From: Habib Yousafzai <habibyousafzai@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 12:40 AM
Subject: [bangla-vision] 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
To: bangla-vision@yahoogroups.com, "Dr. Gurmit Singh Aulakh" <Gsaulakh@aol.com>, "Dr. Ghulam Nabi Fai" <gnfai2003@yahoo.com>
Suite 303 1700 Schttuck Avenue
Berkeley, CA 94709
USA
Parmjit Singh Sekhon
President
E-mail: pssekhon@gmail.com
High Commissioner
United Nations High Commission for Human Rights, UN Human Rights Council
Palais des Nations, CH 1211 Geneva 10
SWITZERLAND
21st September, 2010
Your Excellency Mrs Pillay,
We, the Sikhs of Switzerland, European countries and North America, would like to apprise you, your Excellency, of 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 leadership and left the non-Hindu minorities, especially the Sikhs, at the mercy of the majority, the Hindus. 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 independent Sikh Raj of South Asia, of their forefathers and monarch, Ranjit Singh (1799-1849). The predominantly Hindu India has exterminated more than 1.4 to 2.3 million Sikhs, 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 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 500,000 Muslims; over 110,000 Kashmiri Muslims of the Internationally Disputed Areas of Jammu and Kashmir since 1988; 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 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 flur the Khalistan's flag from his residence. When did free speech become a crime in a democracy? The Sikh homeland of Khalistan 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 for demanding freedom? Why don't they watch the Black Cats who have killed thousands of Sikhs under the protection of the Indian government?''
Additionally, the excesses of the Indian forces can be summarized as follows:
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. The latter was killed by tying his legs to two jeeps, which were driven off in opposite directions.
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, using his state powers, the democratically elected president of the Shiromani Gurdwara Prabhandhak Committee. Shortly thereafter, Badal forcibly removed the Supreme 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 who participated in the genocide of the Sikhs. Voted, under the Constitution of India, which has been 'rejected by the Sikhs repeatedly', out of the Punjab's administration, for his maneuvering, his collision (Badal and associates') with a Hindu militant and fundamentalist party, the Brahtiya Janata Party (BJP), is back as the Chief of the Punjab administration. Prakash 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 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, the fundamental human rights in any democracy. This is the clear reflection of the democratic or 'autocratic' nature of Mr Badal.
His administration and police personnel are abusing the Indian Penal Code Article 188, against Dr Sukhpreet Singh Udhoke of Amritsar. These are a few examples of the democracy of the New Delhi administration (NDA) blessed administration of Prakash Badal and his Akalis with the BJP, in the Sikhs' holy and historic Homeland of Sikhs, Punjab.
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.
http://www.yahoogroups.com/group/sikhyouth<http://www.yahoogroups.com/group/sikhyouth>).
Even outside India, Sikhs are continued to be 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).
Miss Manorama of Manipur was gang raped by the men of the Assam Rifles 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).
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.
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.
We also earnestly request that you 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, Punjab' 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), and/or appointees like HKL Bhagat, Jagdish Tytler, Arun Nehru, SD Sharma, SS Ray, Boota Singh, 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.
Parmjit Singh Sekhon,* President
Dal Khalsa Alliance
< pssekhon@gmail.com>
signed by: Dr Awatar Singh Sekhon
Dr Awatar Singh Sekhon
Managing Editor and Acting 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>
Signed by: Gaganjit Singh*
Dal Khalsa of America gensec@dalkhalsausa.org
Ram Singh*
President, American Gurdwara Council Ph: 1.408.667-3116
Karnail Singh Khalsa*
President, Gurmat Chetna Lahar of the United States of America
1.510.557-9168
Harmindar Singh*
President, Khalsa Jagriti Lahar of the United States of America
E-mail: hpaulsingh@sbcglobal.net
Sukhwinder Singh, President, Sikh Sahit Sabha 510.277-7560
Baljinder Singh, President, Sikh Sabhiachar Committee 510.774-5909
* Denotes signed with the permission
Enclosure: Six copies of "The Sikhs: Sovereignty To Slavery ISBN 978-0-9811360-8-0, August 2010.
Palash Biswas
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