delhi transport corporation buses are making their AIIMS. way out of Delhi to surrounding states to pick up paid EVENING of October 31st 1984 hooligans/mobs. URGENT meetings are taking place at a high ranking Jails around Delhi housing the most ruthless criminals are congress leaders residence in Delhi. now being emptied of ALL those criminals including murders One of those meetings was at 24 Akbar Road, New Delhi and rapists, on the grounds so that they can go FREE if they attended by members of Parliament and senior members of kill Sikh men and rape Sikh women. They are also told they the Congress party, including Jagdish Tytler, Sajjan Kumar, will be paid for every Sikh that is killed and for every Sikh Kamal Nath, Dharam Das Shastri, Vasant Sathe, HKL woman that is raped. Bhagat, Lalit Makhen, Arjun Das amongst others. Second day - 1st November 1984 What is being discussed? The planning of a genocide! How to Congress party MP Sajjan Kumar and Trade Union leader bring in tyres, kerosene oil, iron rods, and have enough Lalit Maken handed out 100 rupee notes and bottles of liquor transport to mobilize paid hooligans, rapists, murders from to assailants. one point to another...how the police are not to intervene, how On the morning of November 1st, Sajjan Kumar was seen state media will be used to show inflammatory speeches and holding rallies in, at least, the following Delhi scenes.
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neighborhoods; in Palam Colony from 6:30 AM to 7:00 AM, And a curfew is announced throughout Delhi, but is not in Kiran Gardens from 8:00 AM to 8:30 AM, and in enforced. Sultanpuri from around 8:30 AM to 9:00 AM. The Army deployed throughout Delhi too but was ineffective In Kiran Gardens at 8:00 AM, Sajjan Kumar was seen because the police did not co-operate with soldiers (who are distributing iron rods from a parked truck to a group of 120 not allowed to open fire without the consent of senior police people and instructing them to "attack Sikhs, kill them, and officers and executive magistrates). loot and burn their properties" The killings, rapes and looting continue. The FIRST killing of a Sikh occurs in east Delhi. Fourth day – November 3rd 1984 Armed mobs with guns lead the way. Massacre continues. 9:00 am: Armed mobs take over the streets of Delhi and By late evening, the national Army and local police units launch a massacre. Among the first targets are Gurdwaras. work together to subdue the violence. Sikhs seen in cars, public transport, including buses and trains After law enforcement intervention, violence is are being dragged out...Sikh men are being beaten with rods comparatively mild and sporadic. and tyres are being placed around their necks...doused with kerosene oil..they are being set a light! In Delhi the dead bodies of the victims were taken to All India Institute of Medical Sciences New Delhi and Civil Hospital Before they are being burnt they are pinned down and their Mortuary Tis hazari, Delhi. hair and beards are being forcibly cut off. It is now believed that 30,000 plus Sikhs perished throughout 120 Sikhs working at the Bokaro Steel Plant Jharkhand were India during these 4 days of State Sponsored Massacre. thrown alive into burning furnaces. 100's of Sikh women listed missing / unaccounted for. In Agartala, Tripura 40 Sikh families who took refuge in a police station to save their lives were burnt alive in the police 100's of young children missing / unaccounted for. station. We NOW ask you to please help raise awareness of this In Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh 12 Sikhs were hanged from the massacre, so the remaining culprits that are STILL alive are ceiling at the railway platform. brought to account. Sikh women are being gang raped, beaten...stripped naked In memory of the 30,000 that perished we say Waheguru. they sit next to the burning bodies of their husbands, bothers, For more information and detailed account go to: sons. http://www.ensaaf.org/ 40-50 Sikh girls are kidnapped and taken to a Chilla village http://www.sikhsforjustice.org/?q=content%2Fknow-the- where they are raped for 7 days!! Sikh belongings are being facts looted, their homes and business set alight. http://www.neverforget84.com/history/1984-delhi- The worst affected areas are low income colonies like massacres Trilokpuri, Shahdara, geeta colony,Mongolpuri, Sultanpuri and Palam Colony. http://www.1984tribute.com/Delhi%20Genocide.html 100's of Gurdwara are being burnt, Shiri Guru Granth Sahib ji Buy and read the book 'I ACCUSE' by Jarnail Singh and or de saroop are being set alight...Waheguru. When A Tree Shook Delhi by Manoj Mitta and H.S. Phoolka or Indian Government-organised the Carnage, "Nov. 1984" This scene is being replicated in others parts of India. by Gurcharan Singh Babbar The state media show looped video clips of Amitabh Please note that this picture although not from November 1st Bachchan raising slogans like "Khoon ka badla khoon" 1984, still 'REMINDS' us, off HOW 1000's of Sikhs that were (blood for blood) and "Khoon ke chintey sikhon ke ghar tak horrifically killed in the 1984 Anti-Sikh Genocide. pahunchni chahiye" (Splashes of blood should reach the doorsteps of Sikhs). Waheguru ji will bless ALL those poor souls that lost their lives in the 1984 Anti-Sikh Genocide...and guide us to Third day – November 2nd 1984 achieve Justice for these crimes against humanity. A repeat of November 1st. *****
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Dr.Amarjit Singh Washington DC. then Chairman, Panthic Committee of Dr Sohan Singh had Three weekly articles of Dr.Amarjit Singh Washington DC. asked you, 'who appointed the Spokesperson of the Panthic "Dr Awatar Singh Sekhon (Machaki) asks questions?" Committee'? I believe this information had been published in Bhai Amarjit Singh Indo-Canadian Times of the British Columbia, while Sardar C-
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Sirdar Gurmit Singh writes: become Banzaraas roaming all over the world? Thereafter, all our sacrifices to save the British Raaj had not Dear Mr. R Singh, Waheguru jee ka Khalsa Waheguru jee kee brought any fruitful result that too due to the Hinduised Fateh! foolish Dealers like Baldev Singh, Master Tara Singh, Giani As I recollect, Shri Prem Singh Chandumajra was not a Kartar Singh, Swaran Singh, etc. Professor, though he may have taught in some College. But Now after 1984 June-November attack and massacre of the being a toady of late Gurcharan Singh Tohra, he may have Sikhs, Shri Surjit Singh Barnala, Shri Parkash Singh Badal projected himself as Professor because it has become fashion and their stooges have been rejoicing the slavery of the in Punjab to prefix such Status Honour Perhaps, he was Congress/RSS/BJP, which shows Minister in Barnala's Government during (29-09-1985 – 11- their stone-like-minds having no effect of Guru's Teachings. 05-1987). But he must have been arrested/tortured by DGP They could hardly read the writing on the wall because they Julio Francis Ribeiro when Barnala Govt. was dismissed and have been behaving like the three monkeys: Not to See, Not to President's Rule imposed under the name of Giani Zail Singh. Hear, Not to Speak ! Now he has been acting as lackey of Badals and that is why Whereas, we two and some other well-wishers continue to this TV Interview seems to be Stage-managed. Thank God, cry since 1984 when none is to listen! we are far away from their golden cage. May Akall Purkh bless you Charhdi Kalaa,
***** ***** Question for the Sikhs is: “Can We Celebrate Diwali 2013?” Sirdar Gurmit Singh Khalsa writes: Answer is: “No”, the Sikhs spread all over the world should never celebrate this Hindus' mythical episode in the name of Dear S. Sarbjot Singh, Waheguru jee ka Khalsa Waheguru jee “Diwali”. Sikh religion and its adherents came into existence kee Fateh from 1469 A.D. and as such we are required to I am sure that you must have listened to Morning Vaak Kathaa celebrate/commemorate Gurgaddi Divas of the Gurus from Darbaar Sahib (Manji Sahib) by one Giani Ranjit Singh, Sahibaan, Shahidee (Martyrdom) Days of the Sikh Martyrs who has been vomiting venom with the blessings of SGPC and other major Sikh Historical Events. President. His language is nothing but abusive against those, Sikhs have nothing to do with: “Lohri, Holi, Sharaadh, who objected to the celebration of Diwali and drama bachiter Navrateray, Ashtami, Rakhri, Karva Chauth Fasting, natak? Dussehra, Diwali, Sangrand, Massaya, Pooranmashi, Eid, Whatever you have written in the Attachment, is absolutely X'Mas, etc.” true because due to our disunity, these hinduised parcharaks Will someone in Punjab question the SGPC President Shri and parbandhaks have started functioning like the olden days Avtar Singh Makkar, their Head Ministers, Head Granthis, Masands Kathaakaars and other goluck-paid officials as to why Guru and Mahants. Since 2008, we have been talking, talking but Nanak Sahib is not considered as Bandi-Schore when at his without any action as well as continue to accept the instance, [Moghul Emperor] Babur had released thousands supremacy of the five pandvaas, who have been following the prisoners from Eimnabaad Jail in 1521? Was Diwali ever brahminical doctrine under the influence of their bad dal boss celebrated from 1469 to 1606 A.D.? Who were those 52 slave and RSS/BJP. Like the Naaths/Yogis, it seems that even the Rajas? Were not they the same or their heirs (Baaiee Dhaar Sikh intellectuals have taken shelter in the caves and far off Rajaiy), who with Mogul Force besieged the Anandpur Sahib forests instead of facing the so called custodians. If you are Fort in 1704 and compelled Guru Gobind Singh Sahib to based in Delhi State, how the Sikhs fall under the jurisdiction leave the Fort and then attacked? Had they not proved of SGPC and its goluck paid head ministers? DSGMC themselves as the most ungrateful (akritghann) ? Have the President also lacks General Knowledge as he has mortgaged Sikh Leaders both Political and Religious forgotten Diwali of the Delhi Sikhs to SAD and SGPC but he has forgotten his 1947 and 1984 ? late Father, who used to be fork and knife in the hands of the No Sikh should listen to these Kesadhari Hindus, who have Congress Leaders as he has been dancing to the tune of Badal already mortgaged the Sikhs to the RSS/BJP/Deravaad. As and BJP/RSS! said in the message below, if any Sikh celebrates Diwali, he/she should be considered as the Hindus, though they ***** themselves may be not knowing who was the mother of Sita Dear Dr. Awatar Singh Sekhon (Canada), or how long Ram Chander survived & Died ? When the Waheguru jee ka Khalsa Waheguru jee kee Fateh Hindus remained slaves of Muslims and British for about one Many thanks for your historical comments. I agree with you thousand years, were those Regimes / Rulers allowing the that we can't go on blaming others. Hindus to But sometimes we have to refresh our barren minds as you celebrate such a mythical festival ? know very well that due to stupidity of Maharaja Ranjit Singh Such gimmicks are nothing but to collect over-flowing and his unworthy heirs, his kingdom was lost with effect from Golucks as well as to boost the business of the Hindu th 29 March 1849. Shopkeepers, who generally sell adulterated sweets and other Why to blame Dogras, Poorbias and the British Rulers when products at a higher price. the said Sikh Rajas did not obey the Guru's Teachings. Had he handed over to the Five Dear Ones, we could not have *****
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Dear Dr. Gurmit Singh Barsal (CA, USA), History Book shows that Guru Sahib was born in Chet / Chaitra! Waheguru jee ka Khalsa Waheguru jee kee Fateh My Date of Birth is 12th June 1935 but I don't know the Heading “Nanakshahi Calendar” is appropriate only if the Bikrami or Saka Date, nor anyone has ever questioned me as said Calendar has commenced from the Date of Birth of Guru to why I have not shown Date of Birth, according to Nanak Sahib. S. Pal Singh Purewal, D. Litt. (Canada) has Nanakshahi Calendar ? already worked out exact Dates in CE. Will you check up your Birth Certificate or relevant Will you kindly advise what was exact Date of Birth of Guru Educational Nanak Certificate and share the exact Date shown based on Barah Sahib and why the same has not been accepted? No Sikh Maha ?
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"Shattered Heroes: Gandhi's Dark Side" by Nannette Ricaforte In the city of Cerritos a statue of Gandhi symbolizes immorality and hypocrisy.
I'm one of those people who thrive on inspirational and For many people in Cerritos, Gandhi's statue symbolizes encouraging quotes from prominent people, gnawing on dishonesty, immorality, and hypocrisy. Bhajan Singh, them for sustenance in my hunger for enlightenment. My Director of OFMI, says, “The Cerritos Gandhi statue is an writing and photography often include quotes to impart offense to progressive human values of life, liberty, and wisdom as I emphasize the message of my work. equality.” Singh questions why a city would “idolize Mahatma (Mohandas) Gandhi's popular quote encourages us someone who abused his grandnieces sexually and his wife to “be the change that you wish to see in the world.” On psychologically, sympathized with Hitler, and spread racial October 2, his clichéd words spread all over social media segregation in South Africa before Apartheid?” sites, in observance of Gandhi's birthday and the International Cerritos City's formal response to OFMI's letter states the Day of Non-Violence. For many, it was a time for reverence Gandhi statue occupies private property. However, Valmuci and celebration. says they don't acknowledge their responsibility in approving But what happens when the man on the pedestal contradicts the installation of Gandhi's statue, nor do city officials “refuse the perception of his admirers? to reject his sexism, racism, and casteism.” Several times a week I drive through the intersection of How do I reconcile the Gandhi I've idealized to the one I know Carmenita St. and Alondra Blvd. in Cerritos, California, now? where a 6-foot-tall bronze statue of Gandhi stands sentinel Rita Banjeri addresses this quandary in her article, Gandhi to over traffic. Erected last year outside of The Chugh Firm Asaram: Who Empowers the Sex Crimes of 'Gurus?' Spiritual office building, its benign presence seemed welcomed until leaders like Gandhi procure a mass following whose vandalism knocked Gandhi's likeness off its pedestal a few reverence for him blinded them to the truth. He was a sexual months ago. predator while he espoused non-violence in fighting for the Local news reported the event as an attempted theft but since independence of India. Yet his ideology was enough for the then, the effigy has been the center of controversy, inciting a majority of his supporters to disregard his immoral acts. protest in Cerritos City Hall last month. Reinstatement of the In my work as an abolitionist, fighting for the rights of statue prompted a group, Organization for Minorities of India sexually exploited victims, I can't minimize the facts I've (OFMI), to express their vehement opposition in a letter learned about Gandhi. It's unsettling, to say the least. addressed to Cerritos Mayor Bruce Barrows and other city I've met young victims of human trafficking, child labor, and council members. the sex trade, stripped of their dignity by men in positions of I asked OFMI coordinator, Arvin Valmuci, to explain the power. Their degradation meant nothing, marginalized group's opposition to the statue's reinstatement, which lies in because the community revered the perpetrators. There are no the life Gandhi modeled for the nation: words to express the depth of rage and helplessness I've felt “Gandhi was instrumental in influencing national treatment when confronted with these reactions. of women in India. He said 'my life is my message' and the life Rita Banjeri also published an article today that challenges us he modeled for the nation was one of sexually exploiting his to face the truth of Gandhi's exploits and his manipulation of grandnieces and many other teenage girls under the guise of power in his leadership. Her words have made me realize that performing 'celibacy experiments' and invoking his religious I shouldn't be careless in my use of quotes when attaching convictions when denying his wife medicine that would have them to sensitive messages or photographs. saved her from death before weeks later taking the same The truth lies in our actions and I hope we have the courage to medicine to save his own life [sic].” live it even when it's not popular.
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FANATICISM BIGGEST HURDLE IN THE SPREAD OF SIKHISM (Published in e-Punjabi Monitor) Dr Awatar Singh Sekhon
Before I write my comments, I would request the readership Sikh character in the name of Hindu-Hindi-Hindustan, since (any reader) to please translate my comments into PUNJABI, the day they "Robbed" PUNJAB of Sikhs and citizens of font Gurmukhi, or in Roman. I am unable to put this writing in PUNJAB. Punjabi, as English is the International language of 5. If you still have questions, please ask the criminal, communication, the official language of my beloved country murderer turbaned Brahmin Hanera Sinh Badal and his is English as well as French. My brothers and children of the Akalis, along with the Chief Scoundrel and his associated "Robbed" PUNJAB on August 15th, 1947, find it difficult to scoundrels/jathedar wandering in the premises of The Darbar read in English. They or some of them know the alphabet of Sahib Complex, including The Akal Takht Sahib and other the English language. They should ask them to translate in Gurdwaras in Punjab in particular and outside PUNJAB in Punjabi, font Gurmukhi. That's why they easily write in general. Roman and say (i) write in Punjabi so we could read it, (ii) Best wishes and regards. please answer the question why did you not write in Punjabi, ***** Font Gurmukhi, to convey your thought to the readership? Dr Awatar Singh Sekhon replies to Ashok Sharma; O' Mr I ask you and please follow it and think "if the Brahmins- Brahamin Sharma: Hindus-turbaned Brahmin rats like Hanera Sinh Badal and You seem to be a highly intelligent, bigot, one of the deceits, company have not turned you illiterate by following and without 'religion and culture,' the Hindus-Brahmins are introducing the Educational system of the Brahmins-Hindus neither a culture and religion, according to many Hindu, non- in the Sikhs' Holy and Historic Homeland, PUNJAB, Sikhs' Hindu academics, along with your papa JL Nehru (died due to PUNJAB alias the "Robbed" PUNJAB of August 15th 1947? a disease called Syphilis, and your ancestors have committed The citizens of the "Robbed" Punjab of August 15th, 1947, the 'Genocides of the Buddhists, Muslims, Sikhs, Christians, under the 'occupation' of the Brahmins-Hindus-turbaned Dalits, non-Hindus-Brahmins, Adivaasis, etc. 'Carry out Brahmins Hanera Sinh Badal and Akalis Rats (like judos rats Genocides and forget', as your ancestors and your Father (of of Nazi Germany) have turned you into nothing but the slaves the Brahmins-Hindus alleged Indian demoncrazy of those Hindus-Brahmins, who had been 'subservient' to the /demoncracy/democracy) MK Gandhi, a failed creature in his Afghans, Mughals, Sikhs, British, Portuguese, etc., for more profession of law, used to sleep naked with his grandnieces to than 3,500 years and up until the morning hours of August test his manhood, carried out “Genocide of Zulu tribe” in 15th, 1947, and illiterates. It is not the Christianity, but the Africa, he had a rank of Searget-Major in the Brtish Red policies of the Brahmins-Hindus-turbaned Brahmin rats like Cross, that's what you believe in. Precisely, you are one of the Hanera Sinh Badal and his Akalis have been making you hypocrites of the Brahmins-Hindus-turbaned Brahmins rats' illiterates; whereas, these judos rats have been educating their (like judos rats of Nazi Germany) demoncracy. Since you are children in English. one of the democratic creature, no rhyme or reason applies to 2. On the morning of the 19th and 20th, 2013, from Bangla you or followed by you. Sahib Historic Gurdwara, a Scoundrel/jathedar of the SGPC, Try to read the following and do something about you; Amritsar, "Robbed" PUNJAB of August 15th, 1947, went to otherwise, you will get lost in more than 160-insurgency Delhi to expose himself to his national and international going on for their "Sovereignty and Political power," The audience, because Hanera Sinh Badal Rats Akalis now days of the Brahmins-Hindus-turbaned Brahmins rats are control the Delhi Gurdwara Prabhandhak Management numbered. May the Khudawand bless the humanity, which is Committee (DGPMC) after taking over the administration of the Target of the Crimes against humanity: the DGPMC by spending huge money and winning the Sirdar Gurmit Singh Khalsa ji & Sardar Harbans Singh ji: DGMPC elections in May, 2013, democratically alias their Dr Awatar Singh Sekhon writes to Sirdar Gurmit Singh, "MONEY FOR VOTES" democracy. This' Money For Votes' AUSTRALIA: Piare Vade Bhai Sahibs jio System has been destroying the religious, historical, cultural, Waheguru ji ka Khalsa, Waheguru ji ki Fateh! educational, political values or system, etc., of the PUNJAB Thank you kindly for sending your views "Why are Jews so of Sikhs alias "Robbed" Punjab of August 15th, 1947. powerful?," a study first posted by Dr Farukh Saleem, a 3. Why did this SGPC's scoundrel/jathedar did not go for journalist and a member of the Defence Strategic Studies 'PARCHAAR' earlier than the Brahmin Hanera Sinh Rat and Institute of the Is lamic Republic of Pakistan, in 2007. his Company 'destroyed' the administration of the DGMPC, My dear brothers, I would not loose my sleep for a fraction of using "Money For Votes", Sir? a second. The reason being I am a Sikh and belong to the 4. Regarding Parchaar, what Shaheed-Bilas Saint-soldier "House of Guru Baba Nananak Sahib" alias the Khalsa Jarnail Singh Khalsa and his staunch supporters and followers Brotherhood revealed by Sahib Guru Gobind Singh ji, the had been doing, until they were martyred on June 6th, 1984, in 10th Master of the Sikhs, who "Revealed Khalsa" on March an 'UNDECLARED' war on the Sikhs and Sikh Nation, 30th, 1699." Sahib Guru Gobind Singh ji ordered before he Punjab, in the form of a brutal military "Operation Bluestar" departed from this world, and 'Ordered' to His Khalsa of June, 1984? Brotherhood alias the House of Guru Nanak Sahib: "With the 4. Khalsaji, wake up, open your eyes and see what the Order of Akalpurakh, the Almighty Lord I am saying that Brahmins-Hindus-turbaned Brahmin Hanera Sinh Badal rats "now on the Khalsa and the Khalsa Brotherhood will take the have been to! They are all out to destroy the very fabric of the Guidance of Guru Granth Sahib, none else but Guru Granth
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Sahib, Granth Sahib which was installed the "Guru" by Sahib fire power. Do you think that any Brahmin-Hindu-turbaned Guru Gobind Singh ji himself." He also ordered his Khalsa: Brahmin rats, American or western power would dare to write Jab Ye (his Khalsa) Kare Biprin ki Reet, Main Naa Karoon this? No, not at all! Inki Parteet (Trust). Guru Khalsa Panth, the Khalsa If all these educated Sikhs/turbaned Brahmins rats, Brotherhood, has lost our Guru's trust (Parteet), as Chief businessmen, scientists, etc., have fallen in the Brahmins- Scoundrel(s) and associated Scoundrels have become the Hindus' Chakravyuh, whose fault is this? The answer is the 'bootlickers/Chaplianchutt' of one of the greatest "Sikhs' Slavery of the Brahmins-Hindus, since August 15th, Bipran/Brahmin, a turbaned Brahmin Rat Hanera Sinh Badal, 1947, when the "annexed" Punjab to the British Empire was his Akaalis or Kaalis and the members of the anti-Sikh handed over by the British Empire to the so-called freedom political parties, i. e., Congress, BJP, VHP, Shiv Sena, the fighters of the British India Empire, i. e., the 'unelected' Hindu Mahasabha (Mother of all Evils). leaders of the Congress Party like MK Gandhi, JL Nehru, VB Before you compare the people of Jewish faith and the Sikhs Patel, GB Pant, etc. The Guru Khalsa Panth's traitor Tara Sinh of the Guru Khalsa Panth, the Sikh Nation alias the "Robbed" Master had a 'soft corner' for the Brahmins-Hindus; as such, PUNJAB of August 15th, 1947, please think what our he watched the 'Transfer of Political Power by the British turbaned Sikh Brahmins Rats like Hanera Sinh Badal, India agent to the Brahmins-Hindus as a "mute spectator", Sukhdev Dhindsa, Chief Scoundrel(s) and associated along with his fellow Sikhs. scoundrels wandering in The Darbar Sahib Complex, Bhai Sahibs jio, no jew, American, British, Australian, etc., Amritsar ji of the "Robbed" PUNJAB of August 15th, 1947, would write the Sikhs' History from the Sikh point of view. and other turbaned Brahmins-Hindus' rats like armed forces' Only Sikhs have to do it. I am sure the Guru Khalsa Panth will chief Bikram S Gill (present chief) and others do not know the write or has been writing its own history and is "Struggling 'History of the Sikhs from the Sikh point of view'. What basis for the Sikh Nations' Sovereignty." do we have to compare the turbaned Brahmins-Hindus rats I would finish with the information to you that in October Gen Bikaram Singh Gill with Lt-Gen Harbakhash Singh, Lt- 1999, I had been invited to give a 'brief' on Khalistan, the Sikh Gen Bikaram Singh (Kang), Lt-Gen Daulat Singh, Lt-Gen Nation's Sovereignty & at the Invitation of the Government of Jagjit Singh Arora, and so on? Belgium. In fact, I received the invitation from a jathedar The Sikh Religion is the 5th largest religion of the world and it living in The Netherlands. I did my work and the is a culture (Sikh) as well. In fact, it is the 4th largest as the representatives of the 18-department/ministries of Belgium 'Brahmins-Hindus' are neither a Religion nor a Culture'. How appreciated it. Before returning to my country, I was lucky about the Jewish religion? (On the other hand, Hindus are enough to go to the Amsterdam Gurdwara and was asked to "Neither a religion nor a culture)." I think, my dear brothers, address the Congregation, where Srinagerwala group, something is wrong with the western world as well as the Far Harjinder Singh Keertaniya and Party, had been hymn East administrations, along with their news media. Whether singing before I was asked to address the Congregation. In the you would agree with me or not, the Sikhs have been in the summation of my address on the Sikhs' Struggle for trap of the Brahmins-Hindus-turbaned Brahmins rats (like Sovereignty, "I had said that 'Khalsaji, Muchha nu taao de ke judos rats of Nazi Germany) and I would call it as the "The the Pochvian Pagan (Dastaar) Banke, Khalistan di Azadi Sikhs are in the Trap of the Brahmins-Hindus-turbaned Nahin Honni." Thereafter, Harjinder Singh Group started Brahmins rats' Chakravyuh." How to get out of it? The only during the Annan Sahib's Path: "Khanda Kharreh ke ga...." answer is the "Sovereignty, Independence and Political In summation, let us work with our own problem, no one else Power of the Sikhs which they surrendered to the British is going to do our job for us, let the laureates do their job, but Empire's forces (not the Briti sh India Empire's forces. In fact, we have to do our job. Do not ever think that the deceitfull the British India Empire was not around at that time. Neither MK Gandhi, JL Nehru, Tara Sinh Master, Zail Sinh, Kuldeep was the word "India", when the Sikh Nation, PUNJAB of Brar, Gen Bikram Sinh Gill, Scoundrels (jathedars), turbaned monarch Ranjit Singh, 1799 to March 14th, 1849 was the Brahmin Hanera Sinh Badal rat and his other rats have more First Sovereign and Secular Nation of South Asia, 1799 to brain power than you. No, they are nothing but the traitors of March 14th, 1849.Furthermore, the Sikhs Nation's firepower the Sikh Nation, "Robbed" PUNJAB of August 15th, 1947. had been far superior than their British Empire master's The Sikhs have to wake up for the Sovereignty of their Army, as acknowledged by the British Army's top Brass or "Robbed" PUNJAB of August 15th, 1947. With best wishes Generals who visited the Sikh Nation's artillery and army's and warmest regards.
