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Sikh nation holds mirror to India on 60th
1-Day
WSN Bureau
 JALANDHAR: On Wednesday, just as this
edition of the World Sikh News was going to the press, many
prominent voices of the Sikh panth had gathered at a seminar in
Jalandhar, organised by the Dal Khalsa, to prepare a chargesheet
against the Indian nation. With New Delhi determined to edge out the
Sikhs from any respectful domain of existence and power structures,
and its Hindutva plank working to finish off the Sikh agenda through
the policy of assimilation, since annihilation has not worked, it
was time the Sikh nation took its case to the world at large.
India is celebrating its 60th birthday. Newspapers, magazines and
television channels are filled with euphoria about the years gone
by. 60 heroes of India. 60 books of India. 60 leaders of India. 60
achievements of India. 60 sportspersons of India. Is this the
complete picture?
How about 60 incidents that should put India to shame? Can we forget
the storming of Darbar Sahib code-named Operation Bluestar in June
1984? Has the media forgetten that false sedition cases were levied
against leading human rights activists like Aurobindo Ghose, Amiya
Rao and others, in 1985 when they tabulated gross human rights
abuses by the Indian security agencies during Operation Woodrose?
How can we forget that in broad daylight, in Delhi, which has the
seat of power of the country and emissaries from all over the globe,
Sikhs were burnt alive with tyres around their necks? What about the
Nellie massacre in Assam? Only the insane will ignore the blinding
of undertrials by the police in Bhagalpur and the recent vicious
genocidal attacks against Muslims in Gujarat?
How about 60 religious, social and political activists who have been
detained under various unlawful provisions of Indian draconian laws
like TADA and POTA? –the detention of more than 400 Sikh detenues in
the Jodhpur prison for five years without trial; –the daylight
extrajudicial execution of hundreds upon thousands of Sikh youth;
--five years of solitary confinement for Simranjit Singh Mann; --the
case of Chanu Sharmila of Manipur on hunger strike against the
misuse of the Armed Forces Special Powers Act for more than 6 years
in a row; –the extrajudicial murder in Assam of human rights
activist and editor of Asomiya Pratidin, Mr. Parag Das; –the
repeated detention of water rights activist Medha Patkar; --the
disappearance and subsequent elimination of human rights activist
Jaswant Singh Khalra; the extrajudicial execution of Jathedar of
Akal Takht Bhai Gurdev Singh Kaonke; the arrest of former judge of
the Punjab and Haryana High Court, Justice Ajit Singh Bains; the
extermination of the entire family of Advocate Kulwant Singh, et al.
Why is the Indian media silent about all this? Why can't the media
write about 60 gross human rights violations by India against its
own citizens? The Sikh Nation here marks India's 60th Independence
Day with a 60-point chargesheet!
This chargesheet was prepared as a result of the seminar where,
among the top speakers, were scholar journalist Karamjit Singh,
Manjit Singh Calcutta, Harinder Singh Norway, Bhai Rajinder Singh of
Khalsa Panchayat, Bhai Narain Singh, Satnam Singh Paonta,
Harcharanjit Singh Dhami and many others.
22 August, 2007
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