The Hindu brethren which you speak of is the only reason Sikhs have been able to be so succesful in India!
Do you think that the Sikh people could have achieved so much and have had the same opportunities if India was mainly Muslim?
What happened in 1984 was tragic, but dont disrespect your own fellow Sikhs who fight and die for India, by posting such dividing statements!!
Know your enemy..Pakistan!!!!
rAVI , EXPLAIN THE SYSTAMATIC KILLING OF SIKHS IN dELHI, BY YOUR hINDU BRETHEN? wAS THAT PLANED BY ISI?
Karamjeet Brother I am writing you from India. It has been established here that there is a systematic plan to kill Sikhs in Jammu Kashmir since last year.
There has been found a pattern of selective killings by Islamabad agents and there have been hundreds of protest rallies. Even today there were protests in Delhi, Amritsar, Ludhiana and Jullunder.
Govt of India is seriously taking precautions and army is very carefully watching. Simranjeet Singh although he is not very successful as politician has declared today that he will visit Pakistan and meet the leaders there that Sikhs should not be targeted in their warfare.
Pakistani agents selective killings are very carefully planned strategy to create rifts among Punjabis. But alas they will be beaten back very badly.
It holds some merit.
Karamjeet for your information we believe that there are many elements of truth in what Mr.Sayed writes.
Any ways Karamjeet or who ever you profess to be.......why the hell are you worried about 30 or so Sikhs ALLEDGEDLY killed my Kashmiri militants, when you should be concerned for the HUNDREDS and THOUSANDS of Sikhs MURDERED by INDIAN security forces?
Ps why are so shameless ....writing nonesense here , insulting the concept of truth... take your stupidity and falsehood to where it belongs!
There is a bastard of ISI based in Washington who poses as a journalist but he is employed by Islamic/Jehad wing of ISI/Pak Military's secret agency to malign India.
This crook goes by the name of Syed Adeeb - Washington, DC, U.S.A. who runs a shitty site called informationtimes.com
Everyday he writes distorted garbage, mostly fabricated or press releases of a few little known or ill reputed congressmen like burton and the self styled leader of khalistan aulakh who is a psychotic and enjoying a free ride with all the hefty donations.
Mean fellow Syed runs a list of kashmir and his main and only interest is to spread false news and rumors to malign India, Sikhs and Hindus.
This bastardo fabricated a news last year when Islamic terrorists at the behest of Islamabad killed 35 Sikhs that Indian govt was behind that.
Email this monster that he should stop his nonsense.
infotimes- at - rcn.com
See these two posts he sent:
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Statement of U.S. Congressman EDOLPHUS TOWNS (D-NY)
Hindu-Indian Rulers Murdered 35 Sikhs and 5 Muslims
NEW YORK TIMES: INDIA CLEARLY RESPONSIBLE FOR CHITHI SINGHPORA
MASSACRE -- HON. EDOLPHUS TOWNS (Extensions of Remarks - January
31, 2001)
[Page: E82]
HON. EDOLPHUS TOWNS
OF NEW YORK
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Wednesday, January 31, 2001
Mr. TOWNS. Mr. Speaker, on December 31, the New York Times
Magazine ran a good article on the massacre of 35 Sikhs that
took place in Chithi Singhpora in March while President Clinton
was visiting India. The article makes it clear that "Everyone
knows who did it'' and that the responsibility rests squarely on
the Indian government. The Times writer, Barry Bearak, the
newspaper's bureau chief in New Delhi, wrote that "Among the
careful preparations for the historic occasion were a
painstaking cleanup around the Taj Mahal, a reconnoitering for
wild tigers he might glimpse on a V.I.P. safari and the murder
of 35 Sikh villagers in a place called Chittisinghpora.''
I will not place the entire article into the RECORD, Mr.
Speaker, because it is very long, but I recommend it to my
colleagues. Bearak interviewed several people who were witnesses
to the massacre or who lost family members. It is very clear
from his interviews that the Indian government is responsible.
This confirms the findings of two independent investigations,
one by the International Human Rights Organization, which is
based in Ludhiana, and another jointly conducted by the Movement
Against State Repression and the Punjab Human Rights
Organization.
