Dal Khalsa Alliance
Suite 303 1700 Schttuck Avenue
Berkeley, CA 94709
USA
Parmjit
Singh Sekhon
President
E-mail: pssekhon@gmail.com
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
12th
March, 2014
Your
Excellency Mrs Pillay,
HUMAN
RIGHTS VIOLATIONS AND GENOCIDE IN PARTICULAR OF SIKHS IN THEIR HOLY AND
HISTORICAL LAND, PUNJAB, AND THE NON-HINDU MINORITIES I IN GENERAL IN PREDOMINANTLY
HINDU INDIA
We, the Sikhs of Switzerland, European countries and North
America, would like to apprise you, your Excellency, of the gross human rights
abuses of the Sikhs and other non-Hindu minorities in India which have taken
place since 15th August, 1947. This was the day when the British India
authorities transferred political power to the ‘unelected’ Hindu-Brahmins leadership and left the non-Hindu
minorities, especially the Sikhs, at the mercy of the majority, the Hindus-Brahmins
(3% and 7% population of a total of over
1.2 billion hungry mouths; Sir VT Rajshekar, Editor in Chief, Dalit Voice, Mangalore, India). Since
receiving political power from the British Empire, despite the protest of the
Sikhs at large and their leadership for not returning their ‘First Sovereign and Secular’ Sikh
nation of South Asia, of a Sikh monarch, Ranjit Singh (1799-1849), to the Sikhs.
The predominantly (?) Hindu India has exterminated more than 3.4 million Sikhs
since 15th August, 1947; more than one million in the decade of
1981-91 (Singh S 1995 The Sikhs in
History ISBN 0-96475555-0-5; Dilgeer HS and Sekhon AS 1992 The Sikhs’ Struggle for Sovereignty An Historical
Perspective (ed) A T Kerr ISBN 0-9695964-1-3 University of Alberta P O,
Edmonton, AB T6G 2S5, Canada; Sekhon AS Dilgeer HS 1999 A White Paper On Khalistan (A True Story) The Sikh Nation (ed) AT Kerr ISBN 0-9695964-8-0; Sekhon AS Dilgeer
HS 2002 India Kills the Sikhs, 3rd
Ed, ISBN 0-9695964-9-9; Sekhon AS 2005 India’s
Genocides of Sikhs, 1981-1991: History
Revisited Int J Sikh Affairs 15(2), 28, 2005 (Chief Guest Editor: AT Kerr)
ISSN 1481-5435; Sekhon AS 2010 The Sikhs:
Sovereignty To Slavery ISBN 978-0-9811360-8-0). Since the brutal military
“Operation Bluestar” of June, 1984, more than 260,000 innocent Sikh infants,
children, youth, male and female folks have been slaughtered [Int J Sikh
Affairs 10(2): 27-29, 2000 ISSN 1481-5435; Sekhon AS 2000 Proc 8th Sikh Edu
Conf, Toronto, ON, Sept 23; Walia AS Sudan TS 2001 Genesis of State Terrorism in Punjab. Released by Justice A S
Bains, ihrf@yahoogroups.com; July 14, 2001; Kumar RN et al.2003 Reduced To Ashes: The Insurgency and Human
Rights in Punjab ISBN 99933-53-57-4 <www.safhr.org <mailto:ihrf@yahoogroups.com; www.safhr.org>; Sekhon
AS 2005 in Authentic Voices of South Asia
India’s Broken Promises & Suppression of Dalits (ed) U Khalid ISBN
0-9548929-0-9]. Likewise, Hindu India has systematically killed other non-Hindu
minorities (more than 600,000 Muslims, including the genocide in the
district Muzaffarnagar, U P (September 2013; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0EDurT3NI-w); over 500,000
Kashmiri Muslims of the Internationally Disputed Areas of Jammu and Kashmir
since occupation; more than 312,500 Christians; hundreds of thousands of
Dalits, adivaasis (aboriginals or Moolnivasi of India), in numerous genocides,
pogroms, massacres and staged encounters (25 Years After 1984 Assault on Durbar Sahib Laying Foundation of Khalistan
(ed) Dr Awatar Singh Sekhon, June 2009, ISBN 0-9548929-4-1, a publication of
London Institute of South Asia). The most recent examples of the
state-sponsored pogroms are the killings of Sikhs in Chitisinghpora in Kashmir
in February, 2000; killings of 6 Sikhs in Kashmir in February, 2001; beheading
of a Sikh in Kashmir in March, 2001; destruction of 6 Mosques in Kanpur, U P,
