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Marching on the hill
WSN Network
 Hundreds
of Sikhs converged on Washington DC Capitol Hill on November 1, 2009
as part of the Justice March, first gathering for a small rally in
front of the Lafayette Park from 11:30 am to 2:30 pm and then
marching to the Capitol Hill.
At the rally,
speakers apprised the community of nations about the genocide of
Sikhs in India in 1984 and the failure of the Indian nation state to
do justice after one of the worst pogroms in contemporary human
history.
Master Mohinder
Singh from New York, Harbans Singh Jandli from Canada, Harpreet
Singh from Columbia addressed the crowd. Among the witnesses to the
genocide who had an interface with the sangat was also Bibi Iqbal
Kaur Bhatia of
Kanpur.
The crowd then
marched in triple file, raising slogans "We Want Justice" and "Bole
So Nihal" and covered a distance of 1 and a half mile.
Attorney at law
Gurpatwant Singh Pannu addressed the gathering and reeled out data
about atrocities on Sikhs in India.
One of India's
top journalists, Rahul Bedi, also participated in the function, thus
lending immense credibility to the Sikh efforts at seeking justice.
Bedi was one of the few courageous journalists who ventured into the
bloodied blocks of Trilokpuri even when dead bodies were still
around and helped bring out the gory picture of the Indian rulers'
reality. He narrated his experiences and told how the law agencies
tried to thwart his efforts at finding the truth.
He also
explained how commissions of inquiry have failed to bring justice
and perpetrators kept slipping through cracks in the system
facilitated by the rulers.
Advocate
Navkiran Singh from Punjab and Haryana High Court was also there and
presented a data based report. The function came to an end at 5 pm.
Sikhs for
Justice, which had planned the march, received across the board
support for the headline hogging march backed by many gurdwara
committees and panthic organizations, including the Sikh Youth of
America.
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November 2009
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