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23rd United Nations Human Rights Council, 27th May - 14th June, 2013 VIOLATIONS AGAINST WOMEN
Moderator: Dr Charles Graves RooM: XXV Date: 10th JUNE, 2013 SPONSOR: LIBERATION Time: 15:00 - 17:00 Hrs
Speakers: Kaushalya Panwar (Dalit), Irene Petricia Hujon and Victoria Dove Dimandja .
Dr Awatar Singh Sekhon Participates in Discussion: headquarters and challenged the armed personnel "Come on Participating in the discussion, Dr Sekhon said that impunity, we are here! Do whatever you would like to do with us." rapes of women regardless of age by the Indian armed Shamelessly, none of the coward-armed personnel came out personnel working to control insurgency and Sovereignty to answer these demonstrating ladies. This is an example movements are not only happenings and victimized the Dalit given by the cowardice-armed personnel of India. The and Northeast women, but the women of Punjab alias coward soldier are protected by the state and given immunity "Robbed" Punjab of August 15th, 1947, the women of the for crimes they committed against humanity. Dr Sekhon said Internationally Disputed Areas of Jammu and Kashmir affirmatively that those who provide immunity to armed (IDA:JK), Bihar and other states have suffered also at the personnel and the soldiers committing sexual crimes against hands of the law-enforcing agencies and armed personnel humanity are nothing but the 'vultures'. Making more clear, ever since August 15th, 1947. In fact, when the political those who are indulged in sexual crimes are just 'vultures'. The system and the corrupt politicians rule the country, the Special Powers Act of the Indian Forces provides immunity to impunity culture bound to play its role and the innocent 'vultures' of the armed forces that these vultures cannot or will citizens fall victim of the culture. not be tried in any court of law. In fact, these vulture-armed personnel are totally 'devoid' of human rights. In the "Robbed" PUNJAB of Sikhs, almost 5-7 females, ranging from 2- to 9-year-old, fall victim of the impunity Addressing to the concern of the female speaker from Congo, culture, corrupt politicians are unable to control impunity Dr Sekhon said that her country has been abused and ruled by because they are elected by the electorates based on 'Money the dictator(s) and they have made Congo a police state. for Votes' (NDTV discussion on India's problems in the Please look at India, so to speak. The India's largest middle of May, 2013), the three letter word, who are placed in democracy as described by the news media and the western the office not only by their qualities basis, but on their corrupt, countries. Impunity, rapes, corruption, tortures, fake unethical, morally and mentally bankrupt state of their mind. encounter killings, bribes, etc., are the name of the democratic These corrupt practices of the politicians put them into their political system of India. More than 85% of population goes office, and they find themselves difficult to control crimes and to sleep hungry in the largest democracy of the world, since it corruption-oriented problems in their life span of the was presented 'freedom' on the platter by the British agent to government. If the 'Money for Votes' system elected political the deceitful and corrupt leaders of the Congress party. people finds themselves incapable to control crime like rapes, they themselves become part of crime and cannot do what In the decade of 1980s, one Senior Superintendent of Police they had promised as campaign promises to their electorates. (SSP), named Gobind Ram, in Punjab forced the initiated Who is going to solve the peoples' problems, it is anybody's (baptized in the western terminology) young ladies of the guess? Babbar Khalsa. He said, up to now you have been initiated with your Guru Gobind Singh's 'amrit'. Now you will be re- I am aware of the 'vultures' of the armed personnel in Manipur initiated with Gobind Ram's amrit. What was it? It was his massively raped a young girl, mutilated her sexual parts, urine mixed with human excreta. He forcibly administered killed her and threw her body in front of the Army them to drink the 'filth', but the Sikh ladies died in honour of Headquarters a few year back. None of the soldiers or their Guru's words and teaching. They did not surrendered to spokesman came out to take the responsibility of the massive Gobind Ram. What I have said to you is merely an example to rape of the girl. The next day about 10 Manipurian women let you know, the audience, as to what has been happening in demonstrated nakedly and shouted in front of the army the largest democratic country. This largest democracy is no
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less than a police state, to speak the least. According to the as far as the Sikhs, Muslims, Christians and other minorities Hon Dana Rohrabacher of the Congress of the United States, are concerned, India is a Nazi Germany of Adolf Hitler.
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Awatar Singh Sekhon general have been trying their utmost to find a satisfactory June 10th, 2013 solution, despite the tiring efforts of the Honorable James Carter , Honorable William Jefferson Clinton and the Mr President, present administration of the Hon B Obama and their On behalf of my organization (CHRPA), I would like to people of the United States of America. Somehow, the invite your attention and the attention of all members of the problem has remained unresolved. Council, that in view of the preservation of peace and Mr President human rights, a prolonged problem exists for nearly one- It is requested that the office of the UN:HRC should half of a century and needs to be resolved amicably and in consider offering its services in aiding in the prospect of the interests of all the parties involved. The problem of the the Palestinian and the parties involved,. It is hoped that the Palestine people remains to be resolved. Council's efforts will fulfill the aspirations of all the parties Mr President, involved for a better tomorrow. The people in particular and the Council members in I thank you, Mr President
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23rd SESSION OF the UN:HRC, Geneva, SWITZERLAND AVAL ALLAH NOOR UPAYA KUDRAT KE SAB BANDE., EK NOOR TE SAB JAG UPJAYA KAUN BHALE KO MANDE (Guru Granth Sahib, the Sikhs' Holy Scripture)
Sponsor: FICIR Sekhon introduced himself to the audience of more than 50 Topic: Inter-Cultural & Inter-Religion Forum: Dialogue men and women from several countries and faiths as well. on Religious Intolerance There had been seven panalists of the several faiths, including Time; 13:00 - 15:00 Hrs the Qadian faith. Date: June 12th, 2013 Dr Sekhon greeted the audience with Good afternoon and Moderator: Dr Charles Graves, President, Intercultural Aslaam O Alaikum to the Ladies and Gentlemen, Mohataram and Religious Forum (FICIR) and Mohataramas. Taking part in the Dialogue on Religious Intolerance, Dr To the knowledge of the audience, Dr Sekhon said my name is
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Dr Awatar Singh Sekhon and I belong to the Sikh Religion, the Ashoka, the Great, laid down or said farewell to arms and 6th largest religion of our world and culture. According to the became the follower of the Buddh religion. The Brahmins and Granth Sahib, the Holy Scripture of Sikhs, we have been the Hindus availed their much awaited opportunity and took taught "Aval Allah Noor Upaya Kudrat ke Sab Bande, Ek noor up the arms, and started the genocide, massacre, rapes, and Te Sab Jag Upja Kaun Bhale ko Mande." We all are the light of human rights violations of the Buddhists. They pretty well the same Omni present God, who has created us. So, why to wiped out the Buddh religion from the land that is known as say that this is bad and that is bad. In fact, the religon does not the largest democracy of the world, India. teach us the bad things and create intolerance and animosity As I believe, the Hindus-Brahmins, who are "neither a among ourselves. Religion does not teach us intolerence. So, religion nor a culture," (see Discovery of India by JL Nehru why try to create differences among ourselves? and other Hindu academics) are highly 'intolerant' creatures. In fact, the intolerence has been imported or exported by the What we see in India in these days, one time the land of people who are highly intolerant. According to Lahori Ram Buddhists people, the intelorence in the product of the Bali, a Dalit and follower of the Buddhist faith, "the Brahmins Brahmins. Ladies and Gentlemen and the Chair, we have and their Hindu followers had been in the opportunity as how responsibility to wipe out the word 'intolerence'. I wish you to spread intolerence." They receieved their opportunity when the very best.
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23rd Session of the United Nations Human Rights Council, Geneva, SWITZERLAND CENTRE FOR HUMAN RIGHTS AND PEACE ADVOCACY General Debate Item 4 June 7th, 2013 Kaur and her family had been the victims of the Sikh Presented by: DR.Awatar Singh Sekhon massacre of 1984, in which Sajjan Kumar had been one of the Mr President players of the genocide. I would like to draw your kind attention on the Hunger Strike Mr President of Bibi Nirpreet Kaur of Delhi relating to the instigation and Unfortunately, the Chief Custodian, The Akal Takht Sahib, prosecution of the organizers of the Sikh genocide of June Amritsar, Avtar Singh Makker, President, Shiromani and October 1984. None of the Court of law has been able to Gurdwara Prabhandhak Committee, Amritsar and company prosecute the organizers of the genocide, like Sajjan Kumar travelled Delhi in May 2013, and forced Bibi Nirpreet Kaur to of the Congress Party, Jagdish Tytler and hundreds more. Bibi break her fast unto death. It had been the intimidation of the Nirpreet Kaur started her hunger strike to force the law- Chief Custodian and President of the SGPC (Shiromani enforcing agencies and the state government administrators Gurdwara Prabhandhak Committe) on the citizens like to arrest the culprits and prosecute them. In a recent Nirpreet Kaur to break her fast unto death. If such actions judgement of the court, Sajjan Kumar has been declared would continue on the victims, the criminals may be innocent in the absence of a witness, although Bibi Nirpreet wandering free without punishments and will never be
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brought before the court of law. any court of law which delivers justice. Mr President It is requested to the Council (UN:HRC) that the minorities in If these high powered people's intimidation continues, then India be provided justice and solace to victims. the victimized people like the Sikhs, Dalits, Muslims, Christians, Adivaases, etc., will never received justice from I thank you, Sir
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Presenter: Awatar Singh Sekhon which socially disadvantaged groups are reliant for their Mr President survival. Corruption affects their daily life for living. The indigenous and tribal people in India are approximately 8% of the total population. These tribal people's earnings are There is virtually no research focused on the impact of poor and they live in poor socio-economic conditions. They corruption on the indigenous people in India. Their poverty are mostly marginalized segments of the national population. conditions make them the target of many disadvantaged It is extremely difficult to monitor their poverty, social and groups. There is evidence that corruption stymies economic indicators. development by detering investment, undermining economic growth, ultimately reducing the long term revenue As disadvantaged groups, they have less access to decision generating potential of economy. makers and have fewer opportunities to participate in economic and political life. They also have a weaker voice to Their poverty, along with many other demands need assert their rights and entitlements, making them easier immediate attention of the Council (UN:HRC). It is targets for corruption. They have fewer opportunities to requested the council issues immediate directions to the counter undue influence by people of special interests. There Indian government to take resolute steps to eliminate the are extremely difficult to express their needs. corruption, which is a potent source of violation of socio- Corruption in India today is known to be at paramount levels economic rights, especially of indigenous, tribal and poor and has disproportionate impact on the poor indigenous and folks. tribal peoples, i. e., the way of life, inequalities, access to essential services and resource distribution. It negatively I thank you, Mr President affects the cost, availability and quality of public services on
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CENTRE FOR HUMAN RIGHTS AND PEACE ADVOCACY GENERAL DEBATE AGENDA ITEM 4
Presenter: Awatar Singh Sekhon institutions of racism in India. Dalits have this unpleasant realization that the system is irreversible and there is no Mr President change foreseen. The Articles 1 and 2 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights say that all Human beings are born free and equal in Mr President dignity, rights, despite race, color, sex, language, religion, The Indian Government must realize that instituinalizatioed political or other opinions. It is to remind us that this basic racism cannoy proceed in today's world. It would not be very understanding that the United Nations started is the human difficult but impossible for new Dalit generations to remain rights work in 1948. It cannot be ignored or denied by the marginalized where other groups are benefitted economically States, we continue to experience discrimination based in the and have technological growth. Dalits must not be segregated sex, color, religion, etc. in our surroundings. in schools, worship places, hospitals, water sources and any other places or in public services. Mr President I am here to discuss the discriminatory treatment accorded to I am confident of the view that the civil society organizations Dalits and lower castes in the Hindu caste system, including must give utmost importance to the agenda of elimination of the highly visible minority of Sikhs. Dalits are not only called discrimination of any kind. It is urged that the Council, "untouchables" and treated in a similar way. The international UN:HRC, must call the Government of India to take positive community has advocated the need for introducing a number steps, legally, administratively and socially, to accord equal of legislative and administrative measures to redress ill- status to Dalits and other non-Hindu-Brahmins minorities. I founded practices and violation of human rights in India. thank you, Sir However, discriminatory treatment to Dalits is the age-old
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CENTRE FOR HUMAN RIGHTS AND PEACE ADVOCACY TRUTH AND JUSTICE INTERACTIVE DIALOGUE AGENDA ITEM 3
Presenter: Awatar Singh Sekhon
Mr President
Every human being has the right to truth and justice. Victims against him and he was sent to the gallows a few months ago. need to know the truth about the crimes they have committed In conclusion, if the truth is ignored, no proper justice can be and the cause of their sufferings publically acknowledged. delivered. Moreover, truth is necessary to correct these false accusations I thank you, Mr President. made against them in the course of the crime. ***** The enactment of the Armed Forces Special Powers Act in Dr Awatar Singh writes to Sardar Kanwal S Gill: North East India is an instrument with which the truth is being Sardar Kanwal Singh Gill hidden and justice is being denied by the Indian justice C/- kanwal_gill.com system. Hundreds of cases of torture and abuses by the armed Piare Sardar Sahib ji, forces have been documented, innocent lives have been lost, Waheguru ji ka Khalsa, Waheguru ji ki Fateh! hundreds of precious lives live in fear and intimidation just Let me elaborate on your 'six' word sentence highlighted because the armed forces are 'immune' to prosecution and are below in red. Please rest assured that no like-minded person free to do any inhumane act. These activities of the armed and/or who likes to 'stop' the end of the "Human Rights personnel violate the right to life and liberty guaranteed under Violations," Since the Sikh Nation, PUNJAB, of Monarch the constitution. It also violates the basic and constitutional Ranjit Singh, 1799 to March 14th, 1849, surrendered to the rights of an indidual. The AFSPA violates the criminal law British Empite (Not the British India Empire, because the and is an obstacle in dispensing justice. More than righting word 'INDIA' had not been invented up until March 29th, the wrongs, the Act is highly credited with creating an 1849, by the British Trading Company and/or the British environment of fear and mistrust and for legitimizing the Empire, when the British agents 'swallowed' the State of violation of human rights and promoting violence and terror Jhansi. The Hindus gossips of Jhansi's MARASI like by the law-enforcing personnel. "Harboles" have kept on telling the story "Khoob Larrhi Mr President Mardani Who To Jhansi wali Rani Thi" and have been busy in I would like to state the case of Professor Devinder Pal Singh propagating their lies through the news and entertainment Bhullar, who has been on death row, without proper trial media. The Brahmins-Hindus-turbaned Brahmin rats (like (2:1). Even his lawyer states that based on the accused's judos rats of Nazi Germany) like Master Tara Sinh, the Akali mental condition, he should not be sentenced to death. The leader, "ROBBED" (PUNJAB OF SIKHS) Punjab on August reason being that he was intimidated and compelled by lower 15th, 1947 well before the end of India's freedom day of ranked police personnel to write a false confession. Second, August 15th, 1947 at 23-h 59-min -59-Sec. The Sikh Dr Afzal Guru of the Internationally Disputed Areas of leadership of Akali Tara Sinh had been 'sleeping' and they Jammu and Kashmir. Even his state appointed lawyer spoke were awakened by Sirdar Kapur Singh, ICS, MP, MLA,
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National Professor of Sikhism. Sirdar Sahib warned the Sikh Gujarat had been 'dreaming' of becoming the Prime Minister leader that the Brahmins-Hindus Congress Party's trio, JL of India. You might have read that another person from Nehru-CLTrivedi-VB Patel) has declared that the "Sikhs are Gujarat, while in Africa named Mohandass Karamchand lawless people, dangerous to law-abiding Hindus including Gandhi, a failure in his profession of law, awarded the rank of the Brahmins, they must be dealt with firmly." Here Sirdar Seargent-Major in the British Red Cross, had carried out the Kapur Singh, ICS, awakened the Akali leader Tara Sinh (a 'Massacre of the Zulu Tribe in Africa'. Modi is Baniya of Brahmin by birth, grew up in a Khatri family and became the Gujarat and MK Gandhi was Baniya, too, of Gujarat. The Akali leader and back-stabad the 'uncrowned' king of Sikhs latter was made the Brahmins-Hindus-turbaned Brahmins- Baba Kharak Singh. Tara Sinh betrayer of the Sikh Nation Hindus Rats' Father of Nation alias the Indian continued his job of betraying the Sikh Nation, PUNJAB democracy/demoncracy/democrazy. No one knows, on the until his death, using his stooges like Chanan Singh and Sadh other hand, who had/has the 'mother' of India, although the Fateh Sinh, other stooges, etc. He played with the sentiments Brahmins-Hindus created their Father of Nation. Please add of the Sikh Nation. Tara Sinh had a soft corner for the this information in your records. Brahmins like JL Nehru and thereafter; see Betrayal of Sikh Indeed, all state-controlled news media, print, social or air Nation By Master Tara Singh With British Documents of had always supported the Brahmins-Hindus and turbaned- Transfer of Power 1947 By Ram Singh (U K) Second Edition Brahmins rats (like judos rats of the Nazi Germany; for the August 2009 ISBN 978-0-9811360-6-6). Sikhs, Hanera Sinh Badal and joe boys and joe girls, Butcher Sirdar Gurmit Singh Khalsa of Australia, who is my older KP Gill, Swarn Ghotna, Gobind Ram, Sumedh Saini, lap dog brother in the Guru Khalsa Panth's matters will NEVER of Sonia Maino alias Gandhi, Manmohan Sinh, and alikes) defend Gujarat's murderer Chief Minister Narender Modi, against the Sikhs of the "Robbed" PUNJAB alias Sikh whose BJP administration carried out the 'Genocide of Nation, of Monarch Ranjit Singh, 1799 to Marchm 14th, Muslims of Gujarat in 2002-2003'. Modi's genocide took a 1849. Since March 14th, 1849, the Sikhs have been toll of more than 15,000 innocent Muslims. So much so, the "Struggling to Regain the Sovereignty of their Lost Sikh Hon A. Qadir, Chief Justice of Gujarat High Court is on Nation under the Guidance of Guru Granth Sahib and The records that the "Indian Constitution's Article 14A failed to Sikh Traditions." The Sikhs will succeed in the due time. protect an 'ordinary' citizen, because it empowers the Yes, those Sikhs who believe in the Brahmins-Hindus President of India to 'protect' the life of an ordinary citizen, as democracy have lost their path of the "Sikhs' Struggle for the Constitution of 1950 was deliberately rendered Sovereignty." ineffective." Now the organizer of Genocide of Muslims of *****
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DR SEKHON WRITES TO SARDAR SIMRANJIT SINGH MANN, CHAIR, AKALI DAL-AMRITSAR
Piare Sardar Sahib ji, British, Portuguese, etc. These Brahmins-Hindus became Waheguru ji ka Khalsa, Waheguru ji ki Fateh! 'free' when the British agent of the British India Empire It is the Birthright of every member of the Guru Khalsa Panth presented 'freedom' to the Congress leaders on a platter in the to "Reclaim the Sovereignty, Independence and Political late morning hours of the August 15th, 1947. The Brahmins- power of the "Robbed" PUNJAB, an "annexed" Punjab/Sikh Hindus' freedom struggle began with the "revolt or mutiny" Raj, "The First Sovereign and Secular Nation" of a Sikh of the year 1857. Therefore, the Sikhs' struggle for the monarch Ranjit Singh, 1799 to March 14th, 1849, of South Sovereignty of their historical and religious Home land began Asia. Not only that the 'First Sovereign and Secular' nation of on March 14th, 1849, and it has been continuing since then or monarch Ranjit Singh was the world's super fire power, as March 14th, 1849, by peaceful mean as taught by the Sikh acknowledged by the British Military Brass (Generals of the Guru Sahibans teachings, as inscribed in the Holy Scripture British Empire's army), when they visited and watched the of Sikhs, Guru Granths, along with the Sikh Traditions. demonstration of the 'First Sovereign and Secular' Sikh The Sikhs under the leadership of Tara Sinh Master (born in a nation's artillery guns. The First Sovereign and Secular Sikh Brahmin family, raised in a Khatri family and became leader nation was "Robbed" by the deceitful Brahmins-Hindus- of the Akalis after back-stabbing of 'uncrowned' King of Baniyas freedom celebrations in the late morning hours of Sikhs, Baba Kharak Singh, and lived in the premises of The August 15th, 1947, when the British India Empire's agent Darbar Sahib Complex, Amritsar ji, of the "annexed" Punjab presented the political reign of the British India Empire to the to the British Empire; note NOT to the British India Empire) deceitful Brahmins-Hindus-Baniyas. The "annexed" have been watching the Brahmins-Hindus-Baniyas freedom PUNJAB, 'First Sovereign and Secular' nation to the British and sovereignty celebrations mutely and/or their eyes and Empire was "Robbed" by the Congress' Brahmins-Hindus- ears closed. Baniya leadership at or before 23-h 59-min 59-sec of the These very Brahmins-Hindus-Baniyas, 7-week later on the August 15th, 1947. October 10th, 1947, declared via a state circular by Chandu Let me say that Monarch Ranjit Singh's Sovereign and Lal Trivedi, Governor of the "Robbed" PUNJAB, the Sikh Secular PUNJAB's "Struggle for Sovereignty, Independence Nation of Monarch Ranjit Singh, that the "Sikhs are a lawless and Political power began and has been going on under the community, dangerous to the law-abiding Hindus (including directions and leadership of Guru Granth Sahib and The Sikh Brahmins alias elite Hindus), and be dealt firmly." Traditions, since March 14th, 1849. This was the day when Here, you stand, Sardar Sahib, since August 15th, 1947, the 'First Sovereign and Secular' Sikh nation was conquered without political, civil, social, educational, industrial, and by the British Empire. On March 29th, 1849, the British developmental rights. The Sikhs have no Constitutional Empire's agent announced from the Radio Rawalpindi that rights, under Indian Constitution 1950. the "Punjab is "annexed" to the British Empire for the Sirdar Balwant Singh Rajoana, imprisoned in a Patiala jail, is administration purpose only. dead right when he has been telling at every court appearance Whereas, the Brahmins-Hindus had been "subservient" for to the Brahmins-Hindus' judiciary that "He does not believe more than 3500 years of the Afghans, Mughals, Sikhs, in Indian Constitution, his brothers, sisters, mothers, elders,
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youngsters, etc., have been butchered by the Indian Jammu and Kashmir (IDA:JK) are all under the 'Slavery' of government and Indiam armed forces, along with Indian the Brahmins-Hindus (3%+7% = 10%) of the Indian intelligence, foreign intelligence advisors and Punjab armed demoncracy. personnel like KP Gill, Sumedh Saini, DR Bhatti, to name a Sardar Sahib, his followers and the Sikhs, please open your few, in an "undeclared" war on the Sikhs, Sikh Nation alias eyes and Wake up. PUNJAB, in the form of a brutal military "Operation The Sikhs' religious and political institutions are under the Bluestar" of June, 1984. Since June 1st, 1984, more than "Tight grip" of the Brahmins-Hindus-turbaned Brahmins like 270,000 innocent Sikhs (infants, children, male and female Hanera (Prakash) Sinh Badal. Badal under the smoke screen folks, elders, etc.) have been slaughtered by the Brahmins- of the Brahmins-Hindus is all out to "Destroy the Robbed Hindus' demoncracy/autocrazy. Sikh Nation of August 15th, 1947. Your Punjab River Waters and its by-products have been Wake up, Sardar Sahib and the Sikhs! Last but not the least, stolen. PUNJAB and Sikh nation has no control whatsoever more than 56,000 Sikhs have been imprisoned in the jails of of the River waters and Dams (water). This reflects that the "Robbed" PUNJAB and outside the "Robbed" PUNJAB of "Sikhs in particular and non-Hindus-Brahmins in general, August 15th, 1947. including the citizens of the Internationally Disputed Areas of May Waheguruji bless you.