and Bhilwara (Asind), Rajasthan (http://www.indianexpress.com<http://www.indianexpress.com/>; 2001;
The Hon Edolphus Towns, Member of Congress (MC). Indian Government Found
Responsible for Burning Sikh Homes and Temple in Kashmir. The US House of
Representatives, June 27, 2001; The Hon Dan Burton, MC and Chairman, US House
Government Committee. Indian Duplicity and Hypocrisy Exposed, House of
Representatives, 31st July, 2001; The Hon Edolphus Towns, MC Indian Minorities
Seeking Their Own States. The US House of Representatives, 107th Congress, July
11, 2001; The Hon Cynthia A McKinney, MC Self-Determination For Sikh Homeland
Discussed on Capitol Hill, The US House of Representatives, June 28, 2001);
slaughtering of 16 Muslims by the police; burning of the Muslim holy scripture,
The Quran Shariff, in New Delhi, Patiala, and Amritsar, Punjab (March 24, 2000
<post #4279 & 4314, <http://www.yahoogroups.com/group/sikhyouth>.
Addressing the House of Representatives, Congress of the United States, the Hon
Edolphus Towns, Member of Congress, said on 28th March, 2006 “Sikh activists
Kanwarpal Singh Dhami and Dr. Jagjit Singh Chohan (now deceased) were arrested
by the Indian Government on charges of sedition. Their crime was to speak in
support of a sovereign Sikh Nation, Khalistan. Dr. Chohan also flurried the
Khalistan’s flag from his residence in the “Robbed” PUNJAB of 15th
August, 1947; hereafter called ‘PUNJAB under Indian “occupation.” When did free
speech become a crime in a democracy? The Sikhs’ Holy and Historic homeland, Khalistan
alias the Sikh Nation Punjab of Monarch Ranjit Singh, 1799 to 14th
March, 1849, declared itself independent from India on October 7, 1987.” On
21st March, 2006, in a press release, Dr Gurmit Singh Aulakh, President of the
Council of Khalistan, Washington DC, said, “What kind of democracy watches
people are demanding freedom? Why don't they watch the Black Cats who have
killed thousands of Sikhs under the protection of the Indian government?''
We would like to apprise you further that the Sikh Nation, Punjab,
the 'First Sovereign and Secular'
nation of South Asia of monarch Ranjit Singh, 1799 to 14th March, 1849, was
'robbed' by the alleged Indian democracy on 15th August, 1947; hereafter called
the “robbed” Punjab under India’s
occupation (see above also). The Sikhs' constitutional rights, Sikh religion
and Sikh traditions were 'swallowed'
in the Indian Constitution 1950, Article 25. The very Constitution 1950 was 'rejected', in the Indian parliament
(Lok Sabha), in its draft and final forms, in 1948, 26 November 1949, 1950 and
more recently on 6th September 1966. The Sikhs' elected representatives who 'rejected' the Constitution, on behalf
of their people or constituents of Punjab, were Sardar Hukam Singh, Sardar
Bhupinder Singh Maan and Sirdar Kapur Singh, ICS, MP, MLA and the National
Professor of Sikhism. Since their 'rejection
of the Indian Constitution 1950', none of the Sikhs' elected
representatives has accepted/endorsed/signed the Indian Constitution
implemented by the deceitful, divisive, devious and apartheid practicing
alleged Indian democracy of the 'Brahmins-Hindus'. It must be considered
seriously that under what Constitutional rights, the apartheid practicing
alleged Indian democracy has been ruling the 'Sikhs of Punjab (including
Haryana, Himachal Pradesh and Punjabi-speaking areas of Punjab/Sikh Nation/the
Sikh Raj of Ranjit Singh) since 15th August, 1947? The story of the Sikhs of Punjab
does not end here. Rather it has been continuing, since the Sikh Nation has
been under the 'slavery and occupation'
of the oppressive and suppressive alleged Indian democracy of the 'terrorist Brahmins-Hindus', who had
been 'subservient' to the Afghans,
Mughals, Sikhs, British, Portuguese, etc., for more than 3,500 years.
