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IJSA November 2011 THE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SIKH AFFAIRS NOVEMBER 2011 Volume 21 No. 2 Published By: The Sikh Educational Trust Box 276, 9768 - 170th St, NW EDMONTON, AB T5T 5L4 CANADA E-mail: <[email protected]> http://www.yahoogroups.com/group/IntJSA ISSN 1481-5435 INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SIKH AFFAIRS General Banda Singh Bahadar Shaheed Bilas Saint-soldier Jarnail Singh Khalsa (Bhindranwale), 1949 - 6th June, 1984. The Sikhs' Established the First Sikh Raj, 1710-1716 political and religious leader of the Sikh Nation, The Third Centenial of the Sikh Raj PUNJAB, Khalistan (under the occupation of the 'Brahmins-Hindus' alleged Indian democracy/demoncracy) Persecution, genocide, an undeclared war in the Punjab, Khalistan under Indian Gurdwaras (Houses of God) under seige of name of "Operation Bluestar" of June, 1984; Occupation the 'Brahmins-Hindus' alleged Indian Hindu mob after an innocent Sikh woman in the democracy/demoncracy and its armed 'Landless Sikh Nation, Punjab, Khalistan' personnel (under occupation of the 'Brahmins-Hindus since 15th August, 1947). INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SIKH AFFAIRS NOVEMBER ISSUE VOLUME 21 EDITORIAL ADVISORS Dr S S Dhami, MD Dr B S Samagh Dr Surjit Singh Prof Gurtej Singh, IAS Usman Khalid New York, USA Ottawa, CANADA Williamsville, NY Chandigarh President, Rifah Party of Pakistan J S Dhillon “Arshi” M S Randhawa Dr Sukhjit Kaur Gill Gurmit Singh Khalsa MALAYSIA Ft. Lauderdale, FL Chandigarh AUSTRALIA Managing Editor and Editor in Chief: Dr Awatar Singh Sekhon The Sikh Educational Trust Box 276, 9768-170th St, NW Edmonton, AB T5T 5L4 E-mail:[email protected] NOTE: Views presented by the authors in their contributions in the journal are their own and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the Editor in Chief, the Editorial Advisors, or the publisher. SUBCRIPTION: Canadian $85.00 per anum plus 5% GST plus postage and handling (by surface mail) for institutions and multiple users. Personal copies: Canadian $30.00 plus & 5% GST plus postage and handling (surface mail). Orders for the current and forthcoming issues may be placed with the Sikh Educational Trust, Box 276, 9768-10 St, NW, EDMONTON, AB T5T 5L4 CANADA. E-mail: [email protected] The Sikh Leaders, Freedom Fighters and Intellectuals To bring an end to tyranny it is a must to punish the terrorist -Baba (General) Banda Singh Bahadar Sikhs have only two options: slavery of the Hindus or struggle for their lost sovereignty and freedom -Sirdar Kapur Singh, ICS, MP, MLA and National Professor of Sikhism I am not afraid of physical death; moral death is death in reality Saint-soldier Jarnail Singh Khalsa Martyrdom is our ornament -Bhai Awtar Singh Brahma (General) We do not fear the terrorist Hindu regime. We are tireless: we shall return home before freedom of Khalistan -General Labh Singh The coward Hindu regime will never achieve our surrender -Baba Gurbachan Singh Manochahal One must have superior morality and lifestyle than the person he is going to punish -Bhai Harjinder Singh Jinda and Bhai Sukhdev Singh Sukha My real life will begin from the moment of my martyrdom for the Panth Bhai Amrik Singh Khalsa The siege of Darbar Sahib is the siege of the Sikh Nation -Justice Ajit Singh Bains No power on the earth can stop the freedom of the Sikh Homeland - -Simranjit Singh Mann, MP Even they dismember my body, I will not surrender before the terrorist police chief KP Gill -Bhai Kanwar Singh Dhami We are alive, we are awakened, we are struggling and we shall surely win -The Declaration of the Sikh Nation The lessons of Guru Gobind Singh ji must be followed. No Sikh, whether a politician, sarpanch or jathedar, should be followed if they do not openly and unequivocally speak out for a free and sovereign Khalistan and encourage a peaceful movement -Dr Gurmit Singh, President, Council of Khalistan, Washington DC The goal of Khalsa Panth is the Sovereigny of Khalistan. The Akali government has backed away from it. It has lost its credibility with the Sikh Nation. Do not let these Akali leaders get away with it. It is our responsibility to liberate Khalistan. -Dr Gurmit Singh Aulakh Freedom is never given, it is won through preservance and struggle by peaceful means -Dr Gurmit Singh Aulakh Akali Party id dead -Dr Harjinder Singh Dilgeer The top priority of the Sikh Nation is to “Re-establish the Sovereignty of the Sikhs' Holy and Historic Homeland, Punjab, Khalistan, by peaceful means.” -Dr Gurmit Singh Aulakh, President, Council of Khalistan, Washington DC PRINTED IN CANADA ISSN 1481-5435 i INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SIKH AFFAIRS NOVEMBER 2011 Volume 21 No. 2 CONTENTS The Sikh war code, its spiritual inspiration and impact on history Gurtej Singh 1 The re-assassination of Sant Bhindranwale Gurtej Singh 7 Baba Ramdev's mahasangram Gurtej Singh 13 Intensification of psychological war against the nuclear…Pakistan A