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THE 24th SESSION OF UNITED NATIONS: HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND, SEPTEMBER 9th – 27th, 2013
SEMINAR HELD ON SEPTEMBER 19TH, 2013, AT THE 24TH SESSION OF THE UN: HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND, 9-27TH SEPTEMBER, 2013 WAS HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL
DR AWATAR SINGH SEKHON
DATE: 19th SEPTEMBER, 2013 Institute of South Asia) spoke that the situation in south Asia SPONSOR: LIBERATION has been changing at a very fast pace. This is because of the MODERATOR: Dr Charles Graves greatest violations of basic Human Rights in the incredible, TIME: 14:00 - 16:00 progressive and the largest democracy of the word, India ROOM XXVII since August 15th, 1947, ATTENDANCE: 31 Mr Alan Hart of the United Kingdom made an emphatic and SUBJECT: RIGHTS OF MINORITIES, CHILDREN forceful statement that the 'Democracy' in the democratic AND WOMAN IN SOUTH ASIA countries has been failing, a new system of democracy is SPEAKERS: Usman Khalid, Alan Hart, Dr Abdul M badly needed so that the voice of the electorates could be Chowdhary (absent due to Medical grounds), Professor of heard, democratically elected administrations, in both the Sikhism Gurtej Singh, Sardar K J Singh, Ms Irene P Hujon & presidential democratic and the parliamentary systems of Nitin Gangrude, Dr Awatar Singh Sekhon democracy, requires far more attention to look after the needs Mr Usman Khalid, Former President of the LISA (London of electorates and the administrations should pay attention to
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the voice who have elected them (the electorates and the Rights Council. administration in office). Democracy is for the people and by Dr Awatar Singh Sekhon, as asked by the Moderator, Dr the people, and the 'Democracy needs far more refinements Charles Graves, presented the summation of the 2-h Seminar and changes to fulfill the need of the electorates'. There is a session. Seminar included about 30-min question and answer need of the hour when the United Nation alias UN:Human period. The seminar had been attended by the participants Rights Council must exercise more power to stop the Human who belonged to the Sikhs of Punjab and Sikh Diaspora, Rights Violations in the world. Internationally Disputed Areas of Jammu and Kashmir under Professor of Sikhism Sirdar Gurtej Singh of the view that the 'Occupation' of India, Morocco, Canada, United the "Sikhs and other non-Hindus-Brahmins minorities" are Kingdom, Switzerland, Sri Lanka, Tamil communities of the Slaves in the predominantly Hindu-Brahmins' India. Tamilnadu settled in the U K, France, and Bangladesh. There is rapid degradation in the "Law and Order" in India. Dr Sekhon paid rich tributes to the Liberation of U K, Mr Incompetent, criminal, murderers, and law-breaking Sanjoy Barua, the Moderator Dr Graves, and all the attendees, lawmakers have been ruling the country, unfortunately. In who spared their precious moments and showing their Punjab [under Indian occupation], more than 25,000 interests in the Seminar. Dr Sekhon has been of the view that unidentified persons were killed in only three districts of the Seminar held under the Moderatorship of Dr Charles Punjab, when Sardar Jaswant Singh Khalsa, an Akali Dal Graves has been an exceptional service to the Gross Human (Badal) Human Rights Activist, presented his findings to the Rights Violations of Punjab and South Asia. Punjab High Court, sometimes after the "Operation BlueStar Note: A detailed account of the above presentations will be of June, 1984", a brutal war waged by the Indira Gandhi published shortly. administration in Punjab, the Holy and Historic Homeland of ***** the Sikhs, in the name of "Operation Bluestar" of June, 1984. Comments and Dr Awatar Singh Sekhon responds Mr K Singh expressed his grave concerns on the usage of From: "Sikh Vichar Manch"
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http://zameer36.com/khalistan-seminar-held-on-19th- Government of the Brahmins-Hindus-turbaned Brahmins September-2013-at-the-24th/ democrazy , Vedanti Joginder Sinh, Puran (incomplete) Sinh, An observation by and other scoundrels wandering in The Darbar Sahib Balbir Singh Sooch-Sikh Vicar Manch Complex and the Supreme Seat of Sikh Polity, The Akal Takht https://www.facebook.com/balbir.singh.355 Sahib and many, many Gurdwaras all around the world. http://www.sikhvicharmanch.com/ Do whatever you can do for the Guru Khalsa Panth alias the ***** "Robbed" PUNJAB, Sikh Nation, Sikhs' Holy and Historic On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 1:57 AM, Dr. AS Sekhon Homeland under the "Occupation" of the Brahmins-Hindus-
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SIKHS AND SIKH DIASPORA IN THE BRAHMINS-HINDUS' CHAKRAVYUH alias THE VICIOUS CYCLES Dr Awatar Singh Sekhon
Sikhs, their Akali Dals, including the Prakash (Hanera) Sinh Singh, VrC 2000 ISBN 81-7062-106-2; Article by Brigadier Badal Akali Dal, members of the anti-Sikh Brahmins-Hindus Asif Haroon Raja [email protected] (details will be rats (judos rats of Nazi Germani) parties like the BJP, Vishwa given shortly), Bharti Lok Neech Kiven Bane by Sardar Hindu Parishad, Shiv Sena, Bajrang Dal, Hindu Maha-Sabha Gurnam Singh Muktsar of the "Robbed" Punjab of August and likewise all became victims and fell in the 'Vicious Cycle 15th, 1947", and acts of a Hindu Major-General, Niranjan Das alias Chakravyuh of the Brahmins-Hindus. Now the turbaned [like B M Kaul in the JL Nehru's China Fiasco] in the Indo- Brahmins-Hindus, for example, Hanera Sinh Badal, his "joe Pak war 1965. In this war, the Brahmin-Hindus rats' boys and joe girls", Navjot Sinh Sidhu, Dr N Kaur Sidhu democracy merely survived despite their massive propaganda (BJP), all members of the Rashtriya Sikh Sangat (a branch of against Pakistan. Brahmins-Hindus BJP), Sonia Maino alias Gandhi's lap dog, Besides the Sikhs of the "Robbed" PUNJAB of August 15th, Manmohan Sinh, JJ Sinh ( former Chief of Army of the 1947, the Muslims, Muslims of the IDA:JK, C hristians, Brahmins-Hindus' alleged Indian democracy and participated Buddhists, the citizens of Assam and its 7-sister, Bodos, in an 'undeclared' war on the "Robbed" PUNJAB of August Adivaases, Dalits and other non-Brahmin-Hindus fell in the 15th, 1947, in the form of a brutal military "Operation Chakravyuh alias vicious cycle of the Brahmins-Hindus rats' Bluestar" of June, 1984), present Chief of Army, Bikram Sinh, alleged Indian democracy. Zail Sinh (deceased), Beant(a) Sinh of Punjab, KP Gill, Had it not been Lt-Gen Harbuksh Singh and Lt-Gen Bikram Sumedh Saini (present DGP of Punjab), Kaka Sukhbir Badal, Singh, the Chief of the Brahmins-Hindus rats' army, Gen Harsimrat Kaur Badal, Tara Sinh Master, Fateh Sinh, Chaudhary. One-half of the "Robbed" PUNJAB, west to Beas Harchand Longowal, Jagjit Chohan, Pratap Kairon, Kirpal River would have been taken by Pakistan's advancing armed Sinh, Puran Sinh, Joginder Sinh Vedanti, Mal Sinh of forces, because under Gen Chaudhary these orders had been Anandpur Sahib (former Scoundrels wandered/wandering in given at the front to retreat. However, Lt-Gen Harbakash The Darbar Sahib Complex, Amritsar, Amarinder of Patiala, Singh overruled Gen Chowdhary's orders and saved the his father the body guard of a Allahabadi Brahmin JL Nehru, "Robbed" PUNJAB of August 15th, 1947. This had been the Hardit Sinh Malik, Avtar Sinh Makker, Maj-Gen Jaswant First Known Clandestine activity of the Brahmins-Hindus Sinh Bhullar, Lt-Gen K Brar, Kartar Sinh Giani, Scoundrel rats' alleged Indian democracy. " (jathedar) appointed to the Anandpur Sahib' Sikhs' religious Some highlights are presented below to reveal the Brahmin- and Historic place, and all those who hoisted and/or flurried Hindu character in the battlefield: the Brahmins-Hindus rats' democracy on the August 15th, "...a major battle the west of the Beas would end in the 2013, in New Delhi and elsewhere, to name and cite a few, are destruction of the Indian Army and thereafter allow the enemy in the 'Chakravyuh alias the vicious cycle of the Brahmin- (Pakistani) forces to push to the gates of Delhi without much Hindus rats, since August 15th, 1947. And especially since the resistance." 1965 WAR-The Inside Story by R.D. Pradhan "Massacre of Sikhs in Amritsar in 1978." Pradhan was a civilian working for Indian Defense Minister Those who are interested in knowing more about their deeds Y.B. Chavan, and he was at the front along with General being in the Brahmins-Hindus' Chakravyuh must read "In the Harbaksh Singh Line of Duty a soldier remembers by Lt.-Gen (retd) Harbaksh "R.D. Pradhan and General Harbakhsh Singh were both
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insiders who participated in the 1965 India-Pakistan war. COAS was somewhat uncertain of himself. I suggested to him While Pradhan was a civilian working for Indian Defense that he should go in forward areas so that he will be in touch of Minister Y.B. Chavan, General Harbakhash Singh was realities. He said he would go the next day. commanding Indian troops on the front-lines. Both have In the Line of Duty: A Soldier Remembers, according to written books drawing upon their first-hand knowledge of Shekhar Gupta, the editor of Indian Express, Lt Gen how the war started, unfolded and ended in September, 1965." Harbakhsh Singh reveals that not only "did Gen Chowdhury "In Chapter 8 titled "Of Cowardice and Panic" of his book play a very small role in the entire campaign, he was so "1965 War-The Inside Story", R.D. Pradhan describes the nervous as to be on the verge of losing half of Punjab to cowardice of Maj. Gen. Niranjan Prasad, the Indian general Pakistan, including the city of Amritsar. Harbakhsh describes, commanding officer in Lahore sector. When Pakistan in clinical detail, how our own offensive in the Lahore sector Defense Forces counter-attacked the intruding Indian had come unhinged. military and the general was fired upon on Sept 6, 1965, he The general commanding the division on Ichchogil canal "ran away". Here's an excerpt: (BRB Canal) fled in panic, leaving his jeep, its wireless "On learning that, Lt. Gen. Harbakash Singh and the corps running and the briefcase containing sensitive documents that commander drove in a Jonga (Nissan P60 Jeep) to the were then routinely read on Radio Pakistan during the war. battlefront, Army commander found that the enemy (PAF) air Singh [Lt-General Harbakash Singh] wanted to court martial attack had created a havoc on G.T. Road. (Indian) Vehicles him, Chowdhury let him get away with resignation". were burning and several vehicles of the 15th Division Further, Clandestine activities of the Brahmins-Hindus rats' abandoned on the road, the drivers having run away, leaving democracy were the "Destruction of Air India Flight 182, some of the engines still running." Toronto-Montreal-London-Delhi/Bombay, in the early Maj. Gen. Niranjan Prasad was hiding in a recently irrigated morning hours of June 24th, 1985, west coast of Ireland, sugar cane field. As described by Harabakash Singh: "He which took the lives of nearly 329 passengers and crew. This (Prasad) came out to receive us, with his boots covered with Clandestine had been intended to 'DEMONIZE" the Sikhs wet mud. He had no head cover, nor was he wearing any and Sikh Diaspora. Another unsuccessful 'clandestine' badges of his rank. He had stubble on his face, not having activity was to down another Air India passenger airliner shaved." Seeing him in such a stage, Harbakhash Singh asked somewhere in the Europe in 1989 or early 1990s. However, him: "Whether he was the General Officer commanding a the organizers, including two persons in the Sikhs' traditional division or a coolie? Why had he removed badges of rank and dress and Sikh Identity came "Empty Handed." not shaved? Niranjan Prasad had no answer." My Sikh brothers, sisters, youth, elders and children and the "Pradhan argues in this chapter that during the 1965 war with well-wishers of the Guru Khalsa Panth are requested to Pakistan, Indian COAS General Chaudhuri feared that "a "Study the psyche of the anti-Sikh forces, especially the major battle the west of the Beas would end in the destruction Brahmins-Hindus-turbaned Brahmins rats of the alleged of the Indian Army and thereafter allow the enemy (Pakistani) Indian democracy. forces to push to the gates of Delhi without much resistance". Please read your Sikh History from the Sikh point of view. Pradhan's book contains many different entries by Indian There is no one your enemy, but the "Brahmins-Hindus" and Defense Minister Y.B. Chavan. A Sept 9, 1965 entry reads: pseudo-ambassadors of the alleged Indian alias Brahmin- Had a very hard day on all fronts. Very fierce counter-attacks Hindus rats' democracy. mounted and we are required to withdraw in Kasur area.
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For Your Attention
PASSAGE OF THE INDIAN ARMED PERSONNEL AND ARMED HARDWARE TO THE IDA: JK'S BORDER WITH THE PEOPLES" REPUBLIC OF CHINA Dr Awatar Singh Sekhon
The alleged Indian news media, ATN (ZEE news) and NDTV will be a threat to keep in the IDA:JK, "Robbed" PUNJAB of have been flashing the news that Chinese troops have August 15th, 1947 and other non-Brahmins-Hindus nations penetrated the Indian borders in Ladakh area. Indians have presently under the Indian "occupation". been concentrating their military presence along the northern Like the States of Faridkot of PUNJAB, Hyderabad of Andhra borders with China. It seems that Ladakh is the part of the Pradesh and Bikaner of Rajasthan, other occupied states have IDA:JK (Internationally Disputed Areas of Jammu and not signed the 'Document of Accession' with the alleged Kashmir), since August 15th, 1947. As such, Indian armed Indian democracy, so to speak. India is obliged to produce forces should not be stationed in the IDA:JK as it is not documents of accession to satisfy the international (IDA:JK) the Indian territory. Neither IDA:JK is the community as to which princely states had not signed the 'integral' part of India as propagated by the state-controlled accession with India. Only those princely states be allowed to news media. Indians living outside India, act as the 'pseudo- stay with India, which still like to stay in the clutches of the ambassadors' of India and speak their master's voice. India is "Slavery of Brahmins-Hindus." the country, which has not been keeping friendly relations to ***** its peripheral countries. For example, Nepal, Islamic Sirdar Gurmit Singh Khalsa writes: Republic of Pakistan, Sikkim, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and the It is still not too late to undertake further investigation by countries which have been struggling to restore their some brilliant Sikh Ph.D. student from a foreign country such Sovereignty, i. e., the "Robbed" PUNJAB alias Sikh Nation as the UK, Canada, USA, Australia, New Zealand, as is shown of August 15th, 1947, the IDA:JK, Utranchal, Bihar, Assam in the “Sadda Haq” film, only then some facts could may and its seven sisters, Tamils, Adivaasis, Dalits, etc. or the come to light. These Book-sellers neither know all the hidden non-Brahmins-Hindus-turbaned Brahmins Rats (not more facts nor do they wish to reveal the TRUTH as otherwise there than 11% of a total population of more than 1.2 billion hungry are dozens of Books on the subject by various Authors such as mouths). Before India escalates its military activities and Dr. Sangat Singh, Khushwant Singh, GS Dhillon, Journalist makes the conditions worse than what already is, the citizens Harminder Kaur, AR Darshi, RN Kumar, BS Danewalia, of the IDA:JK, "Robbed" PUNJAB of August 15th, 1947, Inderjit Singh Jaijee, VN Narayanan, Maloy Krishna Dhar, which has not accepted/endorsed/signed the Indian Julio Ribereiro, KPS Gill, Lt. Gen KS Brar, etc. Constitutions 1950, must not let the New Delhi During the Emergency on June 25th 1975 to March 24th 1977 administration (NDA) of the deceitful Brahmins-Hindus- by PM Indira Gandhi, Akali Leaders of Punjab supported turbaned Brahmin Rats to use land routes to use the Indian Janta hotchpotch headed by Morarji Desai, Charan Singh, armed forces and the military hardware to be used against the Jagjiwan Ram, Atul Bihari Vajpayee, VP Singh, Chandra People's Republic of China. Shekhar, etc. During the same period, Shri Parkash Singh It should be made it clear to the deceitful Brahmins-Hindus- Badal remained CM Punjab from June 20th 1977 to Feb 17th turbaned Brahmins Rats' of the NDA that their war mongering 1980. Shri Surjit Singh Barnala was Cabinet Minister under
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Janta Rule. When they could not rule due to their own Venkataraman was Defence Minister, who then became bickering, Indira Gandh again came to power on Jan 14th President from 1987 to 1992; whereas Gen. AS Vaidya & Gen 1980. After settling down within a year, she became active in Sunderji were his right and left hands!! [Guru Granth Sahib, Punjab politics with the help of Giani Zail Singh, Darbara page 1372: “Kabir Sacha Satgur Kiayaa Karaiy Jau Sikhaan Singh, Buta Singh, etc. and started engineering dubious Meh Chooke...” (158)] methods by keeping guns on the shoulders of the Sikhs, who ***** Sirdar Gurmit Singh writes: did not realise the golden-trap. Thus, Dharam Yudh in 1982 was also exploited by the Central Government especially Dear Advocate Jaspal Singh Manjhpur, In so far as I know that The Supreme Court of India has when she knew the role played by Junta-BJP when (13) Sikhs already decided this case and Mercy Petition under Article 72 of The Constitution of India has been pending for quite a long th were killed on April 13 1978 by Nirankaris with the blessing time. Therefore, you may wish to share the latest position through the Concerned Lawyer by writing to the Home of Punjab & Central Governments and no action was taken Affairs and Law Ministers because such demonstrations against the killers. won't yield any fruitful result. Alternatively, try to find out whether Punjab CM Shri Parkash Singh Badal, SAD When Khalsa Jarnail Singh Bhindrawale entered Darbaar President Shri Sukhbir singh Badal, SGPC President Avtar
th Singh Makkar, Head Minister Giani Gurbachan Singh have Sahib Complex-Akall Takht on December 15 1983, the Sikh ever taken up this matter? If so, what has been their reaction? leaders became jittery and they started sending feelers to PM ***** Indira Gandhi. In this regard, certain letters are already Sirdar Gurmit Singh Khalsa writes: published in the Books and thus the roles played by the Sikh Respected Sikh Cyber Members are requested to go Dealers is very clear. Now we can't change those events but through letter in Punjabi by Dr. Sangat Singh by clicking the fact remains that those Sikh Dealers have been enjoying the Link below. Most of other Authors have also expressed similar views about the terrorist activities engineered by the sound sleep! The Hindu Brahmins also played a vicious role Govt. agencies during 1978 – 1984 – 2013 but innocent persons have to pay the price by sacrificing their lives. during Blue Star Operation, Tamil Brahmin Shri R.