Additionally, the excesses of the Indian forces can be summarized
as follows:
On 5th November, 1978, the Hindu India police of Delhi fired at a
Sikh procession and killed four Sikhs, including the president of the Delhi
Akali Party [Sekhon AS and Dilgeer HS 1999, 2006 A White Paper On Khalistan (A True Story) The Sikh Nation (ed) A T
Kerr ISBN 0-9695964-8-0]. Acting Mukh-Sewadar, or Chief of Akal Takht Sahib,
the Supreme Seat of the Sikh Polity, Amritsar, Singh Sahib Bhai Gurdev Singh
Kaunke, was abducted on 20th December 1993, tortured, killed and his body
dumped in a canal on 3rd January 1994.
On October 27, 1995, the Human Rights activist of the Akali Dal
(Badal), Sardar Jaswant Singh Khalra, was killed at the Chhabal police station,
Amritsar. His body was thrown into the Harike Canal. A police officer, A. S.
Sandhu (supposedly committed suicide), abducted a Sikh religious leader, Charan
Singh, tortured him and was made to dispose of his body. Earlier, the same
police officer had abducted Charan Singh’s brother and his driver. Tying his
legs to two jeeps, which were driven off in opposite directions, killed the
latter.
A former Punjab administration headed by a corrupt Sikh, Prakash
Sinh Badal, attacked the Darbar Sahib Complex (mistakenly known as the Golden
Temple Complex) on 7th February, 1998, desecrated its sanctity and deposed the
custodian of The Akal Takht Sahib, using his state powers. He forcibly removed
the Senior Minister or Custodian of Akal Takht Sahib, the Supreme Seat of the
Sikh Polity, Bhai Ranjit Singh. The administration of Prakash Sinh Badal, has
spent more than 20 million rupees for legal fees to protect the police officers
participated in the genocide of the Sikhs. Voted, under the Constitution of
India, which has been ‘rejected by
the Sikhs repeatedly’, for his maneuvering, his collision (Badal and
associates’) with the anti-Sikh political parties of the Hindu-Brahmins
militants and fundamentalists. i. e., the Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP),
Rashtriya Swamsewak Sangh (RSS), etc., are at the back of the Chief Minister of
the “Robbed” Punjab of 15th August, 1947. Prakash Sinh Badal, is an
agent of India’s Research and Analysis Wing (RAW; Gurtej Singh 2000 Chakarvyuh: Web of Indian Secularism ISBN
81-85815-14-3) and a
staunch turbaned Hindu/Brahmin in ‘The
Sikh Identity’. Prakash Badal has kept his lips ‘sealed’ when the Punjab Legislative Assembly debated the ‘Freedom
of Press, news media and the free speech recently (www.rozanaspokesman.com, 8th-13th
March, 2008). The freedom of speech and expression are the fundamental human
rights in any democracy. This is the clear reflection of the democratic or
‘autocratic’ nature of Mr Badal.
On February 6, 2000, the death of a Dalit youth in police custody
in Morinda, Ludhiana, was horrifying. He was killed in cold blood because he
objected to police’s drinking session at a public place. This incidence revived
memories of the dark period in the history of Punjab when countless innocent
young men were killed in false encounters, but police records turned them into
ruthless terrorists.
A mother of six sons, Bibi Jaswant Kaur, lost her husband in 1987.
