From: Habib Yousafzai <habibyousafzai@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, Jun 6, 2010 at 4:05 AM
Subject: [bangla-vision] Protest Against The Brutality of The Indian Government Against Its Minorities.
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Protest Against The Brutality of The Indian Government Against Its Minorities.
Habib Yousafzai
Sikhs and Kashmiries from Toronto and suburbs gathered today in front of the Consulate General Office of India Toronto Canada to protest the genocide of Sikhs in June 1984 by the Indian government wherein more than 260,000 Sikhs were mercilessly killed. The protest continued for approximately 2 hours. It started at 12.00pm and ended at 2.00 pm.
The speaker was raising his grievance that on this day 26 years ago in June 1984 the Indian government committed genocide on the Sikh people of India. One of the speakers stated that all these atrocities are done on the Sikh Nation because they don't have their own Homeland (under the Indian occupation since 15th August, 1947), and there is no one there to listen to their voice. Yet another speaker stated that they are still waiting for justice. He further added that India claims that it is the world's biggest democracy, but it is full of criminal elements/parliamentarian, more than one-third serving as cabinet ministers. The rally which consisted people of all ages including children, women, and elderly persons who were shouting as below:
1-No justice, no peace
2-We will not forget the Genocide of Sikhs.
3-What do we want? Justice! When do we want it? Now!
4-Sikhs rights are human rights?
5-The people united will never be defeated
6-Justice is what we want.
12-We shall not rest until Khalistan, and Kashmir is free from Indian occupation.
08-Khalistan Zindabad
From June1st to June 6th 1984, Indian state armed institutions, such as the police, paramilitary forces and political leaders planned and systematically murdered Sikhs across India. India had murdered over 260,000 innocent Sikhs in an 'undeclared' war in the form of a brutal military strategy"Operation Bluestar' of June, 1984 (The Politics of Genocide by Inderjeet Singh Jaijee; press releases of the Council of Khalistan, www.khalistannews.com. It has also killed more than 312,500 Christians in Nagaland since 1947; more than 500,000 Muslims in general; more than 12,000 Assamese, Bodos, tens of thousands of Dalits (untouchables, the dark-skinned or aboriginal people of South Asia), Manipuris, more than 15,000 Tamils since the 1990s, and other minorities. The Indian Supreme Court called the Indian government's murders of Sikhs and non-Hindu minorities "worse than genocide."According to a report by the Movement Against State Repression (MASR), 52,268 Sikhs are being held as political prisoners in India without charge or trial. Some have been in illegal custody since 1984. Amnesty International, which supposedly ousted from India, reported that tens of thousands of other minorities are also being held as political prisoners, while 800,000 Sikhs were displaced and rendered homeless. It is said that the Government electoral (voting) lists were used to identify Sikh families homes marked for execution. Sikhs were burnt alive while politicians incited people to kill them, as police stood idly. Another speaker added that the atrocities committed by the Indian forces of the Kashmiris are beyond one's contemplation, e.g., more than 192,685 killed, 215,877 arrests, 110,000 disappearances, 115,665 homes demolished by Indian Security Forces, leaving 122,675 widows and 207,218 orphans. Indian forces have been committing crimes against humanity such as rapes, torture, atrocities and gross human rights including humiliation and dehumanization violations of the Kashmiri people. As per a BBC radio report recently, unidentified mass graves have been found in Occupied Kashmir. The Indian government claims that these are the graves of foreign fighters who have been killed in encounters. About 110,000 missing Kashmiries, Indian government claims that these people have crossed the LoC and went to Pakistan for training. In fact these missing people either had been killed by showing fake encounters or have been kidnapped by the Indian forces and being kept in the Indian Jails in the remote areas without any information to their relatives. One of the protesters reiterated that they will fight until not one Indian soldier remains in Kashmir.
The protest concluded with the statement that the Sikh Nation will keep fighting until they get justice for the ethnic cleansing of Sikhs done by Hindu-Brahmins in India as well as get their Historic Homeland, PUNJAB, Khalistan freed from Indian occupation as they do not want to see another attack on their Darbar Sahib Amritsar.
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Palash Biswas
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