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India: the Story You Never Wanted to Hear By RoseChasmPosted August 18, 2013 Chicago
URL: http://ireport.cnn.com/docs/DOC-1023053 civilizations and cultures, and we are committed to ensuring RoseChasm says she shared her account of studying abroad they can do so in safety while enriching their intellectual in India and experiencing repeated sexual harassment in lives.' hopes of spreading 'international exposure about what Dipesh Chakrabarty, a University of Chicago professor who women travelers and residents experience in India.' was in India for the first three weeks of the session, told CNN The South Asian Studies student says she is currently on a that he was unaware of Rose Chasm's situation. He noted, mental leave of absence from the University of Chicago, but though, that the university tries to prepare students for what expects to return to classes in the fall. they might encounter while abroad. The University of Chicago issued the following statement: 'Both faculty and staff in Chicago and our local Indian staff 'Nothing is more important to us at the University of Chicago counsel students before and during the trip about precautions than caring for the safety and well-being of our students, here they need to take in a place like India,' Chakrabarty said in an in Chicago and wherever they go around the world in the e-mail. 'Ensuring student safety and well-being is the top course of their studies. The University offers extensive priority of both the College and staff and faculty associated support and advice to students before, during and after their with the program.' trips abroad, and we are constantly assessing and updating 'Every year about 25 students enroll in it and several have that preparation in light of events and our students' gone on to become India-specialists by doing PhDs on the experiences. We also place extremely high value on the country and its past and present. This is the first time that I knowledge our students seek by traveling and studying other personally have come across such a serious problem,' he
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said. of expression whether I met their gaze or not. Walking to the View some of the responses this iReport has gotten and share fruit seller's or the tailer's I got stares so sharp that they sliced your thoughts. away bits of me piece by piece. I was prepared for my actions katie to be taken as sex signals; I was not prepared to understand that there were no sex signals, only women's bodies to be CNN iReport producer taken, or hidden away. I covered up, but I did not hide. And so I was taken, by eye When people ask me about my experience studying abroad in after eye, picture after picture. Who knows how many photos India, I always face the same dilemma. How does one convey there are of me in India, or on the internet: photos of me the contradiction that over the past few months has torn my walking, cursing, flipping people off. Who knows how many life apart, and convey it in a single succinct sentence? strangers have used my image as pornography, and those of “India was wonderful," I go with, "but extremely dangerous my friends. I deleted my fair share, but it was a drop in the for women.” Part of me dreads the follow-up questions, and ocean-- I had no chance of taking back everything they took part of me hopes for more. I'm torn between believing in the For three months I lived this way, in a traveler's heaven and a efficacy of truth, and being wary of how much truth people woman's hell. I was stalked, groped, masturbated at; and yet I want. had adventures beyond my imagination. I hoped that my Because, how do I describe my three months in the University nightmare would end at the tarmac, but that was just the of Chicago Indian civilizations program when it was half beginning. Back home Christmas red seemed faded after dream, half nightmare? Which half do I give vermillion, and food tasted spiceless and bland. Friends, and Do I tell them about our first night in the city of Pune, when family, and classes, and therapy, and everything at all was so we danced in the Ganesha festival, and leave it at that? Or do I much less real than the pain, the rage that was coursing go on and tell them how the festival actually stopped when the through my blood, screaming so loud it deafened me to all American women started dancing, so that we looked around other sounds. And after months of elation at living in freedom, to see a circle of men filming our every move? months of running from the memories breathing down my Do I tell them about bargaining at the bazaar for beautiful neck, I woke up on April Fool's Day and found I wanted to be saris costing a few dollars a piece, and not mention the men dead. who stood watching us, who would push by us, clawing at our The student counselors diagnosed me with a personality breasts and groins? disorder and prescribed me pills I wouldn't take. After a public When people compliment me on my Indian sandals, do I talk breakdown I ended up in a psych ward for two days held about the man who stalked me for forty-five minutes after I against my will, and was released on the condition that I took a purchased them, until I yelled in his face in a busy crowd? "mental leave of absence" from school and went to live with Do I describe the lovely hotel in Goa when my strongest my mother. I thought I had lost my mind; I didn't connect any memory of it was lying hunched in a fetal position, holding a of it to India-- I had moved on. But then a therapist diagnosed pair of scissors with the door bolted shut, while the staff me with PTSD and I realized I hadn't moved a single inch. I member of the hotel who had tried to rape my roommate had frozen in time. And I'd fallen. And I'd shattered. called me over and over, and breathing into the phone? But I wasn't the only one, the only woman from my trip to be How, I ask, was I supposed to tell these stories at a Christmas diagnosed with PTSD, to be forced into a psych ward, to wake party? But how could I talk about anything else when the up wanting to be dead. And I am not the only woman who is on image of the smiling man who masturbated at me on a bus was a mental leave of absence from the University of Chicago for more real to me than my friends, my family, or our Christmas reasons of sexual assault and is unable to take classes. tree? All those nice people were asking the questions that Understanding my pain has helped me own it, if not relieve it. demanded answers for which they just weren't prepared. PTSD strikes me as a euphemism, because a syndrome When I went to India, nearly a year ago, I thought I was implies a cure. What, may I ask, is the cure for seeing reality, prepared. I had been to India before; I was a South Asian of feeling for three months what its like for one's humanity to Studies major; I spoke some Hindi. I knew that as a white be taken away? But I thank God for my experiences in India, woman I would be seen as a promiscuous being and a sexual and for my disillusionment. Truth is a gift, a burden, and a prize. I was prepared to follow the University of Chicago's responsibility. And I mean to share it. advice to women, to dress conservatively, to not smile in the This is the story you don't want to hear when you ask me about streets. And I was prepared for the curiosity my red hair, fair India. But this is the story you need. skin and blue eyes would arouse. But I wasn't prepared. Editor's Note: You can read more about this story on There was no way to prepare for the eyes, the eyes that every CNN.com day stared with such entitlement at my body, with no change *****
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http://www.firstpost.com/india/patriotism-and-a-govt-job-former-spies-explain-why-they-went-to-pakistan-746293.html Former Indian spies explain why they went to Pakistan
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In 2004, authorities of Lahore's Kot Lakhpat prison boss had vanished by the time Pakistan released Rahi. reprimanded Sarabjit Singh. Singh's transgression was that “Higher authorities offered me Rs 2 lakh not to raise the he hugged a fellow inmate, Karamat Rahi, who had also matter,” he said, without revealing which authorities which been arrested by Pakistan on charges of espionage. A native tried to cut the deal. Rahi says that as a father he feels guilty of Punjab's Gurdaspur district, Rahi had been vocal about that he isn't able to afford education for his only child, Ranjit. his rights inside the prison and outside. His son did not study beyond school and now helps his father “They thought that I would influence Sarabjit,” said Rahi, in running a dhaba in their village. Staring at a bleak future, who returned to India in 2005, while recalling his last meeting Rahi says he was lucky, at least in one aspect. He was told the with Singh. While Singh passed away following a brutal do's and don'ts of his job, something not every spy sent to attack in jail last week, others like Rahi live on to narrate the Pakistan was informed of. tale of Indian spies who have worked in Pakistan. The hope of Kashmir Singh, is a case in point. He was in his late twenties a better life – thanks to assurances of easy money and a when he quit Indian Army. A man in his village was a clerk in government job – make some men cross the border for the organization whose people who hired Singh to go to meagre amounts. Pakistan “for a mission.” Singh landed in Pakistan without For others, the permission to smuggle material which cannot receiving any kind of training on executing covert operations, be brought into India legally, is the temptation. And a third and worked there for five years- photographing strategic category of people agree to become anonymous soldiers in locations of military troops and following people he was order to serve their country. Irrespective of their motivations asked to keep an eye on by his bosses. to cross the border, their stories have a common feature: the “I was on my own. I used random Muslim identities. I was Indian intelligence agencies' willingness to abandon them as Abdullah in one district. Hanif in another. I befriended soon as they come under Pakistan's radar. As a young lad, people. All I had were my own interpersonal skills. “Imagine Rahi used to work as a construction laborer. In 1983, when he living like that in a country like Pakistan. And that too, when was 32-years-old, two men approached him without anyone you are there to spy on people,” said Singh, who returned to referring his name to them, Rahi said. India after spending close to three decades in Pakistan's “They know their targets well,” as he realized during his two prisons. Although they contribute to the country's years training when he came across his fellow workers who intelligence agencies by accessing crucial information, spies were of similar age-group, background and aspirations. are never given formal identity cards for obvious reasons. Sharma and Bajwa - who Rahi says were his field officer and “The salwaar kameez, the traditional attire of Pakistan, was reporting boss - trained him in photography, reading maps my only identity,” said Daniel Mashi, a native of Gurdaspur, and developing false identities. He was paid Rs 1,500 per who was in a Pakistani prison between 1993 and 1997 month. It was decent money those days for someone who charges of spying. His recruiter, identified only as 'Kashmiri hadn't studied beyond class five, he said. But in the summer of saab', told him that if caught, he should not reveal that he was 1998, when Pakistan police arrested Rahi, he became a man working for India's Research and Analysis Wing. Mashi who belonged to neither of the countries. followed the instructions and when caught, he claimed he was “I was asked to serve my country (Hindia). But when I was a smuggler after he was told that the punishment for arrested, my country did not back me. I am still a patriot. But I smuggling was lesser than that for espionage. don't know about the people who hired me. I am not sure “I cannot forget the beating they gave me,” he said. A father of about the officers above my bosses, sitting in New Delhi. three, Mashi now pulls cycle rickshaw for a living. Two boys They pray that people like me should remain in Pakistan,” from his village are still in Kot Lakhpat jail. “Let's see what Rahi said. Since the day he arrived in India in March 2005, happens to them,” he said, watching TV news of Sarabjit Rahi has been fighting for recognition. Bajwa, his reporting Singh's body being flow to India. *****
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Who is the writer of a few lines in PUNJAB MONITOR? Dr Awatar Singh Sekhon (Machaki)
It has been done to save those who carried out the waging an "UNDECLARED" war on the "Robbed" 'Genocides' of the Sikhs of the Sikh Nation, thereafter the PUNJAB alias the Holy and Historic Homeland, PUNJANB "Robbed" PUNJAB of 15th August, 1947'. It has been and Sikhs' apex religious, historical places, The Darbar Sahib written to save the New Delhi administrations (NDA; JL Complex, including The Akal Takht Sahib, and the Nehru to a lap dog of Sonia Maino alias Gandhi) or the Gurdwaras of PUNJAB (Robbed PUNJAB of 15th August, Federal administrations of the 'Brahmins-Hindus- 1947), in the form of a brutal military "Operation Bluestar" in turbaned Brahmins Rats (like judos rats of Nazi particulat and other armed operations in general in June, 1984 Germany), the administrations of the "Robbed" and thereafter, respectively. It is a shame and international PUNJAB of 15th August, 1947. A few lines have been crime to protect the 'Criminal and murderer politicians of written to "Demonize" the Sikhs of the "Robbed" India and its Armed forces and armed personnel, who PUNJAB of 15th August, 1947, and the Sikh Diaspora committed crimes against Humanity. also. Let me say that the NDA and provincial are responsible for A few lines have been written to save the skin of a turbaned the 'Genocide of the Sikhs, citizens of the Internationally Brahmin rat Hanera Sinh Badal, his Kaalis (Akalis), the Disputed Areas of Jammu and Kashmir (Muslims), Muslims Burcher Police officers of the "Robbed" PUNJAB who aided in general, Christians, people of the North-eastern states, 8- the NDA and the "Robbed" PUNJAB administrations to sister of Assam, Bihar, Rajasthan, Adivaases, Tamils, protect them from the justice and prosecution systems. Also, Buddhists, etc. the above few lines have been written and disseminated to Based on the Crimes Committed Against Humanity, the protect from the wrongdoings of the corrupt, murderers, Indian administrations of the NDA & Provincials, its Armed criminal, and morally deficient politicians, like the Father of Forces (army, navy, air force, and police personnels), its the Brahmins-Hindus, M K Gandhi, all Congress men, BJP, judicial system be "TRIED" in the International Court of Shiv sena, Hindu Mahasabha (Mother of all evils) and the Justice, likes the crimes committed in Bosnia in 1990s, and Hindus-Brahmins political parties, along with the Sadhs, before other International Tribunals. Derewalas, and other full of uncontrollable male hormones, E-paper of the PUNJAB MONITOR must apologize to the state appointed Chief and associated scoundrels (jathedars), Sikhs and the Sikh Diaspora, and withdraw the article with an wandering in The Darbar Sahib Complex, Amritsar. The international apology. scoundrels who have been spreading 'pujarivaad' in the Sikhs, E-paper of the PUNJAB Monitor has failed to fulfill its duties Sikh religion and Sikh culture. and responsibilities towards the innocent citizens, more than The few lines have been written to protect the armed 56,000 Sikhs imprisoned in the "Robbed" PUNJAB personnel (army, nave, air force, CPRF, BSF, punjab police, administration of a turbaned Brahmin rat named Hanera intelligence personnel of RAW, IB, CID, CIA, etc.) for (Prakash) Sinh Badal and in the jails outside PUNJAB.
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HINDU TERRORISM EXPOSED Asif Haroon Raja
Dual faced Indian leaders show the soft face of India to the started beating their chests and drums of war. Anchors in world depicting India as humble, peace loving and harmless Indian TV channels screamed and soured their throats and hide its real face full of intrigue, falsehood, cunningness painting Pakistan in black. In no time war hysteria was and malice. Her neighbors in South Asia have to deal with the created and within days the entire Indian military might was second face. In order to hide her crimes against humanity, mobilized and deployed to wage a war. The US which was India masquerades as champion of democracy, secularism party to the false flag operation and the western world and protector of human rights. Indian spin masters religiously sympathized with India and censured Pakistan. follow devious Chankyan tactics to harm her enemies. She None in India or in western world questioned as to what gains has border and water disputes with all her seven neighbors in Pakistan would have made through this foolish act when it South Asia which she has deliberately created to keep them had opted to become frontline state to fight global war on under her thumb. One of her favorite tricks is to put the onus terror and had deployed 70,000 troops along its western of her crime at the doorsteps of others and herself act as a border. Why the hell should Pakistan have opened a second victim. Her propagandists have the uncanny skill to project front when terrorism had become the most heinous crime? white deeds of their opponents as black and India's black For full ten months Indian leaders kept breathing fire to deeds as white. browbeat Pakistan and would not accept any explanation or Of all her neighbors, Pakistan troubles her the most since it peace overture from Pakistan. Hats off to Pak military; it refuses to accept Indian hegemony and also contests the didn't get overawed and remained in battle positions fully Indian created disputes of Kashmir, Siachin, Sir Creek and poised to take on the aggressor squarely. Ultimately, Indian dams resolutely. Pakistan is the only country which despite forces backed off in October 2002. being very inferior in men and material has gone to war with While Pakistan military emerged as a victor on the military five-time numerically superior India thrice and has all along front, Gen Musharraf caved in on the diplomatic front and defied India's uncalled for belligerence. Fourth round got obliged India and USA by banning six Jihadi groups engaged averted in 1987, 1990, 1999, 2001 and 2009 at the eleventh in assisting freedom fighters in Indian Occupied Kashmir hour. India has been employing depraved Chankyan tactics (IOK) and gave it in writing that he would not allow Pak soil against Pakistan very frequently, which includes false for use for cross border terrorism. This written commitment promises, covert war, coercion, blackmail, false flag was self-indictment, which impelled Vajpayee to sign peace operations and polluting the minds of friends of Pakistan. treaty with Pakistan in January 2004 and to renew composite India has always got away with her misdeeds because for 43 dialogue. Vajpayee and later Manmohan Singh duped years she was backed by USSR and now her sins are being Musharraf into believing that all core issues including covered up by USA. India's RAW cooked up several dramas Kashmir would be resolved through talks but wasted all the to falsely implicate Pakistan. time in CBMs without touching the real issues. Taking advantage of her closeness with USA after the Peace treaty was a ruse to defuse Kashmir movement, which collapse of former Soviet Union, India tried hard to convert had run out of control of 700,000 Indian security forces, to Kashmiri freedom movement into terrorism and to get fully concentrate towards covert operations against Pakistan Pakistan declared as an abettor of terrorism but failed. 9/11 using Afghan soil and to use India's western front for cultural provided the opportunity she was eagerly looking for and invasion. In order to infuse some reality in her cooked up 12/ thereon all her efforts were directed towards getting Pakistan 13 drama, Kashmiri origin medical student Afzal Guru was declared a terrorist state, ISI a rogue outfit and to defame and arrested and put on trial on unsubstantiated charges that he crush freedom movement in Kashmir which had become her had plotted the attack on Parliament. He was unjustly given Achilles Heel. These steps had become necessary to hide death sentence and ultimately hanged in 2012 in Tihar jail, growing Hindu terrorism in India pursued by RSS-Bajrang where earlier on Maqbool Butt was hanged, without Dal-VHP-BJP combine. informing his next of kin and secretly buried. His tragic The first major attempt was made on December 13, 2001 by hanging ended the 2001 saga based on falsehood in which way of staging an engineered terrorist attack on Indian both BJP and Congress were privy and complicit. Parliament and terming it as horrific as 9/11 attacks. As per Between the periods of 2002 to 2008, all acts of terror the cctv footage displayed, five out of six unknown terrorists occurring in India were pasted on LeT and ISI. A case was were killed by the police while the whereabouts of the sixth is systematically built to establish linkage of the two and then not known to this date. Kashmir focused Lashkar-e-Taiba get the duo blacklisted in UN. Western media chipped in to (LeT) and Jaish-e-Muhammad were blamed for the attack demonize LeT. On January 2002, American Cultural Centre and it was alleged that ISI had masterminded it. Allegations in Kolkata was attacked by unknown militants and Pakistan were leveled without carrying out investigations and was promptly blamed. On July 11, 2006, blasts occurred in a gathering evidence. I have written copiously on the shoddy train in Mumbai, killing 190 and injuring 600 people and drama enacted with the blessing of USA with specific Pakistan was blamed. Blasts in Samjhota Express in which 55 objectives of extracting concessions on Kashmir, keeping Pakistani passengers died were also attributed to Pakistan. So Pakistan under pressure and to get draconian anti-terrorism were terrorist acts in Malegaon mosque, Mecca mosque and laws passed from the parliament. in Pune. Even the suicide attack on Indian Embassy in Kabul I distinctly remember the hyperactive response of Indian civil in July 2008 was ascribed to ISI. After six years of sustained and military leadership, Indian media and Indian public, all efforts by India to malign ISI and LeT, Mumbai attacks took baying for Pakistan's blood. All in unison outrageously place on the night of November 26, 2008 and hell broke loose.
