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Does the Present Planted Sikh Leadership Responsible to Sikh Community?
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Secular Congress and communal BJP

http://www.thenews.com.pk/print1.asp?id=162686

It is a systematic genocide under the garb of war on terror in Sri Lanka!

The article is like Lobbying to justify the planned State terrorism against the minorities in India 

  • Do Sikhs only left to be convinced or already convinced that they faced reaction (A part of planned State Terrorism as usual) of an action of Indira Gandhi’s Sikh bodyguards otherwise Sikhs were nothing to demand ever?
  • Is this article meant lobbying to justify the planned State terrorism against the minorities prevailing since long in India, the way, Sikh community systematically persecuted under the garb of dealing with the menace i.e. terrorism and or also like suggesting to find out the similar method, to tackle with the terrorism in Sri Lankan?
  • Or the article justifies the demands of LTTE only not of Sikhs and pleads to fulfill promise of giving all the rights to Tamils?
  • Who were used from within to prosecute Sikh community in the name to fight back against terrorism?
  • The literal genocide of the Sikhs in Delhi (A part of planned State Terrorism dealing with the menace) that was inhuman and backfired, it means that only caused terrorism thereafter otherwise Sikhs have no demands.
  • The emphasizing that any attempt to systematically persecute a community for the atrocities by a select few is not only inhuman but always backfires (It is like justifying by bringing on equal footing genocide of the Sikhs in Delhi naming as only a backfire of the assassination of Indira Gandhi by her Sikh bodyguards.
  • Sikhs never had any demands and the Sikh leaders (who were used from within to prosecute Sikh community) are always pro-government of India e.g. Sikh leadership may be in any party, within and or abroad.
  • Does the present planted Sikh leadership responsible to Sikh community and its demands in any manner or only responsible to their masters in Delhi?
  • It is safe to say in the given circumstances that Sikhs are leaderless in India?
  • Have Sikhs or their so called leaders any answer to the present situation or state of affairs of Sikhs except to cry for justice before the international community? Will they do it, only time may answer?

By:
Balbir Singh Sooch-Sikh Vichar Manch
February 12, 2009

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http://www.sikhvicharmanch.com/Punjabi/Dharam%20ate%20rajnitiSikh%20Katleam%20Chaurasi%20de%20doshian.htm 

http://www.sibernews.com/200902121823/

  1. For a country like India, terrorism has not been a new thing and our own past experience in terms of dealing with this menace indicates that any attempt to systematically persecute a community for the atrocities by a select few is not only inhuman but always backfires. The literal genocide of the Sikhs in Delhi, after the assassination of Indira Gandhi by her Sikh bodyguards, is an ideal case in point, when thousands of innocent Sikhs had to sacrifice their lives.
  2. It is ironic that they were from the same Sikh community which valiantly fought back against terrorism and made sure that Punjab remains a most secure part of India. This was rather possible because the Indian government was successful in restoring confidence in the minds of the common Sikhs and trusted them with weapons to fight back the terror menace, whose ill effects did not spare the Sikhs either.

http://www.sibernews.com/200902121823/

It is a systematic genocide under the garb of
war on terror in Sri Lanka!

In our previous issue of The Sunday Indian, after my editorial, we had carried a special feature by Mr. Lasantha Wickrematunge, the late Editor of the Sri Lankan newspaper, The Sunday Leader. We carried this as a special feature just because Mr.Lasantha almost knew that he was going to be assassinated, before he actually was! He also knew that his assassinator was already known very well to none other than his long time ‘friend’ and the current President of Sri Lanka, Mahinda Rajapaksa, who strangely (or perhaps, not so strangely, given his clear complicity) refused to take any action.

In fact, the civil war in Sri Lanka between LTTE and government forces is reaching its culmination with a decisive victory for the Sri Lankan army. While the defeat of LTTE, one of the world’s deadliest terror organizations and the one which pioneered the concept of suicide bombings, is no doubt great news (all the greater, because of the fact that it was this LTTE that has been responsible for the assassination of one of India’s most dynamic Prime Ministers, Rajiv Gandhi), on the other hand, under the guise of war, the current government has been creating a humanitarian crisis of a gargantuan proportion by systematically cleansing the Tamil ethnicity.

