Separatist In Golden Temple Ban

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Dal Khalsa Invites Kashmiri Leader But He Is Put Under House Arrest

A prominent separatist leader in Indian-administered Kashmir, Syed Ali Shah Geelani, has been prevented from visiting the Golden Temple in Amritsar.

Mr Geelani hoped to become the first Kashmiri separatist leader to attend a function to commemorate the storming of the temple in June 1984.

He was invited to attend by a separatist Sikh party.

The Golden Temple is the Sikh community's most sacred site. Hundreds died when it was stormed by the army.

The operation, named Bluestar, was targeted against militants believed to be hiding in the temple premises.

The operation lasted more than a week and civilians and militants were among the casualties.

The BBC's Altaf Hussain in Srinagar says that Mr Geelani was invited by the Punjab-based Dal Khalsa party to be the chief guest at the commemorative function on 4 June.

The participants will speak on the motion that "minority" places of worship are unsafe in India.

But the authorities placed Mr Geelani under house arrest and have deployed security personnel outside his home since Sunday night to stop him from going.

Mr Geelani leads a hardline faction of the separatist All Party Hurriyat Conference. He has regularly been put under house arrest by Indian forces.

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NEW DELHI, June 3 APP: Kashmiri leader Syed Ali Geelani, Chairman of his own faction of All Parties Hurriyat Conference was arrested by the authorities to prevent him from attending a minorities conclave on June 4 in Amristsar.

The conclave is being held in connection with 24th anniversary of Operation Bluestar.

Tribune quoting the Dal Khalsa, organisers of the Sikh conclave, has said “come what may, the proposed joint conclave of Muslims, Sikhs and Christians would be held in Amritsar on June 4.”

Talking to the daily from Hyderpora (occupied Kashmir), Syed Ali Shah Geelani said he was asked by the SHO, Humhama, not to leave his house (in the Valley) till further orders. He informed more than 30 security personnel had been deployed outside his house.

He said the action taken on behest of Delhi Government was aimed at debarring leaders of minority communities to assemble at a single platform.

According to the daily, this is for the first time Geelani has not been allowed to visit any state in India. Earlier, he was banned to visit Pakistan.

At the conclave, leaders of minorities are likely to highlight attacks on their religious places in India including Babri Masjid, Golden Temple and Akal Takht in June 1984.

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He said the action taken on behest of Delhi Government was aimed at debarring leaders of minority communities to assemble at a single platform.

Detention without charge, a common tool used by world's biggest "democracy". We have seen this before with Bhai Diljit Singh Bittu and Sardar Simranjit Singh Mann, always put on "house arrest" before any kind of major rally or protest.

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Srinagar, June 3: Placed under house arrest since Sunday to ‘prevent’ him from attending the 24th anniversary of army’s storming of Golden Temple in Amritsar, chairman Hurriyat Conference (G), Syed Ali Geelani today accused government of stopping him from ‘conveying truth’ about the desecration of religious places and human right violations by troops in Kashmir.

Geelani was invited by Dal Khalsa –a separatist Sikh party– as the chief guest of the function in Golden Temple, Amritsar on Wednesday.

“It (Dal Khalsa) supports our cause of right to self determination and they had invited me in the function. But I am being barred from attending the function and kept under house arrest since I was going to speak about the desecration of the religious places by troops in Kashmir and elsewhere,” Geelani told reporters during a news conference at his Hyderpora residence on Tuesday.

The Hurriyat chairman said India had used its military might in Amritsar during the ‘operation blue star’ in June 1984 and was doing same in Kashmir. “Our mosques, shrines and other places of religious importance have also been desecrated by Indian troops since the past two decades. And I was going to spoke about it tomorrow,” he said.

Geelani also cited the examples of Hazratbal and Charar-e-Sharief sieges saying that these religious places were outraged by troops. “Those who protested against these incidents were brutally killed by troops,” he said.

Geelani said India was committing atrocities on its minority communities in India. “Thousands of Sikhs were killed after the assassination of Indira Gandhi in 1984. Similarly, hundreds of Muslims who were protesting the demolition of Babri Masjid were killed by government with impunity,” he said.

He said that congress government was responsible for the demolition of Babri Masjid. “They (congress) are no different from BJP. Infact, they covertly carry forward the mission of BJP,” he said.

Lashing out the government, Geelani said that New Delhi orchestrated the killing of 36 Sikhs in Chattisingpora in March, 2002 ahead of the then US president Billion Clinton’s visit to India. “India wanted to show Clinton that Kashmiri freedom movement was nothing more than terrorism and killed the Sikhs—living in minority in Kashmir,” Geelani said, adding that incident was aimed at sabotaging the communal harmony in Valley.

Expressing concern over the plight of Muslim minorities in India, he said Muslims were backward educationally, economically as well as culturally. “Muslims don’t have any say in India. They are being forced to recite Vande Mataram,” he said.

Responding to the queries from media persons about the fatwa issued by Darul-uloom Deoband, Geelani said that they should also bring the terrorism in the ambit of their fatwa. “We appreciate that they have condemned and termed terrorism by various individuals or groups as un-Islamic. But they should also condemned the terrorism carried out by state,” he said.

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He said that congress government was responsible for the demolition of Babri Masjid. “They (congress) are no different from BJP. Infact, they covertly carry forward the mission of BJP,” he said.

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