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Anti-terrorist chief of Maharashtra Hemant Karkare was the death and secretly buried inside the jail. first Indian police officer to expose Hindu terrorism in 2008. Indian Home Minister Sushal Kumar Shinde was the third While investigating Malegaon terror case, he was horrified to Indian to disclose the ugly face of India involved in terrorism. gather that Hindu terrorist group supported by Lt Col Purohit On January 20, 2013, he claimed that BJP and RSS were and serving Indian military intelligence officers were promoting 'Hindu terrorism' through their training camps. He involved in all the terrorist acts in India that had been put in said that the two were behind the blasts in Pakistan bound the basket of Indian Muslims and Pakistan. He arrested the Samjhota Express train in which 55 Pakistanis were burnt to culprits and gathered sufficient incriminating evidence to death, in Hyderabad's Mecca mosque and the Malegaon indict and convict them. A fake Hindu saint Swami mosque in Maharashtra. He added that the accused blamed Aseemanand after his arrest in 2010 was the second Indian to the minority community for the crime. His remarks drew an expose Hindu terrorism. He disclosed the role of Hindu right angry response from BJP, which demanded an unconditional wing members in Malegaon terror act and thus seconded the apology but Congress leaders defended Sushal. They said the charges levied by Karkare. These disclosures were highly right wing terrorism was a reality in India and that there was damaging for the reputation of India making loudest noise enough evidence of RSS backed terrorism. Sushal however against terrorism as well as for Indian military and Hindutva didn't divulge the whole truth and concealed the heavy supporters. involvement of Indian military intelligence in Indian Another worrying development was the eruption of massive Muslims and Pakistan specific terrorism and in promotion of unarmed protests in Kashmir valley over Amarnath land scam Hindutva. The curtain has finally lifted and what was in summer of 2008. Obama during his 2008 election speculated has now come true. Former Indian Home Ministry campaign gave added shock by promising resolution of officer and investigator Satish Varma has spilled the beans Kashmir dispute if voted to power. In panic RAW in asserting that both December 2001 and November 2008 consultation with Indian leadership, CIA and Mosad devised incidents were orchestrated and pre-planned by incumbent Mumbai drama. The objectives were to divert world attention Indian government to pressurize Pakistan, discredit ISI and from Kashmir, color the perceptions of Obama on Kashmir, freedom movement in Kashmir and to justify imposition of put off composite dialogue that had made considerable draconian laws in IOK already in place. He stated that serving progress, get LeT and ISI branded as rogue outfits, find an Indian Army officers and Military Intelligence were deeply excuse to aerially strike so-called training camps in Muredke involved in terror attacks. Times of India dated July 14, 2013 and Muzaffarabad and above all bump off Karkare. broke the news. India's Home Ministry Under-Secretary RVS Since the plot was conceived and implemented in haste, the Mani submitted signed affidavits in the court to substantiate plot makers left a trail of glaring loopholes. I highlighted all Satish Verma's report. He stated that Satish who had been part those in my articles and exposed the falsehood but our media of Central Bureau of Investigation, told him that December remained defensive and our political leadership apologetic. In 13, 2001 attack on Indian parliament and November 26, 2008 contrast to Zaid Hamid and Mubashar Luqman's bold fight attacks in Mumbai were a set up to achieve specific back, Hamid Mir went on a spying mission and sold Indian objectives. It is indeed most befuddling to note that the Indian story and British newspaper report that the lone survivor and Pakistani media, which excel in flashing breaking news Ajmal Kasab was a Pakistani belonging to Faridkot village in and making mountain out of a mole, have remained mum over Punjab. Rahman Malik went a step ahead by validating Indian this earth shaking revelation. Geo TV and The News in charge that the launch was hired from Karachi harbor by six particular were conspicuous in their mysterious silence. persons. His version was rebutted by our naval chief. Malik Similar is the response from India-Pakistan leadership and arrested and indicted Jamatud Dawa leaders to appease India that of the super-active western media. All want to hush it up and in a roundabout way admitted that 26/11 attacks had been and move on and consolidate Indo-Pakistan trade ties rather planned in Pakistan. Our High Court and later Supreme Court than hollering over past events. While the lackadaisical freed Hafiz Saeed for want of evidence much to the dismay of responses of India and the west are understandable, what is India and Malik. incomprehensible is the laid-back behavior of our media. It is How can Pakistanis forget the lunatic behavior of Indian more concerned with leaked Abbottabad Commission report leaders and media on the night of 26/11 and several weeks and is trying to extract as much juice out of it to malign Army after? A storm was kicked up and no amount of reasoning, and ISI rather than discussing the sensational revelation made explanation and gestures would lower their tempers. After by Satish Verma. Lt Gen Pasha's mention of 'dollars, alcohol holding LeT and ISI responsible for the attacks, war hysteria and woman', which has ruffled the feathers of media persons, was built up, our DG ISI arrogantly summoned and all strike sounds convincing. For 13 years, Pakistan has been grinded formations offensively deployed. India stuck to her rigid and given all sorts of names and subjected to insults for its stance that LeT backed by ISI was involved and for about uncommitted sins. Pakistan having lost about 50,000 lives three years kept pressing Pakistan to hand over the named and $100 billion because of the US instigated war on terror accused or punish them. She made the renewal of talks has been castigated for not doing enough and is accused of conditional to punishment of the accused. Fake documents either being complicit or incompetent. Our media has been were provided to prove her contention. lending strength to the jaundiced propaganda of Indo-western We also live to remember that Ajmal Kasab (not his real media. The US has been encouraging India to carryout name) who couldn't speak Urdu was unfairly tried in a terrorism adventures and false flag operations against kangaroo court and awarded death sentence. No judge or Pakistan. India, the real criminal is pampered, cajoled, lawyer from Pakistan or Interpol was allowed to meet him. He glamorized and richly rewarded for putting Pakistan in the kept pleading in Marhatti language till last that he had been dock. Both USA and India helped by our media have been falsely implicated. In a video clip available on U-Tube, he is falsely painting Pakistan as the nursery of terrorism and the heard seeking Bhagwan's (god) mercy. He was hanged to most dangerous country in the world whereas in reality the
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two are the biggest terrorist states in the world, intentionally sponsored terror acts simply in pursuit of her geographical fomenting terrorism in Pakistan and maligning it on false and economic ambitions? Will our media be quizzed for its charges. The duo in unison has repeatedly stabbed Pakistan biased role in promoting Indian and western interests at the while pretending as friends. The world sympathized with cost of our national interests? Peaceful and friendly relations India for being a victim of terrorism and Pakistan projected as with India is highly desirable but why should Pakistan keep the villain of peace. Now that the cat is out of the bag and giving in and extending one-sided concessions to India India caught with its pants down and its intrigues fully despite being repeatedly betrayed and the latter giving exposed, will the international community that has been nothing in return except false promises and never hesitating supportive of India rise to the occasion and denounce Indian to knife Pakistan whenever opportunity comes its way? wickedness? Will India be held accountable for officially When will our leaders comprehend that the US and India promoting terrorism and destabilizing Pakistan to force it to would like a pliant Pakistan but not a politically stable, give up supporting cause of Kashmir and to become a economically sound and militarily strong Pakistan? The compliant state? Will it be held responsible for unjust hanging writer is a retired Brig, a defence analyst, a columnist and of Afzal Guru and Ajmal Kasab and death of hundreds of author of several books. [email protected] innocent people in malevolent false flag operations and *****
Dr Awatar Singh Sekhon writes to Sirdar Gurmit Singh Khalsa of Australia:
Piare Vade Bhai Sahib Sirdar Gurmit Singh ji, 'sovereign' when the agent of the British India Empire Waheguru ji ka Khalsa, Waheguru ji ki Fateh! presented the reign of the British India Empire's Viceroy or the agent of the British Empire on the 15th August, 1947. With regard to your comments on views on "Sanskrit and Third, before the Tenth Master of Sikhs, Sahib Guru Gobind Sanskriti in Guru Granth Sahib ji, the Sikhs Holy Scripture, I Singh ji, departed from this world, he gave the Guruship to fully agree with your comments and views, with the Guru Granth Sahib ji, and ordered his "Khalsa Panth" that exception that the "Hindus and their -ism" is "neither a now on the Guru of the "Khalsa (sovereign as the meaning of religion nor a culture," according to Sir VT Rajshekar, the the word Khalsa; and not Khalis used/means for pure)" and Editor in Chief, Dalit Voice, Mangalore, several Hindus the followers of the Sikh Gurus (Baba Guru Nanak Sahib to academics, Dr Harjinder Singh Dilgeer (one of the Sikh Guru Gobind Singh ji) will take their guidance from the historians), JL Nehru (the first Prime Minister of the "Guru Granth Sahib" as the "Shabad" Guru. More precisely, Brahmins-Hindus' India and the first Indian Prime Minister "Aghya bhai Akal ki Tabhe Chalayo Panth, Sab Sikhan ko who had been the very first politician to formulate anti-Sikh Hukam hai Guru Manyo Granth." policies followed by almost everyone of his successors. Fourth: The Sikhs' language, PUNJABI (script Gurmukhi) is Please see "Discovery of India" of JL Nehru). much older than the Hindus-Brahmins' Hindi. Punjabi (script First, according to the first international conference of Gurmukhi) is the language of the Sikhs, as Punjabi-speaking religions held a few years ago, I have been told by a brother of Brahmins-Hindus 'disowned' their mother-tongue in the ours, who attended the very conference, told me that after the Census of 1966, on the advice of an Aryasamajist Gulzailal Christianity, Islam, Judaism, Hindus (neither a religion nor a Nanda, then Home Minister of the JL Nehru's cabinet of the culture), Sikhism and others, as you have stated, are the major Government of India aka the New Delhi administration. religions. However, I am of the view that the Hindus are NOT Since then, PUNJABI is the language of the Sikhs. The latter's a religion of the world. As such, the Sikhism falls at the 4th origin seems to be around 1797. It was invented by a non- place of the World's main religions. I would not sell myself Hindu-Brahmin person, or academic or theologist; short. subsequently, he invented the 'alphabets for his invention of Second, the word introduction to replace 'Sardar' for the Sikhs the Hindi. by a word of 'Shri' has been a "conspiracy against the Fifth: Would you are kindly requested to stop writing your members of Guru Khalsa Panth alias the Sikhs of the 'closing paragraph/comments' that "Sorry for "Robbed" PUNJAB of 15th August, 1947, by the Brahmins- inaccuracy(ies)." Hindus' India. Historically, the Brahmins and their I would appreciate it very much if the writer corrected for Brahmanism or Brahminical rituals and Hindus and their - anything that might not be in accordance with the historical ism. had been "subservient" for more than 3500 years to the facts. Afghans, Mughals, Sikhs, British, Portuguese, etc. They became "free and Sovereign" only in the late morning hours Best wishes and warmest regards. of the 15th August, 1947. They (Brahmins-Hindus) became *****
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DEFENCE OF PAKISTAN DAY BY BRIG. GEN (RETD) ASIF HAROON RAJA DEFENCE OF PAKISTAN DAY Asif Haroon Raja
Forty-eight years ago, the Indian Army crossed Wagah border his goal of making Pakistan but failed because of his at 4 a.m. on 6th September and unleashed an undeclared war unwavering will and steadfastness. Pakistan came on the map against Pakistan. It was an all out war both in territorial of the world on August 14, 1947 after rendering huge expanse and the mass of resources. Everything was sacrifices. Partition of the Subcontinent and consequent committed to annihilate Pakistan once and for all but Pakistan creation of Pakistan was yet another event that widened the armed forces frustrated their designs. Courage and valor gulf between the two nations and properly put India on the demonstrated by the brave hearts for the defence of path to unending animosity and antagonism apropos motherland against extremely heavy odds are unparalleled. In Pakistan. memory of their supreme sacrifices, Defence Day of Pakistan Not reconciling to the existence of Pakistan, breakup of is celebrated with great fervor on every 6th September. Special Pakistan both through kinetic and non-kinetic means became functions are held and wreaths are laid on the graves of an inalienable part of India's national pursuits and purpose. Shaheeds who were awarded highest gallantry awards. Pakistan, thus, emerged as a major preoccupation for India's Chivalries of Ghazis are recalled and prayers are offered for foreign and defence policy. This had brought both nations to all those who sacrificed their lives for our prosperous the battlefield of Kashmir immediately after partition, when tomorrow. Pakistan virtually had no armed forces worth the name and It will be worthwhile to recount the circumstances which led was not even an established polity. to 1965 Indo-Pakistan war. Conflict between India and Yet, people of Pakistan stood to their feet and were able to Pakistan is rooted in the events and episodes preceding the liberate significant chunks of occupied land in form of Azad creation of Pakistan in 1947. Viewing it on narrow communal Jammu & Kashmir, and Gilgit-Baltistan. This was the first grounds is indeed communal in itself. For sure, it has been a section in the string of the struggle after the creation of contest between two contending ideologies and opposing Pakistan against the Indian ideology, which had transformed socio-religious creeds. into a sort of expansionism. Indian elite cannot reconcile to the historical fact that united Ever since, Kashmir has become the bone of contention India remained under the effective rule of Muslims for well between India and Pakistan. India claims that Kashmir is its over 1000 years starting from 712 AD when Muhammad bin Atoot Ang, Pakistan maintains that Kashmir is its jugular Qasim annexed Sindh and made it an integral province of vein. Despite so many UNSC resolutions and so many Omayyad's kingdom. While the low caste Hindus, Buddhists proposals made by UN appointed mediators, India refused to and Jains suffering under the oppressive yoke of Hindu honor its pledge of giving the right of self-determination to Brahmans welcomed the new rulers who were just and Kashmiris and holding a plebiscite under UN supervision. benign, the high caste Hindus hated the Muslims and dubbed It was owing to India's uncompromising and stubborn attitude them as aliens and impure. that Pakistan was forced to launch operation Gibraltar in When the British after establishing strong foothold in Bengal August 1965, using Azad Kashmir Mujahideen with a view to in 1757 gradually overpowered India, Brahmans hastened to creating conditions for a guerrilla war followed by mass get aligned with the new masters and both worked hand-in- uprising and thus forcing India to settle the dispute in glove to bring down the fortunes of the Muslims. In a matter accordance with UN resolutions. Humiliating defeat suffered of fifty years, Muslims were reduced from lords to serfs and by Indian military against Chinese in 1962 conflict and the Hindus emerged as the new elite class. Pakistan Army's success in Khem Karan in April 1965 were at Sir Sayad Ahmad Khan came to the rescue of the utterly the back of the minds of our policy makers. disillusioned Muslims wandering in apathy and not only Although the 7000 strong force managed to infiltrate on a raised the slogan of two-nation theory but also motivated the wide front undetected, it ran into grave difficulties since the Muslims to get educated. Establishment of Aligarh operation had been launched in haste without adequate University helped the Muslims in acquiring higher education. preparations and without preparing Kashmiris in occupied Allama Iqbal who stirred the Muslims through his inspiring Kashmir to wage an armed struggle against occupation poetry and instilled in them greater confidence revealed his forces. Once Indian Army started attacking positions across dream of a separate homeland for the Muslims in his famous the ceasefire line in retaliation, Operation Grand Slam was Allahabad address in 1930. launched on 0I September through Chamb Valley. Muhammad Ali Jinnah after assessing that inflexible ruling After establishing bridgehead across River Tawi, Chamb was Congress was unprepared to grant basic constitutional rights captured on 2 September. The force was well-geared to to the Muslims, the single largest community in India, and launch a deeper manoeuvre to capture Akhnur which in that were treating them as second rated citizens, he united the point of time was defenseless, but at that critical stage when Muslims under the banner of All India Muslim League in victory lay within grasping reach, the change of command 1937. Lahore resolution on March 23, 1940 set the stage for brought operational pause and gave time to Indian forces to making of Pakistan and from that time onwards there was no regain balance for the defence of Akhnur. Maj Gen Akhtar looking back. The whole country resounded with the slogans Malik who had conceived the whole plan was replaced by of 'Pakistan ka matlab kia, la-illaha-illallah'. Maj Gen Yahya Khan. The new commander preferred to Hindu leaders in connivance with the then Viceroy Lord capture Jaurian first, which was captured on 5 September. Mountbatten tried their best to dissuade Quaid-e-Azam from Although lot of time had been wasted, still, had Yahya
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pursued the retreating enemy faster, Akhnur could have fallen Pakistani pilots were matchless in air-to-air combat. by the evening of 5 September, giving us options to exploit Squadron Leader MM Alam single-handed shot down six towards Rajauri, or Jammu and cut off main supply line from Indian intruding jets. Pak Navy didn't lag behind and added a India! In that case, India may not have ventured to attack feather in her cap by launching Operation Somnath and Pakistan the next morning. Outbreak of war on 6 September destroying Indian naval important surveillance centre at grounded Operation Grand Slam, since security of Pakistan Dwarka. Lone Ghazi submarine kept the Indian Navy took precedence over Kashmir. terrified and bottled up. Even while forces of the two countries were at brawl with Pakistan had a definite edge when the UN arranged a each other in Kashmir, it was implicitly understood that the ceasefire on 22rd September. Its strategic reserves were in a war would remain limited to Kashmir, the disputed territory, position to destroy the enemy forces stranded in Ravi-Chenab and would not transcend to established international border as corridor and take the battle inside Indian Territory. PAF had had happened in 1948. Finding itself in a precarious situation achieved air superiority and so had Pak Navy maintained her in Kashmir, Indian military launched an all out offensive on 6 unchallenged supremacy at sea. The test was over in about September without declaring war. Their first target was seventeen days. The nation stood victorious. It was Pakistan's Lahore which was attacked with a Corps plus size force from 'finest hour'. three directions. Indian Army chief Gen JN Chowdhri was so The entire world was stunned over the success attained by sure of victory that he bragged that he will have his breakfast Pakistan as a nation. Pakistan's military victory over India in in Lahore Gymkhana Club next morning. the war of 1965 was acknowledged from all pertinent quarters Although taken by complete surprise, Pak armed forces including independent international observers. India, said the sprang into action. Soul stirring address to the nation by Field London Daily Times, “India is being soundly beaten by a Marshal Ayub Khan acted as a tonic and the whole nation nation which is outnumbered by four and a half to one in stood behind Pak military like a rock. Civil citizenry, at a population and three to one in size of armed forces“. Louis number of places, tried to force its way to the borders to Karrar wrote in Times, “Who can defeat a nation which knows wrestle with the advancing Indian forces. Most of them were how to play hide and seek with death”? either bare-handed or at best equipped with their hunting Newsweek Pakistan noted in its 16 September 2010 issue that shot-guns. The nation stood to the occasion to defend the 'a hard-nerve nation alone can win such a struggle, and state, which bound various ethnicities like beads of a cord Pakistani is undoubtedly hard in nerves and spirit'. It added, together. Bengali officers and men fought as bravely as others 'despite crises Pakistan is the bravest nation in the world'. In and many laid down their lives for the defence of motherland. the words of Anatol Lieven, the author of 'Pakistan: A Hard People of East Pakistan raised anti-India slogans and Country', Pakistan is “in many ways surprisingly tough and collected funds for war effort. Nonetheless, it was the weapon resilient as a state and a society” and that “Pakistan is quite of spirit and character that they were equipped with, simply far more important to the region, the West and the something that indeed overwhelmed the numerical world than is Afghanistan: a statement which is a matter not superiority enjoyed by India due to its size and thus resources. of sentiment but of mathematics.” For next 17 days, the two sides remained locked in mortal R.D Pradhan who was an insider in the war writes in his book combat; India wanting to decimate Pak forces and the latter '1965 War: The inside Story' described the cowardice of Maj determined to throw out three-time superior aggressor. The Gen Niranjan Prasad, the Indian General who attacked offensive against Lahore was blunted by the extraordinary Lahore. 'When Pakistan defence forces counter attacked the grit and determination displayed by all ranks particularly intruding Indian military and the General fired upon on 6 young officers, including the heroism of Maj Aziz Bhatti September, he ran away. He was found by Lt Gen Harbakhsh Shaheed whose Company repulsed repeated attacks. He was Singh hiding in a sugar cane field.' awarded Nishan-e-Haider. Lt Gen Harbakhsh Singh, Commander Western Command Once the offensive was stalled, Pak Army launched a counter notes in his book War Despatches that not only “did Indian offensive with 1 Armoured Division and 7 Division and COAS Gen Chowdhri play a small role in the entire captured Khem Karan. When our forces were poised to campaign, he was so nervous as to be on the verge of losing advance towards Amritsar and Indian forces including their half of Punjab to Pakistan, including the city of Amritsar.” He Army chief were in panic, at that stage Indian military sprung added, “Chowdhri panicked so badly he ordered him to another surprise by launching its main offensive opposite withdraw to a new defensive line behind the Beas, thereby Sialkot sector. Offensive in Khem Karan sector had to be conceding half of Punjab to Pakistan.” Harbakhsh saved the called off and 1 Armoured Division rushed towards Sialkot to day for India by refusing to withdraw. regain strategic balance. R.D. Pradhan also confirms that “Gen Chowdhri feared that a Biggest tank battle after 2nd world war took place in the major battle west of Beas would have ended in destruction of triangle formed by Badiana-Chawinda-Pasrur. Despite being Indian Army and thereafter allowing the enemy (Pakistani) heavily outnumbered and outgunned, the attack was halted forces to push to the gates of Delhi without much resistance. inflicting astronomical casualties upon Indian tanks, soldiers In panic he ordered all forces to withdraw across River and jets. 180 tanks were knocked down in that do-or-die battle Beas.” of Chawinda. Their losses were so huge that it took the steam The London Daily Mirror reported in 1965: “There is smell of out of Indian offensive and on 20 September, India started death in the burning Pakistan sun. For it was here that India's pleading for ceasefire. attacking forces came to a dead stop. During the night they Pak Army had held its ground and repulsed multi-pronged threw in every reinforcement they could find. But wave after offensives while the PAF crippled Indian air force. Indian air wave of attacks were repulsed by the Pakistanis.” force had 5:1 air superiority over PAF but at the outset all USA Aviation Week December 1968 Issue commented: “For forward Indian airbases were successfully struck by PAF. the PAF, the 1965 war was as climatic as the Israeli victory
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over the Arabs in 1967. A further similarity was that India air myriad of problems must shun our differences and get united power had 5:1 numerical superiority at the start of the to make Pakistan strong and face the conspiracies of our conflict. Unlike the Middle East conflict, the Pakistani air adversaries scheming to undo Pakistan conjointly. We must victory was achieved to a large degree by air-to-air combat never forget the age-old adage that 'united we stand, divided rather than on ground. But it was as absolute as that attained we fall'. Unity and consolidated home front is the best by Israel.” defence. We just need to bring back the spirit of 1965, a déjà Our armed forces, which are among the best in the world, are vu that the Pakistan of 21st century earnestly needs and up against internal insurgencies and external threats. Despite constantly looks for. their heavy involvement in war on terror, they continue to The writer is a retired Brig, defence analyst, columnist and hone their weapons and remain ever vigilant to take on the author of books, [email protected] external challenges squarely. We as a nation beset with
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Twenty-nine and one-half (29.5-year) and 29-year After the Sikh Genocides in the Predominantly Brahmins-Hindus India Dr Awatar Singh Sekhon (Machaki)
First of all, on behalf of the "Robbed" Sikh Nation of 15th do so because the citizens who were brutally and mercilessly August, 1947, alias the Guru Khalsa Panth, the write would slaughtered had not been the Brahmins-Hindus. like to offer his congratulations (Vadhaiin) to the Chief Unfortunately, they had been the Sikhs, followers of Guru Scoundrels (jathedars) and their associated scoundrels, Baba Nanak Sahib to Sahib Guru Gobind Singh ji, their wandering in The Darbar Sahib Complex premises, Amritsar teachings inscribed in Guru Granth Sahib, the 5th largest ji, the Supreme Seat of Sikh Polity, The Akal Takht Sahib, religion of the world. Why should the Government of India, executive committees of Gurdwaras in the Sikhs Holy and Indian armed personnel and the Sikhs, so to speak, care about Historic Homeland of the "Robbed" Punjab of 15th August, the Genocides of Sikhs, their human rights violations and 1947, throughout the incredible, progressive, and largest abuses? These kinds of abuses have not happened in any other democracy of the world, predominantly India, the Chief part of the civilized and democratic world. Minister Prakash Sinh Badal and his cabinet of Punjab State, Third, the question arises why should the Indian the members of the Akali Dal-Badal Private Limited, other administration worry about the Sikhs, whose democratically Akalis and non-Sikh members of the Sikh (Akali Dal elected representatives "rejected" the Indian Constitution, in factions) and non-Sikh political parties (Congress, Bhartira its drafts and final forms, in the Indian parliament in 1948, Janta Party or BJP, Bajrang Dal, Shiv Sena, the Hindus 26th November 1949, 1950 and 6th September, 1966? Since Mahasabha alias the mother of all evils), Manmohan Sinh, the Sikhs of the "Robbed" Punjab of 15th August, 1947, have Chief, Council of Ministers (Prime Minister, so to speak), no constitutional rights, because of their "rejection" of the New Delhi administration (NDA), the members of the Lok Indian Constitution 1950, the Brahmins-Hindus (only 10% of Sabha (Indian parliament and the Upper House alias Rajya over 1.2 billion hungry mouths) feel that it is the Brahmins- Sabha) and the provincial legislative assemblies, the highly Hindus' India and they are the masters of the alleged Indian politicized judiciary system of the Indian democracy and the democracy. non-Sikh citizens, especially the members of the BJP and the Fourth, the Chief Scoundrels (jathedars; Vedanti Joginder Hindu Mahasabha, the state executives and members of the Sinh Sran; Puran Sinh of Luv and Kush, etc.), Gurbachan predominantly Brahmins-Hindus India have not been able to Singh and his associate scoundrels, have you given any prosecute anyone who carried out the "Genocides of the Sikhs programme to the “Robbed” Punjab of 15th August, 1947? So of the "Robbed" PUNJAB of 15th August, 1947, and outside did the Chief Minister, Prakash Sinh Badal and his cabinet? the "Robbed" PUNJAB of 15th August, 1947, in the Does the Chief Scoundrel (jathedar) of The Akal Takht Sahib remaining provinces and Union Territories of the know that he has his responsibility to the Sikh Nation, predominantly Brahmins-Hindus India. These Genocides of “Robbed” Punjab? Does he know that he is the Chief Servant Sikhs and their Homeland, PUNJAB, had been in the form of (Sewadar) of the Guru Khalsa Panth? Does he know that the an 'undeclared' war in the form of a brutal military "Operation State is under the Sikh religion and Sikh Traditions and not Bluestar" of June, 1984 and the Genocide started on 31st otherwise around? Does he know that the Chief Minister of October-November, 1984. Congratulations to the Punjab has imprisoned more than 5600 Sikhs (infants, predominantly Brahmins-Hindus' of the secular India. children, male and female folks, elderlies, etc.) since the days Second, the predominantly Hindus India deserves of an 'undeclared' war on the “Robbed” Punjab of 15th August, commendation and congratulations that the incredible, 1984, in the high security jails of the “Robbed” Punjab and progressive and largest democracy's executive and judicial outside “Robbed” Punjab; supposedly, with the consent of the system failed to protect the lives of more than hundreds of Chief Minister, Prakash Sinh Badal, his “joe boys and joe thousands citizens under the Article 14 of the Indian girls” of the (Robbed) Punjab administration since 15th Constitution of 1950; although more than 3.2 to 3.4 million August, 1947. Does the Chief Scoundrel know that the Chief Sikhs have been slaughtered since the fateful day of the 15th Minister, his Akalis in parliament and upper house August, 1947. The Government of India and States failed to parliamentary members, have merely become the
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mouthpieces of anti-Sikh political parties? As such, the Chief Why did you wait, the Chief Scoundrel, for more than 29-year Scoundrels and the Prakash Sinh Badal gang have demonized to seek the U N involvement to get 'justice for the Sikhs', the Sikh religion and have had no respect for the Sikh which remains denied since 15th August, 1947? Should you Traditions, the Sikh Way of Life, Guru Granth Sahib and the find yourself unable to get the answer to the Sikh question of Chief Minister himself desecrated The Darbar Sahib the “Robbed” Punjab of 15th August 1947, why do you not Complex on 7th February, 1998, while deposing the resign from the apex political institution of the Sikhs, The democratically installed Chief Jathedar of The Akal Takht Akal Takht Sahib, and ask the Chief Minister of the “Robbed” Sahib? Does the Chief Scoundrel of The Akal Takht Sahib Punjab and other Sikh electorates to do so? The Sikhs of the know the Sikhs' History from the Sikh point of view? Does he Brahmins-Hindus Indian democracy will never be served know it is his responsibility and duty to save the Sikhs' with the justice to the Sikh question and other matters that religious, historical and the Sikh institutions from any have been pending with the judiciary of the secular India. desecration by the non-Sikhs? The Chief Scoundrel and the Have you, the Chief Scoundrel and C M Prakash Sinh Badal Chief Minister of the “Robbed” Punjab of 15th August, 1947, learned any lesson from Sirdar Kapur Singh, ICS, MP, MLA must know the teachings of the founder of the Sikh religion: and National Professor of Sikhism, Shaheed-Bilas Jarnail “Mathe Tikka Terrh Dhotti Kakhaii Hath Chhurri Jagat Singh Khalsa (Bhindranwale), his advisors, supporters, more Kasaii;” which is the real definition of the Brahmin, i. e., than 270,000 martyrs of June, 1984, and their staunch “Brahmin is the Butcher of our peaceful world.” followers? Fifth, is it not the duty of the Chief Scoundrel (jathedar) of Seventh, what have you, the Chief Scoundrel of The Akal The Akal Takht Sahib that the “Sikh children must abide by Takht Sahib (Supreme Seat of Sikh Polity) and the Chief the Sikh Way of Life and they do not follow the Bollywood Minister Prakash Sinh Badal of the “Robbed” Punjab of 15th style culture. The Sikh Culture is the prime culture of the August, 1947, ever raised your voice, the voice of the Guru “Robbed” Punjab of 15th August, 1947. The Chief Scoundrel Khalsa Panth, in favour of Bhai Satwant Singh (martyred), and his associates must think what they have been doing to Bhai Kehar Singh (Martyred), Bhai Dilavar Singh Babbar “Save the Sikh Culture” from the challenge of the Sikhs' (Martyred), Bhai Jagtar Singh Hawara. Bhai Balwant Singh enemy, the Brahmins-Hindus? The Scoundrel and his Rajoana, Bhai Devinder Pal Singh Bhullar (on the death row associates are there to save the Sikh religion and culture, from of the Brahmins-Hindus' highly politicized judicial system), the impact and attack of the anti-Sikh forces. What do you Bhai Daljit Singh Bittu, Bhai Paramjit Singh Bheora and think the Chief Scoundrel and his associates? other Sikhs imprisoned in the high security jails of the Sixth, why did the Chief Scoundrel of The Akal Takht Sahib “Robbed” Punjab and outside Punjab? Why would you raise asked Sardar Karnail Singh Peer Mohammad and other Sikhs your voice on the Sikh Nation's issues, the issues of the to contact the United Nations to get 'justice' seeking the “Robbed” PUNJAB of 15th August, 1947? involvement of the U N, after a lapse of 29- to 29.5-year? Do not ever forget the Chief Scoundrel and your associate Have you been sleeping for almost the last three decades, the scoundrels as well as the Chief Minister Prakash Sinh Badal Chief Scoundrel of The Akal Takht Sahib? Would you, the the teachings of Guru Granth Sahib: “Change Marg Chal Chief Scoundrel, ever believe in your own integrity, seek dian Ustat kare Jahan; …Avar updese aap naa Kare avat jave guidance from Guru Granth Sahib (as Guru Gobind Singh janme marre… nothing is going to live for ever in this world, Sahib ordered his Khalsa “Guru Manyo Granth.” Would you etc., (Mahalla Nauvan, Guru Granth Sahib).” ever believe in Guru Sahib Gobind Singh's teachings: “Koi How would you ask when you are a member of the Rashtriya kisi ko raj naa deh hai, jo bhi le hai Nij bal se le hai?” Are you Sikh Sangat, a branch of the Hindus-Brahmins' Rashtriya and your Chief Minister, Prakash Sinh Badal not in the Swamsewak Sangh and, maybe, other political parties of anti- contempt of the 10th Master's teachings, Gurbachan Singh, Sikhs fundamentalists and militant Brahmins-Hindus? Please Chief Scoundrel (jathedar)? What kind of the examples you prove me wrong for my writings, the Chief Scoundrel are setting to the 'torch bearers' of the Guru Khalsa Panth alias (jathedar) Gurbachan Singh. the “Robbed” Sikh Nation, PUNJAB, of 15th August, 1947? You must not have forgotten the slogan of the Brahmins- Further, have you ever thought about the citizens of the Hindus raised in the early 1980s, “Kachha Karrah Kirpan, Internationally Disputed Areas of Jammu and Kashmir Inko Bhejo Pakistan.” What does it mean to you and the (IDA:JK)? The IDA:JK has been struggling to “Regain its Chief Minister Prakash Sinh Badal? This relates to the Sovereignty and/or the Self-Determination for their future for “Robbery of the Sikhs' Holy and Historic Homeland, more than 66-year, under the auspices of the United Nations, PUNJAB, of 15th August, 1947. Indeed, the Sikh nation has but of no avai.” However, more than 200,000 Muslim of the been made landless by the robbery of the 15th August, 1947, IDA:JK have been killed by the Indian armed forces. Despite The Brahmins-Hindus have grabbed your Homeland all these killings, the IDA:JK is not any closer to their future (Punjab) and now “you go to Pakistan.” What a sinister play under the U N: Security Council Resolution of 1948. of the deceitful Brahmins-Hindus! One of you has been Have you and the Chief Minister Prakash S Badal ever believing in “Money For Votes” because he would like to be displayed solidarity with the demands, human rights the Chief Minister of PUNJAB regardless what would be the violations and abuses with the sufferers of the IDA:JK, future of the Sikhs of their present and future generations. Assam and 7-sisters people, rape victims of the Manipurian In summation, you both owe answers to the above questions females, Dalits, Bodos, Christians, Buddhists, the people of relating to the Guru Khalsa Panth and its Holy and Historic Bihar, etc.? You did not think that it was your duty to express Homeland, presently under the occupation of the incredible, sympathies with the non-Sikh and non-Brahmins-Hindus, the progressive and the largest deceitful democracy ruled by the Chief Scoundrel (jathedar) of the Guru Khalsa Panth? Brahmins (3%) – Hindus (7%).