Three of her six sons succumbed to tuberculosis. The other three were abducted
and killed by Punjab police. One of the three sons, Pragat Singh, 23-yrs-old,
was arrested in 1987, kept in captivity for 14 months. After his release police
raided his home on 9th September 1988, and shot him dead. The eldest son, Jagir
Singh, 25-yrs-old, working as a volunteer in a Taran Taran Gurdwara, was taken
by the police and did not return. The youngest son, Mohinder Singh (20-yrs-old)
was with the religious man, Baba Charan Singh (see above). He was abducted by
the police on 14th June 1991 and died in police custody. Jaswant Kaur has tried
all possible avenues to get justice, but has had no luck
(jkaurgrewal@yahoo.com; March 20, 2001; post #4181;
Even outside India, Sikhs being harassed by the Indian government
and its allies, according to the Hon Edolphus Towns, MC (Extensions of Remarks
- February 27, 2001). Miscreants stormed a church and ransacked the premises
while a spiritual meeting and prayers were in progress in Hyderabad, A P (www.burningpunjab.com; 24th
March, 2001).
A group of men killed their rape victim, a mother of seven, in the
village of Singana and then gouged out the eyes of two witnesses in India's
lawless eastern state of Bihar, the Press Trust of India reported Thursday
(February 8, 2001; AFP). The rapists then used the woman's sickle to hack her
to death. They then attacked four labourers who witnessed the crime.
Since 1998, Christian missionaries including one from Australia
(Father Graham Stains), his 8- & 10-yr-old sons, and Roman Catholic nuns,
have been killed, burnt alive or raped by the Hindu fundamentalists. The
burning, destruction and demolishing of the Houses of God of the non-Hindu
minorities, the Sikh Gurdwaras, Churches and Mosques, looting and desecrating the
holy and historical places of the non-Hindu minorities are the modus operandi of successive Indian
administrations and state-sponsored hoodlums (Hon John T Doolittle, MC India
Coalition Partner Threaten To Engulf Country In Violence, House of
Representatives, July 27, 2000, The US Congress; Hon Edolphus Towns, MC July
27, 2000. Christian Persecution in India, House of Representatives, The US Congress).
Militant Hindu hoodlums in Uttarpara, West Bengal, attacked a
train carrying Sikh pilgrims and the Sikh Holy scriptures, Guru Granth Sahib,
in June, 2001. The Hindu hoodlums stoned the Sikh pilgrims, burned the Holy
Scriptures, and tried to set fire to the train (Press Release: Council of
Khalistan. Train Attack Is Wake-Up Call for Sikh Nation, June 27, 2001 <cok@khalistan.com>).
In an affidavit filed on 28th August, 2000, by Mr Sartaj Singh, resident of
Kathua, Jammu and Kashmir (under the occupation of Indian administration),
Internationally Disputed areas by the United Nations, stated that he was
tortured and received painful psychological harassment by the Indian police.
The police personnel wanted him to confess for the things, which he never did.
The police personnel also wanted him to tell the whereabouts of Neeta alias Ranjit Singh, a freedom fighter,
Harbhajan Singh, Gian Singh and Joginder Singh, who are at large. The police
personnel wanted him to make a false confession that ‘we all know one another’.
Miss Manorama of Manipur was gang raped by the Assam Rifles men
and was thrown out of the headquarters after mutilating her private parts in
July, 2004. More recently (9th February, 2005), a 12-year-old girl was
allegedly raped by a constable of the force in central Assam’s Karbi Anglong
district, triggering protests from women’s organizations. In a blatant
violation of human rights, the district police today tortured a Dalit youth to
death after he refused to accept his involvement in a theft case (Jalandhar,
February 6’ tibruneindia.com).
