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Radicals raise Khalistan slogans

Tribune Reporters

Amritsar, June 6

Activists of various radical Sikh organisations raised slogans in favour of Khalistan on Ghallughara divas (genocide day) to mark the 22nd anniversary of Operation Bluestar in front of Akal Takht here today.

Mr Parkash Singh Badal, president, SAD, distanced himself from it.

As soon as Mr Simranjit Singh Mann, president, SAD (A), came out from Akal Takht after participating in ardas, radicals started raising slogans for an independent Sikh state and showed pages containing statements in favour of Khalistan and posters displaying damaged Akal Takht in the military operation.

However, Mr Badal accused those who indulged in sloganeering of being agents of the Congress, which was responsible for the infamous Army operation. He said Mr Mann was well aware that Punjab had to suffer greatly because of this.

Mr Mann said though they were not allowed to continue their peaceful struggle to attain independence, they would contest the next elections democratically.

Commenting on the recent judgments and coverage in newspapers, he claimed that judges and the English media had also saffronised. He asked people to raise their hands if they wanted revival of Anandpur Sahib’s resolution of 1973 and for severing of relations with the Congress and the BJP.

Giani Joginder Singh Vedanti, Jathedar, Akal Takht, said the real tribute to those killed in the operation would be to protect the Sikh history and culture, and to stop apostasy and addiction among the Sikh youth.

He said the Sikh religion was formed to safeguard human ideals of truth, righteousness and values. He added that for this reason it had to fight against rulers who forgot their duties towards the masses.

Among those present on the occasion were Mr Avtar Singh, president, SGPC, Bibi Jagir Kaur, former SGPC president, and senior Akali leaders, including Mr Gurdev Singh Badal, Mr Ranjit Singh Brahmpura, Mr Sewa Singh Sekhwan, Mr Sucha Singh Langah, Mr Bikramjit Singh Majithia and Mr Guljar Singh Ranike.

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Separatist slogans at Bluestar anniversary

By Indo Asian News Service

Amritsar, June 6 (IANS) Slogans for a separate Sikh state were raised inside the Golden Temple complex to mark the 22nd anniversary Tuesday of Operation Bluestar, the June 1984 Indian Army assault on the Golden Temple to flush out terrorists holed up in the shrine.

The annual remembrance ceremony organized by the Shiromani Gurdwara Prabandhak Committee (SGPC) at the Golden Temple complex culminated in chaos when a number of young Sikhs unsheathed their swords and raised separatist slogans.

Golden Temple head priest Joginder Singh Vedanti's failure to specifically mention the names of the late fundamentalist preacher like Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale during his address apparently offended the hardliners.

Bhindranwale and his armed supporters, who many Sikhs revere as martyrs, were killed during Operation Bluestar and the hardliners have been demanding that a befitting memorial be raised for them.

Though the SGPC had promised a memorial inside the Golden Temple complex almost two years ago, it has maintained a careful silence on the issue following vehement criticism from many quarters.

Harnam Singh Dhumma, chief of the Damdami Taksal Sikh seminary once headed by Bhindranwale, also criticized the SGPC and the head priest for glossing over the 'great sacrifices' of the militants who were killed combating Indian Army soldiers in June 1984.

He also offered to construct a Minar-e-Shaheedan commemorative column if the SGPC publicly acknowledged its incapacity to do so.

Addressing devotees after the official SGPC function, radical Sikh politician

Simranjit Singh Mann reiterated his demand for an independent Sikh nation of Khalistan.

Clearly unmindful of the sedition cases instituted against him following a similar speech at the Bluestar anniversary last year, Mann insisted that 'azaadi' (independence)' was the right of the Sikhs and reiterated his demand for 'Khalistan as an independent buffer state between India and Pakistan'.

Overshadowed by the vociferous hardliners, the moderate Sikh leadership, headed by former Punjab chief minister Parkash Singh Badal, preferred to keep a low profile and only spoke out briefly against the Congress party and its role in ordering the army into the Golden Temple.

The function ended with devotees rushing to grab copies of posters and calendars bearing images of the destruction caused during Operation Bluestar, alongside portraits of Bhindranwale and Shabeg Singh, the former army major general who helped plan and build the militant defences before Operation Bluestar

http://www.dailyindia.com/show/31957.php/S...tar_anniversary

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Sikh protesters demand separate nation in northwest India

(AP)

6 June 2006

AMRITSAR - Hundreds of young Sikhs on Tuesday demanded a separate nation for their community as they observed the 22nd anniversary of the Indian army storming the religion’s holiest shrine to drive out Sikh militants.

The rare chant of “Long Live Khalistan” - the proposed name of their would-be state - was heard in an around the Golden Temple, Sikhism’s holiest shrine, after some 400 young Sikhs took part in prayers to mark the anniversary Tuesday.

The raid on the temple came in 1984 as an insurgency for an independent Sikh state was festering, with armed militants launching attacks in India’s Punjab to press their demands for the establishment of Khalistan, or “Land of the Pure” in the Punjabi language.

The attack enraged Sikhs and led to the assassination of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi a few months later - an act that provoked anti-Sikh riots across much of northern India. The riots, in turn, further fueled the insurgency.

Before it was brutally crushed in the late 1980s, the rebellion eventually cost more than 18,000 lives - including 329 people killed in an Air India jetliner explosion over the Atlantic Ocean blamed on Canadian-based Sikhs.

Since then, calls for a separate Sikh state have all but disappeared, except among the most fervent of the Sikhs - a minority religion that makes up about 2 percent of India’s 1 billion people.

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The seduction of attachment, the opiate of ego and the deceitful weapon of rage are three of the Five Thieves that has the power to turn the Khalsa from an Army For Humanity into an Army Against Humanity. Such is the power of dogma, it is a sword that can be used for great good or tremendous evil.

May the Khalsa Panth be endowed with the spirit of God to overcome these temptations of maya; illusions that become more sophisticated to battle their enemies of sincerity and virtue.

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The seduction of attachment, the opiate of ego and the deceitful weapon of rage are three of the Five Thieves that has the power to turn the Khalsa from an Army For Humanity into an Army Against Humanity. Such is the power of dogma, it is a sword that can be used for great good or tremendous evil.

May the Khalsa Panth be endowed with the spirit of God to overcome these temptations of maya; illusions that become more sophisticated to battle their enemies of sincerity and virtue.

An army for humanity to an army against humanity? How? because we use weapons to fight injustice and root out tyrants like we always have? Whats wth this growing phobia of Sikhs with weapons? How many cases have we had of a Sikh using a weapon against innocent people? Can we even think of one? With this attitude we'll lose our right to bare arms, we're already losing are right to wear dastars.

Sikhs today will do anything to fit it, even give up the kirpaan which was given to us by our Guru to PROTECT the honour of the weak. But i guess misinformed Sikhs forget that we're Saint Soldiers.

"Khalsa Akaal Purakh ki fauj", how can the army of God hurt Gods creation? Please do us all a favor and keep ur Sikhbarringarmsphobia to urself or get it treated, we hear enough of it from the Indian media.

Waheguru Ji Ka Khalsa

Waheguru Ji Ki Fateh

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