1990 Letter From Shaheeds "sukha And Jinda"

[machete]

Ek Onkar

Rastrapati Ji

Kindly accept Sat Sri Akal (salute to the Revered True Timeless) by the two Singh’s (Sikhs) on the way to martyrdom.

Theoretically, it is appropriate to clarify that, our Rashtrya (nation) is the Khalsa Panth absorbed into the Guru Granth Sahib Ji. We took the first steps towards the destination of Khalistan by touching our foreheads with the dust of this nation. The elimination of Mr. Vaidya, the General of your forces who engaged in destroying the Khalsa Panth and its power, was a holy act on our difficult path of martyrdom. It has once again brought the historical truth to light; the urge of the Khalsa Panth to breathe in freedom, its self respect and honour cannot be finished.

We wish to clarify that we are not addressing these words to you as an individual but as the head of a State that is communal and brahmanical. Whosoever occupies, occupied, or will occupy this throne of falsehood, will be to us a symbol of oppression and cruelty. We have not forgotten that when the 'wedding party of sin' (the Indian Armed Forces) were invading our Temple of God, a heathen in the garb of a Sikh (Zail the ex president), was sitting in your place. The Panth will 'settle its accounts' with him, when Sikh history imparts its justice.

By invading the Sri Harmandir Sahib (Golden Temple) your army tried to rob a nation of saint-soldiers, living in its divine simplicity, of its joy. It gave us a feeling at one point as if you had succeeded in driving us to the point of utter frustration. But by performing our historic task we have reminded you that our heroes like Bhai Sukha Singh, Bhai Mehtab Singh, Bhai Udham Singh are shadowing your tyrants Wazida, Lakhpat, Ribeiro, O'Dwayer.

We accept with great joy the penalty of death pronounced by your court of law alienated from divine blessings and fallen to the brahmanical reflexes, for whatever we undertook was in accordance with the vision of the Khalsa. By touching the sharp edge of death we are moving towards fullness. Without martyrdom the magnificent fair of life cannot come into full swing.

The fact is that the brahmanical form of Hinduism thinks of the Akal Takht (the Highest Throne of Sikhs) and its thought-complex related to the movement and play of the Eternal in vulgar pragmatic terms. This sort of limited thinking of brahmanical Hinduism puts the great institution of the Khalsa Panth on a very low pedestal and elaborates it in a very harsh practical sense. From this narrow angle the Akal Takht is reduced to an ordinary building or at most to a place of worship. The Khalsa Panth does not accept this situation. The Khalsa does not worship power, rather, it enters history by empowering itself. The truth from the Akal Takht has taught us that by being armed the Khalsa has to snatch the power of the powerful and by absorption into the Eternal World, the Khalsa has to assimilate the saintliness of the saint. This theory has destroyed the centralised authority of power and saintliness, and justly distributed them all over.

But the doctrine related to 'power and saintliness' (Miri-Piri) was very threatening to the brahmanical stream of thought, because the new Sikh doctrine not only awakened the people, it also inspired them to organise themselves for an armed struggle under the leadership of the Akal Takht by shattering falsehood of brahmanical thought. The ’masters of centralism' at once came into action. They began to repeat the well-designed danger to the 'unity and integrity' of the country to retain power and encouraged the rise of 'personal Gurus' (i.e. Radha Swamai , Nakali Nirankari, Darshan Dassi) in the arena of religion.

The thought of brahmanical reflexes had in fact started attacking the consciousness of the Sikh Gurus ever since its emergence, but on 15th August 1947 after assuming imperial authority, the brahmanical thought took still nastier forms. In the last few decades, your parliament, court, educational institutions and media have tried to humble the consciousness of the Khalsa through the subtler force of majority supremacy and material monopoly. We are not hesitant to say that conspiracies have been hatched and very subtler arrangements have been made at the psychological level to destroy the great institutions, traditions, originality and unique sovereignty of the Khalsa Panth. The destruction of the Akal Takht by sending in lakhs of soldiers was part of this larger conspiracy. In this situation, it hardly needs saying, how justified it was to eliminate the military General Vaidya who was not only a part of this conspiracy but also responsible for its planning and implementation. By completing this holy and historic task, we have unburdened our conscious and proved that the real force of the Khalsa Panth is and will remain free from the brahmanical reflexes in all ages. By cautioning the Khalsa Panth of the brahmanical strategies we have won the love of Guru Gobind Singh.

When nations wake up, even history begins to shiver. During such momentous moments a Banda Singh Bahadur bids farewell to his peace dwelling and destroys a state of oppression like Sirhind, a Che Guevera turns down a ministry of Cuba, loads a gun on his breast and entrenches against the enemies in the forest of Bolivia, a Nelson Mandela rejects the ideology of apartheid and prefers to spend his life in a dark prison cell.

...And we have had the privilege of being in the loving care and companionship of that unique General of the Panth Sant Jarnail Singh Khalsa Bhindranwale, blessed by the valiant and transcendental visionary Guru Gobind Singh Ji. We are tiny particles of dust of the numberless heroic jewels of the Sikh nation who walked on the sharp edge of the dagger, the Khanda, given to us by Guru Gobind Singh Ji. Only the chosen few get the honour of laying down their lives for the nation. We are proud of this honour.

In one way it is just to accuse us of an unheroic act in attacking an unarmed man. We wish to remind you that by misusing your vast resources you have tried your utmost to humiliate us as a nation. In every field you have tried to make us helpless. You are empowered with your massive armed force and equipped with the most advanced military arsenal of our times. You have made us inadequate to fight you in the open battlefield. In the present situation there is no other alternative with us except to use the kind of method that we employed on General Vaidya to punish the tyrants for their evil deeds. When you are already waging an undeclared

War on our nation, guerrilla attacks are not our pleasure but an historical compulsion. Please do not forget this fact of history that during the 18th century when robbers like Abdali and Nadarshah were driving your daughters to Kabul like enrobed flocks of animals, our brave Sikh brethren from their jungle and desert hideouts fiercely attacked the robbers. Even the frightened enemies had to praise our courage.

We are fired with a generous humanism. Our grip extends to the entire life with its breath and vibration.

In the last one decade there have been very few actual encounters between our soldiers and your forces. But wherever those have occurred, the evidence in them of our valour and radiant heroism, we are sure, is preserved in your confidential files. A fragment of that fact once in a while slips through your newspapers as well. Our Khalsa, vigour is an aspect of our spiritual heritage. In such moments of fight, spirituality radiates through the flashes of our swords.

Oh, President representing Brahmanism! Hear the words of Kazi Noor Mohammad, eye witness during the seventh invasion (1764 A.D.) of Ahmad Shah Abdali: 'It looks as if guns were invented by these Sikhs and not by Likman. Although many possess guns yet none understands them more than the Sikhs. My observation will be confirmed by the 30 thousand brave soldiers who fought against them.'

