Delhi Riots

[msjskb]

I stood there in trafalgar square yesterday thinking 'we cant do anything, why do i care.' i stood there thinking of my warm home, my bedroom, and food which mum would have ready for me when i got home.

at the end of the day i watched 'Widows Colony'.

it shook me. the bibi said 'do sikhs know what happend to us?'

this made me think. i always thought it was the rest of the world we had to tell about it. WRONG. we still have to tell our own. we still havent managed to educate sikhs about how our own were BURNED ALIVE.

we have forgotten them. we are too scared to help. we are too busy to care. we would rather socialise with our friends then come along and show our support.

it dawned upon me that if my dad, brother, cousin, sister,mother, son or daughter had been killed in the riots, then i would be jumping up and down about it till i died. i would be telling everyone. i would want justice.

its not enough just to say 'we cant do anything'. or 'we wont get anywhere'. if that was your dad you would still be trying, you would not give up.

the documentary brought a tear to my eye. i imagined that was my mum. i thought what if i had died for the sikhs and this is how my mum was treated. nobody could be bothered, or no one had enough courage to do anything.

i realised these are our people. this happend to our family. we are all sikh. we are one. this happed to us. NO ONE CARES. i cried some more.

HAVE WE NO 'ANKH' LEFT IN US? Are we lions or <admin-profanity filter activated> cats? I think possibly the later.

I had to say this to someone. i sit here crying. sorry if i offended anyone.

[palamrinder]

Hi,

Whatever you said is 100% truth..... We need to let each and every sikh what happened to us. Do you have a copy of "widows colony"? I would like to have one...

Fateh

[kuljeet]

It's true....just imagine it was your mum who's husband had been burned alive infront of her eyes. And nobody helped her.

Well said. Hopefully we have all got hearts and we will all do our bit.

[amorphous_singh]

Part of the final speech - delivered before the Widow Colony trailer was played:

"Brothers and sisters, it is only 21 years ago that much of this happened;

and today many of our youngsters are more aware of the latest movie stars

antics than they are about our own history.

This is not their fault; they need to be informed and in my experience once

informed they feel the sense of injustices that we have suffered as much as

anyone who lived through those periods.

We need to continue to raise awareness of our history; we need to continue

the fight for injustice and we need to continue to battle to bring to

justice those responsible for these henious crimes.

That is why events such as today are so important; that is why we need to

continue with similar events and that is why we will shall never forget

1984."

[Dhan Teri Sikhi]

Brilliant post msjskb

The event finished on Sunday with the showing of the Widows Colony, it was just very very sad and emotional.. :'( :'(

I agree when the bibi on the video said 'do sikhs know what happend to us' I felt very ashamed of myself to even call myself a Sikh because I did not know for all these years until recently what happened to the Shaheeds and what happened in 1984.

I did not realise how the families of the Shaheeds are coping with their daily lives.

When the bibi said what is the point of you coming to make recordings of how we are being treated etc. You will only realise if you had to go through what we did..

It just bought tears to my eyes.. Waheguroo Waheguroo

The video can be seen by clicking here

Widows Colony

and then clicking on "get a preview of upcoming projects".

[TavPrasad Singh]

HAVE WE NO 'ANKH' LEFT IN US? Are we lions or <admin-profanity filter activated> cats? I think possibly the later.

Waheguru Ji Ka Khalsa Waheguru Ji Ki Fateh!!

Awareness!! Many people within our community think that 1984 was our own making. Dont forget how quickly our own are ready to brand those who stand up against beadbi towards Sri Guru Granth Sahib Ji as terrorists & extremists.

We have to make our own community aware about the attrocities by GOI. We have to go crazy with raising awareness in rainsahbaes, kirtan programmes & all major events.

Its something we cannot & shouldnt hide from. Displays, leaflets, documentaries all need to be shown during these programmes.

It is shaheedi & Sikhs remember their Shaheeds within the Ardas at least twice a day.

All major programmes in Gurdwaras MUST promote:

Respect For Sri Guru Granth Sahib Ji

Gurbani Kirtan

Gurmat Vichar

Awareness of 1984

This is our duty.

Degh Tegh Fateh!!

[Bundha]

I would like to give a monthly contribution to help our Sikh brethren that have suffered so much in 1984.

Is there an organisation out there who we can trust to directly hand over the money to those who are in most need ?

[Taksali Singh]

I would like to give a monthly contribution to help our Sikh brethren that have suffered so much in 1984.

Is there an organisation out there who we can trust to directly hand over the money to those who are in most need ?

131837[/snapback]

Campaign 84 would be a good trust/organisation/project to help support.... are there any sevadaars that can provide more info for the sangat about the project?

[Akaal Purakh Di Fauj]

WAHEGURU JI KA KHALSA WAHEGURU JI KI FATEH

http://www.khalsatrust.com/

and http://www.guraasra.com/ or http://www.guraasra.org/.

WAHEGURU JI KA KHALSA WAHEGURU JI KI FATEH

[kuljeet]

what about the sikh human rights people? thats a good place to put money into.

well said tav prasad.

we need to all be proactive.