In other words, it’s a clear genocide of Tamils! Even if one accepts the fact that a substantial majority of Lankan Tamils have now settled in either the southern part of the country or have become expatriates in Europe and other parts of the world, and that many nowadays prefer to distance themselves from the activities of the LTTE, and though the incumbent Lankan government has been slimly ‘pledging’ equal rights for the Tamils there, it’s a known fact that a large number of Tamils (almost 250,000) have been caught in the crossfire between the army and the LTTE. Thousands of innocents have been forced to part with their lives simply because the current government evidently doesn’t want to distinguish between the LTTE and those who have been inhabitants of towns like Mullaitivu, the erstwhile stronghold of the LTTE.

Moreover, the means the government has adopted to shutout any voice of dissent in the mainstream media against government action through jailing as well as systematically killing journalists – as in Lasantha’s case – is completely unacceptable. Under the current regime, the state of affairs has deteriorated to such an extent that Sri Lanka has now globally become one of the most dangerous place for journalists and media organizations. In fact, in the latest released reports, The International Federation for Journalists has put the nation as the second most dangerous for journalists after Iraq. Along with Mr. Lasantha, other respectable journalists have been either put behind bars or have disappeared completely. The government has itself admitted to the fact that since January 2006, almost nine journalists have been killed.


For a country like India, terrorism has not been a new thing and our own past experience in terms of dealing with this menace indicates that any attempt to systematically persecute a community for the atrocities by a select few is not only inhuman but always backfires. The literal genocide of the Sikhs in Delhi, after the assassination of Indira Gandhi by her Sikh bodyguards, is an ideal case in point, when thousands of innocent Sikhs had to sacrifice their lives. It is ironic that they were from the same Sikh community which valiantly fought back against terrorism and made sure that Punjab remains a most secure part of India. This was rather possible because the Indian government was successful in restoring confidence in the minds of the common Sikhs and trusted them with weapons to fight back the terror menace, whose ill effects did not spare the Sikhs either.

Though it is a fact that Sri Lanka wouldn’t have been able to have such a decisive victory without the use of air power, it is also a fact that the collateral damage associated with such aerial assaults in terms of civilian casualties has been far higher than its real effectiveness. Worst is the fact that in the name of war on terror, hospitals and schools have been targeted! Whether or not this ongoing genocide of innocent Tamils is serving any purpose of the current government, it is definite that this onslaught is definitely alienating the Tamil community far more from the mainstream. After this chapter, it would be impossible for the current or the future governments to bridge this alienation and it would invariably support the cause of violent terror organizations to justify their future wars.

The conventional war against LTTE might mostly be over; but perhaps it’s time for the short battles to start. And the Sri Lankan government knows it very well that it’s only a matter of time before the LTTE hits back with renewed vengeance with an array of suicide attacks and guerilla ambush encounters (if not a full scale war), tactics it has mastered perfectly over the years. If the Sri Lankan government continues its suppression and fails to fulfill its promise of giving all the rights to Tamils and continues with its discrimination and systematic genocide, it would only be a matter of time before another Prabhakaran and another LTTE are born, even if the incumbent ones are dead by now.

Updated: Feb 14, 2009 1:34 PM

SILENCE OF THE LEADERSHIP WHAT DOES IT INDICATE? 

Does the Present Planted Sikh Leadership Responsible to Sikh Community? 

  • The silence of the Sikh leadership to answer the question amounts to ‘yes’ that admittedly they are not answerable or responsible to Sikh community but only to their masters in Delhi.
  • It is nothing but confession of guilt on the part of planted leaders who were/are acting as a party with government of India for the crimes committed or being committed against Sikh community in India.
  • Now, what is left for Sikhs and others to say to the international community about their present leadership?
  • Therefore, it is not difficult to draw the conclusion that like Sikhs, other minorities are also being systematically persecuted under the garb of dealing with the menace i.e. terrorism in India.

Submission by
Balbir Singh Sooch-Sikh Vichar Manch
February 14, 2009

www.sikhvicharmanch.com

Updated: Feb 15, 2009 4:30 AM

The questions after questions must be agitating the minds of Sikhs 

SILENCE OF THE LEADERSHIP WHAT DOES IT INDICATE? 

Sikh leaders helped Sikhs to fight against Sikhs so that Punjab remains a most secure part of India (without any demands) as emphasized in the article. 