When we attacked General Vaidya apart from his own arms, he had with him a well equipped body guard. Our attack was part of the same battlefield strategy that was once used by our hero martyrs Madan Lal Dhingra, Bhagat Singh, Kartar Singh Sarabha, and even today it is used by revolutionaries the world over and considered right.

Through you we wish to transmit this message that we harbour no enmity towards the great people and the land of India. We are not touched even a bit by hatred for the people of India. Not only to embrace of your people, we are restless to embrace the whole of the earth and sky. We intoxicatingly remember the entire cosmos and worship the life that vibrates in it.

The Khalsa is inseparably and lovingly related to the people of India: the millions of Dalits, the workers who earn their living through honest labour, the Muslims and other minorities, and all those homeless and destitute who have remained oppressed and exploited by Brahmanism for centuries. They are all our kith and kin. Our Master, rider of the blue horse (Guru Gobind Singh Ji), recognised them much earlier. All those termed by the proud Brahmin the lowly, scavengers, shoemakers, became the beloved sons of our Tenth Father. They rose to the ranks of General, in the army of the Khalsa. Thrones and honours kissed them. Without fantasising, we are declaring in the midst of history that our Gurus loved the metapoetry (Bani) of those divine souls drenched with a passion for the Dalit brotherhood. The Gurus bestowed the highest honours on them and included their Bani along with their own in the Guru Granth Sahib Ji. The spirit of the Dalits and their pain are aspects of our own anguish. We are touched by the warmth of their existence. But the network of the Brahmanical falsehood is so large that it is not letting the Dalits understand the real nature of our struggle. When the Dalits embrace the Khalsa, worldly honour and higher status will be theirs once again. We are waiting for that auspicious moment.

We pray for the well being of all before the Guru Granth Sahib Ji. It also instils tremendous self-confidence in us. Inspired, our heroes like Bhai Sukha Singh and Bhai Mehtab Singh kill a tyrant like Massa Ranghar and bring the head as an offering to the community. Our inspiration also stems from the same Guru Granth Sahib Ji. With a fierce determination we have taken a position against your falsehood and trickery. We have taken an oath to fight to our last breath to wage a war for the establishment of a sovereign Khalistan. To us, you are a symbol of evil, and whatever cruelty is being inflicted on us by your followers, we are bearing with great joy. Our Beant Singh and Satwant Singh were also inspired by the light of the same Guru Granth Sahib Ji and they went for a great deed.

After them, we too had the privilege of being inspired by a ray of the same divine light and we struck General Vaidya in Pune.

Please do not mistake this letter as an appeal. We are not begging mercy from you by expressing any regrets on the killing of General Vaidya. We are not least repentant; in fact with responsibility and commitment we declare it as our significant deed. After completing the historic task we are feeling light like the song of a nightingale. Our faces radiate with the light and freshness of a new dawn.

At the moment we are occupying a throne that blesses us with a vision of the immense possibilities of life. We are initiated into the beautiful and unknown secrets of martyrdom. Our Gurus were already with us, we are now feeling the presence of all the martyrs of the world. These spirits read and understand the light and language of our rotating eyes. How lovely the words of great Emerson are where he says that human nobility need its heroes and martyrs. And for this reason, he adds, the trial of torture goes on. The silence of Socrates and the divine frenzy of Mansoor will permeate our martyrdom. We are already in the realm where time and space diminish. We are witnessing history, religion, philosophy, complex knowledge, facts and objects in their purest forms.

While pointing out the mysteries of heavens when we are gone beyond the humdrum of the world, we will be still very close to our nation, closer than the large vein of the throat. In no way are our aspirations exhausted. We are the eternal flame of human depths that will ever burn in the hearts of the Khalsa.

You are madly proud of your worldly, kingdom, of physical numbers, of a large army well equipped with the latest arsenal, of vast resources, your capacity to force the small countries and nations to submit to your gangsterism. But look at us! We take pride only in the Grace of God. Our treasury are the blessings of the Khalsa that sings the song of the Fearless and the Kindly-Disposed. Let us position you in the midst of history and remind you of the warning of the tenth Guru:

'babin gardishe bewafae zaman

ki bar har baguzard makino makan'

It means: look at the unfaithful rotation of time, it will engulf everything. But you are not ready at all to understand the unfaithful rotation of time. Ego and worldly motives have seized you. When temporary and short-lived successes throw you off your balance you get drunk with ego. You are deprived of such great blessings as the capacity of seeing the colourful diversity of nature, a transcendental vision, the qualities of higher conduct, justice and wisdom.

Narrow pragmatic objectives have seized you. Your conscience is burdened by sins, but you are not even close to remorse. Since you are so far from the great rush of the divine blessing, the Khalsa does not recognise your worldly kingdom. You are not competent even to retain this worldly kingdom. You love these transient touchable to such an extent that they have become your ultimate. Each form of your 'detachedness' has lost its shine. You have indulged only in hurtful deeds. We are compelled to announce that your nation of 'seers' does not agree with the Khalsa nation of Saints. We will not test your authority any more. It is already clouded by spiritual poverty.

We have made these comments on you by keeping fully intact our psychic concentration, critical method, imagination and insight. We have enough moral ground to make the comments on you especially after bearing the cruelty of your authority inflicted on our bodies following the storming of Sri Harmandir Sahib. We are also enclosing with this letter a document (as an appendix) that is an essential part of this writing. You will see in the document your bloody face fully reflected through your actions.

After wining the so-called freedom in 1947, we became the most deprived ones. Although 95 per cent of the sacrifices made for freedom were by the Khalsa, yet immediately after assuming power you’re Home Minister Mr Patel, through a special circular, labelled the Sikhs as a community of criminals.

The whole of India was reorganised linguistically but only the Punjab was discriminated against.

For obtaining the Panjabi speaking state, lakhs of Sikhs went to jail and became martyrs. When after 19 years the state was finally granted, it was an inadequate and punctured one. Chandigarh and several Panjabi-speaking areas were kept out of the new state. Violating all the international norms, the Panjab was deprived of its proprietorship of natural resources. Distribution of waters is an evidence of this injustice.

You also retained the initiative and powers for Panjab's economic development. The path of development that you adopted was one dimensional and directionless. It resulted in the imbalance of economy.

Your design is to keep our industrial development at your will and never let us be self-reliant. You want to see us standing as beggars at your door. There is hardly any Agro Industry in Panjab. Heavy industry is totally non-existent. We want to keep our capital safe for our development, but you are exploiting us if we were your colony.

You have not spared any effort to hurt our culture. By damaging our heritage you want to keep us in a miserable psychological state so that we may feel embarrassed over our language, culture and proud history. Your strategy is to destroy us from 'within' and reduce us to your slaves so that you may keep on sucking our blood without any protest.

You want us to adopt your rootless culture of razzle dazzle as our way of life. You want to uproot our culture and take away our source of life. You think our history is not worthy of any significance.