The World Kashmir Diaspora Alliance reports that "since the
Indian forces occupation, more than 195,000 innocent Kashmiris have been
killed; more than 500,000 have disappeared, and the latter have been killed by
the invader's troops or they have been languishing in Indian jails with no
information to their families. In the last three months, the death toll of the
ongoing Kashmiri unrest is 96, as another youth, Yasir Rafiq Sheikh, a cousin
of Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front chief, Muhammad Yasin Malik, succumbed to
his injuries on late Wednesday night inflicted by the Indian personnel and kept
in a New Delhi hospital. Additionally, at least 10 persons were injured by the
alleged CRPF firing on protesters in Sopar. For the last six days Kashmir is
under curfew round the clock (bangla-vision@yahoogroups.com, 18th September,
2010)."
To avoid arrest warrants to be served by the Sikhs for Justice
Canada and the U S, of their visits to the United States of America and Canada,
both the Chief Minister Prakash Sinh Badal and his Deputy Premier, Sukhbir Sinh
Badal of the “Robbed” Punjab of 15th August, 1947, had no choice but
to cancel their trips to the USA and Canada, respectively, in 2013.
The above are only a few of the hundreds of thousands of cases we
would like to bring to your kind attention, your Excellency. We hereby request
you to dispatch a fact finding mission to India to assess in depth the crimes
committed against humanity by armed and law-enforcing agencies in ‘uniforms’
and bring the criminals before the International Court of Justice in the same
way as the U N has done to punish the criminals of the Rwanda and Serbia
massacres in 2000; S. Milosevic of Serbia in July 2001; the former Serb police
chief, Steven Todorovic, who pleaded guilty for torturing, murdering and
sexually assaulting Muslims and Croats (National Post, 1st August, 2001, p
A11); and Radislav Krstic for the Srebrenica genocide of Muslims in 1995
(National Post, August 3, 2001, p A3). The UN tribunal has taken a landmark
decision recently to include “sex
torture as a war crime” (National Post, February, 23, 2001). Also, the UN
Secretary-General (former), His Excellency Kofi Annan’s interview (Time, 4th
September, 2000) will be welcomed by the justice-loving peoples of our
civilized world that “those who commit crimes and those who watch as bystanders
are equally responsible for the crime taking place.” What we have brought to
your attention, your Excellency, anti-human activities of the India’s
Brahmins-Hindus administrations which are just the ‘tip of the iceberg’ of human rights abuses, religious
persecution(s), rapes, humiliation, dehumanization and crimes committed by the
state-sanctioned armed personnel of what our civilized world terms as the
“largest democracy” of the world, India. A leading magazine has pointed out “India is ruled by rascals.” “Many
Indians silently witness their country’s unlawful events. Several members of
the ruling party’s youth wing have in the past been charged with rapes and
kidnapping. Officials respond that all parties have their thugs. Politicians
use thugs to capture polling booths and stuff ballot boxes (The Economist, 15th July, 1995, p. 26).”
According to the Hon Dana Rohrabacher, for the Sikhs, Kashmiri Muslims, and
other minorities “India might as well be
Nazi Germany” (Press Release: Council of Khalistan, Washington DC; June 27,
2001 < khalistan@khalistan.com>). Another Sikh, Devinder Pal Singh
Bhullar, is about to be put to death in India for a crime even India admitted
he didn't commit (Hon Edolphus Towns, MC. Proc House of Representatives,
Washington DC, 18th March, 2003).
Manmohan Sinh, the present Chief, Council of Ministers, a
non-elected ‘Member of Parliament’ of India, supposed to be an honest and clean
person delivered his state address before the “World Conference on Human Rights
Delegates in Vienna, Austria, on 24th June (14 to 25th June), 1993). He, then
Finance Minister of the PV Rao’s administration, said that “he being Sikh finds no abuses of Human Rights of Sikhs much less any
minorities in India.” Another person, Shahabuddin, Manmohan Singh’s colleague
of the Islamic faith, said the same of Muslims of India. Abuses of Human
Rights in the Sikhs’ holy and historic Homeland, Punjab, Khalistan (under the
Brahmins-Hindus autocracy’s occupation), have been taking place, since 15th
August, 1947. Manmohan Singh’s statement was ‘refuted’ in the strongest possible words by the human rights and
peace-loving citizens (delegates) of North America and elsewhere.