Was it a national policy and strategy (inhuman) in order to systematically persecute Sikh community under the garb of dealing with the menace i.e. terrorism?  

Was it not the same national policy and strategy (inhuman) for which the former DGP of Punjab. KPS GILL is demanding  that ‘A Constitutional Commission’ should be set up to identify the ‘CATEGORIES of terrorists AND THE officers in all branches of Government and Administration involved in the (inhuman) ‘National Policy and Strategy’ and also challengingly saying that no government shall agree and allow to come out truth about the strategy of State Terrorism? 

Did the present Sikh leadership and their henchmen adjusted in different shades  may be in any party, group, organization etc within India and or abroad and enjoying at the cost of Sikh community, help Sikhs to fight against Sikhs under the national policy and strategy? 

Do you think that the so projected Sikh leaders would ever have any Sikh demands left though they might be marking their presence at different forums conspiringly at the instance of their masters in Delhi? 

The questions after questions must be agitating the minds of Sikhs and the international community about the present planted dummy Sikh leadership   but not so dummy, they are always free to hurt and harm Sikhs with impunity.    

http://www.sikhvicharmanch.com/Cry%20for%20justice-Who%20will%20answer%20inquire%20and%20punish%20for%20the%20people.htm 

Balbir Singh Sooch-Sikh Vichar Manch
February 15, 2009

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REACTION 

From: Gurmit Singh GurmitSingh01@bigpond.com
To:
Sikh Vichar Manch svmanch@gmail.com and others
CC:
Sikh Khalsa Mission ANZ_SIKHS@yahoogroups.com
Date:
Feb 15, 2009 4:30 AM
Subject:
RE: The questions after questions must be agitating the minds of Sikhs and the international community about the present planted dummy Sikh leadership but not so dummy, they are always free to hurt and harm Sikhs with impunity.
Mailed-by:
 
bigpond.com

Dear Well-Wishers of the Sikh Nation, 

There is no doubt that the Planted Dummy Sikh Leadership both Political and Religious are absolutely responsible for the sudden decline in the followers of Sikh religion though it has been going on since 1946-47. 

But like the Law term - aiding & abetting, other scattered and disunited Dals/Groups are also equally guilty and responsible for this downfall because the Congress and BJP/RSS backed Punjabi Party have been ruling due to the disunity of the Sikhs. When any suggestion is made for their unity as an alternative, stock reply comes that it is not possible. Then result is before our eyes - As we sow, so shall we reap!! 

Therefore, Sikh Vichar Manch may wish to prevail upon the President Simranjit Singh Mann, Bhilai Party President Balwant Singh Ramoowalia, and other leaders of BSP and fragmented so-called Shiromani Akalikhali Parties 1920, etc. to unite under Five Dear Ones selected by them - one from each group and defeat the useless jackals. 

Gurmit Singh (Australia)   

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Secular Congress and communal BJP

http://www.thenews.com.pk/print1.asp?id=162686

What does it mean for Sikhs and the minorities in India?

That as to who should take more credit/share congress or BJP from the majority communal vote bank for killing Sikhs and other minorities and for the national policy and strategy (inhuman) in order to systematically persecute Sikh community and others under the garb of dealing with the menace i.e. terrorism that is politics which left always to be discussed and projected only before the elections in India?

Does the Present Planted Sikh Leadership Responsible to Sikh Community?

http://www.sikhvicharmanch.com/Religiou%20Politics-Do%20the%20Present%20Planted%20Sikh%20Leadership.htm

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The killings and the systematically persecuting the minorities are directly related to politics of vote bank to appease the majority communal vote bank and no way is it being considered by the politicians as injustice with the minorities in Indian system.

 

Is there anyone to take notice and suggest any remedy of the planned terrorism by the politicians always in open connivance with each other and the state machinery when Congress is not very different from the BJP in India?

 

Submission by

Balbir Singh Sooch-Sikh Vichar Manch

February 15, 2009

www.sikhvicharmanch.com

 

A book by journalist Manoj Mitta and lawyer H S Phoolka on the anti-Sikh riots of 1984 shows us that the Congress is not very different from the BJP in its divisiveness. On October 31, 1984, Indira Gandhi was shot by two of her Sikh bodyguards. They were angry over the storming of the Golden Temple in Amritsar by the Indian army, which flushed out Sikh terrorists that the temple authorities were unable or unwilling to evict.