But now we keep track of your every step. Still a vital blood flows in our veins. We will structure our way of life according to our originality and history. Everyone knows that without getting political power it is not possible for any nation to guard its culture. It is not possible for us to keep our culture and national identity intact without establishing a sovereign Khalistan. We are offering our heads for achieving our goal;

Our True Guru has granted a sovereign state to us

We have won his blessing by offering our heads.

Now we beg to address our Khalsa Panth. The way of the Khalsa is very trying. It is sharper than the edge of a dagger, the Khanda and subtler than a strand of hair. The Khalsa Panth at all cost has to preserve the original and pure form of its great struggle. The struggle is a divine journey inspired by a transcendental consciousness. During these moments of struggle, the Khalsa is to remain continuously absorbed into the Guru Granth Sahib Ji, no matter how many cruelties are inflicted and provocation is given, the Khalsa has to keep its cool and discipline in the horrible and barbaric situations. The Khalsa has to preserve its traditions established by the valiant Sikhs through martyrdom.

In comparison with the violence of the enemy, the violence of the Khalsa abounds in divine qualities and spiritual blessings. The Khalsa has to give such a divine form and beauty to its struggle that it may even burden the conscience of the enemy with the realisation of its own sin. Such a moral miracle will be possible only if the concentration on the Guru of the Khalsa and the rhythm of the Guru Granth Sahib Ji remain fully connected and intact. The Guru Granth Sahib Ji is the main source of our life-stream and spiritual power. It is also the chief spring of our inspiration to advance towards the destination of Khalistan.

In concentration on the Guru and the internal rhythm of the Guru Granth Sahib Ji are the main life-stream of the Khalsa, then it is also necessary to say a few words to the Singhs (the fighters)who are intensely in love with the stream. In this terrible crisis of history the concentration on the Guru and the rhythm of the Guru Granth Sahib Ji are the only armed brigades. They are the army of the Timeless Man, and they are the guardians of the pure consciousness of the Khalsa. We too had the honour of having been the humble parts of these forces (the under ground groups).

It is true that we are confronting a vast material State that has at its command all the worldly resources, horrifying scientific inventions, a capacity to attack and disable the intellect and praxis, the State can also weaken us through penetration and strategies of its intelligence. It can also develop shocking plans and more than everything else it can assemble huge armies. But so what? The Khalsa can send shivers into the spine of the enemy and shake its state with its spiritual might. It is not the bodies alone that fight. It was only the miracle of the Khalsa's spiritual strength that even with its tiny number the Khalsa subdued the 10 lakh army of the Mughals at the Fort of Chamkaur.

During the last decade we have overwhelmed this state of brahmanical prejudices with martyrdom. We have been hailed in all corners. Now the matter is not restricted to possible creation of Khalistan alone. Several oppressed nations of India have come out in the open to fight for their freedom. The Dalit brothers, especially, are liberating themselves from the destructive influence of Brahmanism. The so called hue and cry made for 'unity and integrity' does not touch them any more. They have well understood the cunningness of brahmanical rulers veiled behind this hue and cry. Although these are magnificent accomplishments of our movement, still we are not free from big mistakes and inadequacies.

Sometimes during our struggle we do commit something that is neither morally unique nor pious. Although we are marching towards our goal of achieving Khalistan with determination yet still we have not fully learnt how to go through this difficult terrain. The understanding and experience of our struggle are still diluted and superficial. We have still to develop a larger vision that crosses decades and centuries.

We still keep doing something that gives our enemy an opportunity to question our proud and glorious history. Several times our arms have wrecked the joys, blossom and aspiration of those who had never directly hurt our movement.

It appears sometimes as if we were trying to strike terror among the people although our commitment to the ninth Guru is neither to terrify nor to get terrified.

Oh valiant brethren! Why are not our actions and deeds firing many colours and proliferating unusual effects of life? Why do we give the people an excuse to say that a wide gap has appeared between our thought, word and action. When we sin we become drunk within a victory of fault, when we lose we do not investigate its reasons. As a result a chain of losses begins. In such a situation we do not urge to re-integrate ourselves with transcendental consciousness of the Khalsa, nor do we seek the blessing of the Guru’s abode.

We are becoming martyr’s, going to jails, bearing every attack of the enemy, but still in our basic thought, the gratitude to the Lord, patience and commitment have not fully penetrated. Sometimes, the glory of the material status, its power and shine captivate us, as a result we fall prey to material values and miracles. During such moments we do not passionately pray before the Guru Granth Sahib Ji to keep our unique character by heroism and spirituality higher and untouched by narrow ends.

Several times we suffer from indecision. To free ourselves from this state instead of getting close to Guru Ji we rather choose distance. We are forgetting that during disagreement among us, the resolution of the entire Khalsa adopted at the Akal Takht can cement and guide us. Oh brave brethren drenched with the divine love of the sixth Guru, Sri Guru Hargobind Sahib Ji! , why don’t you flock towards the Akal Takht for guidance? Our Guru Ji arms spread awaits us.

At times, our baseless suspicions divide us into groups. We then patronise one group and to protect another we unnecessarily accuse the other groups crossing all limits. Our sword proudly falls on their necks. The Singh’s (the fighters) of the Khalsa Panth have to meet this serious challenge of the moment with determination and love, with a prayer for the enhancement of wisdom and humility of the mind. Will you follow this path our brethren after we are gone?

Oh Singh’s of the procession of those walking with their heads on the palms for sacrifice! You carry on your shoulders the historic responsibility of recognising the main life stream and original form of the Khalsa and also the responsibility of identifying the deadly current of ignorance and temptation . This current, to obtain power, has fallen to act on brahmanical practices. Please understand the narrow motives concealed behind this current that on the surface appears to be pro-Sikh. Wage a war against it. Its divisive tendencies are to be strongly resisted. The people associated with this current have lost their faith in higher struggle. They have been tempted by the brahmanical reflexes and its allied power hierarchies. They have begun to like evanescent colours. Their actions do not reflect the message of Guru Nanak Dev Ji’s transcendental journey: nor do they illustrate any divine experience. Their state mirrors a schism between the mind and word. Declare that these people are false and they have disowned our path. If they want to be owned by the Khalsa and they feel that there is still in them a secret of truth enunciated by Guru Nanak Dev Ji let them advance straight towards Khalistan otherwise they will be thrown into the dustbin of history.

Respected President Ji! After these few words with our nation we again address you. When we bid farewell to the world it will be a strange meeting of numerous contradictions. If we look at the world insightfully, the whole world is in turmoil, a powerful turmoil. With an alien eye it may look to be a destructive development. It feels as if human peace and action were going through acute disturbance, but the people with intuition can see all this from a different angle altogether.

The humankind’s aspiration for freedom cannot be controlled in any system. Any effort to destroy this aspiration gets self-defeated in history. We are witnessing the same happening in our times also.