Your Excellency, following the execution of “Operation Bluestar”
of June, 1984, an ‘undeclared’ war
on the Sikh Nation, Punjab, was waged by the Indian armed forces, according to
Sekhon (2009 ISBN 0-9548929-4-1). During “Operation Bluestar, June 1984”, every
village of the Sikhs’ holy and historic homeland, Punjab, was turned into a “Concentration Camp;” ’Open air’ jails
were established outside every village of Punjab. These jails were covered by
the barbed wires, in the heat of June – August months, when the usual
temperatures in Punjab are 47 C or more, had been under the supervision of the
Indian armed personnel, were no less than the concentration camps of Adolf
Hitler’s times in the Nazi Germany. These ‘open
air’ barbed wire concentration camps/jails were used to prison the Sikhs
indiscriminately regardless of gender and age. Sanitary facilities were
virtually non-existent. This reflects the treatment of Indira Gandhi and her
administration of the Brahmins autocracy to the Sikhs.” It has been posted that
General JJ Singh, Chief, Indian Army (Former), had been promoted to the highest
rank because of his participation in an ‘undeclared’ war in the form of a
brutal military “Operation Bluestar” of June, 1984, on the Sikhs and their Holy
and Historic Homeland, Punjab (www.facebook.com 2nd
September, 2013).
In June
1984, the present Chief Minister of Punjab, Prakash Sinh Badal, virtually
devoid of maintaining 'law and order', had been one of the
instigators to wage an ‘undeclared’ war on the Punjab, the state he has
been administrating (see above).
The Right Honorable
David Cameron pleaded with the British Sikhs that "forgive Tories"
when the declassified documents revealed that that Mrs Thatcher advised Indian
government of Indira Gandhi on how to attack a temple (https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/alleged-uk-link-to-operation-at-sri-harmandir-sahib-amritsar-1984). Prime Minister Cameron revealed
in the House of Commons that Britain had a role in the 1984 massacre at the
Golden Temple (aka The Darbar Sahib Complex, Amritsar). Prime Minister Cameron
said, "we certainly need an INDEPENDET enquiry, with full disclosure to
establish the facts” (Sikhs 24 News & Updates, 27th February, 2014).
Bibi Manjit Kaur Dakha (1992): Manjit Kaur Dakha and her husband
sought political asylum in the United States after being tortured by the Indian
armed personnel. Mrs. Dakha, her father, and her 6-mo-old daughter (Bhaghel
Kaur) were tortured mercilessly, given repeated death threats, and her child
was made to sit on a colony of ants by the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF).
The daughter and father were made to beat each other with clubs.
Sardar Surinder Singh Fauji (a retired army personnel), of Fatehabad,
Tehsil: Khadur Sahib of Amritsar district of Punjab, has been physically,
mentally and psychologically tortured by Punjab police since May 27, 1986.
Valuable household articles were stolen by the police personnel from his
residence and never returned. Despite his writing to the Prime Minister (PV
Rao), Home Minister of India (SB Chawan), Chief Justice, Supreme Court of
India, Chief Justice, Punjab and Haryana High court, and the Senior Session
Judge, Amritsar, there was no relief from the police excesses.
More than 35 Sikh youth, including Kanwarpal Singh Bittu and
Sarbjit Singh Ghuman of the Dal Khalsa, were in police custody. Similarly,
Jagtaar Singh Hawara, his wife and other family members are humiliated (by
putting cigarettes and tobacco in his mouth), tortured and harassed by the
Punjab and Delhi police (www.panthic.org 17th July, 2005). Another Sikh leader,
Daljit Singh Bittu, President, Panch Pradhani, and thousand of Sikh youth are
in jails, without trials and crimes.
