Us State Department Raps Violation Of Sikhs Human Rights In India

[lsingh]

http://www.mynews.in/fullstory.aspx?storyid=2955

US state department raps violation of Sikhs human rights in India

Publication Date 13/3/2008 12:35:25 PM(IST)

The United State''''s State department 2007 report raps the Indian government for alleged abuse of Sikhs human rights. The Country Report on Human Rights Practices - 2007 was released by the Bureau of Democracy, Human RIghts and Labour on March 11, 2008.

The report stated that in November a key witness in a 1984 anti-Sikh riots case involving senior Congress leader Jagdish Tytler resurfaced two months after the CBI declared that he was unreachable. In December a Delhi court ordered the CBI to reinvestigate the 1984 riots case and file a fresh report.

Tytler was accused of orchestrating the riots by encouraging Congress party workers, police, and mobs in Delhi to kill Sikhs and destroy their houses and businesses in retribution for the assassination of Indira Gandhi.

The report raps that the government has made little progress, however, in holding hundreds of police and security officials accountable for many disappearances committed during the Punjab counterinsurgency and the Delhi anti-Sikh riots of 1984-94, despite the presence of a special investigatory commission.

The NGO Ensaaf estimated that security forces killed and caused to disappear more than 10,000 Punjabi Sikhs and cremated 6,017 Sikhs in Amritsar in counter insurgency operations during the militancy

There were no developments in the 2006 case filed by Paramjit Kaur Khalra, the widow of human rights activist Jaswant Singh Khalra, seeking prosecution of former police chief K.P.S. Gill in the abduction, illegal detention, torture, and murder of her husband.

At year's end Khalra's case had not been tried in court. According to Ensaaf and other human rights organizations, in 1995 members of the Punjab police operating under Gill's command abducted and killed Khalra for investigating and exposing the disappearances and secret cremations of thousands of Sikhs in Punjab by security forces.

The Religious Institutions (Prevention of Misuse) Act of 1988 criminalizes the use of any religious site for political purposes or the use of temples to harbor persons accused or convicted of crimes. While specifically designed to deal with Sikh places of worship in Punjab, the law applies to all religious sites.

Under the Passports Act of 1967, the government may deny a passport to any applicant who "may or is likely to engage outside India in activities prejudicial to the sovereignty and integrity of India." In the past, the government used this provision to prohibit foreign travel by some government critics, especially those advocating Sikh independence, and members of the separatist movement in Jammu and Kashmir.

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[lsingh]

Link to US State Dept Report, covers all Indian issues

http://www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2007/100614.htm

[lsingh]

Link to US State Dept Report, covers all Indian issues

http://www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2007/100614.htm

Human Rights Violations

India rejects US views

Left terms it as interference in internal affairs

Rajeev Sharma

Tribune News Service

New Delhi, March 14

India today condemned the US State Department’s latest annual report on human rights, which has listed the Nandigram violence among the worst cases of rights violations in India in 2007. The CPM and the CPI quickly seized the opportunity to lambast the US for ‘grave interference of internal affairs of India by the Bush administration’.

Union information and broadcasting minister Priya Ranjan Dasmunsi said India wouldn’t take any criticism by the US on its internal matters. In the same breath, Dasmunsi also added that the government has accepted the fact that the Nandigram violence was brutal.

From the Manmohan Singh government’s perspective, the State Department’s report has come as a bolt from the blue at a time when the UPA government is trying to persuade the Left on the Indo-US nuclear deal. The UPA-Left panel on Indo-US nuclear deal is scheduled to meet here on March 17.

CPI leader Gurudas Dasgupta has also criticised and rejected the US report on Nandigram where violence broke out on March 14 last year over the acquisition of land for a special economic zone. Fourteen persons were killed in police firing on the day the violence began and at least 50 were killed in clashes since then.

The State Department report holds the West Bengal government responsible for the violence and termed it as a major case of human rights violation in India. It also mentions in detail the Rizwanur Rehman case in Kolkata, which, after the Nandigram violence, caused huge embarrassment to the Left-ruled West Bengal.

The 25436-word report on India also mentions in detail human rights violations in Narendra Modi’s Gujarat and has cited a large number of cases to prove its point, including the Sohrabuddin encounter and the Bilkis Bano rape case. The report also mentions the failure of the Modi government to arrest and convict those responsible for the 2002 violence. “Convictions of Hindu perpetrators of the violence were minimal, while acquittals were common,” it said.