 

After Indira Gandhi's assassination, the government of Rajiv Gandhi stood back as the Hindus of Delhi settled scores with the Sikhs, killing over 2,500 of them. The Congress party led the attack.

 

Those Congressmen who were named by the victims as leading the attackers are still in the Congress. Some, like Commerce and Industries Minister Kamal Nath, hold high office. Others, like Sajjan Kumar and Jagdish Tytler, are still in the Lok Sabha but made to step down from their posts after an indictment a couple of years ago. None of the Congressmen has been convicted.

 

http://www.thenews.com.pk/print1.asp?id=162686

Secular Congress and communal BJP

Sunday, February 15, 2009
By Aakar Patel

In India, secularism means inclusion: respect for all faiths. The traditional meaning of the word secular is not understood, because for Indians faith -- dharm -- can never have menace. The world understands secularism as distance from religion. In India the closest word to describe that would be adharm -- that-which-is-not-religion -- which is a negative word. Adharm means irreligious but also something unnatural, and bad, because dharm is very good.

 

Indians use binsampradayik, which means non-sectarian, for secular, and because of this the meaning is lost to us. A second word that is understood differently is nationalism. In all Indian languages nationalism -- rashtravad -- is a good word. It is easy to build consensus against the external enemy because of this. National wounds, like the war with China or Partition, are collective, heal slowly and infect the next generation through education.

 

Nationalism is associated with the positive and uncompromising sentiment towards the nation. The threat arising to itself from a mob marching lockstep is not feared. Because it is always looking forward at the positive, the Indian mob marches on and does not acknowledge what it has trampled upon. It is able to put its violence behind it easily.

 

To return to secularism, we take it to mean 'letting each faith do its own thing'.

 

Political parties with names like Majlis-e-Ittehad-ul-Muslimeen (Hyderabad) and Indian Union Muslim League (Kerala) refer to themselves as secular. By this they mean they are aligned against the BJP, which is communal, a third word that is coloured in Indian application.

 

India's national politics revolves around two parties, the BJP and the Congress, and their allies. The BJP has a little over a fifth of India's votes and the Congress has a little over a fourth. The allies of the Congress do not support the BJP because it is seen as divisive party, one that uses religion, and violence, to divide the population. But how secular is the Congress?

 

A book by journalist Manoj Mitta and lawyer H S Phoolka on the anti-Sikh riots of 1984 shows us that the Congress is not very different from the BJP in its divisiveness. On October 31, 1984, Indira Gandhi was shot by two of her Sikh bodyguards. They were angry over the storming of the Golden Temple in Amritsar by the Indian army, which flushed out Sikh terrorists that the temple authorities were unable or unwilling to evict.

 

After Indira Gandhi's assassination, the government of Rajiv Gandhi stood back as the Hindus of Delhi settled scores with the Sikhs, killing over 2,500 of them. The Congress party led the attack.

 

Those Congressmen who were named by the victims as leading the attackers are still in the Congress. Some, like Commerce and Industries Minister Kamal Nath, hold high office. Others, like Sajjan Kumar and Jagdish Tytler, are still in the Lok Sabha but made to step down from their posts after an indictment a couple of years ago. None of the Congressmen has been convicted.

 

The Congress party presided over the massacre of 2,733 people in the first week of November. In East Delhi, H K L Bhagat's constituency, 1,234 people were killed, half of them on November 1. On that day the police arrested 26 people, all of them Sikh. Rajiv Gandhi promoted Bhagat to cabinet minister. Sajjan Kumar, the man named in the most number of affidavits as leading the mob that was murdering and raping, got 8.5 lakh votes as he won his seat from outer Delhi as a Congressman in the last election. Policemen who did their duty in 1984 were punished by the Congress.

 

At Sabzi Mandi police station, Assistant Commissioner Kewal Singh and Inspector Gurmail Singh arrested 90 rioters and established peace. When they asked for permission to enforce a curfew, they were relieved of duty by Additional Commissioner Hukam Singh Jatav. They two men, both Sikhs, were the only two officers punished for action during the riots. Two years later, a commission of inquiry found that they were "guilty of absconding their positions of duty". In an Indian riot, the state disappears as an obstruction to the mob because police officers do not want to get into trouble.