The same passion for freedom, burning like a flame in the depths of the humankind gave birth to the great French Revolution. And then in the beginning of this century, watched tumbling down in history, the Tsarist regime that had become a symbol of terror and tyranny.

But whatever systems have been built up on the ruins of Tsarism, has not succeeded in fully preserving and understanding the rush and aspiration of human freedom. All these massive artifices are showing cracks. What an irony of our times that the same people who had raised our ancestors’ flag of freedom became the murderers of freedom.

We are saying this with deep sorrow that the same lands where lakhs of people laid down their lives fighting the Nazis, today are providing shelter to the murderers of the Sikhs. We mean the country of the great Tolstoy and Lenin - the Soviet Union and their East European allies, where the killers of hundreds of Sikh youths, like Bua and Rebiero are taking shelter under the pretext of holding diplomatic responsibilities. But at the same fresh winds of freedom blowing in these countries will not remain safe shelters for these murderers of humankind. To us that time is not distant when the people of these countries will hand over these criminals to us so that they can be given their due in the court of the Khalsa.

The dark storm of oppression that is blowing over the Khalsa and the fire of tyranny that is burning it, must have touched at least a little, the souls of Lincoln, Emerson, Rousseau, Voltaire and Shakespeare because the people fighting for their freedom and sovereignty have the same blood flowing in their veins. But permit us to say that among the people of these great men’s lands, the urge to push their tradition is dying. Their spiritual values are drying up; they are unable to see the new sun shining in the land of Khalistan whose rays will also radiate the universe. We are hoping that they will accept the reality of Khalistan. We appeal to the United Nations to recognise the face of Khalistan so that the Khalsa nation can make historic contribution to the international peace and security according to the UN Charter, and may also help in building up the relations of tolerance and goodwill among India and its neighbours.

Honourable President Ji! We are going to look into the eyes of death because we believe that the flag of life’s glory flies even in the face of death. Not only us, but our entire nation has taken birth by practising the art of keeping its head on its palm. The guns of evil will never frighten us.

In this era of betrayals, we are going to meet our beloved in full faith and wholesomely. Our martyrdom will radiate only integration. We are feeling that martyrdom is a transcendence of all fears, greed, and obscene physical desires. The consciousness of the Khalsa is the most pure and luminous during the moments of martyrdom.

We have chosen the path of martyrdom so that the ever fresh face of the Khalsa and its unique glory can come into its own once again, and enlighten the whole world. In their eternal joy and grace Guru Ji’s blessed us with a spark of their love. With that spark we are going to light up all the skies. With that spark we are in full blossom. Our love for freedom has taken us to a state of cosmic equilibrium ‘sahaja’.

We have met our true Guru. The angles of the eternal symphony have arrived to congratulate us with all their families at this momentous hour of meeting.

Martyrdom has a unique relish of its own. How wonderful it is!. Beyond the material and ineffable emotions.

Please tell our nation not to be sorrowful. The sweet remembrance of that wearer of nom-de plume, Guru Gobind Singh Ji, flows like a river in us. Please tell them that the stream of love of the tenth Guru has already gushed forth in us. We are going towards the altar in a higher peace and divine poise. We are riding a unique boat that the currents are unable to sink.

The maker has put together all the world perfectly. O Nanak, my Lord will not let even lakhs of sea currents sink the boat.

The Khalsa has upheld the belief that wherever death comes, accept it with joy. For this reason please tell all those warriors of the world burning with the fire of freedom not to let go mellow the challenge thrown by us. Let their bursting bullets become a lament on our death.

The rope of gallows is dear to us like the embrace of our Lover but if we are condemned to be prisoners of war, we will wish bullets to kiss the truth in our breasts so that the sacred ground of Khalistan becomes more fertile with our warm blood.

We are restless to drink the measure of martyrdom for Khalistan

[mann_kaum_layee_qurbaan]

wow. I can't believe India calls people like this terrorists. Parnaam Shaheedan Nu!

[machete]

Ek Onkar

Rastrapati Ji

Kindly accept Sat Sri Akal (salute to the Revered True Timeless) by the two Singh’s (Sikhs) on the way to martyrdom.

Theoretically, it is appropriate to clarify that, our Rashtrya (nation) is the Khalsa Panth absorbed into the Guru Granth Sahib Ji. We took the first steps towards the destination of Khalistan by touching our foreheads with the dust of this nation. The elimination of Mr. Vaidya, the General of your forces who engaged in destroying the Khalsa Panth and its power, was a holy act on our difficult path of martyrdom. It has once again brought the historical truth to light; the urge of the Khalsa Panth to breathe in freedom, its self respect and honour cannot be finished.

We wish to clarify that we are not addressing these words to you as an individual but as the head of a State that is communal and brahmanical. Whosoever occupies, occupied, or will occupy this throne of falsehood, will be to us a symbol of oppression and cruelty. We have not forgotten that when the 'wedding party of sin' (the Indian Armed Forces) were invading our Temple of God, a heathen in the garb of a Sikh (Zail the ex president), was sitting in your place. The Panth will 'settle its accounts' with him, when Sikh history imparts its justice.

By invading the Sri Harmandir Sahib (Golden Temple) your army tried to rob a nation of saint-soldiers, living in its divine simplicity, of its joy. It gave us a feeling at one point as if you had succeeded in driving us to the point of utter frustration. But by performing our historic task we have reminded you that our heroes like Bhai Sukha Singh, Bhai Mehtab Singh, Bhai Udham Singh are shadowing your tyrants Wazida, Lakhpat, Ribeiro, O'Dwayer.

We accept with great joy the penalty of death pronounced by your court of law alienated from divine blessings and fallen to the brahmanical reflexes, for whatever we undertook was in accordance with the vision of the Khalsa. By touching the sharp edge of death we are moving towards fullness. Without martyrdom the magnificent fair of life cannot come into full swing.

The fact is that the brahmanical form of Hinduism thinks of the Akal Takht (the Highest Throne of Sikhs) and its thought-complex related to the movement and play of the Eternal in vulgar pragmatic terms. This sort of limited thinking of brahmanical Hinduism puts the great institution of the Khalsa Panth on a very low pedestal and elaborates it in a very harsh practical sense. From this narrow angle the Akal Takht is reduced to an ordinary building or at most to a place of worship. The Khalsa Panth does not accept this situation. The Khalsa does not worship power, rather, it enters history by empowering itself. The truth from the Akal Takht has taught us that by being armed the Khalsa has to snatch the power of the powerful and by absorption into the Eternal World, the Khalsa has to assimilate the saintliness of the saint. This theory has destroyed the centralised authority of power and saintliness, and justly distributed them all over.