It lists out a large number of instances of human rights violations in the troubled northeast as well as Jammu and Kashmir.

It brings to notice another Left bastion, Kerala, as well saying that the number of custodial deaths in the state has been abnormally high. “According to Kerala State Human Rights Commission, 46 persons died in state custody throughout the year,” it report said.

The slant of the report becomes clear from the fact that it fails to mention Iraq or China as the top human rights violators.

[caveman]

india is just going to play it down

[THE WARRIOR]

How many die daily in Iraq? and thats just one example

I would suggest that the United States is the worst Human Rights Violator in comparrison to how many people are suffering and dieing daily because of U.S foreign policy and its never ending consumerism thirst. Plenty have come forward and proclaimed this and that in the last twenty odd years, yet I don’t see any pressure by the U.N on India, China, US etc. Its all pretty on paper but that’s it limitations. Money talks and that’s the bottom line it controls everything except the worlds rotation everything else above the crust in some way or another is controlled by wealth, money and greed. I suggest people in Punjab start drilling for oil so the U.S can invade, give us democracy and start the second Raj.

Maskeen Ji once said a person greed is like the consuming fire if there where no oceans it would consume the world still it would not be satisfied. How very right he was.

[lsingh]

How many die daily in Iraq? and thats just one example

I would suggest that the United States is the worst Human Rights Violator in comparrison to how many people are suffering and dieing daily because of U.S foreign policy and its never ending consumerism thirst. Plenty have come forward and proclaimed this and that in the last twenty odd years, yet I don’t see any pressure by the U.N on India, China, US etc. Its all pretty on paper but that’s it limitations. Money talks and that’s the bottom line it controls everything except the worlds rotation everything else above the crust in some way or another is controlled by wealth, money and greed. I suggest people in Punjab start drilling for oil so the U.S can invade, give us democracy and start the second Raj.

Maskeen Ji once said a person greed is like the consuming fire if there where no oceans it would consume the world still it would not be satisfied. How very right he was.

It is good to see that the Indias human rights violations are coming out in the open. Many a time including even Sikhs say that the human rights violations are Khalistani propaganda. Amnesty, Human Rights Watch and even the US Government have officially acknowleged them. Another step forward for justcice for the victims.

[THE WARRIOR]

What you say is true, but realistically how many organisations have come forward and said “Yes” we acknowledge? So many, what’s been done? Nothing! that has any credible dent….the world keeps rotating we becomes dentists, pharmacists business owners, and the Gurdwara car-parks full of phat Mercs, that’s the only thing that has happened.

We continue to pretend consciousness, but we turn in our subconscious mind. We need a reality check, of what we really are every single individual, sangath, community etc should at least be truthful to themselves. People don’t care what happened back in 1984 that’s also a reality as hurtful as that may sound it’s the inevitable truth, to some it was something that happened someplace else. Like you said some even deny it happened how sad is that? We have become comfortable in a sofa mentality we live off the backs of our ancestry their sacrifices, we live for the now surviving daily, but it is just surviving, future? We have a cause some have a separate homeland some this some that but there is no empowerment no real conscious movement. Even those that want change with AK47s how many Jawans are there left? More probably in Southall illegally as the self proclaimed military. And the ones that are left back in Punjab most would sell their family members just to come here…and some do.

Punjab is flooded with religious this religious that, soon people are going to see that all this religion all these godly men yet no water, no food, and soon increasing poverty and a vast growing consumer middleclass. The rich are getting richer but its only a short spurt, poverty looms. We can no longer claim to be the bread basket because we aren’t and haven’t been for some time now. Self sufficiency has gone and the Punjab will need to rely on others for morsels of bread. Hardly anyone with two coins to rub together even bothers to toil in their own fields, every things hunky-dory, every ones fat and plump…..the calm before the dry storm.

[chani111]

Sikh representative in U.N Geneva,13th of March 2008

Geneva, UN - Sikh representative went to U.N Geneva on the 13th of March 2008 to highlight the issue of Sikhs nation in Indian union and the human right abuses within the union.This program was organized by Pritpal Singh Khalsa (Switzerland) of Dal Khalsa. The brefing was chaired by Mr. Charles Graves of the UN Human Rights Council.It was attended by repersentatives of many freedom seeking nations within union state of india.Repersentatives from kashmir,Assam,christians from orissa and sikhs.

