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vaaaheguroojeekeefatheh !!!!!!!

we all know that a culture and heritage is enriched by history and historical artifacts. if we have more historical evidence of our heritage we can learn from it, avoid future mistakes, and be inspired to be stronger and more determined to keep our faith.

there is not always a guarantee in our homes that what we have will last. papers can get thrown away or burnt. uploading them here or on another website like gurmat studies foundation, sikh coalition, or united sikhs is a good idea just in case something happens to our original document.

i'd like to encourage anybody who is interested in sharing something from their personal archives to post it here.

post any old pictures, newspaper articles, artifacts from sikh history, etc.

you can either scan them or take a digital camera photo of them or use a text-scan software to take the text out of a newspaper article and format it as a text document so you can paste it in your post on the forum.

either way, please post!

please provide details behind your posting and any sources if necessary.

Post here or post at http://forums.waheguroo.com/index.php?showtopic=13950

thanks

please forgive me for any mistakes

stay in chardee kalaa

vaaaheguroojeekaakhaalsaa

vaaaheguroojeekeefatheh !!!!!!

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Document: Article

Media type: full text and JPG (scan)

Source: The Spokesman Weekly Newspaper

Volume: 41

Number: 22

Date: April 13, 1992

Title: WATERY GRAVES

Numerous bodies of murdered youngmen, all of them Sikhs and between ages of 15 and 25, have been fished out of various canals in Punjab, especially in the districts of Ludhiana, Sangrur and Ropar, which are nowadays hotbeds of militant activities and, thus, the centres of state repression also. The million-dollar question is: Who dumped them into these watery graves?

The theory of suicides, through drowning, gets punctured at the very outset, as almost all these men had their legs tied and their hands fastened behind their back with a belt either of leather or of steel; not only this, their bodies were also loaded with some weights so that they would sink to the bottom of the canal immediately and would reappear on the surface of the water after they get bloated with water. No person, however desparate to end his life, could do all the above things himself. This can be the handiwork of other persons.

Many options must be examined. Normal murders, either out of family feuds or personal vengeance, are ruled out because all the victims were more or less of the same age group and were definitely Sikhs with long hair and beards. Another argument can be that these could be abducted persons or rival gang members killed by the militants. Anyone, with the slightest knowledge of guerilla warfare, would not subscribe to this theory, for it suggests that first the militants committed the crime at some place and then carried the bodies all the way to a canal. In all the killings which have taken place in Punjab, the militants have vanished from the scene after the crime. The needle of suspicion, therefore, points ominuously to the security forces whose involvement in extra-judicial killings is well known. Dumping of the bodies into the canal is the safest way of preventing identification. If the body is dumped somewhere else, it would be discovered sooner or later, torture marks would be visible, and, above all, besides ascertaining the cause of death, the person would be identified. Once the person is identified, there may be many among his relatives or friends who were, eye-witnesses to the arrest of the dead man by the security forces. Throwing bodies into the canals after stripping off the clothes ensures that there will be no identification.

The security forces have abundant manpower and vehicles at their disposal and can easily move a body from anywhere without being spotted or checked. Even otherwise, canal bridges have become notorious for what are dubbed as "encounters" between the security forces and the militants and for accomplices of suspected militants being taken for recovery of arms. Invariably, after these "encounters", the police proclaim that the detained person had "escaped," though in actuality he was done to death. It is now a firmly established fact that fake encounters and custodial deaths are endemic to the Punjab police and are the sole means of dealing with those. who fall foil of the force. The rot of the polIce Punjab is symptomic of the collapse of the state administration in the face of the militant threat.

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Document: Letter from Magazine

Filetype: JPG (scanned)

Source: The Western Sikh Samachar

Edition Number 73

Date: September, 1978

Title: LETTER TO THE LEADERS OF THE KHALSA PANTH

Author: Niranjan Kaur Khalsa

Excerpt: "As a friendly advice and not as an animosity, we must tell you that the Sikhs of India will revolt against the SGPC and Akalis in due course of time if the blood ofthe Martyrs of Amritsar is allowed to go to waste.

Things are not happening right, and this blood will wipe you out politically and spiritually if you do not do anything."

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wjkf jio,

photo of a tank in the parkarma.durinh 1984 attack.

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another photo i found of delhi riots victims at a camp.

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photo of a tank in the parkarma.durinh 1984 attack.

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Most of us know who kulwant singh saini was. he was the sikh lawyer who fought cases for jujuharoos for free. his whole family was killed. I found some pictures of him and his and his saon.

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vaaaheguroo vaaaheguroo

thank you veerjee

very rare pictures, very important and eye-opening pictures

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SAADH SANGAT JEE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE POST YOUR PHOTOS, HISTORICAL ARTIFACTS, ARTICLES :wub:

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please post please post !!!!!!

go sangat, go sangat, iss yo birthday, post something from sikh history.... an old picture, an old article, an old artifact

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After this terrorist outrage the police rounded up five innocent muslim men and killed them in cold blood claiming they were behind the massacre of the 36 Sikhs.

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http://www.nytimes.com/library/world/asia/...r-massacre.html

36 Massacred in India, as Clinton Begins Visit

March 21, 2000

By CELIA W. DUGGER

SRINAGAR, India -- A band of suspected militants massacred 36 Sikh men on Monday night in a village in the Indian state of Kashmir on the eve of President Clinton's state visit to India, a visit he had hoped would help bring peace in violence-torn Kashmir, a disputed Himalayan region claimed by both India and Pakistan.

No group has yet claimed responsibility so it was not possible to ascribe the motives of the killers with any certainty, nor whether they are from one of the militant organizations that have links to Pakistan's army intelligence.

But police officials in Kashmir were already blaming Urdu-speaking foreign mercenaries who are participating in Pakistan-sponsored efforts to undermine and end rule by India, predominantly Hindu, of Kashmir, which is mostly Muslim.

A White House spokesman, Joe Lockhart, condemned the attack this morning and said the American people's prayers were with the families of the victims.

He spoke just an hour before Mr. Clinton was to be received at the president's residence here.

Indian police officials said the massacre, which took place on Monday night about 9 p.m., was carried out by dozens of Muslim militants. They descended on the largely Sikh village of Chattinsinghpura about 40 miles south of the summer capital of Srinagar, ordered people from their homes, then executed the men.

Thirty-four men perished on the spot and two more died later at a hospital.

In a region where massacres of Hindus happen periodically, this attack was highly unusual. The Press Trust of India said this is the first time the Sikh community, a small minority, has been targeted in the decade-long militancy in the state.

India, which has been pressuring the United States to put Pakistan on its list of state sponsors of terrorism, may point to this incident as yet another piece of proof for their case. And coming when President Clinton is in the region, the horror of the attack will be hard for the United States to ignore, especially if it comes out that a group based in Pakistan carried it out.

Gen. Pervez Musharraf, the army chief who has been ruling Pakistan since a coup on Oct. 12, has contended that the militant groups based inside Pakistan are engaged in a legitimate holy war against Indian rule of Kashmir, and not in terrorist acts against civilians. He says Pakistan offers them only moral and diplomatic support, not material and operational help.

But Indian generals, briefing a small group of foreign reporters last week, claimed to have intelligence that since the coup the Pakistan army has been training and directing the militant groups.