A human rights lawyer and prominent Sikh nationalist Harpal Singh
Cheema, after spending eight years in a California jail, whom Judge Dana Keener
determined Singh did not pose a threat to national security. The Hon judge
stopped short of granting him full asylum, but forbade the then-INS from
deporting the couple. Indeed, she noted that Singh “is widely perceived as a
moderate and a voice for reason (Camille T Tairara, Editor, New America Media,
News Feature, Aug 07, 2006). To escape atrocities and persecution during custody
of the Indian law-enforcing personnel until 1992, Mr Cheema and his wife sought
asylum in the United States in1993 (www.news.ncmonline.com/news/views_article.htmal? Mr Cheema
is separated from his wife and son. Both mother and son are too scared to
return to India.
A
mass Grave of Sikhs killed in November 1984 has been discovered after 26 years
in village Hondh-Chillar, District Rewari, Haryana.
The village was inhabited
by several Sikh families. On
November 2nd, 1984 in an organized and well
planned attack,
the entire village was burnt, along with the Sikh
population
and Gurudwara.
The village consisting of torched houses, a burnt
Gurudwara
and scattered human bones have now been discovered (www.punjabspectrum.com,
17th February, 2011; Giaspur MS 2013 www.facebook.com).
It is learned from highly
reliable sources that the CRPF had been maintaining at least four deep pans of
boiled oil to kill alive the Sikh youth in Amritsar in the post-undeclared war
on the occupied Sikh Nation, under the consent of the then administration of
India.
Recently, in the second week
of February, 2010, the Punjab police killed 13 youth in Ludhiana district
of Punjab, while they were participating in the Birthday celebrations of
Shaheed-Bilas Saint-soldier Jarnail Singh Khalsa, Punjab’s political and
religious leader (www.punjabspectrum.com, February
21, 2011).
According to the Sikhs for
Justice (SFJ), the summons against Congress have been issued pursuant to a
class action lawsuit filed (SFJ v. Congress (I) SDNY (10 CV 2940)) under Alien
Tort Claims Act (ATCA) and Torture Victim Protection Act (TVPA). The plaintiffs
in the case against Congress (I) are "Sikhs For Justice" (SFJ) a US
based human rights group along with several Sikhs from different states and
cities of India who survived attacks in November 1984 (3rd March,
2011, posted by SFJ on many websites).
Reported recently
(www.facebook.com, 14th March, 2011), large number of Sikhs gathered in
Gurudwara at Pandri Kattaiyyan 10 km from Nanakmatta, Pilibhit road and 15 km
from Sitarganj. The gurudwara was locked but ransacked and the Holy Scripture
of Sikhs, Guru Granth Sahib, was set on fire; whereas, two more copies were
torned off by sharp weapons. The majority of farmers in this area is the Sikhs,
Musilms and Biharis labourer. A Muslim named Mehadi Hassan (MH) was caught
stealing the motor from Gurudawara a couple of days ago. He was handed over to
Police. It is reported his involvement along with his some other Muslims, who
attacked Gurudwara Sahib, burnt the Holy Scripture and the cut the pages with
sharp edged weapons. Temporary Granthi/custodian
Narinder Singh also hides the truth as he seems under pressure. It is
understood that some Hindu fundamentalists and miscreants are involved to
incite MH and his associates to create animosity between the Sikh and Muslim communities
of UP and Utrakhand. It has been done before by the Brahmins-Hindus personnel
of the Indian Government in the occupied-Jammu and Kashmir during President
William J Clinton’s state visit to India. A few weeks earlier in August, 2011
desecration of Sikhs’ Holy Scripture took place in a town in Hoshiarpur
district of Punjab.
Recently, the Vice Chancellor
of the Punjab University, invited Professor of Sikhism Gurtej Singh, to write
an invitational article on the ‘Sikh War
Code’. Professor Gurtej Singh’s invitational article was ‘rejected’ on the ground that certain changes
are required before it was accepted for publication by his university. This is
a ‘discrimination’ of Punjab
University’s policy against the Sikhs and the highly esteemed Sikh writer and
the professor of Sikhism of the international caliber.
