Malik, Bagri Acquitted Of All Charges In Air India Case

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Malik, Bagri Acquitted of All Charges in Air India Case

Justice Has Been Done Despite Pressure From Indian Regime

WASHINGTON, D.C., March 16, 2005 - Ripudaman Singh Malik and Ajaib Singh Bagri have been acquitted of all charges in the Air India bombing case, in a major rebuke to the Indian regime. Malik and Bagri were found not guilty today in the deaths of 329 people who perished when Air India Flight 182 was brought down by a bomb on June 23, 1985 in Canada’s worst case of mass murder. Justice Ian Josephson delivered the verdicts this afternoon, saying he didn't believe many of the witnesses.

“Justice has been done for these Sikhs,” said Dr. Gurmit Singh Aulakh, President of the Council of Khalistan, which leads the Sikh struggle for independence. “Despite the effort of the Indian government to blame these Sikhs for its own acts, they have been found innocent. This is a major setback for the Hindustani regime,” he said. A Canadian Member of Parliament wrote in 1989 that the Canadian government had spent $60 million on the case. “On behalf of over 600,000 Sikhs in Canada and the 25 million Sikhs worldwide, we would like to express our gratitude to Judge Josephson for doing the right thing and not caving in to the pressure of the Indian government,” Dr. Aulakh said.

Air India flight 182 was blown up off Ireland in 1985. It was on its way from Toronto to Bombay. It was supposed to be blown up at the London airport when no passengers would be aboard, but due to delays it blew up over Ireland. The book Soft Target by Canadian journalists Zuhair Kashmeri of the Toronto Globe and Mail and Brian McAndrew of the Toronto Star exposed India’s responsibility for this bombing. In the book, Kashmeri and McAndrew quoted a Canadian Security Investigative Service (CSIS) investigator as saying, “If you really want to clear the incidents quickly, take vans down to the Indian High Commission and the consulates in Toronto and Vancouver, load up everybody and take them down for questioning. We know it and they know it that they are involved.”

The book shows that within hours after the flight was blown up, the Indian Consul General in Toronto, Surinder Malik (no relation to Ripudaman Singh Malik), called in a detailed description of the bombing and the names of those he said were involved, information that the Canadian government didn’t discover until weeks later. Mr. Malik said to look on the passenger manifest for the name “L. Singh.” This would turn out to be Lal Singh, who told the press that he was offered “two million dollars and settlement in a nice country” by the Indian regime to give false testimony in the case.

In his book Betrayal: The Spy Canada Abandoned, Member of Parliament David Kilgour wrote that Canadian-Polish double agent Ryszard Paszkowski was approached to join a plot to carry out a second bombing. The people who approached Paszkowski were connected to the Indian government.

The main backer of the group that was supposedly behind the Air India bombing had received a $2 million loan from the State Bank of India just before the plane was attacked, according to Soft Target. The year after the bombing, three Indian consuls general were asked to leave the country. At the time of the bombing, the Congress Party needed the Sikhs as scapegoats to win votes on a law-and-order platform. The attack also served as justification for the government to shed more Sikh blood.

The Indian government has murdered over 250,000 Sikhs since 1984, more than 300,000 Christians since 1948, over 90,000 Muslims in Kashmir since 1988, and tens of thousands of Tamils, Assamese, Manipuris, Dalits, Bodos, and others. The Indian Supreme Court called the Indian government's murders of Sikhs "worse than a genocide." According to a report by the Movement Against State Repression (MASR), 52,268 Sikhs and tens of thousands of other minorities are being held as political prisoners in India without charge or trial. Some have been in illegal custody since 1984! We demand the immediate release of all these political prisoners.

The Sikh Nation declared its independence from India on October 7, 1987 and formed the Council of Khalistan at that time to lead the struggle for independence. When India became independent, Sikhs were equal partners in the transfer of power and were to receive their own state, but the weak and ignorant Sikh leaders of the time were tricked into staying with India on the promise that they would have “the glow of freedom” and no law affecting the Sikhs would pass without their consent. Sikhs ruled an independent and sovereign Punjab from 1710 to 1716 and again from 1765 to 1849 and were recognized by most of the countries of the world at that time. Sikhs do not accept the Indian constitution. No Sikh representative has ever signed it.

V.P. Singh, who was the Indian Consul General in Toronto when Soft Target came out, was quoted in the June 22, 1989 issue of the Washington Times, as saying that Sikhs who support Khalistan are terrorists. The Council of Khalistan, which leads the Sikh struggle to liberate Khalistan, openly repudiated militancy and has an 18-year record of working to free Khalistan by peaceful, democratic, nonviolent means.