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SUBMITTED AT THE 23rd SESSION, UN: HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND DAL KHALSA ALLIANCE Berkeley, CA, USA MEMORANDUM
The Hon N. Pillay High Commissioner United Nations High Commission for Human Rights, UN Human Rights Council Palais des Nations, CH 1211 Geneva 10 SWITZERLAND 29th May, 2013
Your Excellency Madam Pillay,
HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS AND GENOCIDE IN PARTICULAR OF SIKHS IN THEIR HOLY AND HISTORICAL LAND, PUNJAB, AND THE NON-HINDU MINORITIES IN GENERAL IN PREDOMINANTLY HINDU INDIA
We, the Sikhs of North America, European countries and Kashmiri Muslims of the Internationally Disputed Areas of Switzerland, would like to apprise you, the Excellency, of the Jammu and Kashmir since occupation; more than 312,500 gross human rights abuses of the Sikhs and other non- Christians; hundreds of thousands of Dalits, adivaases Brahmins- Hindu minorities in India which have been taking (aboriginals or Moolnivasi of India), in numerous genocides, place since 15th August, 1947. This was the day when the pogroms, massacres and staged encounters (25 Years After British India authorities transferred political power to the 1984 Assault on Durbar Sahib Laying Foundation of 'unelected' Hindu leadership and left the non-Hindu Khalistan (ed) Dr Awatar Singh Sekhon, June 2009, ISBN 0- minorities, especially the Sikhs, at the mercy of the majority 9548929-4-1, a publication of London Institute of South (only 10% of a total population of over 1.2 billion), the Asia). The most recent examples of the state-sponsored Hindus. Since receiving political power from the British pogroms are the killings of Sikhs in Chitisinghpora in Empire, despite the protest of the Sikhs at large and their Kashmir in February, 2000; killings of 6 Sikhs in Kashmir in leadership for not returning their 'First Sovereign and February, 2001; beheading of a Sikh in Kashmir in March, Secular' Sikh nation of South Asia, of a Sikh monarch Ranjit 2001; destruction of 6 Mosques in Kanpur, U P, and Bhilwara Singh (1799-1849). The predominantly Hindu India has (Asind), Rajasthan (http://www.indian express.com ; 2001; exterminated more than 3.4 million Sikhs since 15thAugust, The Hon Edolphus Towns, Member of Congress (MC). 1947; more than one million in the decade of 1981-91 (Singh Indian Government Found Responsible for Burning Sikh S 1995 The Sikhs in History ISBN 0-96475555-0-5; Dilgeer Homes and Temple in Kashmir. The US House of HS and Sekhon AS 1992 The Sikhs' Struggle for Sovereignty Representatives, June 27, 2001; The Hon Dan Burton, MC An Historical Perspective (ed) A T Kerr ISBN 0-9695964-1- and Chairman, US House Government Committee. Indian 3 University of Alberta P O 60246, Edmonton, AB T6G 2S5, Duplicity and Hypocrisy Exposed, House of Canada; Sekhon AS Dilgeer HS 1999 A White Paper On Representatives, 31st July, 2001; The Hon Edolphus Towns, Khalistan (A True Story) The Sikh Nation (ed) AT Kerr ISBN MC Indian Minorities Seeking Their Own States. The US 0-9695964-8-0; Sekhon AS Dilgeer HS 2002 India Kills the House of Representatives, 107th Congress, July 11, 2001; Sikhs, 3rd Ed, ISBN 0- 9695964-9-9; Sekhon AS 2005 India's The Hon Cynthia A McKinney, MC Self-Determination For Genocides of Sikhs, 1981-1991: History Revisited Int J Sikh Sikh Homeland Discussed on Capitol Hill, The US House of Affairs 15(2), 28, 2005 (Chief Guest Editor: AT Kerr) ISSN Representatives, June 28, 2001); slaughtering of 16 Muslims 1481-5435; Sekhon AS 2010 The Sikhs: Sovereignty To by the police; burning of the Muslim holy scripture, The Slavery ISBN 978-0-9811360-8- 0). Since the brutal military Quran Shariff, in New Delhi, Patiala, and Amritsar, Punjab “Operation Bluestar” of June, 1984, more than 260,000 (March 24, 2000 39 International Journal of Sikh Affairs 23 (2), November Issue 2013 ISSN 1481-5435 ISSN 1481- 5435 October 7, 1987). On 21st March, 2006, in killed the latter. a press release, Dr Gurmit Singh Aulakh, President of the A former Punjab administration headed by a corrupt Sikh, Council of Khalistan, Washington DC, said, “What kind of Prakash Sinh Badal, desecrated the Darbar Sahib democracy watches people are demanding freedom? Why Complex (mistakenly known as the Golden Temple don't they watch the Black Cats created by the Indian Complex) on 7th February, administration and its intelligence agencies, who have killed 1998, desecrated its sanctity and deposed the democratically thousands of Sikhs under the protection of the Indian elected custodian of The Akal Takht Sahib, using his state government (U S Congress on the Sikh Struggle for powers. The administration of Prakash Sinh Badal, has spent Khalistan, publisher International Sikh Organization, more than 20 million rupees for legal fees to protect the Washington DC ISBN 978-0-9889370-00 and 978-0- 'guilty' police officers participated in the genocide of the 9889370-1-7, 2013)?'' Sikhs. About a decade ago, Badal's Akalis were voted to form We would like to bring to your notice that the Sikh Punjab's administration, under the Constitution of India, Nation,Punjab, the 'First Sovereign and Secular' nation of which has been 'rejected by the Sikhs repeatedly', out of South Asia of monarch Ranjit Singh, 1799 to 14th March, the Punjab's administration, for his maneuvering. His 1849, was 'robbed' by the alleged Indian democracy on 15th collision (Badal and associates') with a party of the Hindu August, 1947. The Sikhs' constitutional rights, Sikh religion militants and fundamentalists, the Brahtiya Janata Party and Sikh traditions were 'swallowed' in the Indian (BJP), is back again, as the Chief of the Punjab Constitution 1950, Article 25. The very Constitution 1950 administration. Badal, is an agent of India's Research and was 'rejected', in the Indian parliament (Lok Sabha), in its Analysis Wing (RAW; Gurtej Singh 2000 Chakarvyuh: Web draft and final forms, in 1948, 26 November 1949, 1950 and of Indian Secularism ISBN 81-85815-14-3) and a staunch more recently on 6th September 1966. The Sikhs' elected turbaned Hindu-Brahmin in 'The Sikh Identity'. Badal has representatives who 'rejected' the Constitution, on behalf of kept his lips 'sealed' when the Punjab Legislative Assembly their people or constituents of Punjab, were Sardar Hukam debated the 'Freedom of Press, news media and the free Singh, Sardar Bhupinder Singh Maan and Sirdar Kapur speech recently (www.rozanaspokesman.com, 8th-13th Singh, ICS, MP, MLA and the National Professor of Sikhism. March, 2008). The freedom of speech and expression are the Since their 'rejection' of the Indian Constitution 1950, none fundamental human rights in any democracy. This is the of the Sikhs' elected representatives has accepted/ reflection of the 'autocratic' nature of the Badal's Akali-BJP endorsed/signed the Indian Constitution implemented by administration in Punjab. the deceitful, divisive, devious and apartheid practicing the These are a few examples of the democracy of the New Delhi alleged Indian democracy of the 'Brahmins-Hindus'. It must administration's (NDA) blessed the Badal and his Akalis be considered seriously that under what Constitutional rights, alliance with the BJP administration, in the Sikhs' holy and the apartheid practicing alleged Indian democracy has been historic Homeland of Sikhs, Punjab. ruling the 'Sikhs of Punjab (including Haryana, Himachal On February 6, 2000, the death of a Dalit youth in police Pradesh and Punjabi-speaking areas of Punjab/Sikh custody in Morinda, Ludhiana, was horrifying. He was killed Nation/the Sikh Raj of Ranjit Singh) since 15th August, in cold blood because he objected to police's drinking session 1947? The Sikhs of Punjab's story does not end here. Rather, at a public place. This incidence revived memories of the dark it has been continuing since the Sikh Nation has been under period in the history of Punjab when countless innocent the 'slavery and Tight Control' of the oppressive and young men were killed in false suppressive minorities of the alleged Indian democracy, encounters, but police records turned them into ruthless predominantly of the 'Brahmins-Hindus' (not more than terrorists. 11% of a total population of 1.2 billion hungry mouths), A mother of six sons, Bibi Jaswant Kaur, lost her husband who had been 'subservient' to the Afghans, Mughals, Sikhs, in 1987. Three of her six sons succumbed to tuberculosis. The British, Portuguese, etc., for more than 3,500 years. other three were abducted and killed by Punjab police. One of Additionally, the excesses of the Indian forces can be the three sons, Pragat Singh, 23-yrs-old, was arrested in 1987, summarized as follows: kept in captivity for 14 months. After his release police raided On 5th November, 1978, the Hindu India police of Delhi fired his home on 9th September 1988, and shot him dead. The at a Sikh procession and killed four Sikhs, including the eldest son, Jagir Singh, 25-yrs-old, working as a volunteer in president of the Delhi Akali Party [Sekhon AS and Dilgeer a Taran Taran Gurdwara, was taken by the police and did not HS 1999, 2006 A White Paper On Khalistan (A True Story) return. The youngest son, Mohinder Singh (20-yrs-old), was The Sikh Nation (ed) A T Kerr ISBN 0-9695964-8-0]. Acting with the religious man, Baba Charan Singh (see above). He Mukh- Sewadar, or Chief of Akal Takht Sahib (Custodian), was abducted by the police on 14th June 1991 and died in the Supreme Seat of the Sikh Polity, Amritsar, Singh Sahib police custody. Jaswant Kaur has tried all possible avenues to Bhai Gurdev Singh Kounke, was abducted on 20th December get justice, but has had no luck ([email protected]; 1993, tortured, killed and his body dumped in a canal on 3rd March 20, 2001; post #4181; http://www.yahoo January 1994. On October 27, 1995, the Human Rights groups.com/group/sikhyouth; http://www.yahoo activist of the Akali Dal (Badal), Sardar Jaswant Singh groups.com/group/sikhyouth). Even outside India, Sikhs are Khalra, was killed at the Chhabal police station, Amritsar. His being harassed by the Indian government and its allies, body was thrown into the Harike Canal. A police officer, A. S. according to the Hon Edolphus Towns, MC (Extensions of Sandhu (supposedly committed suicide), abducted a Sikh Remarks - February 27, 2001). Miscreants stormed a church religious leader, Charan Singh, tortured him and was made to and ransacked the premises while a spiritual meeting and dispose of his body. Earlier, the same police officer had prayers were in progress in Hyderabad, A P abducted Charan Singh's brother and his driver. Tying his legs (www.burningpunjab.com; 24th March, 2001). to two jeeps, which were driven off in opposite directions, A group of men killed their rape victim, a mother of seven, in 40 International Journal of Sikh Affairs 23 (2), November Issue 2013 ISSN 1481-5435 the village of Singana and then gouged out the eyes of two 18th September, 2010)." On 9th February, 2013, a Kashmiri witnesses in India's lawless eastern state of Bihar, the Press named Afzal Guru, a medical professional, had been sent to Trust of India reported Thursday (February 8, 2001; AFP). gallows in Tihar jail, Delhi), buried in the jail, without The rapists then used the woman's sickle to hack her to death. informing his wife and family members. The Dal Khalsa They then attacked four labourers who witnessed the crime. Alliance lodged a strong protest for Afzal Guru's execution. Since 1998, Christian missionaries including one from The above are only a few of the hundreds of thousands of Australia (Father Graham Stains), his 8- & 10-yr-old sons, cases we would like to bring to your kind attention, your and Roman Catholic nuns, have been killed, burnt alive or Excellency. We hereby request you to dispatch a fact finding raped by the Hindu fundamentalists. mission to India to assess in depth the crimes committed The burning, destruction and demolishing of the Houses of against humanity by armed and law-enforcing agencies in God of the non-Hindu minorities, the Sikh Gurdwaras, 'uniforms' and the largest, progressing democracy of the Churches and Mosques, looting and desecrating of the holy world, India; to bring the criminals before the International and historical places of the non-Hindu minorities are the Court of Justice in the same way as the U N has done to punish modus operandi of successive Indian administrations and the criminals of the Rwanda and Serbia massacres in 2000; S. state-sponsored hoodlums (Hon John T Doolittle, MC India Milosevic of Serbia in July 2001; the former Serb police Coalition Partner Threaten To Engulf Country In Violence, chief, Steven Todorovic, who pleaded guilty for torturing, House of Representatives, July 27, 2000, The US Congress; murdering and sexually assaulting Muslims and Croats Hon Edolphus Towns, MC July 27, 2000. (National Post, 1st August, 2001, p A11); and Radislav Krstic Christian Persecution in India, House of Representatives, The for the Srebrenica genocide of Muslims in 1995 (National US Congress). Militant Hindu hoodlums in Uttarpara, West Post, August 3, 2001, p A3). The UN tribunal has taken a Bengal, attacked a train carrying Sikh pilgrims and the Sikh landmark decision recently to include “sex torture as a war Holy scriptures, Guru Granth Sahib (International Journal of crime” (National Post, February, 23, 2001). Also, the UN Sikh Affairs 23 (1), June Issue 2013 ISSN 1481-5435). Secretary-General (former), His Excellency Kofi Annan's The Hindu hoodlums stoned the Sikh pilgrims, burned the interview (Time, 4th September, 2000) will be welcomed by Holy Scriptures, and tried to set fire to the train (Press the justice-loving peoples of our civilized world that “those Release: Council of Khalistan. Train Attack Is Wake-Up Call who commit crimes and those who watch as bystanders are for Sikh Nation, June 27, equally responsible for the crime taking place.” What we 2001< [email protected] ). In an affidavit filed on 28th have brought to your attention, your Excellency, is just the August, 2000, by Mr Sartaj Singh, resident of Kathua, Jammu 'tip of the iceberg' of human rights abuses, religious and Kashmir (under the occupation of Indian administration), persecution(s), rapes, humiliation, dehumanization and IDA:JK, stated that he was tortured and received painful, crimes committed by the state-sanctioned armed personnel of psychological harassment by the Indian police. The police what our civilized world terms as the “largest democracy” in personnel wanted him to confess for the things, which he the world, India. A leading magazine has pointed out 'India is never did. The police personnel also wanted him to tell the ruled by rascals.' “Many Indians silently witness their whereabouts of Neeta alias Ranjit Singh, a freedom fighter, country's unlawful events. Several members of the ruling Harbhajan Singh, Gian Singh and Joginder Singh, who are at party's youth wing have in the past been charged with rapes large.The police personnel wanted him to make a false and kidnapping. Officials respond that all parties have their confession that 'we all know one another'. thugs. Politicians use thugs to capture polling booths and stuff Miss Manorama of Manipur was gang raped by the men of the ballot boxes (The Economist, 15th July, 1995, p. 26).” Assam Rifles and was thrown out of the headquarters after According to the Hon Dana Rohrabacher, for the Sikhs, mutilating her private parts in July, 2004. More recently (9th Kashmiri Muslims, and other minorities 'India might as well February, 2005), a 12-year-old girl was allegedly raped by a be Nazi Germany' (Press Release: Council of Khalistan, constable of the force in central Assam's Karbi Anglong Washington DC; June 27, 2001 khalistan@ khalistan.com > ). district, triggering protests from women's organizations. In a Another Sikh, Devinder Pal Singh Bhullar, is about to be put blatant violation of human rights, the district police today to death in India for a crime even India admitted he didn't tortured a Dalit youth to death after he refused to accept his commit (Hon Edolphus Towns, MC. Proc House of involvement in a theft case (Jalandhar, February 6' Representatives, Washington DC, 18th March, 2003). tibruneindia.com). Manmohan Sinh, the present Chief, Council of Ministers, a The World Kashmir Diaspora Alliance reports that "since the non- elected 'Member of Parliament' of India, supposed to be Indian forces occupation, more than 195,000 innocent an honest and clean person delivered his state address before Kashmiris have been killed; more than 500,000 have the “World Conference on Human Rights Delegates in disappeared, and the latter have been killed by the invader's Vienna, Austria, on 24th June (14 to 25th June), 1993. He, troops or they have been languishing in Indian jails with no then Finance Minister of the PV Rao's administration, said information to their families. In the last three months, the that “he being Sikh finds no abuses of Human Rights of Sikhs death toll in the ongoing Kashmiri unrest is 96, as another much less any minorities in India.” Another person, youth Yasir Rafiq Sheikh, a cousin of Jammu and Kashmir Shahabuddin, Manmohan Singh's colleague of the Islamic Liberation Front chief, Muhammad Yasin Malik,succumbed faith, said the same of Muslims of India. Abuses of Human to his injuries on late Wednesday night inflicted by the Indian Rights in the Sikhs' holy and historic Homeland,Punjab, personnel and kept in a New Delhi hospital. Additionally, at Khalistan (under the Brahmins-Hindus-turbaned Brahmins least 10 persons were injured by the alleged CRPF firing on autocracy's occupation, have been taking place, since 15th protesters in Sopur. For the last six days Kashmir is under August, 1947). Manmohan Singh's statement was 'refuted' in curfew round the clock (bangla- [email protected] , the strongest possible words by the human rights and peace- 41 International Journal of Sikh Affairs 23 (2), November Issue 2013 ISSN 1481-5435 loving citizens (delegates) of North America and elsewhere. the Birthday celebrations of Shaheed-Bilas Saint-soldier Your Excellency, following the execution of “Operation Jarnail Singh Khalsa, Punjab's political and religious leader Bluestar” of June, 1984, an 'undeclared' war on the of the 20th century (www.rozananaspokesman.com ). “Robbed” Punjab alias Sikh Nation, by the Indian armed A mass Grave of Sikhs, killed in November 1984, has been forces, according to Sekhon (2009 ISBN 0-9548929-4-1), discovered after 26 years in village Hondh-Chillar, District every village of the Sikhs' holy and historic homeland, Rewari, Haryana. Several Sikh families inhabited the village. Punjab, was turned into a 'Concentration Camp;' 'Open air' On November 2nd, 1984 in an organized and well planned jails were established outside every village of Punjab. These attack, the entire village was burnt, along with the Sikh jails were covered by the barbed wires, in the heat of population and Gurudwara. The village consisting of torched June–August months, when the usual temperatures in Punjab houses, a burnt Gurudwara and scattered human bones have are 47 C or more, had been under the supervision of the Indian now been discovered (www.punjabspectrum.com, 17th armed personnel, were no less than the concentration camps February, 2011). of Adolf Hitler's times in the Nazi Germany. These 'open air' Speaking before a judge in Patiala court on 4th February, barbed wire concentration camps/jails were used to prison the 2013: Bhai Balwant Singh Rajoana said: “As far as I am Sikhs indiscriminately regardless of gender and age. Sanitary concerned, my arrest on December 22, 1995, from the facilities were virtually non-existent. This reflects the Jalandhar Bus Depot is totally false. The story concocted by treatment of Indira Gandhi and her administration of the the Rajpura Police against me is all fabricated simply to Brahmins-Hindus autocracy to the Sikhs.” implicate me in a false arrest. I cannot and will not bow in Bibi Manjit Kaur Dakha (1992): Manjit Kaur Dakha and front of such an unjust judicial system and betray my brave her husband sought political asylum in the United States after martyred Sikh brothers. I will not beg for any mercy from this being tortured by the Indian armed personnel. Mrs. Dakha, unjust judicial system and would prefer to go to the gallows her father, and her 6-mo-old daughter (Bhaghel Kaur) were with my head held high. I will not ask for mercy for myself tortured mercilessly, given repeated death threats, and her but rather ask for freedom and sovereignty for my Sikh nation child was made to sit on a colony of ants by the Central [“Robbed” PUNJAB of 15th August, 1947]. My tributes to all Reserve Police Force (CRPF). Mrs Dakha and her father my martyred brothers and sisters.” It is learned from highly were made to beat each other with clubs. reliable sources that the CRPF had been operating at least Sardar Surinder Singh Fauji (a retired army personnel), of four deep pans of boiled oil to kill alive the Sikh youth in Fatehabad, Tehsil: Khadur Sahib of Amritsar district of Amritsar in the post- undeclared war on the occupied Sikh Punjab, has been physically, mentally and psychologically Nation, under the consent of the then administration of India. tortured by Punjab police since May 27, 1986. Valuable In the second week of February, 2010, the Punjab police household articles were stolen by the police personnel from killed 13 youth in Ludhiana district of Punjab, while they his residence and never returned. Despite his writing to the were participating in the Birthday anniversary celebrations of then Prime Minister (PV Rao), Home Minister of India (SB Shaheed-Bilas Saint-soldier Jarnail Singh Khalsa, Punjab's Chawan), Chief Justice, Supreme Court of India, Chief political and religious leader (www.punjabspectrum.com, Justice, Punjab and Haryana High court, and the Senior February 21, 2011). Session Judge, Amritsar, there was no relief from the police According to the Sikhs for Justice (SFJ), the summons excesses. against Congress have been issued pursuant to a class action More than 35 Sikh youth, including Kanwarpal Singh Bittu lawsuit filed (SFJ v. Congress (I) SDNY (10 CV 2940)) under and Sarbjit Singh Ghuman of the Dal Khalsa, were kept in Alien Tort Claims Act (ATCA) and Torture Victim Protection police custody. Similarly, Jagtaar Singh Hawara, his wife and Act (TVPA). The plaintiffs in the case against Congress (I) other 20 family members were humiliated (by putting are "Sikhs For Justice" (SFJ) a US based human rights group cigarettes and tobacco in Hawara's mouth), tortured and along with several Sikhs from different states and cities of harassed by the Punjab and Delhi police (www.panthic.org India who survived attacks in November 1984 (3rd March, 17th July, 2005). Another Sikh leader, Daljit Singh Bittu, 2011, posted by SFJ on many websites). President, Panch Pradhani, and thousand of Sikh youth have Reported recently (www.facebook.com, 14th March, 2011), been in jails, without trials and crimes; International Journal large number of Sikhs gathered in Gurudwara at Pandri of Sikh Affairs 23 (1), June Issue 2013 ISSN 1481-5435. Kattaiyyan 10 km from Nanakmatta, Pilibhit road and 15 kms A human rights lawyer and prominent Sikh nationalist Harpal from Sitarganj.The gurudwara was locked but ransacked and Singh Cheema, after spending eight years in a California jail, the Holy Scripture of Sikhs, Guru Granth Sahib, was set on whom Judge Dana Keener determined Singh did not pose a fire; whereas, two more copies were ripped off by sharp threat to national security. The Hon judge stopped short of weapons. The majority of farmers in this area is the Sikhs, granting him full asylum but forbade the then-INS from Muslims and Biharis labourers. A Muslim named Mehadi deporting the couple. Indeed, she noted that Singh “is widely Hassan (MH) was caught stealing the motor from perceived as a moderate and a voice for reason (Camille T Gurudawara a couple of days ago. He was handed over to Tairara, Editor, New America Media, News Feature, Aug 07, Police. It is reported his involvement along with his some 2006). To escape atrocities and persecution during custody of other Muslim friends, who attacked Gurudwara Sahib, burnt the Indian law-enforcing personnel until 1992, Mr Cheema the Holy Scripture and they cut the pages with sharp edged and his wife sought asylum in the United States in1993 weapons. Temporary Granthi/custodian Narinder Singh also (www.news.ncmonline.com/news/views_ article.htmal? Mr hid the truth because of intimidation. It is understood