More than 257,000 Sikh
farmers have committed suicide since post-“Operation Bluestar” era in the ‘robbed’ PUNJANB, because heavy burdens
of the taxes imposed by the administration of Prakash Sinh Badal (Rozanaspokesman, 29th February, 2012).
We request you to bring to
justice the deceased or living politicians of Indian administrations (Indira
Gandhi, Rajiv Gandhi, Chandershekhar, P Chidambaram (now Home Minister of
India; one of the members of a 3-men Team in the 'War Room' during an
'undeclared' war on the 'Landless Sikh Nation, ‘robbed’ Punjab' of 15th
August, 1947, in June, 1984). V P Sinh, Dev Gowda, P V Rao, A B Vajpayee and
their cabinet colleagues, including Narendra Modi and his cabinet colleagues
responsible for the Gujarat Massacre of
Muslims (February to November, 2002), Hanera (Prakash) Sinh Badal of the ‘robbed’ PUNJAB, and/or appointees like
HKL Bhagat, Jagdish Tytler, Arun Nehru, SD Sharma, SS Ray, Boota Singh, AB
Vajpaii, LK Advani, GL Nanda, Surjit Barnala, Balwant Singh, Beant Singh, PD
Singh, JS Chohan (deceased), Surender Nath, Prakash Sinh Badal, GS Tohra, HS
Longowal, Lalit Makan, to cite but a few; police officers JF Rebeiro, KPS Gill
(the Butcher of Punjab), Sarbjit Singh, Sumedh Saini (Senior Superintendent
Police), DR Bhatti for the killings of Professor (Dr) Rajinder Pal Singh Gill
(Bulara), Dr Gurnam Singh Buttar, Bhai Gurbhej Singh of the Jalandhar district
and others, Swarn Ghotna, Gobind Ram, AS Sandhu (declared deceased by the
Indian administration and associates. However, he is living under fake identity
in Halifax, NS, Canada, as reported by <http://www.rozanaspokesman.com/>;
published from Chandigarh, Punjab in May 2007), RS Bhullar, Joginder Singh,
Raghbir Singh, SS Virk; armed forces personnel like K Sunderji, AS Vaidya, KS
Brar, RS Dayal, JS Bhullar, Arjan Singh, JS Jamwal, Tarlok Singh, Shamsher
Singh, Gurdial Singh, and their subordinates (Report To The Nation: Oppression
in Punjab. Library of Congress Card No. 86-60058, January, 1986; Gurtej Singh
2000 Chakarvyuh: Web of Indian Secularism
ISBN 81-85815-14-3; Int J Sikh Affairs Vol 9, No. 1,
1999 ISSN 1481-5435; Sikh Shahadat,
June 2005, p. 12-17).
We look forward to hearing
from you and hope for your prompt action on all crimes committed against
humanity.
With warmest regards and best
wishes.
Respectfully submitted,
Sincerely.
Parmjit Singh Sekhon,*
PresidentDal Khalsa Alliance
Dr Awatar Singh Sekhon
Editor in Chief
International Journal of Sikh
Affairs ISSN 1481-5435
EDMONTON, AB T5T 2B8
CANADA < assekhon@shaw.ca>
Advisor (Foreign Affairs), Dal Khalsa Alliance
Sikh Federation Swiss
Signed by: Amarjit Singh Khalsa*
< sikhfederationswiss@yahoo.com>
Alla Singh Bhogal
Chairman, International Sikh Sabhiachar Society
M. S. Randhawa
Senior Advisor, Council of Khalistan
Washington, DC, USA
Signed by: Gaganjit Singh*
Dal Khalsa of America gensec@dalkhalsausa.org
Ram Singh*
Karnail Singh Khalsa*
President, Gurmat Chetna Lahar of the United States of America
Harmindar Singh*
President, Khalsa Jagriti Lahar of the United States of America
Sultan Singh Akhtar
President, International Sikh Sahit Sabha
Freemont, CA, USA
* Denotes signed with the permission
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