But the doctrine related to 'power and saintliness' (Miri-Piri) was very threatening to the brahmanical stream of thought, because the new Sikh doctrine not only awakened the people, it also inspired them to organise themselves for an armed struggle under the leadership of the Akal Takht by shattering falsehood of brahmanical thought. The ’masters of centralism' at once came into action. They began to repeat the well-designed danger to the 'unity and integrity' of the country to retain power and encouraged the rise of 'personal Gurus' (i.e. Radha Swamai , Nakali Nirankari, Darshan Dassi) in the arena of religion.

The thought of brahmanical reflexes had in fact started attacking the consciousness of the Sikh Gurus ever since its emergence, but on 15th August 1947 after assuming imperial authority, the brahmanical thought took still nastier forms. In the last few decades, your parliament, court, educational institutions and media have tried to humble the consciousness of the Khalsa through the subtler force of majority supremacy and material monopoly. We are not hesitant to say that conspiracies have been hatched and very subtler arrangements have been made at the psychological level to destroy the great institutions, traditions, originality and unique sovereignty of the Khalsa Panth. The destruction of the Akal Takht by sending in lakhs of soldiers was part of this larger conspiracy. In this situation, it hardly needs saying, how justified it was to eliminate the military General Vaidya who was not only a part of this conspiracy but also responsible for its planning and implementation. By completing this holy and historic task, we have unburdened our conscious and proved that the real force of the Khalsa Panth is and will remain free from the brahmanical reflexes in all ages. By cautioning the Khalsa Panth of the brahmanical strategies we have won the love of Guru Gobind Singh.

When nations wake up, even history begins to shiver. During such momentous moments a Banda Singh Bahadur bids farewell to his peace dwelling and destroys a state of oppression like Sirhind, a Che Guevera turns down a ministry of Cuba, loads a gun on his breast and entrenches against the enemies in the forest of Bolivia, a Nelson Mandela rejects the ideology of apartheid and prefers to spend his life in a dark prison cell.

...And we have had the privilege of being in the loving care and companionship of that unique General of the Panth Sant Jarnail Singh Khalsa Bhindranwale, blessed by the valiant and transcendental visionary Guru Gobind Singh Ji. We are tiny particles of dust of the numberless heroic jewels of the Sikh nation who walked on the sharp edge of the dagger, the Khanda, given to us by Guru Gobind Singh Ji. Only the chosen few get the honour of laying down their lives for the nation. We are proud of this honour.

In one way it is just to accuse us of an unheroic act in attacking an unarmed man. We wish to remind you that by misusing your vast resources you have tried your utmost to humiliate us as a nation. In every field you have tried to make us helpless. You are empowered with your massive armed force and equipped with the most advanced military arsenal of our times. You have made us inadequate to fight you in the open battlefield. In the present situation there is no other alternative with us except to use the kind of method that we employed on General Vaidya to punish the tyrants for their evil deeds. When you are already waging an undeclared

War on our nation, guerrilla attacks are not our pleasure but an historical compulsion. Please do not forget this fact of history that during the 18th century when robbers like Abdali and Nadarshah were driving your daughters to Kabul like enrobed flocks of animals, our brave Sikh brethren from their jungle and desert hideouts fiercely attacked the robbers. Even the frightened enemies had to praise our courage.

We are fired with a generous humanism. Our grip extends to the entire life with its breath and vibration.

In the last one decade there have been very few actual encounters between our soldiers and your forces. But wherever those have occurred, the evidence in them of our valour and radiant heroism, we are sure, is preserved in your confidential files. A fragment of that fact once in a while slips through your newspapers as well. Our Khalsa, vigour is an aspect of our spiritual heritage. In such moments of fight, spirituality radiates through the flashes of our swords.

Oh, President representing Brahmanism! Hear the words of Kazi Noor Mohammad, eye witness during the seventh invasion (1764 A.D.) of Ahmad Shah Abdali: 'It looks as if guns were invented by these Sikhs and not by Likman. Although many possess guns yet none understands them more than the Sikhs. My observation will be confirmed by the 30 thousand brave soldiers who fought against them.'

When we attacked General Vaidya apart from his own arms, he had with him a well equipped body guard. Our attack was part of the same battlefield strategy that was once used by our hero martyrs Madan Lal Dhingra, Bhagat Singh, Kartar Singh Sarabha, and even today it is used by revolutionaries the world over and considered right.

Through you we wish to transmit this message that we harbour no enmity towards the great people and the land of India. We are not touched even a bit by hatred for the people of India. Not only to embrace of your people, we are restless to embrace the whole of the earth and sky. We intoxicatingly remember the entire cosmos and worship the life that vibrates in it.

The Khalsa is inseparably and lovingly related to the people of India: the millions of Dalits, the workers who earn their living through honest labour, the Muslims and other minorities, and all those homeless and destitute who have remained oppressed and exploited by Brahmanism for centuries. They are all our kith and kin. Our Master, rider of the blue horse (Guru Gobind Singh Ji), recognised them much earlier. All those termed by the proud Brahmin the lowly, scavengers, shoemakers, became the beloved sons of our Tenth Father. They rose to the ranks of General, in the army of the Khalsa. Thrones and honours kissed them. Without fantasising, we are declaring in the midst of history that our Gurus loved the metapoetry (Bani) of those divine souls drenched with a passion for the Dalit brotherhood. The Gurus bestowed the highest honours on them and included their Bani along with their own in the Guru Granth Sahib Ji. The spirit of the Dalits and their pain are aspects of our own anguish. We are touched by the warmth of their existence. But the network of the Brahmanical falsehood is so large that it is not letting the Dalits understand the real nature of our struggle. When the Dalits embrace the Khalsa, worldly honour and higher status will be theirs once again. We are waiting for that auspicious moment.

We pray for the well being of all before the Guru Granth Sahib Ji. It also instils tremendous self-confidence in us. Inspired, our heroes like Bhai Sukha Singh and Bhai Mehtab Singh kill a tyrant like Massa Ranghar and bring the head as an offering to the community. Our inspiration also stems from the same Guru Granth Sahib Ji. With a fierce determination we have taken a position against your falsehood and trickery. We have taken an oath to fight to our last breath to wage a war for the establishment of a sovereign Khalistan. To us, you are a symbol of evil, and whatever cruelty is being inflicted on us by your followers, we are bearing with great joy. Our Beant Singh and Satwant Singh were also inspired by the light of the same Guru Granth Sahib Ji and they went for a great deed.

After them, we too had the privilege of being inspired by a ray of the same divine light and we struck General Vaidya in Pune.

Please do not mistake this letter as an appeal. We are not begging mercy from you by expressing any regrets on the killing of General Vaidya. We are not least repentant; in fact with responsibility and commitment we declare it as our significant deed. After completing the historic task we are feeling light like the song of a nightingale. Our faces radiate with the light and freshness of a new dawn.