that Cheema is separated from his wife and son. Both mother and some Hindu fundamentalists and miscreants are involved to son are too scared to return to India. incite MH and his associates to create animosity between the In February 2010, the Punjab police killed 13 youth in Sikh and Muslim communities of UP and Utrakhand. It has Ludhiana district of Punjab, while they were participating in been done before by the Brahmins-Hindus personnel of the 42 International Journal of Sikh Affairs 23 (2), November Issue 2013 ISSN 1481-5435 Indian Government in the occupied-Jammu and Kashmir Punjab in May 2007), RS Bhullar,Joginder Singh, Raghbir during President William J Clinton's state visit to India. Singh, SS Virk; armed forces personnel like K Sunderji, AS A few weeks earlier in August, 2011 desecration of Sikhs' Vaidya, KS Brar, RS Dayal, JS Bhullar, Arjan Singh, JS Holy Scripture took place in a town in Hoshiarpur district, Jamwal, Tarlok Singh, Shamsher Singh, Gurdial Singh, and Punjab. Recently, the Vice Chancellor of the Punjab their subordinates (Report 21 International Journal of Sikh University, invited Professor of Sikhism Gurtej Singh, to Affairs 23 (1), June Issue 2013 ISSN 1481-5435). write an invitational article on the 'Sikh War Code'. Professor To The Nation: Oppression in Punjab. Library of Congress Gurtej Singh's invitational article was 'rejected' on the ground Card No. 86-60058, January, 1986; Gurtej Singh 2000 that certain changes are required before it is accepted for Chakarvyuh: Web of Indian Secularism ISBN 81-85815-14- publication by his university. This is a 'discrimination' of 3; Int J Sikh Affairs Vol 9, No. 1, 1999 ISSN 1481-5435; Sikh Punjab University's policy against the Sikhs and the highly Shahadat, June 2005, p. 12-17). esteemed Sikh writer of the international caliber. We look forward to hearing from you and hope for your More than 257,000 Sikh farmers have committed suicide prompt action on all crimes committed against humanity. since post-“Operation Bluestar” era in the 'robbed' PUNJANB of 15th August, 1947, because heavy burdens of With warmest regards and best wishes. the taxes imposed by the administration of Hanera (Prakash) Sinh Badal (Rozanaspokesman, 29th February, 2012). Respectfully submitted, Chief of the 'occupied' Punjab's Akali administration, Sincerely. Prakash Sinh Badal, and his Director General of Police, Parmjit Singh Sekhon,* Sumedh Saini, both tried their best to stop the release of a President, movie, Saadda Haq or Our rights, in Punjab merely on the Dal Khalsa Alliance grounds to create 'disturbance in Punjab', but the High Court 510-774-5909 of Punjab lifted the ban imposed by Badal and his police [email protected] chief. Dr Awatar Singh Sekhon The Chiefs of SGPC, and The Akal Takht Sahib, Amritsar Editor in Chief (Gurbachan Singh and his associates), failed badly to satisfy International Journal of Sikh Affairs ISSN 1481-5435 the citizens of the Sikh Nation alias “Robbed” PUNJAB of EDMONTON, AB T5T 2B8 15th August, 1947, and the Guru Khalsa Panth (You News CANADA [email protected] Today, May 16th, 2013). Advisor (Foreign Affairs), Dal Khalsa Alliance We request you to bring to justice the deceased or living Sikh Federation Swiss politicians of Indian administrations (Indira Gandhi, Rajiv Amarjit Singh Khalsa* Gandhi, Chandershekhar, P Chidambaram (now Home Alla Singh Bhogal Minister of India; one of the members of a 3-men Team in the Chairman, International Sikh Sabhiachar Society 'War Room' during an 'undeclared' war on the 'Landless Sikh M. S. Randhawa* Nation alias 'robbed' Punjab' of 15th August, 1947, in June, Senior Advisor, 1984). V P Sinh, Dev Gowda, P V Rao, A B Vajpayee and their Council of Khalistan cabinet colleagues, including Narendra Modi and his cabinet Washington, DC, USA colleagues responsible for the Gujarat Massacre of Muslims Gaganjit Singh* (February to November, 2002), Hanera (Prakash) Sinh Badal Dal Khalsa of America of the 'robbed' PUNJAB, and/or appointees like HKL Bhagat, Ram Sing* Jagdish Tytler, Arun Nehru, SD Sharma, SS Ray, Boota President, American Gurdwara Council Singh, LK Advani, GL Nanda, Surjit Barnala, Balwant Singh, Karnail Singh Khalsa* Beant Singh, PD Singh, JS Chohan (deceased), Surender President, Gurmat Chetna Lahar of the United States of Nath, Prakash Sinh Badal, GS Tohra, HS Longowal, Lalit America Makan, to cite but a few; police officers JF Rebeiro, KPS Gill Harmindar Singh* (the Butcher of Punjab), Sarbjit Singh, Sumedh Saini (now President, Khalsa Jagriti Lahar of the United States of the Director General of Punjab Police), DR Bhatti for the America killings of Professor (Dr) Rajinder Pal Singh Gill (Bulara), Dr Sukhwinder Singh*, Gurnam Singh Buttar, Bhai Gurbhej Singh of the Jalandhar President, Sikh Sahit Sabha district and others, Swarn Ghotna, Gobind Ram, AS Sandhu Baljinder Singh*, (declared deceased by the Indian administration and President, Sikh Sabhiachar Committee associates. Sultan Singh Akhtar* However, he has been living under fake identity in Halifax, President, International Sikh Sahit Sabha Freemont, CA, NS, Canada, as reported by ; published from Chandigarh, USA ***** 43 International Journal of Sikh Affairs 23 (2), November Issue 2013 ISSN 1481-5435 REVIEW The Materiality of the Past – History and Representation in Sikh Tradition by Anne Murphy (2012) [309P] ISBN: 978-0-19-991629-0 Oxford University Press www.oup.com Reviewer: Kavneet Singh Anne Murphy is currently an Assistant Professor and Chair of Anne clearly has lumped Jainism and Buddhism into Punjabi Language, Literature and Sikh Studies at the Hinduism, keeping the Sikh Faith out, but in her footnotes on University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada who the same page she defines it, as really coming out on their own replaced the infamous Harjot Oberoi. This book is Anne's in the nineteenth century, which questions the continuum of doctoral thesis. the kesh-dhari identity making it ambiguous with no clarity One of the primary premises used by Anne is trying to and further whether she really thinks the Sikh Faith is delineate the fact that the formation of the current Sikh independent of Hinduism is the next question. physical identity is more of a recent 20th century event rather That presence – the presence of the community that continues than continuous one based on the various proofs of the – is the one that lives in the present through the narration such material/object/relics as she calls them. objects and places participate in. Thus, each place becomes a stage of the narration of this community: the place of its Chapter 1 – Introduction: Forms of Memory and History: articulation, its lived and experienced aspect; and each object represents a relationship: a past relationship with the This book, which focuses on the changing historical Guru and a continuing relationship of community constituted constitution of the community through the life of objects and through the Guru. In this way, the past memory and the past as sacred sites, is meant to augment, not replace, the textually a continuing presence becomes simultaneous – as Veena Das defined narratives that have dominated understandings of the observed within Khalistani narratives, which collapsed formation of the Sikh community. Indeed, it will be argued distinctions between past and present and located current that the material and the textual are allied in the Sikh context, conflicts as continuations of the past. The temporal and should not be seen in oppositional terms. Attention to integration that Das highlights therefore relates to a larger material and visual representation therefore may in fact imperative within Sikh tradition, tied to the experience of the dispel concerns (rather than raise them) regarding such Word in the continuous present and the narration of the past practices, once they are placed in the broader context of as history, out o0f memory. [Page 38] cultural memory production and a Sikh historical It is interesting to note that Anne has quoted Veena Das to imperative…… [Page 12] elucidate her point. Das's writings are pretty controversial to Anne has clearly indicated what she is trying to achieve begin with, as most of her source material is either Indian through this book but unfortunately it raises those same government propaganda or from the students of Hew concerns which she very eloquently claims will not be raised. McLeod. Anne's book is about religious material In general, Shani argues that the Sikh community provides an objects/artifacts and how they are used in everyday Sikh example where, “the sovereignty of the territorialized nation- religious tradition. Does Anne expect Sikhs to experience the state over the religious community as established in the 'Word' in the present without relating it to the past? If that is aftermath of the Peace of Westphalia in 1648 can no longer be true; it is akin to stating that all Bible reading Christians are assumed in our 'global age',” such that .”Sikh diasporic living in the past and present simultaneously because the narratives do not attempt to place territorial limits on the Bible is 1,600 years old approximately but the believers are sovereignty of the quam [or nation]…[because] the reading it in 2013. I am not sure Anne realizes that the Guru contemporary phase of globalization has effectively de- Granth Sahib is also a repository of actual history between the territorialized sovereignty….In the end, however, neither are late 15th and mid-16th century. the grievous that animate the Khalistan movement resolved, As this example demonstrates, persons act as a source of nor is such a movement necessitated, by an cultural authority, in similar terms and in some charismatic authority history….…[Pages 17 & 18] exists in general terms in Sikh contexts – leaders such as now- Anne has quoted Giorgia Shani to make her point not deceased Harbhajan Singh Yogi in the United States and realizing that Shani's basic premises are seriously flawed as Mohinder Singh of the Guru Nanak Nishkam Seva Jatha in his entire book is based on Harjot Oberoi's premise of Birmingham, England, demonstrate that individual leaders questioning the keshdhari identity, using the victimhood do retain importance within the tradition, even without blood theory and finally since the Sikhs are spread across in the ties to the Gurus…..[Page 52] diaspora there is no need for a homeland. On one hand Anne Anne has stated part of the facts. Men like Harbhajan and does not want the reader to read too much into her research of Mohinder have influenced and continue to influence a small Sikh religious history, yet very subtly alluding to the objects sub-sect of Sikhs, but this entire process is dangerously of reverence as proof of a vague opaqueness in reference to loaded. The Sikh religious ethos is very straightforward as the the Sikh identity. Guru Granth Sahib is the 'Guru' and the final authenticated scripture and the Sikh collective, the 'panth' has the power to Chapter 2 – Sikh Materialities: wield as it deems fit for the betterment and welfare of the Faith. Therefore all 'ba ba black sheep' like the two mentioned The murti – the devotional image central to much (but not all) by Anne are primarily charlatans in religious garb and there Hindu religious practice – represents the most prominent are thousands like them plying their trade in Punjab and example of visual…… the related religions of South Asia – across the diaspora. If some ignorant Sikhs are being led by Janisim, Buddhism, what we now designate with a single term their noses; that does not mean that there is any kind of “Hinduism”……[Page 25] religious tradition among the Sikhs. This is precisely what is 44 International Journal of Sikh Affairs 23 (2), November Issue 2013 ISSN 1481-5435 being strongly discouraged albeit by the Sikh Missionary very likely “Hindu” literature. Fifth it cannot be simple Colleges, right thinking volunteers in Punjab and other coincidence that the Bachittar Natak has the same number of tireless volunteers in the diaspora, though with limited pages as the Guru Granth Sahib. The point here is that, it is success. Whether the Bedis of Una (Himachal Pardesh), or completely irrelevant which language the “BG” was written the local village religious charlatan, their basic modus in, as it was not written by Sikhs or the Tenth Guru, therefore operandi is making money on the emotions of the ignorant to deduce so much 'Sikh tradition' out of it is redundant. and absolutely does not make it, a Sikh tradition. Generally these begin with writings attributed to the Tenth If so, they may not signify “through historical vicissitudes, Guru, particularly his Bachittar Natak. According to Surjit the distinctive identity and collective aspirations of the Sikh Hans, who has written extensively on these materials, the people.” As Neki argues, but also, as he alludes, act as Bachittar Natak (like all gurbilas literature) is singularly “keepsakes of the tenth Guru who sacrificed all that was his concerned with history: 'this is a work of nascent history,” he for the Khalsa.”……[Page 63] writes, “which under the stress of circumstances, is more On one hand Anne understands and agrees that the “5Ks” are faithful to the demands of the future than the quiet details of part of the Khalsa identity yet she negates it by making the the present…… [Page 84] articles of Faith into 'keepsakes' by quoting J.S.Neki. Looks Like I have mentioned earlier, the Bachittar Natak is not the like a billion Christians around the globe are only carrying writings of the Tenth Guru, secondly all 'gurbilas' literature around a tiny little cross around their necks as a 'keepsake' and are highly questionable and inimical to the faith. The Sikh nothing more! Faith has had Hindus of varying hues trying to destroy the I have suggested that there is life of the image and the object ethos from the very beginning of its history. Hindu writers within Sikh tradition that is not a series of anomalies, nor especially Brahmins and Sikhs with very close blood ties to simply equivalent to Hindu practices. Instead, Sikh the upper caste Hindus, firstly were more educated than the materiality exists as part of a larger approach to the general Sikh populace and secondly those same folks with memorial, as the material representation of the relationships biased caste motivations went on to fabricate literature and and authority that constitute the community and its living posit it onto the Sikhs as real history. As time goes on this past. The 5 K's can be seen as the generalized marker of the becomes Sikh materiality of the past for the Annes of the Guru producing the community in memory of the Guru and on future to do research on! It is akin to equating 'Grimm's Fairy the path or panth (the term used for the community) the Guru Tales' with Christian religious tradition and doing serious explicated……..The Babri Masjid was destroyed by Hindu research on it. kar-sewaks in 1992 because it was said to have been built on Deol has shown that the central point at issue in this teaching the temple that commemorated the birthplace of Ram…..It regarding the prohibition of rituals associated with the death would be wrong to assume simple equivalence between this of relatives was the avoidance of a Mughal tax on this case and the Sikh interest in history of the tradition located in practice, and as such represented a challenge to Mughal place; it would be a mistake to read the long history of sovereignty. Deol relates this injunction to a larger marking of the Indian landscape with sacred geography tied phenomenon, namely, the creation of what he calls a to representation of the past as only a modern and “metanarrative” derived from the Dasam Granth in which communalized concern…..[Page 65] the aspirations of the Khalsa community to define itself as Even though Anne makes it clear that the Sikhs cannot be distinct and sovereign were placed within a framework based compared to the Hindus in reference to their memorializing on puranic myth, defining dharam in a mode that is material objects, she still ends up using a Hindu comparison. simultaneously religious and political…..[Page 89] The issue is simple, namely the objects of the Sikhs are real, Anne's reading above is very loaded. The Tenth Guru was not whereas the objects/religious-history of the Hindus - pure the first to ask his Sikhs to stop and refrain from all mundane myth, hence comparing both is ludicrous. ritualistic practices; as this was started from the very first Guru mentioned in the Guru Granth Sahib the Sikh Scripture. Chapter 3 – Writing the Community: Literary Sources from The fact that there was a Mughal tax is secondary and not the the Eighteenth Century: primary reason for the Guru's injunction. Further the 'metanarrative' Anne is bringing out does not make much This court, therefore, was not necessarily a fully political one. sense and the reason being that the Gurus spent around 239 Deol and Rinehart have argued that the Dasam Granth years to groom and inculcate the values they wanted in the exhibits a “new Sikh conception of the role of the leader with Sikhs. The Bachittar Natak aka Dasam Granth only came both spiritual and worldly responsibilities,” in the words of about fifty years after the passing on of the Tenth Guru. The Rinehart, and that “the Khalsa notion of Dharam [right Khalsa's distinct sovereignty did not require a Bachittar conduct] valorizes ideas of rule and political sovereignty in a Natak to define itself. If that was the case the question arises, way that classical definitions and others contemporary to the 'what was the interim political literature' which helped guide Khalsa do not,” constituting an “unusual if not unique” the Khalsa through the most turbulent part of the early 18th orientation in the period, according to Deol….. [Page 74] century? Firstly the Dasam Granth is a highly questionable piece of McLeod notes that the historical value of the Chaupa Singh literature as there is no conclusive proof that it was written by Rahitnama is of questionable quality, as is true of Kesar the Tenth Guru. Secondly other than about 70 pages which Singh's Bansavalinama, another product of the Chibber clan find concurrence on the touch stone of the Guru Granth from later in the eighteenth century. As McLeod notes, the Sahib, the rest absolutely does not. Thirdly evidence suggests texts are most useful not so much for the history they present, that Hindu poets and scribes have written the Bachittar Natak but for their portrayal of their contemporary which is its real name and not the Dasam Granth. Fourth there present…..[Page 99] are sections which are pornographic in nature, which makes it Anne has rightly noted that the some of these Rahitnamas are further clearer that it cannot be religious “Sikh” literature but of questionable quality, but the bigger question is McLeod's 45 International Journal of Sikh Affairs 23 (2), November Issue 2013 ISSN 1481-5435 integrity itself, as he has fabricated information many times Anne is correct in her assertion about the lower status of any over. Anne could have used better sources so that the end other literature, but to further clarify, all the 'granths' other result would be more honest and accurate. than Guru Granth Sahib have varying importance depending In Sainpati, it is the community that constitutes this on which particular subgroup of Sikhs one is talking to, but continuing authority, this continuing presence…..[Page 105 the vast Sikh collective, simply revere one Scripture - the Anne has concluded correctly as Sainpati's Guru Sobha is a Guru Granth Sahib and all else is just literature. well-respected source of information, but the injunction Newspapers flourished in the early twentieth century: of given by the Tenth Guru is unambiguous and clear in approximately 260 newspapers extant in Punjab in 1905, 17 reference to the 'panth' being the continuing authority which were in Punjabi in the Gurmukhi script, while 198 were in takes all important decisions collectively. Urdu….[Page 127] Interestingly, as suggested by the rahit citation above, such The reason for the fewer newspapers was that, the Sikhs were hukamnamae themselves came to act as relics, and even today also in much smaller numbers compared to the Muslims and are collected and displayed by families, such as Bhai Rupa the Hindus among whom they lived. During Maharaja Ranjit and with the Dalla family….[Page 108] Singh's rule the Sikh population in the kingdom was between No doubt material objects such as swords all the way to 13-14%. Secondly most of the Urdu speakers in Punjab written edicts by the Gurus are treated respectfully very actually spoke Punjabi and still do to this day. The Muslims similar to treating material objects of a deceased loved one. wrote their script in Urdu/Persian even though the spoken But does that make 'it' into a religious tradition is highly language was Punjabi. debatable. The Sikh primarily worship the 'one' formless The book under examination here, Sundari (1898), was Bhai Creator with and through the Guru Granth Sahib with all else Vir Singh's first novel and is also known as the first modern simply being, emotional attachments to 'material objects of Punjabi novel……Imaginative history is achieved n Sundari past' like a person holds onto a long deceased loved one's in multiple ways…..[Pages 134-135] memory. That definitely does not make it a religious tradition. Even though Bhai Vir Singh was a well renowned scholar he had weaknesses in his theological thought process. It is the Chapter 4 – Into the Nineteenth Century: History and same Bhai Vir Singh who propagated the fact that Guru Sovereignty: Gobind Singh actually went to mediate at Hemkund in the Himalayas in his past life. Today, thanks to his fabrication Sainpathi's Guru Sobha, it has been argued, is concerned thousands of Sikhs take a pilgrimage to a Gurdwara at with the narration of events related to the Guru in world, Hemkund in the Himalayas. alongside doctrinal, theological, and prescriptive injunctions The Khalsa is not limited to state sovereignty; it represents a – these are tied modes of narration, which focus on the greater ideal….[Page 148] interaction of the Guru in the world with his devotees and the Again Anne is right, but her statement is loaded. There is no continuing life of the community in history……Bhai Santoh question that the Khalsa were meant to be a fraternity of Singh's Sri Gur Partap Suraj Granth, however, is structured universal brotherhood standing up as one for the welfare of differently. In the Suraj Granth, we see a reorientation of others in need. Yet at the same time the Khalsa were narrative/historical focus – a transition to a full explication completely sovereign. From the very beginning the Gurus of the Guru's community in detail and an articulation of the established towns, then forts and actually created physical authority of the Guru in relation to this community, space within yet outside the prevailing cultural and political reminiscent of the kinds of narrations available within the domain. This revolutionary concept would not happen if the Janam-Sakhis….[Pages 113-114] ultimate goal was not to be sovereign politically; because Sikhs had very little respite from defending themselves from without temporal power no religion can sustain itself, survive the Mughals in most of the 18th century for them to be able to and thrive. stop, think and write about their situation. In the huge vacuum there were extremely few writers who were grounded in Chapter 5 – A History of Possession: sound Sikh centered theological thought. Most Sikh writers were either from the upper class and/or with the divergent The debate over who controls a religious site came to be of sects such as Nirmalas, Udasi, etc, and could really not bring central importance in the battle for control over Gurdwaras about the correct Sikh theology to the forefront. that takes place in the 1920s., the Gurdwara Reform Harjot Oberoi highlights the role of Narotam in articulating Movement….The status and management of such religious aspects of “Sanatan Sikh” ideology, as represented in sites therefore did not exist in separate order from more general by Nirmala scholars like him….[Page 120-121] general policies towards land management and The entire premise of Harjot is wrong so to even quote him is a entitlements…..