This is typical of the Indian government. The Indian newspaper
Hitavada reported in November 1994 that the Indian government
paid the late Governor of Punjab, Surendra Nath, $1.5 billion to
organize terrorist activities in Punjab and Kashmir. The book
"Soft Target'', written by two Canadian journalists, proved that
the Indian government shot down its own airliner in 1985,
killing 329 innocent people, to create an image of Sikhs as
terrorists.
The article noted that the killers were dressed in the
regulation uniform of the Indian Army. Some had their faces
painted in celebration of the Hindu holiday of Holi. They
rounded up 37 Sikhs, one of whom escaped and one of whom
survived. The other 35 were murdered in cold blood. They called
out the parting phrase "Jai mata di,'' a Hindu phrase in praise
of a Hindu goddess.
Clearly the Indian government was trying to create a bad image
of the Kashmiri freedom fighters for the President's visit. It
looks like President Clinton was right when he called the region
"the most dangerous place in the world.''
Bearak came to Chithi Singhpora in the company of a businessman,
who is an associate of a fellow reporter. "So you want to know
the truth?'' the businessman said to Bearak. "Don't you know the
truth can get these people killed?'' The Indian government had
killed five Muslims, claiming they were Pakistanis responsible
for the massacre, but at least one village resident said that he
recognized the remains of one of his relatives. One of the men
killed was a man of 60. The Indian government has subsequently
admitted that the so-called "militants'' they killed were in
fact innocent. Now they have made another arrest in the case.
This is also equally dubious. The 18-year-old that they arrested
was "intensively interrogated,'' according to the article, which
usually means torture.
At the close of the article, Bearak writes that "Everyone knows
about this crime. The Indian Army did it.'' The evidence makes
it clear that this is true. Why should such a country receive
any support from the U.S. government? Let us stop our aid to
this terrorist regime and let us openly support
self-determination for Punjab, Khalistan, for Kashmir, and for
all the nations of South Asia.
2.
Statement of U.S. Congressman DAN BURTON (R-IN)
Christians Thank Dr. GURMIT SINGH AULAKH for Defending Christian
Human Rights
CHRISTIANS THANK SIKHS IN INDIA: DR. GURMIT SINGH AULAKH
COMMENDED -- HON. DAN BURTON (Extensions of Remarks - January
30, 2001)
[Pages: E65 - E66]
HON. DAN BURTON
OF INDIANA
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Tuesday, January 30, 2001
Mr. BURTON of Indiana. Mr. Speaker, on January 17 a group of
Christians in India known as the Persecuted Church of India
issued a statement commending the protection that Sikhs have
provided to Christians in India from Indian government
persecution.
Father Dominic Immanuel appeared on Star News to thank the Sikhs
community for protecting Christians from Indian government
persecution. As you know, the Christians in India have undergone
a wave of violence and terror by militant Hindu nationalists
associated with the pro-Fascist RSS, the parent organization of
the ruling BJP. This violence has taken the form of church
burnings, rape of nuns, murders of priests, and attacks on
Christian schools and prayer halls. Graham Staines and his two
little boys were burned to death in their jeep while they slept.
Earlier, in 1997, police broke up a Christian religious festival
with gunfire. No one has ever been punished for these
activities. Instead, there have been Indian officials who have
been quoted as saying that everyone who lives in India must
either be a Hindu or be subservient to Hinduism. Last year RSS
leader Kuppa Halli Sitharamaiya called for a ban on foreign
churches.
Interestingly, the article mentions Dr. Gurmit Singh Aulakh, the
President of the Council of Khalistan, for his lobbying efforts
here on Capitol Hill. The Sikhs and Christians are suffering
from the same kind of terror. More than 250,000 Sikhs have been
murdered by the Indian government since 1984, according to
Inderjit Singh Jaijee's "The Politics of Genocide''. The Indian
government has also killed more than 200,000 Christians in
Nagaland. According to Amnesty international, there are about
50,000 Sikhs held in Indian jails as political prisoners without
charge or trial. In November, Indian police with heavy sticks
called lathis attacked 3,200 Sikh religious pilgrims at a
railroad station on the Indian-Pakistani border. These pilgrims
were attempting to get to Nankana Sahib in Pakistan to celebrate
the birthday of the first Sikh guru, Guru Nanak. Only 800
managed to get to the celebration. In July, police arrested
Rajiv Singh Randhawa, the only witness to the September 1995
kidnapping of human-rights activist Jaswant Singh Khalra, while
he was trying to give a petition to the British Home Minister in
front of the Golden Temple, the holiest Sikh shrine that the
Indian government brutally attacked in June 1984. Mr. Khalra was
killed in police custody about six weeks after he was kidnapped.
