Indian Government Arrests
Baba Baljit Singh, 700 Sikhs
WASHINGTON,
D.C., December 14, 2012 – The Indian regime recently arrested Baba Baljit Singh
Daduwal and 700 Sikhs while they were marching to demand construction of a
Gurdwara in Hardwar, where Guru Nanak visited. There had been a Gurdwara
there previously, but it was demolished after the 1984 assassination of Indira
Gandhi.
The marchers
started from Amritsar and were marching to the site in Hardwar. When they
entered Uttaranachal state, they were arrested. They were told they were
forbidden to enter the state. Police took them in buses to the police
station. On the way, they recited Gurbani and kirtan and sang
hymns.
Now the SGPC
has agreed to build the Gurdwara. We thank Sant Daduwal and his fellow
marchers for taking the initiative to get this Gurdwara built. They
forced the SGPC to do its job, which the SGPC should have done long ago.
The Sikh Nation is glad it will finally be done. We are indebted to Sant
Daduwal for getting this Gurdwara built on the site of Guru Nanak’s visit.
A free
Khalistan will make these efforts easier, said Dr. Gurmit Singh Aulakh,
President of the Council of Khalistan. “When Khalistan is free, we
won’t have to deal with the Indian government on these matters,” he said.
“We will be able to undertake these projects on our own. This is another
reason that liberating Khalistan is essential,” he said.
In 1986,
Baba Gurbachan Singh Manochal, then Jathedar of the Akal Takht Sahib, who was
later killed by the Indian government, held a Sarbat Khalsa on April 29, 1986
at Akal Takht Sahib, which passed a resolution for Khalistan. Then on
October 7, 1987, Jathedar Manochal and the Panthic Committee declared Khalistan
independent. They formed the Council of Khalistan as the government pro
tempore and Dr. Aulakh as its president to lead the struggle for independence
by gathering support from the Sikh diaspora and the international
community. Since then, the Council of Khalistan has led the effort, working
very hard to achieve independence. There are over 1500 statements by
Members of the U.S. Congress in the Congressional Record on the human rights
violations against Sikhs and the independence of Khalistan. The U.S.
Congress has held many hearings on human-rights violations in India. The
late General Narinder Singh, who said that “Punjab is a police state”, and
Justice Ajit Singh Bains of the Punjab Human Rights Organization are among
those who have been invited to speak at these hearings. The Congress has cut
aid to India seven times. India has been exposed as a major oppressor of
minorities and violator of human rights. India claims to be the world’s
largest democracy, but it is a majoritarian Hindu tyranny that habitually kills
minorities.
A report
issued by the Movement Against State Repression (MASR) quotes the Punjab Civil
Magistracy as writing “if we add up the figures of the last few years the
number of innocent persons killed would run into lakhs [hundreds of
thousands.]” According to Sardar Mann, the Indian government has murdered
over a million Sikhs since 1982. Sardar Inderjit Singh Jaijee, author of
The Politics of Genocide, and Bibi Baljit Kaur of the Movement Against State
Repression (MASR) told Dr. Aulakh that if it were not for the efforts of the
Council of Khalistan, that number might be ten times as high. India has
also killed more than 300,000 Christians in Nagaland, over 100,000 Muslims in
Kashmir, and tens of thousands of Tamils, Assamese, Bodos, Manipuris, and
others. The Indian Supreme Court called the Indian government's murders of
Sikhs "worse than a genocide.”
“India must
stop trying to sow confusion and stop trying to subvert the Sikh Nation’s
God-give right to freedom. Instead, India should immediately withdraw
from Khalistan and all the nations of South Asia and allow them to be free,” he
said. “The independence of Khalistan is non-negotiable. Only the precise
borders are negotiable. As Professor Darshan Singh said, ‘If a Sikh is
not a Khalistani, he is not a Sikh’,” Dr. Aulakh noted. “It is time to free
Khalistan so Sikhs can live in freedom and dignity.”
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Posted
by
Parmjit
Singh Sekhon (Dakha)
Advisor
Council
of Khalistan
President
Dal
Khalsa Alliance
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