Never forget 1984 - Sikh Federation (UK) poster

[JagtarSinghKhalsa]

We should not forget that apart from the excellent turnout by the youth last year, there were also many elderly that showed they were equally concerned.

In particular the number of elderly women that took part was amazing.

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Another photo showing the elderly women putting the elderly men to shame!

[JagtarSinghKhalsa]

Can those picking up posters this evening/early hours of Sunday morning from the Raensabai Keertan at Gurdwara Nanaksar, 4 Wellington Street, Pleck, Walsall ensure they get the posters to other Gurdwaras for the morning of Sunday 5th June. Encourage several posters to be put up in each Gurdwara and get them to all make announcements from the stage.

Sikhs at the event tonight will definitely be coming from:

Bedford, Birmingham, Bradford, Coventry, Derby, Dudley, East Ham, Gravesend, Hitchin, Leamington Spa, Leeds, Leicester, Manchester, Nottingham, Slough, Southall, Tividale, Walsall, West Bromwich, Wednesfield, Willenhall, Wolverhampton.

Please indicate via return email/posting other towns/cities from where Sikhs will be taking part.

Can Sikhs from the above towns kindly take responsibility to also get posters to Gurdwaras in:

Barking, Bristol, Cardiff, Chatham, Croydon, Darlington, Dartford, Erith, Doncaster, Gillingham, Glasgow, High Wycombe, Hounslow, Huddersfield, Ilford, Liverpool, Loughborough, Maidenhead, Middlesborough, Milton Keynes, Newcastle upon Tyne, New Southgate (London), Northampton, Nuneaton, Peterborough, Preston, Reading, Rugby, Scunthorpe, Shepherd's Bush, Sheffield, Southampton, South Shield, Stafford, Stoke on Trent, Swansea, Swindon, Telford, Watford, Woolwich.

Please indicate via return email/posting if you are a willing volunteer and for which town/city.

Ideally the responsibilities for most towns/cities will be quite straightforward. Sikhs from Bradford/Leeds, Slough/Southall/East Ham/Gravesend may have the most sewa to do.

Extreme West (Swansea, Cardiff), North (Glasgow, Newcastle, South Shields, Darlington, Middlesborough), South (Southampton) may be the most difficult to achieve by Sunday morning.

[JagtarSinghKhalsa]

Poster being distributed today/tomorrow has the same image, but details of more events - this will be posted to egroups and discussion forums after 12 June.

[JagtarSinghKhalsa]

Can those picking up posters this evening/early hours of Sunday morning from the Raensabai Keertan at Gurdwara Nanaksar, 4 Wellington Street, Pleck, Walsall ensure they get the posters to other Gurdwaras for the morning of Sunday 5th June. Encourage several posters to be put up in each Gurdwara and get them to all make announcements from the stage.

Sikhs at the event tonight will definitely be coming from:

Bedford, Birmingham, Bradford, Coventry, Derby, Dudley, East Ham, Gravesend, Hitchin, Leamington Spa, Leeds, Leicester, Manchester, Nottingham, Slough, Southall, Tividale, Walsall, West Bromwich, Wednesfield, Willenhall, Wolverhampton.

Please indicate via return email/posting other towns/cities from where Sikhs will be taking part.

Can Sikhs from the above towns kindly take responsibility to also get posters to Gurdwaras in:

Barking, Bristol, Cardiff, Chatham, Croydon, Darlington, Dartford, Erith, Doncaster, Gillingham, Glasgow, High Wycombe, Hounslow, Huddersfield, Ilford, Liverpool, Loughborough, Maidenhead, Middlesborough, Milton Keynes, Newcastle upon Tyne, New Southgate (London), Northampton, Nuneaton, Peterborough, Preston, Reading, Rugby, Scunthorpe, Shepherd's Bush, Sheffield, Southampton, South Shield, Stafford, Stoke on Trent, Swansea, Swindon, Telford, Watford, Woolwich.

Please indicate via return email/posting if you are a willing volunteer and for which town/city.

Ideally the responsibilities for most towns/cities will be quite straightforward. Sikhs from Bradford/Leeds, Slough/Southall/East Ham/Gravesend may have the most sewa to do.

Extreme West (Swansea, Cardiff), North (Glasgow, Newcastle, South Shields, Darlington, Middlesborough), South (Southampton) may be the most difficult to achieve by Sunday morning.

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There will be around 500 posters tonight relating only to the 12 June event - these are primarily to get to Gurdwaras throughout the UK.

Thousands more will be ready tomorrow with details of other events - the plan is to distribute these in the next 7/8 days.

[JagtarSinghKhalsa]

Unfortunately, not able to attend the Sikh Youth Raensabai Keertan at Gurdwara Nanaksar, 4 Wellington Street, Pleck, Walsall.

Assume there was an excellent turnout and the event was a great succcess. A short report on Sikh Sangat from some of those present would be most helpful.

Hopefully, the Sikh Youth are prepared/preparing for the Rally and March for Remembrance, Justice and Freedom on Sunday 12th June in central LONDON.

[JagtarSinghKhalsa]

Picture from AP - Sunday 5 June.