More than five years later, no one has been punished. Now the
Indian police are harassing the only witness. In March,
according to the findings of two independent investigations, the
Indian government murdered 35 Sikhs in the village of Chithi
Singhpora.
In addition to its persecution of Christians, Sikhs, and other
minorities, India has worked aggressively to thwart several U.S.
foreign policy goals around the world. Not only does it vote
against the United States at the United Nations more often than
any country except Cuba, but in 1999 the Indian Defense Minister
led a meeting with the Ambassadors from Iraq, Cuba, Libya,
Russia, Serbia, and China in which the parties discussed setting
up a security alliance "to stop the U.S.''
We should stop U.S. aid to India until the oppression of
Christians, Sikhs, Muslims, and other minorities ends and human
rights are observed. We must also put the United States on
record in support for the freedom movements in Khalistan,
Nagalim, Kashmir, and the other nations seeking their freedom
from India, through a free and fair plebiscite. That is the
democratic way and the way that world powers do things. These
measures will help bring peace, freedom, stability, prosperity
and dignity to all the people of the subcontinent.
Mr. Speaker, I would like to submit a statement issued by the
Persecuted Church of India that discusses the efforts that Sikhs
have made on behalf of India's Christian community. I commend
this statement to anyone who would like to better understand the
plight of minorities in India.
PERSECUTED CHURCH OF INDIA--JANUARY 17, 2001--THE SIKHS RUSH TO
PROTECT THE CHRISTIANS
A few days ago when the attacks against the Christian
missionaries in Rajasthan took place, Fr Dominic Immanual went
on record on Star News to acknowledge the protection that the
Sikh community was providing to the persecuted Christians of
Haryana and elsewhere. That was a belated recognition to the
much maligned Sikh minorities. We had earlier reported the
incidents wherein the nuns were protected by the Sikhs at the
time of attacks. However almost all the cases have gone
unreported. Fr Dominic did great justice to the Sikhs when he
underlined incidents in rural Haryana where the helpless
Christians had none to help but the Sikhs during the attacks by
the Hindu fascists. He quoted the incidents in Panipat, Sonepat
and Gannore where the Christians have been saved by the Sikhs,
many a time risking their own lives as the Hindu terrorists
struck. The recognition is too little for the community whose
plight was ignored by the Christians as they too had been under
the influence of the Hindu nationalist lies against the Sikhs.
THE LEGACY OF SADHOO SUNDER SINGH
Sadhu Sunder Singh was one of the greatest Christian
missionaries India has known. Punjab, more particularly the
districts like Ludhiana has a considerable concentration of
Christians. The Sikhs themselves have been victims of Hindu
majoritarinism and ethnic cleansing. A vast number of their
youth had been annihilated in the anti-Sikh riots and fake
encounters. Thousands of innocent Sikh youth are persecuted in
jails as undertrials. The anti-Sikh crackdown saw the flight of
thousands of Sikhs abroad. When the recent wave of
anti-Christian persecution started, at least one Christian
bishop recognized the injustice done to the Sikh minority by the
Christians. Bishop Philipose Mar Chsysostem, the Mar Thoma
Metropolitan, wrote that it was due to our apathy during the
earliest atrocities against other (minorities) that this danger
has befallen us. The community which we did injustice to has now
become our saviors. In fact Gurmeet Singh Aulakh, the Sikh
leader in the U.S. was one of the first persons to lobby against
the Christian persecution in the U.S. Congress by the Hindu
fundamentalists.
CONCLUSION
At this instance we can only pray for peace in Punjab. We pray
that good sense prevails with the majoritarians and they do not
do anything harmful to the interests of the nation. We also
thank the valiant but unsung Sikh heros and heroines who have
and are risking their own lives to save the defenseless
Christians in Haryana, Punjab and elsewhere from the atrocities
of the Hindu organizations.