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Extensions of Remarks E2189 EXTENSIONS of REMARKS December 8, 2006 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — Extensions of Remarks E2189 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS SUPPORTERS OF S.S. MANN bring freedom, security, safety, dignity, and pression (MASR) quotes the Punjab Civil BEATEN UP IN TARN TARAN prosperity to all the people of South Asia. Magistracy as writing ‘‘if we add up the fig- Mr. Speaker, I would like to put the Council ures of the last few years the number of in- of Khalistan’s press release on the beating of nocent persons killed would run into lakhs HON. EDOLPHUS TOWNS [hundreds of thousands.]’’ The Indian Su- Mann supporters in the RECORD at this time. OF NEW YORK preme Court called the Indian government’s WASHINGTON, DC, Dec. 7, 2006.—Supporters IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES murders of Sikhs ‘‘worse than a genocide.’’ of former Member of Parliament Simranjit Friday, December 8, 2006 Singh Mann were beaten up in Tarn Taran by The MASR report states that 52,268 Sikhs Mr. TOWNS. Mr. Speaker, on December 3, members of the Bharatiya Janata Party are being held as political prisoners in India supporters of the former member of India’s (BJP) and Mr, Mann’s effigy was burned. without charge or trial, mostly under a re- Mann has publicly blamed former Chief Min- pressive law known as the ‘‘Terrorist and Parliament, Simranjit Singh Mann, were beat- ister Parkash Singh Badal, who is allied with Disruptive Activities Act’’ (TADA), which en up in the town of Tarn Taran in Punjab, the BJP, a branch of the fascist Rashtriya expired in 1995. Many have been in illegal which Mr. Mann used to represent in par- Swayamsewak Sangh (RSS), for the beating. custody since 1984! There has been no list liament. Mann was elected to represent Tarn Taran in published of those who were acquitted under Mr. Mann was burned in effigy. He has the Indian Parliament with 95 percent of the TADA and those who are still rotting in In- blamed former Chief Minister Parkash Singh vote while he was in jail in 1989. dian jails. Tens of thousands of other minori- Tarn Taran is the center of the Sikh reli- Badal for the incident. Badal’s party is aligned ties are also being held as political prisoners, gion. Guru Arjun Dev Ji, the fifth Sikh Guru, with the Bharatiya Janata Party, BJP, the according to Amnesty International. Last established Tarn Taran and there is a his- year, 35 Sikhs were charged and arrested in former ruling party, which is under the um- toric Gurdwara there. Captain Amarinder brella of the fascist, Hindu militant Rashtriya Singh, the chief minister of Punjab, is estab- Punjab for making speeches in support of Swayamsewak Sangh, RSS. lishing a Guru Arjun Dev Ji University Khalistan and raising the Khalistani flag. The Hindu extremists attacked Mr. Mann’s there. ‘‘How can making speeches and raising a flag supporters and Mann’s supporters were the ‘‘It is outrageous that supporters of Mann be considered crimes in a democratic soci- ones who got arrested. could be beaten up and his effigy burned in a ety?’’ asked Dr. Aulakh. Tarn Taran is a central place in Sikhism, place so central for the Sikh Nation as Tarn India is on the verge of disintegration. built by the fifth of the Sikh gurus, Guru Arjun Taran,’’ said Dr. Gurmit Singh Aulakh, Kashmir is about to separate from India. As President of the Council of Khalistan. ‘‘We L.K. Advani said, ‘‘if Kashmir goes, India Dev, and there is a historic Gurdwara—Sikh hope that Badal is not behind the incident,’’ place of worship—in the town. The fact that goes.’’ History shows that multinational said Dr, Aulakh. ‘‘If he is, shame on him. Ul- states such as India are doomed to failure. supporters of the RSS are able to beat Sikhs timately, the Indian government is behind ‘‘Countries like Austria-Hungary, India’s in Tarn Taran is distressing. It shows the need this act and both Badal and Mann are under longtime friend the Soviet Union, Yugo- the control of the Indian government, as for Sikh independence in a sovereign slavia, Czechoslovakia, and others prove this Khalistan. their letters published in Chakravyuh: Web of Indian Secularism demonstrate,’’ said Dr. point. India is not one country; it is a poly- According to SS News online, at least six glot like those countries, thrown together people were injured in the clash, which broke Aulakh. In one letter, Mann pledges, ‘‘I reit- erate my allegiance to the Constitution and for the convenience of the British colonial- out after one of Mann’s supporters wrote an I stand by the integrity of the country.’’ On ists. It is doomed to break up as they did. article critical of Shiv Sena, one of the militant his trip to the United States in 2000, Mann There is nothing in common in the culture of branches of the RSS. attended a Sikh event and said, ‘‘Close the a Hindu living in Bengal and one in Tamil Mr. Speaker, Dr. Gurmit Singh Aulakh, offices of the Council of Khalistan, headed by Nadu, let alone between them and the minor- president of the Council of Khalistan, has Dr. Gurmit Singh Aulakh in Washington ity nations of South Asia,’’ Dr. Aulakh said. issued an excellent press release on tbe inci- DC.’’ ‘‘Freedom is the God-given right of every dent. He notes that a free, sovereign ‘‘If the BJP can carry out its nefarious ac- nation and every human being,’’ said Dr. tivities in a place as central to the Sikh Na- Khalistan, the Sikh homeland that declared its Aulakh. Sikhs must be allowed to have a free tion as Tarn Taran, then the handwriting is and fair plebiscite on the issue of Khalistan. independence from India on October 7, 1987, on the wall for the future of the Sikh Nation. In a democracy, you cannot continue to rule would help put an end to incidents like this. As They cannot protect their respect and honor long as Sikhs are under Indian subjugation, and they are salves in India. This shows why against the wishes of the people. As former the RSS and its allies are going to be able to we must liberate Khalistan from Indian oc- Senator George Mitchell said about the Pal- run roughshod over Sikhs and other minori- cupation and oppression,’’ said Dr. Aulakh. estinians, ‘the essence of democracy is the ‘‘That is the only way for Sikhs to protect right to self-determination.’ We must re- ties. Remember that last year, 35 Sikhs were claim the sovereignty of the Sikh Nation,’’ arrested simply for making pro-Khalistan ourselves from India’s brutality.’’ After human-rights activist Jaswant Singh Dr. Aulakh said. ‘‘Currently, there are 17 speeches and raising the Khalistani flag. Since Khalra exposed the Indian government’s pol- freedom movements within India’s borders. when are making speeches and raising a flag icy of mass cremation of Sikhs, in which It has 18 official languages. A country having crimes in a democracy? over 50,000 Sikhs have been arrested, tor- 18 official languages cannot hold its people India has kllled more than a quarter of a mil- tured, and murdered, then their bodies were together for very long,’’ he said. ‘‘We hope lion Sikhs, over 90,000 Kashmiri Muslims, declared unidentified and secretly cremated, that India’s breakup will be peaceful like 2,000 to 5,000 Muslims in Gujarat, over the police kidnapped him. Khalra was mur- Czechoslovakia’s, not violent like Yugo- 300,000 Christians in Nagaland and tens of dered in police custody. No one has been slavia’s,’’ Dr. Aulakh said. ‘‘Earlier this thousands of other minorities such as Assam- brought to justice for the kidnapping and year, Montenegro, which has less than a mil- ese, Bodos, Dalits, Manipuris, Tamils, and oth- murder of Jaswant Singh Khalra. Rajiv lion people, became a sovereign country and Singh Randhawa, who was the only witness ers. If India is the democracy that it claims to a member of the United Nations,’’ he said. to the Khalra kidnapping, has been repeat- ‘‘Now it is the time for the Sikh Nation of be, how can it do such things? edly subjected to police harassment. This in- Punjab, Khalistan to become independent.’’ America is the beacon of freedom, Mr. cludes being arrested for trying to hand a Speaker. That is why we need to act. Inci- piece of paper to then-British Home Sec- Dr. Aulakh stressed his commitment to dents like this must not be allowed to con- retary Jack Straw in front of the Golden the peaceful, democratic, nonviolent strug- gle to liberate Khalistan. ‘‘The only way tinue. We should stop our aid to India and end Temple. The police never released the body of former Jathedar of the Akal Takht that the repression will stop and Sikhs will our trade with that country until human rights live in freedom, dignity, and prosperity is to are respected for all people there. And we Gurdev Singh Kaunke after SSP Swaran Singh Ghotna murdered him. liberate Khalistan,’’ said Dr. Aulakh. ‘‘As should put the Congress on record in support In 1994, the U.S. State Department re- Professor Darshan Singh, former Jathedar of of a free and fair plebiscite on independence ported that the Indian government had paid the Akal Takht, said. ‘If a Sikh is not a in Khalistan, Kashmir, Nagalim, and wherever over 41,000 cash bounties for killing Sikhs. A Khalistani, he is not a Sikh’,’’ Dr. Aulakh else it is sought. That is the best way to help report by the Movement Against State Re- said.
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