Yes, We Killed, We Faked

[SarabhaPanjab]

Yes, we killed, we faked. Top Indian cops tell it all

Written by Ajmer Singh

Thursday, September 20, 2007

New Delhi shuts eyes, civil society turns deaf and dumb

CHANDIGARH/SAN JOSE: At a time when the world is increasingly getting sensitized to the human right situation across the globe and strong voices are emerging from within the United States civil society against even the Bush administration on the issue of continuing engagement of American troops in Iraq, in India the situation is exactly the opposite. The apologists of the Indian regime and top-shot police officers who have been valorized by official India are publicly taking a stance that the federal regime had backed them in illegal killings of Sikh youth and there should be now no move to book any of these killers.

The argument: This was all in the interest of India. Killing Sikh youth by getting surrendered militants to identify them and then obliterating their identities and using them to encroach upon other people's lands and properties should be retrospectively considered legal.

Punjab's shame and India's so called super cop, K.P.S Gill, has now said that the Indian government should not bother about the strategy of police having some domestic 'Cats'. It may be recalled that police officers like Gill and former Punjab DGP Sarabdeep Singh Virk were the pioneers in the concept of 'Cats'. Any militants who would turn renegades would be illegally used by the police as spotters for other militants. Now, Virk is facing the heat as he has fallen foul of the Punjab government of Parkash Singh Badal, itself no great savior of the Sikhs or the Sikh thought. Virk was perceived close to the Amarinder Singh regime and is being made to pay for that proximity, but the fact remains that the confrontation has brought to the fore the truth of India's strategy to deal with what it called terrorism. In plain words, it was state terrorism.

Now, Gill has come forward to defend his old time crony, and his strategy is to be more blatant. At a function of Hind Samachar group of papers in Jalandhar in India, Gill said when the going got tough all sorts of strategies were followed "in the larger interest of the country". The Indian media dutifully reported Gill's comments (See The Tribune of Sep 17 or any other paper for that matter) without commenting or even editorializing with perspective what India's convicted-for-moral-turpitude 'hero' was really saying.

Gill in fact said that the police not only used Cats, "but also rats, bats, camels and the ilk.” His statement was clearly designed to fudge the issue and rather ridicule the entire construct of the human rights. "We were given a free hand as there was no other way of stamping out terrorism in Punjab. Since the other arms of the state were paralyzed, it fell on the men in uniform to take upon them to do their duty, even at the cost of their lives," KPS Gill said.

So there the Sikh community has it. India's top cops are telling it that they were armed by the nod from New Delhi to go ahead and kill innocent Sikh youth in fake encounters, pour tomato ketchup on Cats, click them lying down, show them as 'dead' and then harbor these Cats for another day, perhaps to loot other people's properties. This is now what Virk is accused of. The then CM Amarinder Singh is already on record about the use of tomato ketchup, and Virk is on record about the use of Cats and fake encounters. Now, KPS Gill is confirming each one of these averments, and Indian civil society has turned deaf and dumb, India's media has its tail between its legs and official India has its eyes wide shut.

On the case regarding use of Cats against Virk, KPS Gill said “Such actions will only demoralize the men already combating terrorism in the country. It will also act as the sword of Damocles for those who have retired.” Clearly, men like Gill want the Indian government to legalize the killings retrospectively. New Delhi is doing even better by shutting its eyes.

“You will see that the case will not pass muster,” KPS Gill said. We already know. Parkash Singh Badal's interest in the matter is not spurred by any concern for the Sikh quom, and the Indian government does not lose any sleep because its police officers are killing innocents in fake encounters, giving a boost to the tomato ketchup industry.

[Akaali]

Please keep these topics in the politics section.

[chatanga]

its good to see that the ravan sena is being exposed by the ravan govt. lets hope they all get jailed for life. ssp's and cats and whatever.

[pun9ab1]

"in the larger interest of the country"

that statement bothers me a lot. :lol:

[mann_kaum_layee_qurbaan]

the hindu vote bank doesn't want to discuss this according to the head of the BJP in Punjab. so i don't even know anymore if we can just complain about the government. because according to the BJP, even the average hindu wishes to have his eyes wide shut.

I'm not bashing hinduism, but 900 million hindus who supposedly don't even hurt acow have yet to speak up against the killing of human beings. for them killing tens of thousands of innocents ikhs is legal for "protecting" the nation" whereas, the killing of CM beant sio by sikhs to protect their nation was terrorism.

these are the perks of freedom. having hindustan has given hindus a voice and an arena to decide what is right and what is wrong in terms of political and religious freedom.

the same political and religious authority guru hargobind singh ji gifted us, yet the "philisophical" sikhs will refuse anything related to political power.

these are the perks of having your own country. you get to do what is necessary to protect your ideals and way of life.

so, now what? our own homeland?

you betta believe it.

peace.

[chatanga]

well put.