 

The former finance minister of India, Madhu Dandavate, saw Sikhs being pulled out of his train at Tughlakabad, outside Delhi. He saw a mob butcher them and burn their bodies on the platform. The police watched; the more enterprising joined in. Kalyanpuri's police chief Soor Veer Singh Tyagi at gunpoint disarmed all the licensed Sikh gun-holders in his locality after they fired on mobs attacking their homes. When the mob returned and the disarmed men, who were blacksmiths, put up a fight, Tyagi came and arrested 25 of them.

 

At Trilokpuri the next morning, a group of Sikhs used their kirpans to keep at bay a mob of 400 from inside a Gurudwara. Tyagi ordered the Sikhs out of the Gurudwara and forced them to return home, firing in the air to show he meant business. As soon as the group broke up, the mob fell on them, and killed and raped.

 

Air force Captain Manmohan Singh Talwar was awarded the Mahavir Chakra in 1971 for five raids on Pakistan, including an attack on Sargodha. His shop in central Delhi was attacked on the morning of November 1. A mob of 2,000 people laid siege to his store and set it on fire after breaking the windows.

 

Captain Talwar and his family doused the flames. Then they went out to plead with the mob. Captain Talwar had his licensed 12-bore rifle while his sons held hockey sticks. He did not fire even when goaded by the mob, saying that he had no enmity with them. They did not disperse. When the family went back, the mob broke in and looted the shop. They found the family hiding and broke Captain Talwar's teeth, hitting him with a bar. That is when he fired. The mob fled outside. The police came and gave their guns to the mob, which began firing at the Talwars. Five people were killed in the shooting. Deputy Commissioner Amod Kanth arrived and disarmed Captain Talwar. Then he arrested him, charged him with murder and jailed him.

 

On November 5, Amod Kanth arrested and jailed 16 Sikhs, including five women and six children. The head of the family, Amir Singh, was killed in his house and his family fired on the mob in self-defence. Another member of the family, Narinder Singh, also died after the police opened fire on the family.

 

For jailing women and children, Rajiv Gandhi's government gave Deputy Commissioner Amod Kanth a gallantry award in June 1985. The award citation mentioned Amod Kanth's 'conspicuous gallantry, courage and devotion to duty of a high order' after 'miscreants started indiscriminate firing' from a house and '16 persons were taken into custody.' No mention that 11 of them were women and children. Last year, Commissioner (retired) Amod Kanth contested from Delhi on a Congress ticket and won the election from South Delhi. India's mobs always reward the parties that let them do violence, as the BJP learnt in Gujarat.

 

The problem of civil violence in India does not originate at the political party, but in the population, which forms its nasty consensus -- nationalist or religious -- quickly and acts on it. Both the BJP and the Congress are similar, and will stand aside when a dominant community wants to expend its hatred on a minority. Both parties even used the same judge to whitewash their actions in Delhi and Gujarat. Justice Girish Nanavati, from Gujarat, absolved both the Congress and the BJP through his reports.

 

The difference is that the Congress does not carry with it the desire to keep wounding its victims. It uses violence for power and once it achieves it makes some attempt at reconciliation. The state of Punjab, which has a Sikh majority, has elected Congress governments even after 1984.

 

The BJP is different, and lethal because of that difference. After the violence in Gujarat, the party has stopped giving tickets to Muslim legislators because it wants Hindus to see that it does not want anything to do with Muslims. Out of 182 assembly seats, not one was offered to a Muslim in Gujarat by Chief Minister Narendra Modi, who does not attempt reconciliation.

 

Muslims are nine per cent of the state's population. The BJP wants the Muslims to know that they are being shown their place. Because of this, the Gujarati is unable to let go of his hatred of the Muslim, which remains on the boil as the BJP's calibrated politics periodically injects its venom into him.

 

It took Sonia Gandhi, a European to show Indians how to do reconciliation, when she chose Manmohan Singh as prime minister. The state can prevent violence quite easily, through the use of force, which the Indian mob respects. The British kept us apart for a century because they were neutral, and uninterested in the mob because it could not vote.

 

The writer is a former newspaper editor who lives in Bombay. Email: aakar.patel@gmail.com

 
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