Haroon Raja 17 Of Burqa-clad puerile approaches, sycophantic opinions…Sikh Ethos Gurtej Singh 19 Terrorism in perspective in relation to South Asia A S Sekhon 26 Terrorism in retrospect U Khalid 27 Sikhs and Kashmiri regard India's independence day as the Blackest…History H Yousafzai 31 18th Session United Nations Human Rights Council, Geneva, Switzerland A S Sekhon 33 Dal Khalsa Alliance and sister Sikh organization: MEMORANDUM to the UN:HRC 39 NEWS, VIEWS, SHORT ARTICLES, ETC. 45-55 Gurmit Singh Khalsa writes to Rozana Spokesman; Sikh Raj of a Sikh monarch…world's largest fire power by Shamshul Haq Qazi; Dr Sekhon responds to Janab Siddiqi; India using rape as a weapon of occupation by George Galloway; Indian army involved in extra-judicial killings in Kashmir by Wikileaks; K Singh on Professor Bhullar (on death row); Dr Sekhon writes to Professor A. Haq; Dr Sekhon's Open Letter to Dr Harshinder Kaur; Dr Sekhon congratulates to Bhai Sahib Panthpreet Singh on Professor Bhullar; Master Tara Singh a founding member of the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (1964); [political analysts] India's right wing groups are making bombs… Chidamraram, India's Home Minister; the Brahmins-Hindus' democracy and non-Brahmin-Hindu minorities are at crossroads; Saffaron Terror behind Mumbai blasts; Sirdar Gurmit Singh Khalsa on Hindus' 'Diwali' festival ; Dr Sekhon writes clarified the Sikh history from the Sikh point of view; Dr Sekhon replies on what is Pakistan? Book Review 53 Reviewer: K Singh History of Sikhs Struggle by Gurmit Singh (1989) ***** Call for papers: Submit your contributions, via electronic mail using the MS Office 10 programme, of academic interest onlyon the Sikh philosophy, and the Sikh Affairs. The authors of the accepted contributions for publication will be notified. Note: Opinions and views expressed in the article(s) are of the author(s) and the International Kournal of Sikh Affairs, its management and publishers bear no responsibility. RELEASED: 5th November, 2011 ii International Journal of Sikh Affairs Vol 21, No. 2, 1-6,-NOVEMBER 2011 ISSN 1481-5435© THE SIKH WAR CODE, ITS SPIRITUAL INSPIRATION AND IMPACT ON HISTORY GURTEJ SINGH, IAS & IPS (FORMERLY) PROFESSOR OF SIKHISM [This paper was presented to the Guru Nanak University for soldiers engaged in actual warfare, with a view to knowing publication in response to their invitation. It was not the extent to which the rules, so meticulously codified, were published because the University did not accept that Guru followed. Nanak had political concerns. This was the primary objection. My view, strengthened by this episode, is that certain people 2.In the opening verse of Guru Granth, Guru Nanak lays in our universities are succumbing to the diktat of the down, amongst others, the three most important attributes of permanent cultural majority to bring Sikhi within the ambit of the Creator that went a long way in motivating his followers’ previously prevailing culture. In my opinion this cultural conduct during war. These are: ‘The Ultimate Reality is 1,’ aggression needs to be resisted] S/He is fearless and has no enmity.’ The use of the numeral is deliberate and is meant to convey absolute oneness. ‘It is not It was Guru Nanak who laid down the basic rules that must my one God’ that the Guru believed in but the only One for govern the waging of war by his disciples. Besides pointing all creation. The effect of this belief translates into fearless out the code of conduct in conflicts, he also spoke about the combat in battlefield and humane treatment of the defeated. mental equipment, spiritual training and self discipline of a Guru Nanak’s ideal devotee of the Divne is one who is so soldier. He is again the one who defines what makes conflict ‘enthusiastic’ about playing the ‘game of love’ that he is legitimate, the extent to which it is to be pursued by prepared to stake his life in the venture (to ‘carry his head on individual soldiers and armies and the purpose to be achieved the palm of his hand.’) A person must think nothing of by waging war. He talks of brave knights and martyrs being making the ultimate sacrifice while walking on the spiritual honoured at Akalpurakh’s Court (tithe jodh mahabal soor). path. (je tau prem khelan ka chaou sir dhar tali gali mori Bhai Gurdas, one of his earliest biographers, calls the Guru a aao). ‘roaring lion’ and a ‘conquering hero.’ He goes on to commemorate him in a ballad composed in the form of 3.The Guru expects his followers not to shirk battle for a a Vaar that is normally employed to eulogise knights and to worthy cause. The cause has been defined clearly. It is the immortalise battles and victories. The ideal human of Guru Creator’s Will that absolute justice should pervade all human Arjun’s concept is ‘Akalpurakh’s champion.’ (haun gosain ka institutions, that everyone must enjoy the freedom of worship pehalwanra) The mental and physical training required of a and to preserve ones human dignity.
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