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  1. As I mentioned yesterday sangat ji in Mehgalaya Shillong city a mob of over 200 are attacking Gurdwara sahib and sikh homes and businesses .AT the moment there has been three days of attacks with zero help from police , Captain obese asked the DSP pf that ilaka is everything OK bhai , my sikh friends there say there is a problem 'nahin Bhai everything is under control' Ok thank you ji . meanwhile the mob tried to overrun the gurdwara and failed so went on to window smash , today there picture of flames licking buildings , 200 families are in direct danger being protected by just 40-50 sikh lads . They need help Manjit singh has posted some phone numbers , if you guys know of people who can help please kirpa karo , otherwise lets blow up SM with this news story as the internet is being blocked for locals just like the cut phonelines in 1984
  2. With reference to the 'URGENT: Shillong 200 Sikh families besieged by attackers' thread on the main page: A lot of my writings have been erased by the Mods here but I did once write a piece on the situation in Shillong a few years ago. At the time, I wrote it because I saw it as a flashpoint that was always going to explode...it was just a question of when. Firstly, it would be a mistake to start labelling this a 'Christian' attack. It's true that the majority of indigenous Khasi people are now Christian however their motivation or ethnic cleansing is not based on religious lines........It is based purely and squarely on racism and xenophobia. This has been going on a long long time......First the Nepalese were driven out, then the Bengalis but only the Punjabis remain. Unlike all the others that have been driven out the Punjabis are made of different stuff, i.e. they fight back. A little history.....almost all of the Sikhs in Shillong are chureh and chamars. While the British were recruiting the jat Sikhs around the world to fight in wars they were taking other groups to tribal areas around north eastern India to do manual work. That's how they ended up there. But...that was 150 to 200 years ago. This generation of Sikhs in Shillong are 4th, 5th and 6th Shillong born. However, among the Khasis, they will forever be seen as 'Dakar' (outsiders) and this is not only the root of the problem but also a lesson for us to keep our own prejudices and xenophobia under control because we need to understand how, if we keep on referring to the U.P. and Bihar people in Punjab as bhayas or outsiders, we too will start to permanently demonise them as human beings and internally find ways of justifying discrimination against them. Indeed, one of the ways that the Shillong administrators find to justify discrimination against the Sikhs is to portray the Punjabis as criminals and anti-social, indulging in all sorts of immoral behaviour such as prostitution etc. This has always been a classic ploy of the powers at be throughout the world when they want the public to form a certain viewpoint about people. It happened in western Canada at the end of the 1800s when the Canadian government found they couldn't legally expel the large Sikh community there as they were British subjects. Instead, the local government, police and press colluded to label all Sikhs as indulging in disgusting homosexual practices (which was illegal at the time in Canada). (see Rex vs Singh). As a result, a frenzy against the Sikhs was whipped up among the masses and the Sikhs by and large moved south to Oregon and the California. This new clash in Shillong then is nothing new. It's been happening on a regular basis since 1972 and has always been instigating by the government and police there. They (the Khasi people, their police and elected officials) want the Sikhs moved out of that area and housed in a new settlement away from the urban centre (in much the same way that Romania housed the Rom gypsies...out of sight, out of mind). They used this tactic successfully against many other groups but the Sikh Punjabis are the only ones that will not go without a fight and, when they fight, they give even better than they take. Clashes there have been a daily occurrence. The clash in 2012 was by far the biggest (much bigger than this one). After that one, the government decided the answer was to reserve all govt jobs for the Khasis and ban the Sikhs from owning any property. Yes, that means a 5th feneration Shillong born Sikh is not even allowed to own property in the land of not only his birth but also his father's and grandfather's. But do remember this one fact...it is not because we are 'Sikhs'..as there is no religious element to this. It is because they are 'Punjabi'. This is about racism pure and simple against EVERY group that isn't indigenous (tribal) to that area. Let me end with this: In 2007, after yet another violent clash, Balwinder Singh of Babbar Khalsa International, sent a letter to the main newspaper there. In it, he said Babbar Khalsa will be coming to Shillong and would hunt and find very Khasi that harmed Sikhs during the clashes that year. The Khasis begged for mercy. Shillong then teaches us many things on many fronts. It teaches us to check our own prejudices against others, it teaches us about history and geography and it teaches us about the politics of race and ethnicity. But, most of all, it teaches us of the Punjabi spirit to fight. Even when there's nothing really to fight for the Sikhs (Punjabis) in Shillong do the right thing and fight.
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