Main issues highlighted were:

* Human right abuse of all minorties in india.

From Massacre of Sikhs in India in 1984 to Massacre Muslims in Gujarat 2002 to the on going attacks on christians. This is the patten of how attack on minorities takes place with state support.

· Events are created or used to carry out the ethnic cleaning of minorities.

· Media black-out is setup all around a state. eg sikhs in 1984,2002 gujrat ,2007 orissa.

· Mobs was organised and arms and weapons are issue to them. Including small fire arms, hang guns and small machine guns, swords, metal rods, petraol etc.

· Transport are arranged for the mobs and they are driven to their destinations.

· Shops ,Houses and place of worship belonging to a minority are targated , looted and burnt.

· Men,women,elderly and children belonging to a minority are targeted and killed

· Women belonging to a minority are gang raped and some died as result of the shock.

. Then media is let back in and it is described to media as riots between minority and Hindus.

* Sikh nations right of self-determination.

In 1986 the Sikhs held an historic Sarbat Khalsa (national gathering) and started to rebuild their supreme seat of Government, the Akal Takht Sahib in Amritsar, destroyed by the Indian Army during the infamous Operation Bluestar in which Punjab was literally sealed off and thousands of Sikhs were brutally massacred. Within days of the full withdrawal of the Indian Army from the Golden Temple Complex, more than 200,000 Sikhs had taken part in an extraordinary show of 'people power', not only to rebuild their sacred seat of power but their very destiny as a free Nation. It resolved unequivocally that the Sikh Nation would establish an independent sovereign Sikh state of Khalistan in accordance with their inalienable right of self determination as enshrined in international law.

* Call for indian unions democratic status to be reviewed.

India is an un-democratic country run by fascist hindutava regime.The world in fact needs to look no further than India's constitution to understand that this is a state unworthy of a place at the international top table. Articles 25 of that constitution, defines Sikhs (along with Buddists and Jains) as "Hindus" for the purposes of the constitution and the associated legislation that governs personal law, religious places of worship. In giving effect to the provisions the Indian Supreme Court, seemingly without any apparent sense of embarrassment, opined in 2005 as follows:

"The so-called minority communities like Sikhs and Jains were not treated as national minorities at the time of framing the Constitution. Sikhs and Jains, in fact, have throughout been treated as part of the wider Hindu community which has different sects, sub-sects, faiths, modes of worship and religious philosophies. In various codified customary laws like Hindu Marriage Act, Hindu Succession Act, Hindu Adoption and Maintenance Act and other laws of pre and post-Constitution period, definition of 'Hindu' included all sects, sub-sects of Hindu religions including Sikhs and Jains."

Caste system is also inshrine in this constution.Caste System is not just Racism, but it is much more Vicious, Venomous, Evil and Cruel; Caste System is Racism, Fascism and Nazism

It has been frequently written about these days and even the so-called intellectuals and the social scientists in CASTE INDIA keep saying with absolute arrogance that 'The Caste System cannot be clubbed with Racism because Caste System is not Racism and also this is the "internal problem of India" and therefore the world community cannot and should not discuss the hindu Caste System in "The United Nations Conference Against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance to be held in Durban, South Africa during August 28 and September 1, 2001". This only shows how much these so-called hindu intellectuals and social scientists are immersed in the evil teachings of HINDU SATANIC CULT and thus adamantly adhere to the appalling intellectual dishonesty. They are such intellectual prostitutes by their conspiracy of deafening silence always maintain that they are ready and willing to prostitute their so-called intelligence to protect their ill-gotten benefits out of an unique hindu evil and inhuman system of dreadful and grisly Caste System. By maintaining iron-fisted arrogance of upholding this evil Caste System, the venomous manifestation of the barbarous hindu Satanic Cult, these evil hindu creatures want the perpetuation and the continuation of the most heinous and unspeakable vicious crimes, atrocities, and abuses against humanity at any cost. And the most heinous and ferocious practice of untouchability that is being imposed on the desperately innocent citizens of Caste India by the EVIL CASTE SYSTEM of the barbarous hindu Satanic Cult is the daily occurrence in Caste India at free will and at ease.