Indian police arrested human-rights activist Jaswant Singh Khalra after he exposed their policy of mass cremation of Sikhs, in which over 50,000 Sikhs have been arrested, tortured, and murdered, then their bodies were declared unidentified and secretly cremated. Khalra was murdered in police custody. His body was not given to his family. No one has been brought to justice for the kidnapping and murder of Jaswant Singh Khalra. The police never released the body of former Jathedar of the Akal Takht Gurdev Singh Kaunke after SSP Swaran Singh Ghotna murdered him. He has never been tried for the Jathedar Kaunke murder. In 1994, the U.S. State Department reported that the Indian government had paid over 41,000 cash bounties for killing Sikhs.

Missionary Graham Staines was murdered along with his two sons, ages 8 and 10, by a mob of militant, fundamentalist Hindu nationalists who set fire to the jeep, surrounded it, and chanted “Victory to Hannuman,” a Hindu god. None of the people involved has been tried. The persons who have murdered priests, raped nuns, and burned Christian churches have not been charged or tried. The murderers of 2,000 to 5,000 Muslims in Gujarat have never been brought to trial. An Indian newspaper reported that the police were ordered not to get involved in that massacre, a frightening parallel to the Delhi massacre of Sikhs in 1984.

India is not one country; it is a polyglot thrown together for the convenience of the British colonialists. It is doomed to break up as they did. Last year, the Punjab Legislative Assembly passed a bill cancelling the government’s daylight robbery of Punjab river water. The Assembly explicitly stated the sovereignty of Punjab.

“The Indian regime stands exposed for the bloody tyranny that it is,” said Dr. Aulakh. “This verdict is a major setback to their repressive drive for hegemony over all of South Asia,” he said. “This is a victory not only for the Sikh Nation, but for freedom-loving people everywhere.”

“I urge the international community to help us free Khalistan from Indian occupation,” Dr. Aulakh said. “Freedom is the birthright of all people and nations,” he said. “As Professor Darshan Singh, a former Jathedar of the Akal Takht, said, “If a Sikh is not for Khalistan, he is not a Sikh”,” Dr. Aulakh noted. “We must continue to press for freedom,” he said. “Without political power, religions cannot flourish and nations perish. A sovereign Khalistan is essential for the survival of the Sikh religion and the Sikh Nation.”

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This material is circulated by the Council of Khalistan, which is registered with the Department of Justice (DOJ) in Washington, DC under the Foreign Agents Registration Act as an agent of the Council of Khalistan, Golden Temple, Amritsar, Punjab. The material is filed with the DOJ where the required registration is available for inspection.

Registration does not indicate approval of the contents by the U.S. Government.

[Guest Hardeep_S_Khalsa]

Sikhs still don't have fuill justice on the Air India Case. A true gursikh, Inderjeet Singh is still serving his sentence in jail. Its a ashame!!

[Guest PRITAM SINGH KHALSA]

India needs to be split apart and have a yardsale for who takes certain parts of the country. Then savages cant hide behind a corrupt goverment.

[Hardeep__singh]

No one is innocent! Guilt and Secrets will prevail, you have to answer to the Dharam Raj! Even if justice is not done here, it will be done once your dead.

[buddasingh]

No one is innocent! Guilt and Secrets will prevail, you have to answer to the Dharam Raj! Even if justice is not done here, it will be done once your dead.

What does that mean? Are you suggesting that the accussed should have been convicted? Why bother whispering and insinuating?

If you have something worthy of consideration to add, please share it.

[Bored]

No one is innocent! Guilt and Secrets will prevail, you have to answer to the Dharam Raj! Even if justice is not done here, it will be done once your dead.

What does that mean? Are you suggesting that the accussed should have been convicted? Why bother whispering and insinuating?

If you have something worthy of consideration to add, please share it.

well i dont think( if he was guilty) he did the rite thing of blowing innocents in a plane, and may i remind u sikhs were killed too.

think of it in this way, do u really think guru gobind ji wud allow such a thing?

if it was a plane full of the politicians that were involved with 84 then... :D

[buddasingh]

No one is innocent! Guilt and Secrets will prevail, you have to answer to the Dharam Raj! Even if justice is not done here, it will be done once your dead.

What does that mean? Are you suggesting that the accussed should have been convicted? Why bother whispering and insinuating?

If you have something worthy of consideration to add, please share it.

well i dont think( if he was guilty) he did the rite thing of blowing innocents in a plane, and may i remind u sikhs were killed too.

think of it in this way, do u really think guru gobind ji wud allow such a thing?

if it was a plane full of the politicians that were involved with 84 then... :D

No one is justifying anything. No one disputes that it is wrong to kill innocent people. You do not need to remind that Sikhs were killed. It does not matter who was killed.