[Page 155] waste, because as explained earlier, there was a genre of Nowhere does Anne explain the real reason why the scholars grounded in the Hindu belief system, therefore their Gurdwara reform Movement had to take place in the 1920s. writings portray a hybridized Sikhi, when in fact, needs to be Except for the Sikhs, there were no separate laws enacted by discarded. The Sikh collective did not suddenly all become the British in British (pre) India for any other religious group. Sanatan Sikhs one day because of a few Nirmala writers. It is The Sikhs were the only ones whose religious institutions the other way around, i.e., the writers tried to influence their were officially hijacked by the British, and Hindu Mahants own mindset on the public at large, with very limited success. called 'pujaris' were installed who ran all historic Gurdwaras The introduction to the Suraj Granth, written in 1931, the for nearly 70 years while the Sikhs had no control over their year of the second printing of the text…….yet history is religious institutions or their destiny. The land management important, since it describes the Gurus' actions in the world; and entitlements are a completely separate issue from the it achieves a status below the bani (word) and hukam (order) more important 'special laws enacted for the Sikhs' based on of the Guru….[Page 124] political chicanery and base stratagem, so as to rein in their 46 International Journal of Sikh Affairs 23 (2), November Issue 2013 ISSN 1481-5435 fiery spirit emanating from the Gurdwaras. Another case and 1900s. Fifth, again it was Jathedar's Kartar Singh Jabbar's point is the Central government's role in controlling the peaceful protest, the largest of its kind in Asia which opened SGPC to date which is a continuation of what the British had Gandhi's eyes and the canny 'bania' not only plagiarized the enacted and left behind. fantastic idea but made it his own, as though he invented it. Sixth, M.K.Gandhi conducted three major civil disobedience Chapter 6 – Colonial Governance and Gurdwara Reform: marches and not one was for ending British rule. It was only to undermine the government and promote anarchy (The The statement also notes “the martial characteristics have Gandhi Nobody Knows; Richard Greiner, P83, 1983). been kept purposely alive both by Government and the Sikhs Finally, it is unfortunate that Anne quote's Gandhi here, but themselves”, revealing the self-understanding of the colonial his whole life was mostly a pack of lies and not the truth. Here administrators as patrons of Sikhism……[Page 190] is what his own wife Kasturba Gandhi says, “Yes, I know my Anne quotes V.W.Smith, by clearly alluding that Sikhism was husband. He (is) always mischief.” (Kasturba Gandhi, The kept alive by the British government which is untrue. The Life and Death of Mahatma Gandhi, p 109). British had to keep a tight leash on a recently conquered The definition of who was a Sikh was already by this time formidable foe, and what better way than to co-opt them all open to serious and contentious debate; the definition (and into the British-Indian armed forces with a twist. The Khalsas the act of setting one) had become highly politicized since the were not willing to change, but reluctantly started to tie their second quarter of the nineteenth century, with the founding of beards. Formally initiated Sikhs were allowed to serve with a the Siri Guru Singh Sabha of Amritsar in 1873, followed by caveat that they could not wear the religiously mandated the Lahore Sabha in 1879……[Page 203] 'kirpan'. So the British used the Sikhs as cannon fodder for The start of second quarter of the 19th century would be 1825 their own selfish reasons, but not as noble patrons. It is the and the zenith of Maharaja Ranjit Singh rule. This was a time Sikhs themselves who tried their best to keep their religious when his court was referred to as the Khalsa Darbar. His army traditions alive but no thanks to the canny British. the 'Khalsa Fauj', his courtiers went out of their way to dress One aspect of that administration was the investment in the like a Sikh, which meant a full beard and a full turban. Rather agricultural development in what came to be called 'canal- even the European, including an American Col. Gardner colonies'- settlements in western Punjab dependent upon new dressed like a Sikh. The Maharaja himself was the most canals built by the colonial administration – which provided magnanimous king in all of Asia, where people of every Faith not only for agricultural expansion in the region, but also the were treated as equal and with respect. It is on record, that retrenchment of the political forces that supported the British there was no death penalty carried out during nearly half rule…[Page 195] century of his rule. At no time was there an issue of who a Sikh It is true that the British developed the canal-colonies, but was when even foreigners knew who and what a Sikh looked again for their own benefit to export the commodities to like. The country of Punjab and the surrounding kingdoms all England. Secondly, by giving land to ex-servicemen the knew, except for those who wanted to feign ignorance. Once British were doing something very normal, which is to the Gurdwaras were usurped from the Sikhs immediately continue to keep the allegiance of the Sikhs, not any different after the annexation of Punjab, the slow erosion of Sikh than keeping the lords of the various estates satiated, and or values started, first through proselytization by the British and keeping the various tribal clans happy earlier, in England. American missionaries in earnest, then another Gujarati; Thirdly, the reason for the Sikhs to side with the British Dayanand who of all places took advantage of the big hearted against the sepoys of the “Mutiny of 1857” was simply Sikhs to evangelize in Punjab to their own detriment. Without political. Those same mostly Hindu mutineers were the one any political clout, without any control over their historic the Sikhs had fought as enemies less than a decade earlier and gurdwaras, without educational facilities, Sikhs were ripe for had no love lost for them. the plucking. But, that still did not change the fact that the Ruchi Ram Sahini (1863-1948), Punjabi intellectual, witness definition of a Sikh was still clear. The only change that to the Gurdwara Reform Movement, and member of the happened was that all the pretenders masquerading as Sikhs Punjabi Legislature Council who participated in the passing during Maharaja's rule reverted back to the Hindu fold. The of legislation to address gurdwara reform, described the Rehait Maryada is an extremely important document and a gurdwara movement as “the best and most inspiring instance timely one, but that again does not change the previous 200+ of Mahatma Gandhi's teachings of non-violence in thought, years of continuous 'Sikhi'. Anne seems to put the onus on this word and deed,” and declared that “Mahatma Gandhi particular document, as though if this did not exist, defining himself could not have expected more faithful followers to who is a Sikh, would be nebulous. Now, that is not only carry out his non-violent non-cooperative struggle in the face ridiculous but stupid. of the gravest provocation……[Page 199-200] In 1920, therefore, in response to the criticism of the Firstly, Ruchi Ram Sahini was an upper class Hindu. management of the Golden Temple and the request for Secondly, if he helped pass legislation to reform gurdwaras it independent governance, the Government of India formed a wasn't any special favor to the Sikhs rather a way forward for thirty-six person council to manage the site; reformists in Hindus like him to get changes done in the overall existing turn formed their own committee instead, including those political system. Thirdly, and most important it was serving on the government council……[Page 208] absolutely not the teachings of the infamous M.K.Gandhi that The Darbar Sahib complex contained the Akal Takht, the seat inspired half a million Sikhs to be led by Jathedar Kartar of temporal authority which is unique in religious history. Singh Jabbar, but in fact the teachings of the enlightened Sikh British knew that the spirit of the Sikh emanated from the Gurus, to be completely non-violent in the face of violence. Darbar Sahib, which included the Harmandar Sahib and the Fourth, it was in fact M.K.Gandhi who copied, stole the idea Akal Takht Sahib – the repository of 'miri and piri'. The of spinning cotton (khaddar), boycotting British goods, all devious British knew that they had to blunt this, otherwise started by the great Sikh pacifist Bhai Ram Singh in the late their own position would be in trouble, therefore the complete 47 International Journal of Sikh Affairs 23 (2), November Issue 2013 ISSN 1481-5435 control of all major Sikh religious institutions starting from agitating for control over Sikh shrines, they were “in act of the 1850 till 1919. In the late 1880s a very large Church was defining what was a Sikh shrine; that is, as they carried out built right next to the 'parkarma' edge of the Darbar Sahib their collective action to capture shrines, they were creating complex, which was later removed by the Sikhs. The British the boundaries of their religious tradition.”……I do not mean tried every dirty trick to dilute the Sikh ethos, and the only that such shrines were actually created in the movement: the reason they never outright rejected the turban and beard was Darbar Sahib existed long before the Gurdwara Reform to use the Sikhs as cannon fodder in the armed forces. Movement, as did many, many other sites whose significance The designation of “Sikh” versus “Hindu” was key feature of was based on the representation of the past as a formative debate over a bill introduced to the Legislative Council in ground from the community…..[Page 219] 1921 as a means to address the conflict, since “identity” as On one hand Anne quotes Fox by stating that the defined one of the two was fundamental to the issue as construed in boundaries were being created by the reformers of the Singh the Council: a Hindu could not care for a Gurdwara in Sabha movement yet she backs off by mentioning that the question without sacrificing aspects of the “Sikhness” of the Darbar Sahib existed long before the movement. It seems to site. The exact construal of this definition provided one be specialty of the McLeodian school to make your point reason the Akalis rejected this bill: the Akalis demanded that subtly on one hand and then defending your position by the definition of the Sikh be limited to Khalsa Sikhs, while claiming the opposite in the same breath so no one notices the Sahajdhari (defined as those who do not adhere to all aspects sleight of hand. Based on Anne's above example, here is an of the Khalsa rahit) Sikhs and Hindus protested the criticism analogy. A family loses their house because a bunch of of some mahants, and wanted to maintain aspects of the status criminals forcibly take over their home and throw them out. quo…..[Page 211] After some time the family is able to take back the house they Anne has touched a raw nerve and the entire McLeodian lived in previously which is legally theirs to start with and clique keeps harping on this same issue and time line in Sikh kick the illegal squatters out. Does the family in this situation, history. Firstly, just because the British were in control and creating a 'new family boundary' for themselves or have they the largest power block happened to be Hindus of Punjab did simply righted a wrong and got back to their old not mean that the Sikhs did not know who they were exactly! surroundings. I think Anne should understand that her Secondly, Sikhs having no Vatican like authority, especially audience is not naïve as she assumes. when their most sacred sites were in the control of British appointed toadies, could not resurrect a religious power base Chapter 7 – Territory and the Definition of Being Sikh: Page which would not be subservient to the whims of the British- 224 Hindu co-opting juggernaut. Thirdly, the word 'Sahajdhari' is redundant, because it was invented by the Hindus of Punjab A list of behavioral requirements was thus insufficient; the after the annexation of the 'Sikh kingdom'. Fourth, this word designation of an identity in point (g), was required for a was shoved down the Sikh public primarily to infiltrate, make hereditary office holder to be eligible for office. Further themselves the power brokers relating to the basic postulates restrictions on identity were and have been debated, such as of the Sikh Faith. This is a most unusual situation in any Faith regarding the necessity of being an amritdhari or initiated where a completely different Faith group (Hindus) taking Sikh versus being a keshdhari or bearer of the long hair advantage of the precarious political-religious situation of the prescribed for members of the Khalsa…..[Page 227] Sikhs tries to dictate its own terms on the other. Fifth, this Anne is quoting part of the 'Rahit Maryada” and language basically boils down to the 'Rehait Maryada' document. If this from the Punjab Legislative Council Debates. Those that same document was written in 1708 would that make make history, rarely write their history. It is not the Lion but 'continuous Sikhi' okay in the eyes of these western scholars? the hunter who writes the tale any way he chooses. I find it On the flip side let us assume there is no 'Rehait Maryada' abundantly amusing that Anne needs to be reminded that just document today; does that mean Sikhs are not Sikhs because the 'hunter' is debating whether the Lion is defined by anymore? I see no 'code of conduct' akin to the 'Rehait his mane or not does not make the Lion any different. The Maryada' among the over 250 sects of Christianity, so does Lion always had a mane and will continue to do so regardless that fact, deny all those followers their right to being called of the infighting, changes in season, including the Christian? This completely unwarranted interference by the genetic/non-genetic flaws. There are native Intuits in Anne's Hindus in the internal affairs of the Sikhs started right from country whose oral traditions have been pretty much the same the time of Guru Nanak Sahib but got vicious after 1850 when for eons, till the white man took over their land. So does that the Sikhs were politically down and out. The Brahmin, Khatri mean unless and until a white man, in this case a white woman and Vasyas groups of the Hindus realized the economic puts all their (Intuits) traditions in writing, their entire past is advantage of being a Sikh and started a novel idea of making questionable. That line of thinking is really repugnant and their oldest son a Sikh (physically), while the rest of the mocks common sense. family continued to remain Hindu. These households At the same time, in the final speech of Master Tara Singh – a preformed all the Hindu rituals, except added one more, by major political figure in the late colonial period and the first going to the Gurdwara also. This very dichotomous two decades after independence – to the Punjab Legislative relationship exists among less than 5% of the Sikh Council, he deemphasized “history” as a constituting population. Imagine a Sikh family who decides that the oldest element in defining a gurdwara. Instead, his argument hinged daughter will be a 'Catholic nun'. The entire family prays and on property rights and the role of the gurdwara in the Sikh goes to the gurdwara and once in a while the daughter who community...... [Page229] they have by choice made into a nun goes to the Church, Master Tara Singh like his title states; was a village school thereby following two paths, however divergent. If that is not teacher, a first generation convert to the Sikh Faith, and with extremely odd I wonder what is? very close blood ties to the Hindus. Tara Singh was well- Fox argues that when the Akali activists were protesting and meaning but with a limited vision, and very poor skills in 48 International Journal of Sikh Affairs 23 (2), November Issue 2013 ISSN 1481-5435 statecraft. In hindsight he realized many of his own Chapter 8 – Conclusion: Community, Territory, and the shortcomings and follies committed in the heat of the Afterlife of the Object: Page 250 moment. But it was too late as much water had run under the bridge. A man with limited acumen who could not grasp the Objects provide a wider field of meanings, not as clearly tied requirements needed to convey the additional 'historical' to territory, and thus provide an opportunity for the perspective to add weightage to the other arguments. articulation of multiple notions of the sovereign community, Place came to be conceived as property, and tied to the alluding to the fundamentally de-territorialized imagination individuals. Under the 1925 Act, history and identity (who is of the Sikh community highlighted by Georgia Shani, who has a Sikh, who uses a site, and how are they proved as a Sikh) argued that it “may also be possible to speak of 'new' counter- came to constitute the argument to revaluating individual hegemonic diasporic Sikh identity: an identity made possible ownership of Sikh shrines, and as such scripted a new way of by the nationalist project but opposed to its territorializing, understanding the landscape of Punjab as historically Sikh reifying imperatives,” a project which “implies a rejection of and under the control of the community as a bounded unit the assimilationist project of the nation-state” in keeping (and in this way very distinct from Hinduism. Which was with “the contemporary phase of globalization [which] has viewed unbounded and inclusive…..[Pages239-20] effectively de-territorialized sovereignty……[Page 264] Anne keeps bringing up the Sikh identity repeatedly. In the Georgia Shani has written an extremely shallow and mid-18th century the Khalsa had a price on their head by the immature book earlier, which Anne is quoting here. If the Mughal (Muslim) administration and were nearly decimated above statement by Anne is true, all these writers are slowly to a man. Does that mean the marker of the Sikh identity had and permanently eroding the political sovereignty of the to be redefined at that timeline in history? There were no Sikhs, because they have assumed a position which seems to white folks observing the Sikhs; as though without their fit a particular “state's rationale and agenda” and thereby blessing our history would be different. Sikhs need to change brainwashing the Sikhs into accepting their current situation the touchstone and benchmarks created by 'these' (mostly as a permanent one. white) western scholars, because they keep trying to stick a The single theme running through the entire book is that the square peg into a round hole and this will continue to pose Sikh identity is being questioned and a shadow of doubt being problems. cast on the Sikh collective of being one homogenous In parallel and directly related way, history, place, and Keshdahari unit. Anne Murphy like most academics of her ilk Sikhness were co-inscribed within the legislation associated speak from both sides of their mouth. The book contains a lot with the Sikh Gurdwara Act, and necessitated by the means of of fluff which can be attributed to either ignoring the research representation granted by the British, based as it was on the through her well-meaning Sikh friends and instead using designation of the individual and bounded religious much from the McLeodian clique of Sikh Chair holders in communities in its representations of the past. The mapping Canada and the US. Anne is subtle but very cleverly disguised of Punjab as Sikh, represented in the Gurdwara guides and her premise stating that the Sikh identity is a production of the legislated through the Gurdwara Reform Act, was a Singh Sabha, as though for the preceding over two centuries result……[Page 243] the Khalsa identity was in flux. If that is not caustically Anne's statement makes me wonder how such an intelligent patronizing I do not know what is? It seems like the entire researcher misses the fact that it took nearly 100 years for the McLeodian clique in various shades is out to erode the Sikh Sikhs to form a kingdom of their own. From the mid-18th ethos, except the methodology is getting cleverer and subtler century the coalescing had begun and finally at the end of the day by day. The Singh Sabha movement in the early 20th 18th century there was a Sikh kingdom, which lasted another century was only a timely 'revival' of all the 'relevant half a century. The British were not dumb, as it was pretty continuous Sikh traditions' which were always very real and obvious that, that geographic area was the heartland of the was not a new production or the start of something new, as the Sikhs. All this predated the Gurdwara Act by nearly 75 years. Annes, Oberois and McLeods of the world continue to tout This is akin to an 'entity' stripping a person's uniform very vocally. completely but then slowly over a long time allowing the The period immediately after the devious annexation of the person to put on pieces of the uniform back on again and in the Sikh Kingdom by the British to the rest of the East India meantime that same 'entity' also now redefines the new Company 'Estate', was one of great shock to all Sikhs. In this uniform knowing fully well what the old uniform they unbelievable vacuum, starting with the proselytizing of the stripped off the person, looked like. kidnapped child king Dalip Singh to setting up Christian The Sikh example demonstrates a larger phenomenon. The missions, churches and other evangelizing activities, the early twentieth century witnessed the transformation of the British had a clear plan to curtail the fiery Sikh spirit any evidence of history into the evidence of “nation” within the which way they could. So much so the British had the Indian response to colonial historiography…..[Page 248] belligerence to build a massive church with a spire right next I wonder if the Sikh nation was a figment of someone's to the parikarma a few yards from the main entrance to the imagination! Fortunately, a century of really tough trials and Darbar Sahib and the gospel was preached in the area tribulations put the Sikhs on a firm footing, which was a surrounding the Darbar Sahib. If the British were in love with culmination and fruition of the seeds planted by the ten Gurus the Sikhs it is strange why they promoted the German anti- into a Sikh kingdom ruled by Maharaja Ranjit Singh for 50 Sikh writer Ernest Trumpp rather than the British writer Max years. Further there was no such entity as India, but only an Arthur Maxauliffe who was completely sidelined and amalgamation of several hundred kingdoms put together by ignored. If the British were in love with the Sikhs why on the East India Company managed by the British. Therefore earth did it take Sikh soldiers to peacefully protest in order to Anne portrayal of the 'nation within the Indian response' does reinstate the wearing of the kirpan upon the formal initiation not make any sense. ceremony, since the carrying of the kirpan was banned for nearly seventy years. Seeing the leaderless and extremely 49 International Journal of Sikh Affairs 23 (2), November Issue 2013 ISSN 1481-5435 weak situation of the Sikhs, Dayanand aka Mool Shankar a during the later part of the 19th century. Gujarati Brahmin sticks his tentacles into the land of the Anne Murphy has tried to highlight 'material items' to be of Sikhs – Panjab. Dayanand a rabid Hindu started not only to great religious significance and reverence to the Sikhs in her proselytize but also denigrate the Sikh Gurus very publicly. thesis. In reality the opposite is true. Sikhs simply believe in a Initially even some prominent Sikhs stood up for him, then Creator, a higher authority, not bowing to any human entity, realizing very quickly his real motives, backed off. With no political or religious but trying to abide by the dictates of the political power, no organized leadership, no clergy, no Gurus as in the final scripture, the Guru Granth Sahib. All else organized religious structure, a Faith group becomes easy is equal to simply emotional ties, just like a wife keeps a prey and a soft target for others including the rotten apples deceased husband's clothes to remember and not to worship within to dilute the faith, like it happened to the Sikh Faith him. A mundane book with not much of any significance. ***** 50 International Journal of Sikh Affairs 23 (2), November Issue 2013 ISSN 1481-5435 51 International Journal of Sikh Affairs 23 (2), November Issue 2013 ISSN 1481-5435 ... 52 International Journal of Sikh Affairs 23 (2), November Issue 2013 ISSN 1481-5435 Dr. D.W. 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