Caption reads:

A member of Dal Khalsa, a Sikh organization, holds a placard carrying the photograph of the destroyed Akal Takht, the Sikhis' highest religious temporal seat, during a procession near the Golden Temple in Amritsar, India, Sunday, June 5, 2005. Indian troops had stormed the Golden Temple, the Sikhs' holiest site, on June 6, 1984 to evict armed Sikh separatists taking shelter there. The separatist movement for a creation of a separate Sikh homeland in Indias Punjab state was crushed by Indian forces in the early 1990s. (AP Photo/Aman Sharma)

[JagtarSinghKhalsa]

UK Sikhs Pay Tribute To Martyrs Of Holocaust Of 1984

Sunday 5th June, 2005

Fauja Singh - Panthic Weekly Staff

London, UK (KP) - This week saw thousands of young Sikhs from across the UK gathering at Walsall to take part in a Raensabai Kirtan (all night singing of hymns) to pay tribute to the martyrs of the 1984 holocaust.

In June 1984 the Indian army, under direct orders of the then Pime Minister Indira Gandhi, launched a full scale assault on the Sri Harmandir Sahib complex, the holiest Sikh shrine.

The military action, using artillery and tanks, was deliberately planned to take place on one of the most important days in the Sikh calendar. Thousands of innocent Sikh pilgrims were massacred in cold blood, many executed with their hands and feet bound, including women and children. The attack saw the desecration of Sri Harmandir Sahib as well as the destruction of Sri Akal Takath Sahib, the supreme seat of Sikh religious authority.

The all night Kirtan at Gurdwara Nanaksar, Walsall, started at 20.00 and finished at 06.00 on Sunday 5 June. This event organised by the Sikh youth, many too young to remember or who were not even born in June 1984, is testimony that Sikhs will never forget the tragic events from 21 years ago.

Half a million Sikhs, in more than 200 Gurdwaras all over the UK, indeed over 15 million Sikhs in thousands of Gurdwaras throughout the world, will this week commemorate the loss of innocent Sikh lives in the Amritsar massacre of June 1984.

On Sunday 12 June up to 10,000 Sikhs will gather at Hyde Park for a Rally and March for Remembrance, Justice and Freedom. The march will move its way through central London and finish with ardaas (a prayer) near the Indian High Commission in Aldwych.

Sikhs in London will be highlighting the atrocities committed against the Sikhs and demanding Sikhs be allowed to exercise their internationally recognised right to self determination, including the desire for outright independence.

The Sikh Federation UK, in a press release, have said “For the last 30 years all calls for freedom and independence by Sikhs in India have been suppressed by the Indian authorities, who have unleashed a rein of terror through gross violation of human rights. Virtually none of those responsible for these human rights violations - including torture, deaths in custody, extra-judicial executions and “disappearances” of Sikhs have been brought to justice.”

“India is denying the Sikhs their lawful right to self determination and has demonstrated by its oppressive actions that the international community, its members and institutions have an obligation to act.”

Almost 21 years after the atrocities committed by Indian Government forces Sikhs still remember and call for freedom. Twenty one years on the Sikh Community feels a lack of justice for the murder and disappearance of over 250,000 Sikhs since 1984. Manmohan Singh, the first Sikh Prime Minister of India, has been in office now for 12 months but Sikhs feel he has done nothing of substance to show there can be justice for Sikhs in India.

The Sikh Federation continued to say, “Sikh political prisoners continue to be held in Indian jails without charge and trial due to a fear that a peaceful Sikh mass movement for freedom and independence will be the end result. However, the Sikh struggle to regain our lost sovereignty remains stronger than ever.”

Fauja Singh can be reached at fauja.singh@panthic.org.

[o_singh]

Waheguroo Jee Ka Khalsa!

Waheguroo Jee Kee Fateh!!

Who or What is FSO?

Waheguroo

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FSO - Supposedly the Federation of Sikh Organisations that was set up many years ago to organise three protests a year - June protest and protests on 15 August and 26 January.

The FSO contains a number of "one-man" bands and several larger organisations with a reasonable following. Many believe the FSO without the Sikh Federation (UK) would find it difficult to operate. On 26 January 2005 the FSO advertised they would be protesting and tried to cut out the Sikh Federation (UK) - in the end around 150 supporters from the Sikh Federation (UK) took part in the protest outside the Indian Embassy on a working day - only one person turned up for the protest from all the other organisations making up the FSO.

To date the organisations belonging to FSO other than the Sikh Federation (UK) have not explained why they advertised a protest and then stayed away!

It is mentioned that 150 people turned up supporting sikh federation and only 1 person from fso. Probably true because the sikh federation can afford to turn up 2 london on a working day because they raped and looted every golak they got there hands on.

[JagtarSinghKhalsa]

Waheguroo Jee Ka Khalsa!

Waheguroo Jee Kee Fateh!!

Who or What is FSO?

Waheguroo

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

FSO - Supposedly the Federation of Sikh Organisations that was set up many years ago to organise three protests a year - June protest and protests on 15 August and 26 January.

The FSO contains a number of "one-man" bands and several larger organisations with a reasonable following. Many believe the FSO without the Sikh Federation (UK) would find it difficult to operate. On 26 January 2005 the FSO advertised they would be protesting and tried to cut out the Sikh Federation (UK) - in the end around 150 supporters from the Sikh Federation (UK) took part in the protest outside the Indian Embassy on a working day - only one person turned up for the protest from all the other organisations making up the FSO.

To date the organisations belonging to FSO other than the Sikh Federation (UK) have not explained why they advertised a protest and then stayed away!

It is mentioned that 150 people turned up supporting sikh federation and only 1 person from fso. Probably true because the sikh federation can afford to turn up 2 london on a working day because they raped and looted every golak they got there hands on.

I wonder what took place recently to get o_singh to post more than 4 years after the original post. There have been changes in the FSO since January 2005. Sikh Federation (UK) was set up in September 2003 and is widely respected for its work. 150 turning up on weekday was about commitment. The golak issue is a complete fabrication by those who have it in for the Sikh Federation (UK).