At the moment we are occupying a throne that blesses us with a vision of the immense possibilities of life. We are initiated into the beautiful and unknown secrets of martyrdom. Our Gurus were already with us, we are now feeling the presence of all the martyrs of the world. These spirits read and understand the light and language of our rotating eyes. How lovely the words of great Emerson are where he says that human nobility need its heroes and martyrs. And for this reason, he adds, the trial of torture goes on. The silence of Socrates and the divine frenzy of Mansoor will permeate our martyrdom. We are already in the realm where time and space diminish. We are witnessing history, religion, philosophy, complex knowledge, facts and objects in their purest forms.

While pointing out the mysteries of heavens when we are gone beyond the humdrum of the world, we will be still very close to our nation, closer than the large vein of the throat. In no way are our aspirations exhausted. We are the eternal flame of human depths that will ever burn in the hearts of the Khalsa.

You are madly proud of your worldly, kingdom, of physical numbers, of a large army well equipped with the latest arsenal, of vast resources, your capacity to force the small countries and nations to submit to your gangsterism. But look at us! We take pride only in the Grace of God. Our treasury are the blessings of the Khalsa that sings the song of the Fearless and the Kindly-Disposed. Let us position you in the midst of history and remind you of the warning of the tenth Guru:

'babin gardishe bewafae zaman

ki bar har baguzard makino makan'

It means: look at the unfaithful rotation of time, it will engulf everything. But you are not ready at all to understand the unfaithful rotation of time. Ego and worldly motives have seized you. When temporary and short-lived successes throw you off your balance you get drunk with ego. You are deprived of such great blessings as the capacity of seeing the colourful diversity of nature, a transcendental vision, the qualities of higher conduct, justice and wisdom.

Narrow pragmatic objectives have seized you. Your conscience is burdened by sins, but you are not even close to remorse. Since you are so far from the great rush of the divine blessing, the Khalsa does not recognise your worldly kingdom. You are not competent even to retain this worldly kingdom. You love these transient touchable to such an extent that they have become your ultimate. Each form of your 'detachedness' has lost its shine. You have indulged only in hurtful deeds. We are compelled to announce that your nation of 'seers' does not agree with the Khalsa nation of Saints. We will not test your authority any more. It is already clouded by spiritual poverty.

We have made these comments on you by keeping fully intact our psychic concentration, critical method, imagination and insight. We have enough moral ground to make the comments on you especially after bearing the cruelty of your authority inflicted on our bodies following the storming of Sri Harmandir Sahib. We are also enclosing with this letter a document (as an appendix) that is an essential part of this writing. You will see in the document your bloody face fully reflected through your actions.

After wining the so-called freedom in 1947, we became the most deprived ones. Although 95 per cent of the sacrifices made for freedom were by the Khalsa, yet immediately after assuming power you’re Home Minister Mr Patel, through a special circular, labelled the Sikhs as a community of criminals.

The whole of India was reorganised linguistically but only the Punjab was discriminated against.

For obtaining the Panjabi speaking state, lakhs of Sikhs went to jail and became martyrs. When after 19 years the state was finally granted, it was an inadequate and punctured one. Chandigarh and several Panjabi-speaking areas were kept out of the new state. Violating all the international norms, the Panjab was deprived of its proprietorship of natural resources. Distribution of waters is an evidence of this injustice.

You also retained the initiative and powers for Panjab's economic development. The path of development that you adopted was one dimensional and directionless. It resulted in the imbalance of economy.

Your design is to keep our industrial development at your will and never let us be self-reliant. You want to see us standing as beggars at your door. There is hardly any Agro Industry in Panjab. Heavy industry is totally non-existent. We want to keep our capital safe for our development, but you are exploiting us if we were your colony.

You have not spared any effort to hurt our culture. By damaging our heritage you want to keep us in a miserable psychological state so that we may feel embarrassed over our language, culture and proud history. Your strategy is to destroy us from 'within' and reduce us to your slaves so that you may keep on sucking our blood without any protest.

You want us to adopt your rootless culture of razzle dazzle as our way of life. You want to uproot our culture and take away our source of life. You think our history is not worthy of any significance.

But now we keep track of your every step. Still a vital blood flows in our veins. We will structure our way of life according to our originality and history. Everyone knows that without getting political power it is not possible for any nation to guard its culture. It is not possible for us to keep our culture and national identity intact without establishing a sovereign Khalistan. We are offering our heads for achieving our goal;

Our True Guru has granted a sovereign state to us

We have won his blessing by offering our heads.

Now we beg to address our Khalsa Panth. The way of the Khalsa is very trying. It is sharper than the edge of a dagger, the Khanda and subtler than a strand of hair. The Khalsa Panth at all cost has to preserve the original and pure form of its great struggle. The struggle is a divine journey inspired by a transcendental consciousness. During these moments of struggle, the Khalsa is to remain continuously absorbed into the Guru Granth Sahib Ji, no matter how many cruelties are inflicted and provocation is given, the Khalsa has to keep its cool and discipline in the horrible and barbaric situations. The Khalsa has to preserve its traditions established by the valiant Sikhs through martyrdom.

In comparison with the violence of the enemy, the violence of the Khalsa abounds in divine qualities and spiritual blessings. The Khalsa has to give such a divine form and beauty to its struggle that it may even burden the conscience of the enemy with the realisation of its own sin. Such a moral miracle will be possible only if the concentration on the Guru of the Khalsa and the rhythm of the Guru Granth Sahib Ji remain fully connected and intact. The Guru Granth Sahib Ji is the main source of our life-stream and spiritual power. It is also the chief spring of our inspiration to advance towards the destination of Khalistan.

In concentration on the Guru and the internal rhythm of the Guru Granth Sahib Ji are the main life-stream of the Khalsa, then it is also necessary to say a few words to the Singhs (the fighters)who are intensely in love with the stream. In this terrible crisis of history the concentration on the Guru and the rhythm of the Guru Granth Sahib Ji are the only armed brigades. They are the army of the Timeless Man, and they are the guardians of the pure consciousness of the Khalsa. We too had the honour of having been the humble parts of these forces (the under ground groups).

It is true that we are confronting a vast material State that has at its command all the worldly resources, horrifying scientific inventions, a capacity to attack and disable the intellect and praxis, the State can also weaken us through penetration and strategies of its intelligence. It can also develop shocking plans and more than everything else it can assemble huge armies. But so what? The Khalsa can send shivers into the spine of the enemy and shake its state with its spiritual might. It is not the bodies alone that fight. It was only the miracle of the Khalsa's spiritual strength that even with its tiny number the Khalsa subdued the 10 lakh army of the Mughals at the Fort of Chamkaur.

During the last decade we have overwhelmed this state of brahmanical prejudices with martyrdom. We have been hailed in all corners. Now the matter is not restricted to possible creation of Khalistan alone. Several oppressed nations of India have come out in the open to fight for their freedom. The Dalit brothers, especially, are liberating themselves from the destructive influence of Brahmanism. The so called hue and cry made for 'unity and integrity' does not touch them any more. They have well understood the cunningness of brahmanical rulers veiled behind this hue and cry. Although these are magnificent accomplishments of our movement, still we are not free from big mistakes and inadequacies.

