Badal promises memorial in Delhi for anti-Sikh riot victims (Lead)
November 8th, 2009 - 7:26 pm ICT by IANS ( 3 comments )
New Delhi/Chandigarh, Nov 8 (IANS) Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal Sunday announced that a heritage memorial would be built in New Delhi as a tribute to the victims of the 1984 anti-Sikh massacre.
Leading various religious and political organisations in performing prayers for the victims of the anti-Sikh carnage on the 25th anniversary of the violence, Badal described it as the third “ghallughara” (genocide) in Sikh history.
Badal offered prayers at a gurdwara in Greater Kailash-II in New Delhi Sunday. He later said that a memorial for riot victims would be built in Punjab also.
Nearly 3,000 Sikhs were targeted and killed by violent mobs, allegedly instigated by certain Congress leaders, in New Delhi and other places across India in the aftermath of the assassination of then prime minister Indira Gandhi by her two Sikh bodyguards at her residence in New Delhi Oct 31, 1984.
The Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) and Shiromani Akali Dal had jointly given a call for observing ‘Ardas Divas’ (prayer day) Sunday (Nov 8) to keep up the pressure to seek justice for victims of the 1984 anti-Sikh riots.
Akali Dal president and Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Singh Badal offered prayers at the Dukhniwaran Sahib gurdwara in Patiala city, 70 km from here.
The SGPC, the mini-parliament of Sikhs that manages Sikh shrines across Punjab, organised prayers at various gurdwaras, including the Golden Temple complex in Amritsar, 260 km from here.
The Akalis demanded that those guilty of instigating and leading riots against Sikhs in the aftermath of the assassination of then prime minister Indira Gandhi by her two Sikh bodyguards at her residence in New Delhi Oct 31, 1984, should be punished.
“Victims of the 1984 massacre have not got justice in the last 25 years. We want the guilty to be punished. The Congress is trying to shield them,” Sukhbir Badal said.
The Badals blamed the Congress government at the centre for going slow against Congress leaders accused of unleashing violence against Sikhs. They charged Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, himself the first Sikh prime minister of the country, for deliberately keeping silent on the issue of getting justice for riot victims.
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November 9th, 2009 at 9:59 am
Badal promises memorial in Delhi for anti-Sikh riot victims (Lead)
http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal/politics/badal-promises-memorial-in-delhi-for-anti-sikh-riot-victims-lead_100271795.html#comment-52527
Related to the Sikh politics and the Indian constitutional as well as political set up in India:
“BHINDRANWALE WAS AN EVIL MAN”
Extract from the exchange of views with a prominent Journalist Rahul Singh:
RAHUL SINGH: rahul singh singh.84@hotmail.com wrote
I AM SORRY BUT THIS RESPONSE TO MY QUESTION DOES NOT MAKE SENSE TO ME. I HAD ASKED WHY NO IMPORTANT SIKH LEADER OPPOSED BHINDRANWALE. HE WAS AN EVIL MAN WHO PROMOTED COMMUNAL VIOLENCE. OF COURSE, INDIRA GANDHI FOOLISHLY PROMOTED HIM, ON GYANI ZAIL SINGH’S PROMPTING, TO DIVIDE THE AKALIS. THAT WAS HER SHORT-SIGHTED POLITICAL STRATEGY. BUT HE COULD HAVE BEEN OPPOSED BY SIKHS, WHICH DID NOT HAPPEN. EVEN THE SENIOR AKALI LEADERS AND THE HIGH PRIESTS OF THE HAR MANDIR SAHIB WERE SCARED OF HIM. WHY? SINCERELY, RAHUL SINGH
Dear Rahul Singh ji,
rahul singh
Sat Sri Akal!
“BHINDRANWALE WAS AN EVIL MAN”
Balbir Singh Sooch, Advocate, Ludhiana
First of all, nobody would like to use for him such a language that Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale was an evil man, what to talk of me though I personally never met him? As you said, “Of course, Indira Gandhi foolishly promoted him, on Zail Singh’s promoting, to divide the Akalis. That was her short-sighted political strategy” you must have rightly said so.
Are only evils-devils always projected in politics in India as being experienced and, you also said so in case of Bhindranwale? If answer is yes, then I am no one to contradict you.
The Akalis must have also preferred to remain silent strategically and foolishly.
Moreover, India is under unitary form of system, constitutionally and politically but, not under federal system as being projected by and for the fools in India, that is only to show the outer world.
To answer your question,” But he (Bhindranwale) could have been opposed by Sikhs, which did not happen, even the senior Akali leaders and the high priests of the har mandir sahib were scared of him, why?”
I was or am not so experienced or badly trained politically and leaglly to give a direct or straightforward answer that “the senior Akali leaders and the high priests of the Durbar Sahib (Har Mandir Sahib) were having hands in glove with the Indian central agencies to get instructions from them in the case of Bhindranwale”.
But, you are much experienced to say so, to call the Akalis equally guilty for their silence or for other reasons.
