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Voices for Freedom denounces
violent attack by Panjab police on protesting Sikhs in Ludhiana.
Warns the
State of a Direction towards a Civil War.
LUDHIANA:
Voices for Freedom
condemns the indiscriminate use of bullets which resulted in one
death and scores of protesting devout Sikhs injured. The Panjab
Police, ever ready to resort to cane charge any assembly of people,
did not use water canons to stop the protesting Sikhs, did not fire
rubber bullets to quell the protestors, but resorted to firing live
bullets into the protestors killing Darshan Singh Lohara of district
Ludhiana, injuring more than twelve others, of which two are in
critical condition.
Voices for
Freedom had warned many a times in the last few months that in case
the Government of India does not stop sponsoring and supporting
heretic cults who are hell-bent on denigrating the basic postulates
of Sikhism and who want to poke fun at the Sikhs by resorting to
blasphemous utterances, things will reach a situation for a civil
war in the state of Panjab.
Sudip Minhas, Executive Director, Voices For Freedom, said:
“Genocide, nearly always the result of identity-related conflicts,
is one of the most heinous of crimes. The National Human Rights
Commission should look into this seriously and try to come up with a
report. The problem inherently is not that of democratic process is
not allowed to follow but it’s the continuous heretical attacks
against a religion are going unchecked that provokes people”
The Badal-BJP government of Panjab failed to respond to fervent
appeals by student bodies, religious organizations and political
groups to cancel the gathering in
Ludhiana
by the Ashutosh-led Divya Jyoti Jagran Sansthan (organization), with
headquarters in Nur Mahal, Panjab.
The Chief
Minister of the Panjab State, Mr. Badal, is also aware of the fact
that there is a report of a committee formed by the Akal Takht-an
institution for the political sovereignty of the Sikhs, in Amritsar
Panjab, which states that the Noormahal Dera (cult) has been guilty
of religious transgression and blasphemy.
Voices for Freedom decrees the SGPC for not implementing this report
submitted to the Akal Takht Sahib on January 30, 2004.
In our memorandum to the United States Commission on Religious
Freedoms in September this year, while mentioning the reasons for
the spate of political arrests, we had said that the arrests were
“because of the ongoing peaceful campaign by Daljit Singh’s group
against various cults that have mushroomed all over Panjab and are
conspiring, a ploy and a facade for destroying Sikhism through a
crude methodology of corrupting and insulting Sikhism and outraging
Sikh beliefs. This happened in 1978 with the neo-Nirankaris and it
is a similar situation in particular with the Dera Sirsa cult.”
Voices for
Freedom demands from the State Government of Panjab and the National
Human Rights Commission of India-
i)
that an independent impartial inquiry be placed immediately into
this incident
ii)
that the police personnel guilty of murdering Darshan Singh Lohara
and injuring others should be booked for murder and attempt to
murder
iii) and
implement the report submitted to the Akal Takht Sahib on January
30, 2004, which states that the Noormahal Dera (cult) is guilty of
religious transgression and blasphemy.
9
December 2009
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