Sometimes during our struggle we do commit something that is neither morally unique nor pious. Although we are marching towards our goal of achieving Khalistan with determination yet still we have not fully learnt how to go through this difficult terrain. The understanding and experience of our struggle are still diluted and superficial. We have still to develop a larger vision that crosses decades and centuries.

We still keep doing something that gives our enemy an opportunity to question our proud and glorious history. Several times our arms have wrecked the joys, blossom and aspiration of those who had never directly hurt our movement.

It appears sometimes as if we were trying to strike terror among the people although our commitment to the ninth Guru is neither to terrify nor to get terrified.

Oh valiant brethren! Why are not our actions and deeds firing many colours and proliferating unusual effects of life? Why do we give the people an excuse to say that a wide gap has appeared between our thought, word and action. When we sin we become drunk within a victory of fault, when we lose we do not investigate its reasons. As a result a chain of losses begins. In such a situation we do not urge to re-integrate ourselves with transcendental consciousness of the Khalsa, nor do we seek the blessing of the Guru’s abode.

We are becoming martyr’s, going to jails, bearing every attack of the enemy, but still in our basic thought, the gratitude to the Lord, patience and commitment have not fully penetrated. Sometimes, the glory of the material status, its power and shine captivate us, as a result we fall prey to material values and miracles. During such moments we do not passionately pray before the Guru Granth Sahib Ji to keep our unique character by heroism and spirituality higher and untouched by narrow ends.

Several times we suffer from indecision. To free ourselves from this state instead of getting close to Guru Ji we rather choose distance. We are forgetting that during disagreement among us, the resolution of the entire Khalsa adopted at the Akal Takht can cement and guide us. Oh brave brethren drenched with the divine love of the sixth Guru, Sri Guru Hargobind Sahib Ji! , why don’t you flock towards the Akal Takht for guidance? Our Guru Ji arms spread awaits us.

At times, our baseless suspicions divide us into groups. We then patronise one group and to protect another we unnecessarily accuse the other groups crossing all limits. Our sword proudly falls on their necks. The Singh’s (the fighters) of the Khalsa Panth have to meet this serious challenge of the moment with determination and love, with a prayer for the enhancement of wisdom and humility of the mind. Will you follow this path our brethren after we are gone?

Oh Singh’s of the procession of those walking with their heads on the palms for sacrifice! You carry on your shoulders the historic responsibility of recognising the main life stream and original form of the Khalsa and also the responsibility of identifying the deadly current of ignorance and temptation . This current, to obtain power, has fallen to act on brahmanical practices. Please understand the narrow motives concealed behind this current that on the surface appears to be pro-Sikh. Wage a war against it. Its divisive tendencies are to be strongly resisted. The people associated with this current have lost their faith in higher struggle. They have been tempted by the brahmanical reflexes and its allied power hierarchies. They have begun to like evanescent colours. Their actions do not reflect the message of Guru Nanak Dev Ji’s transcendental journey: nor do they illustrate any divine experience. Their state mirrors a schism between the mind and word. Declare that these people are false and they have disowned our path. If they want to be owned by the Khalsa and they feel that there is still in them a secret of truth enunciated by Guru Nanak Dev Ji let them advance straight towards Khalistan otherwise they will be thrown into the dustbin of history.

Respected President Ji! After these few words with our nation we again address you. When we bid farewell to the world it will be a strange meeting of numerous contradictions. If we look at the world insightfully, the whole world is in turmoil, a powerful turmoil. With an alien eye it may look to be a destructive development. It feels as if human peace and action were going through acute disturbance, but the people with intuition can see all this from a different angle altogether.

The humankind’s aspiration for freedom cannot be controlled in any system. Any effort to destroy this aspiration gets self-defeated in history. We are witnessing the same happening in our times also.

The same passion for freedom, burning like a flame in the depths of the humankind gave birth to the great French Revolution. And then in the beginning of this century, watched tumbling down in history, the Tsarist regime that had become a symbol of terror and tyranny.

But whatever systems have been built up on the ruins of Tsarism, has not succeeded in fully preserving and understanding the rush and aspiration of human freedom. All these massive artifices are showing cracks. What an irony of our times that the same people who had raised our ancestors’ flag of freedom became the murderers of freedom.

We are saying this with deep sorrow that the same lands where lakhs of people laid down their lives fighting the Nazis, today are providing shelter to the murderers of the Sikhs. We mean the country of the great Tolstoy and Lenin - the Soviet Union and their East European allies, where the killers of hundreds of Sikh youths, like Bua and Rebiero are taking shelter under the pretext of holding diplomatic responsibilities. But at the same fresh winds of freedom blowing in these countries will not remain safe shelters for these murderers of humankind. To us that time is not distant when the people of these countries will hand over these criminals to us so that they can be given their due in the court of the Khalsa.

The dark storm of oppression that is blowing over the Khalsa and the fire of tyranny that is burning it, must have touched at least a little, the souls of Lincoln, Emerson, Rousseau, Voltaire and Shakespeare because the people fighting for their freedom and sovereignty have the same blood flowing in their veins. But permit us to say that among the people of these great men’s lands, the urge to push their tradition is dying. Their spiritual values are drying up; they are unable to see the new sun shining in the land of Khalistan whose rays will also radiate the universe. We are hoping that they will accept the reality of Khalistan. We appeal to the United Nations to recognise the face of Khalistan so that the Khalsa nation can make historic contribution to the international peace and security according to the UN Charter, and may also help in building up the relations of tolerance and goodwill among India and its neighbours.

Honourable President Ji! We are going to look into the eyes of death because we believe that the flag of life’s glory flies even in the face of death. Not only us, but our entire nation has taken birth by practising the art of keeping its head on its palm. The guns of evil will never frighten us.

In this era of betrayals, we are going to meet our beloved in full faith and wholesomely. Our martyrdom will radiate only integration. We are feeling that martyrdom is a transcendence of all fears, greed, and obscene physical desires. The consciousness of the Khalsa is the most pure and luminous during the moments of martyrdom.

We have chosen the path of martyrdom so that the ever fresh face of the Khalsa and its unique glory can come into its own once again, and enlighten the whole world. In their eternal joy and grace Guru Ji’s blessed us with a spark of their love. With that spark we are going to light up all the skies. With that spark we are in full blossom. Our love for freedom has taken us to a state of cosmic equilibrium ‘sahaja’.

We have met our true Guru. The angles of the eternal symphony have arrived to congratulate us with all their families at this momentous hour of meeting.

Martyrdom has a unique relish of its own. How wonderful it is!. Beyond the material and ineffable emotions.