Charges were brought for the wrong reasons including a culmination of political agendas, racism, media hype, bureaucratic group think, and corruption. Two men spent 4 years incarcerated and accused of mass murder simply because of media and cowboy hype in a country which claims to be known for it’s progressive human rights, social justice, and multiculturalism. The written judgment is public and is a massive scar on Canada's approach to justice. However, the masses continue to be fed by corporate media.

Do you also post as 'hardeep singh'? The question to the previous poster is "What is he saying?"

The question to you is have you read the judgment? If so do on what basis do you even suggest guilt?

[kurtas]

Sikhs still don't have fuill justice on the Air India Case. A true gursikh, Inderjeet Singh is still serving his sentence in jail. Its a ashame!!

Yes he is seriously a real true GurSikh......NOT

Reyat was convicted of manslaughter for the death of the two Japanese baggage handlers yet you think he is a true Gursikh ? Have you ever thought about the trauma the families of the two Japanese killed by his bomb have been through ? Reyat is just like the scum Punjab Police wale who went on the rampage killing our youth and raping our sisters in Punjab. So please do not build him into a hero, he has the blood on his hands and his participation in the bombing and killing of innocents is not compatible with Sikhi !!!

No one is innocent! Guilt and Secrets will prevail, you have to answer to the Dharam Raj! Even if justice is not done here, it will be done once your dead.

What does that mean? Are you suggesting that the accussed should have been convicted? Why bother whispering and insinuating?

If you have something worthy of consideration to add, please share it.

well i dont think( if he was guilty) he did the rite thing of blowing innocents in a plane, and may i remind u sikhs were killed too.

think of it in this way, do u really think guru gobind ji wud allow such a thing?

if it was a plane full of the politicians that were involved with 84 then... :D

Charges were brought for the wrong reasons including a culmination of political agendas, racism, media hype, bureaucratic group think, and corruption. Two men spent 4 years incarcerated and accused of mass murder simply because of media and cowboy hype in a country which claims to be known for it?

One of the two is a total a%% (the one who was showboating about killing 50K Hindus at a conference in the 1980s), depsite him trying to play a big time charlie he hid in Canada and did not have the bottle to go to india. His and Parmars background and sudden wealth is questioned in the Soft Target book and it is time that those who quote sections of this book start to quote all the chapters about Parmers wealth etc. As they say there was something black in the dal. One of the idiots was happily taking loans form indian banks whilst advocating killing 50K Hindus. Why did a nationalised GOI bank advance him large loans and why did an "ardent" backer of Khalistan go to a GOI bank for loans ?

[Guest Hardeep_S_Khalsa]

Sikhs still don't have fuill justice on the Air India Case. A true gursikh, Inderjeet Singh is still serving his sentence in jail. Its a ashame!!

Yes he is seriously a real true GurSikh......NOT

Reyat was convicted of manslaughter for the death of the two Japanese baggage handlers yet you think he is a true Gursikh ? Have you ever thought about the trauma the families of the two Japanese killed by his bomb have been through ? Reyat is just like the scum Punjab Police wale who went on the rampage killing our youth and raping our sisters in Punjab. So please do not build him into a hero, he has the blood on his hands and his participation in the bombing and killing of innocents is not compatible with Sikhi !!!

No one is innocent! Guilt and Secrets will prevail, you have to answer to the Dharam Raj! Even if justice is not done here, it will be done once your dead.

What does that mean? Are you suggesting that the accussed should have been convicted? Why bother whispering and insinuating?

If you have something worthy of consideration to add, please share it.

well i dont think( if he was guilty) he did the rite thing of blowing innocents in a plane, and may i remind u sikhs were killed too.

think of it in this way, do u really think guru gobind ji wud allow such a thing?

if it was a plane full of the politicians that were involved with 84 then... :D

Charges were brought for the wrong reasons including a culmination of political agendas, racism, media hype, bureaucratic group think, and corruption. Two men spent 4 years incarcerated and accused of mass murder simply because of media and cowboy hype in a country which claims to be known for it?

One of the two is a total a%% (the one who was showboating about killing 50K Hindus at a conference in the 1980s), depsite him trying to play a big time charlie he hid in Canada and did not have the bottle to go to india. His and Parmars background and sudden wealth is questioned in the Soft Target book and it is time that those who quote sections of this book start to quote all the chapters about Parmers wealth etc. As they say there was something black in the dal. One of the idiots was happily taking loans form indian banks whilst advocating killing 50K Hindus. Why did a nationalised GOI bank advance him large loans and why did an "ardent" backer of Khalistan go to a GOI bank for loans ?