To my knowledge, leaving aside the selected a few members of ’District grievances committees’ that was on papers then, no Akali leader was allowed to visit police stations where Sikhs were being inhumanly tortured, eliminated and kept in police custody without any record, later on shown disappeared.
I did write a few lines when ‘the SGPC installed the portrait of Sant ji in the historical Sikh Museum at Durbar Sahib (Golden Temple), Sri Amritsar on November 29, 2007’ as under:
To Know India!
Oh! Genocide of Sikhs and the Generation Transformation;
What are you murmuring?
Where, how and by whom?
Of minorities including Sikhs in India!
Yes; through the so-called Babas-Saints and their henchmen!!!
You mean to say in the name of Dharma gurus!
Yes; who planned and when?
The central agencies entered through Sant Bhindranwale-Taksal;
Jarnail Sant Bhindranwale was too late to understand in Punjab;
Then what happened?
Sacrificed!
(I bow my head before his sacrifice; he might be manipulated by the thoughtless)
The sacrifice of Sant Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale would never be out of the Sikh history in the context of independent India.
The life story of Sant Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale is a very painful part of Indian history and nobody could forget it. It shall always remind all the unanswered questions of planned Sikhs Genocide in independent India and to Know India!
http://www.sikhvicharmanch.com/Punjabi/Dharam%20ate%20rajniti-Sikh%20Siasat%20te%20ik%20jhat.htm
November 9th, 2009 at 2:31 pm
Related:
Bluestar was too little, too late
What an absurd story to justify the biggest blunder of a thoughtless lady?
It seems, the words and the sequence of incidents of the story, ‘Bluestar was too little, too late’ so cleverly selected to justify Indira’s the biggest blunder, but, the story was like telling and giving the impression ‘that Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale should have been behaved better than the Congress who (in the shape of Giani Zail Singh with the blessings of the Centre) had propped up an obscure preacher called Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale to serve as a foil to the Akalis’. Balbir Singh Sooch
Bluestar was too little, too late
http://www.hindustantimes.com/News-Feed/viewsvirsanghvi/Bluestar-was-too-little-too-late/Article1-473992.aspx
November 10th, 2009 at 10:14 am
The issues mentioned in the operative part of the ‘Amnesty International’ report were very relevant to be decided without diluting and manipulating the issues
The demand of international intervention to deliver justice for the Sikh community, considering and deciding the issues mentioned as under, in the operative part of the ‘Amnesty International’ report, was very relevant and must be accepted and decided without diluting and manipulating the issues as early as possible:
Submission by
Balbir Singh Sooch, Advocate, Ludhiana
http://www.sikhvicharmanch.com
‘Those Guilty of November 1984 Sikh Massacre Should Be Punished,’ Says Amnesty International
http://www.reuters.com/article/pressRelease/idUS11311+05-Nov-2009+PRN20091105
ISSUES
“………“Addressing the conference, Amnesty International’s T. Kumar said “We simply want to find out why this deplorable act was committed and ask why it has taken so long for those responsible to be punished. We need to deliver justice for all those Sikhs who suffered in 1984 and their families.”
The conference was created to expose the true extent of killings as a state sponsored act, in contrast to the Indian government’s position which labeled the killings as “Anti-Sikh Riots.”
“The killings, burning, robbing, rape and looting of Sikhs has constantly been termed by the Indian government as ‘reaction’ to the murder of Ms. Indira Gandhi on October 31, 1984,” said Sikhs for Justice legal advisor Gurpatwant Singh Pannun.
“The truth, however is that the Sikh massacre was planned, organized and targeted at the behest of the ruling political party and with the active support and sometimes connivance of Police and law enforcement authorities.
During the four days of carnage, Sikhs across India were located, identified, targeted and ruthlessly killed by armed and in most cases, hired career criminals and arsonists.
Politicians at the top of Indian government actively instigated, provoked and ordered the killings while police and local administrators either actively participated or stood passively by.”…………”
In addition to above:
1984 Sikh Genocide: Victims block rail traffic
http://sikhsangat.org/2009/11/1984-sikh-genocide-victims-block-rail-traffic/#comment-1540
Why victims block rail traffic only and ……..in India?
“Though our hearts go out to the victims of the 1984 carnage, at the same time it does not help them anyway in harassing common people, many of whom may be travelling by trains to perform important assignments, including their duties.
“All right-thinking people want that justice be done and all those against whom sufficient evidence or eyewitness account is available should be prosecuted for their role in the 1984 carnage, but at the same time, common citizens who may have been supporting us in our fight for justice, should not be inconvenienced,” adds Phoolka.
Phoolka ji, you rightly said but in India, it was and is always different case e.g. as observed in the findings, ‘India: Prosecute Those Responsible for 1984 Massacre of Sikhs’:
“The Sikh separatist movement is a classic case of human rights abuses leading to a cycle of violence that spins out of control,” Ganguly said. “Both the militants and the security forces committed horrific crimes, justifying them by pointing to the abuses of the other, and yet those who suffered most were ordinary civilians.”
Here is the answer as to why victims block rail traffic only and …….. in India?
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/HRW/5c563df503ffad425f339cab6907a181.htm