Please tell our nation not to be sorrowful. The sweet remembrance of that wearer of nom-de plume, Guru Gobind Singh Ji, flows like a river in us. Please tell them that the stream of love of the tenth Guru has already gushed forth in us. We are going towards the altar in a higher peace and divine poise. We are riding a unique boat that the currents are unable to sink.

The maker has put together all the world perfectly. O Nanak, my Lord will not let even lakhs of sea currents sink the boat.

The Khalsa has upheld the belief that wherever death comes, accept it with joy. For this reason please tell all those warriors of the world burning with the fire of freedom not to let go mellow the challenge thrown by us. Let their bursting bullets become a lament on our death.

The rope of gallows is dear to us like the embrace of our Lover but if we are condemned to be prisoners of war, we will wish bullets to kiss the truth in our breasts so that the sacred ground of Khalistan becomes more fertile with our warm blood.

We are restless to drink the measure of martyrdom for Khalistan

Enclosure:

Atrocities perpertrated on the Sikhs:

Dear Rastrapati ji,

We are giving below the methods of torture, humiliation and atrocities used by your state

against the Sikhs. These have been mentioned by the humanitarian organizations and

individuals who hold prestige in their respective fields. These organizations and individuals

are not seen directly or emotionally connected with our movement. They have been forced

to write about the extreme violations of human rights of our people. We wish you to know

and witness the continuous repression and atrocities perpetrated against the Sikhs by your

army, paramilitary forces and the police. We are not presenting all this to you to win your

sympathy, nor do we wish you repent by taking pity on us. In fact by situating you in this

picture we want to have the verdict of the people of the world over the extent you have

violated the UNO's Declaration on Human Rights, the Geneva Convention, and many

other international treaties. We are mentioning below the violations and atrocities:

To interrogate the Sikhs, a round log of wood is placed on their legs, and after

putting heavy weight on the log it is rotated on the legs.

Chilli powder is sprinkled in the eyes and sex organs of the Sikhs.

Sikhs are hung upside down from the ceilings till they became unconscious.

The body joints are battered.

Electric shocks are administered to the genitals making most of the youth impotent

Sikh women, during interrogation, are hurt in their sex organs. Filthy abuse is

showered on them.

Violence is inflicted on the parents in presence of their sons and daughters and

vice-versa.

Brothers are forced to beat sisters and vice versa. violence is inflicted on adult girls

after stripping them naked and their sex organs are damaged. They are sexually

assaulted, pregnancies are terminated of the expectant females

Crotchets are pulled apart.

The victims of inhuman violence are made to sit naked in winter, and under the sun

in summer, kept sleepless for days in solitary cells.

Sikhs are subjected to severe beatings and filthy abuse in the presence of their

village folks.

Dead bodies of Sikhs killed in fake encounters are not handed over to their parents

to conceal marks of excessive violence

The state manipulates tailored post mortem reports from the doctors, and burns the

dead bodies of the Sikhs after falsely declaring them unclaimed.

All sorts of excesses are made on the parents of underground Sikh youths.

Indiscriminant atrocities are committed on the parents of the underground youth of

the area where some militant action takes place.

Atrocities are committed without caring for one's age, health, life or death. If some

one luckily survives such brutal excesses, it is well and good But if one dies while

under "interrogation", then such a dead body is taken out, pierced with some

bullets, and a news item is sent that a dreaded terrorist has been shot dead in an

encounter

Houses of underground Sikh youths are demolished, their belongings are looted,

crops destroyed, their tube well motors are taken away, and they are prevented

from sowing crops.

Even animals of the families of underground Sikh youth are subjected to police

anger. After summoning the families to the police station, villagers are told not to

take care of the animals of the families of the underground youth. Generally the

animals starve to death.

False cases are registered against innocent sikh youths, later they are let off taking

fat bribes.

Reporters giving true reports are arrested, an undeclared censorship is imposed on

them to stop them from exposing police atrocities.

Peaceful protests by the Human rights organizations are prohibited.

Press is used to launch vicious and false propaganda against the Sikhs.

Hardened criminals are inducted into Sikh movement to help in arresting the Sikh

revolutionaries and sabotage the movement. Such criminals are inducted to tarnish

the fair name of the Sikh revolutionaries are now called the "Black Cats" in the

Punjab. Under SSP Izhar Alam, such criminal gangs were named the "Alam Sena."

Besides, such police sponsored bands of criminals also operated under the name of

Panthic Tiger Force and "Red Brigade." The director general of the police himself

admitted about the "Black Cats" bands. In his interview to the India Today on Sept.

15, 188, KPS Gill had announced without an iota of shame that the security forces in

Punjab cannot do anything without the help of secret bands (Black Cats).

Thousands of innocent pilgrims, children, females, aged people, who got encircled in

the Golden Temple during operation Bluestar were made to die through starvation

and thirst. The whole of Punjab was converted into a vast jail by clamping curfew on

the entire area. The army bulletin branded all Amritdhari Sikhs as terrorists.

Indian army desecrated the Gurdwaras and committed such atrocities on the Sikhs

that even the soul of Ahmed Shah Abdali might have felt ashamed of.

The targets of army guns were none else but religious persons, devotees, pilgrims,

ladies, old people, children or some militants whom the indian government deemed

as terrorists.

No neutral observer was allowed to take stock of the situation.

The injured during the attack on the Golden Temple were subjected to extreme

partiality. Whereas every assistance and facility was made available to the injured

army personnel, there was no such provision for the wounded belonging to the other

side.

The number of prisoners taken was rather small. There is ample scope for doubt

that the Indian army had thought it better to eliminate the thousands of people

seized in the Golden Temple instead of taking them prisoners or having to provide

them with medical assistance.

No need was felt to perform religious rites for the dead pilgrims and devotees.

Before consigning the dead bodies to flames, no effort was made to identify them.

No relatives were informed.

No dead bodies were handed over to the next of kin. In such a situation only the

dead or those wishing to be dead could be present at the last rites.

All dead bodies were placed in heaps and then consigned to flames. IT was never

insured that among the dead there could also be some Muslim devotees. To cremate

is agains the tenets of Islam.

No need was felt to give a list of the dead to the Red Cross or any other

International Agency

Despite such atrocities, no commission was appointed to go into this dark episode.

Even the Britishers, the foreign rulers, had cared to appoint the Hunter commission

to inquire into the Jallianwalla Massacre which was of a much less magnitude on the

other hand. The Indian government, on the other hand, took all steps to hide the

excesses of the army.

[Revolutionary]

reaction in order:

:'(

[Mehtab Singh]

GAJJ KE JAKARA GAJAAVAY NIHAAL HO JAAVAY SHAHEEDAAN SINGHAAN DE MANN NU BHAAVAYY SOOOOO NIHAAAALLLLL

S A T S R I A K A A L !!!!!!!!!!!!!

[ThunderousDominator]

just wanted to bump to remind everybody what real sikhs are just look at all the love these two brothers had for all the people in the world

[hum kookar tayray darbaar]

gur gur gur gur