Inderjeet Singh is a true gursikh. He was honest and lived a gursikhi lifestyle! Kurtas Singh jee, I think theirs alot more to this!! The CSIS had planted many bomb making material into his garden. One question that all ways comes to mind is: Why would the CSIS want to destroy all the intelligence? There is a lot more to this and I don't you should do nindiya. The truth will always be the truth!

I cant really say much about Bagri and Palmer, what you said about them is totally true. What Bagri said about killing 50k Hindu was totally wrong, but u got to understand is his anger at that time, the GOI had attacked Harmander Sahib, Delhi Massacre and many Gursikhs were being killed in fake encounters. Sikhs were very emotional at that time!

I dont really want to get into a fight with you Kurtas Singh, BUT out all the singhs, I have a LOT of respect for Bhai Sahib Inderjeet Singh and I hope we get justice!!

[kurtas]

Sikhs still don't have fuill justice on the Air India Case. A true gursikh, Inderjeet Singh is still serving his sentence in jail. Its a ashame!!

Yes he is seriously a real true GurSikh......NOT

Reyat was convicted of manslaughter for the death of the two Japanese baggage handlers yet you think he is a true Gursikh ? Have you ever thought about the trauma the families of the two Japanese killed by his bomb have been through ? Reyat is just like the scum Punjab Police wale who went on the rampage killing our youth and raping our sisters in Punjab. So please do not build him into a hero, he has the blood on his hands and his participation in the bombing and killing of innocents is not compatible with Sikhi !!!

No one is innocent! Guilt and Secrets will prevail, you have to answer to the Dharam Raj! Even if justice is not done here, it will be done once your dead.

What does that mean? Are you suggesting that the accussed should have been convicted? Why bother whispering and insinuating?

If you have something worthy of consideration to add, please share it.

well i dont think( if he was guilty) he did the rite thing of blowing innocents in a plane, and may i remind u sikhs were killed too.

think of it in this way, do u really think guru gobind ji wud allow such a thing?

if it was a plane full of the politicians that were involved with 84 then... :D

Charges were brought for the wrong reasons including a culmination of political agendas, racism, media hype, bureaucratic group think, and corruption. Two men spent 4 years incarcerated and accused of mass murder simply because of media and cowboy hype in a country which claims to be known for it?

One of the two is a total a%% (the one who was showboating about killing 50K Hindus at a conference in the 1980s), depsite him trying to play a big time charlie he hid in Canada and did not have the bottle to go to india. His and Parmars background and sudden wealth is questioned in the Soft Target book and it is time that those who quote sections of this book start to quote all the chapters about Parmers wealth etc. As they say there was something black in the dal. One of the idiots was happily taking loans form indian banks whilst advocating killing 50K Hindus. Why did a nationalised GOI bank advance him large loans and why did an "ardent" backer of Khalistan go to a GOI bank for loans ?

Inderjeet Singh is a true gursikh. He was honest and lived a gursikhi lifestyle! Kurtas Singh jee, I think theirs alot more to this!! The CSIS had planted many bomb making material into his garden. One question that all ways comes to mind is: Why would the CSIS want to destroy all the intelligence? There is a lot more to this and I don't you should do nindiya. The truth will always be the truth!

I cant really say much about Bagri and Palmer, what you said about them is totally true. What Bagri said about killing 50k Hindu was totally wrong, but u got to understand is his anger at that time, the GOI had attacked Harmander Sahib, Delhi Massacre and many Gursikhs were being killed in fake encounters. Sikhs were very emotional at that time!

I dont really want to get into a fight with you Kurtas Singh, BUT out all the singhs, I have a LOT of respect for Bhai Sahib Inderjeet Singh and I hope we get justice!!

This is not about fighting but thinking logically about what was done by these dirty a££holes masquerading as Gursikhs. Drop the old nindya thing, the tune is now worn out.

It is very simple. Reyat makes bomb (I dont care who put the material there, if you have fertiliser in your garden you do not turn it into a fertiliser bomb do you ?), the same bomb kills 2 innocent people. This is not the action of a Sikh. Building bombs knowing full well the damage and destruction they can cause is the act of dirty low life scum terrorists not of GurSikhs. Please get this into your head and stop turning this dirty monster into some form of hero !

Yes there was anger, so what stopped Bagri going to Punjab and starting his murder spree. The man was a sellout intent on doing GOI dirty work by projecting Sikhs as blood thirsty killers.

As for Malik and Palmar, their links with GOI etc are there for everyone to see. People try to make Palmar out as a real Panthic person yet Soft Target questions his sudden found wealth. Malik and his links with GOI Banking institutions is well known.