Phoolka For Travel Ban On Perpetrators Of Anti-sikh Riots

[JagtarSinghKhalsa]

Phoolka for travel ban on perpetrators of anti-Sikh riots

Express News Service Posted online: Nov 01, 2008 at 2319 hrs

Chandigarh, October 31 : Supreme Court senior advocate and former senior standing counsel for the Union government Harvinder Singh Phoolka addressed MPs in UK Parliament ahead of the 24th anniversary of the 1984 anti-Sikh riots.

The event was hosted by British Parliamentarian Rob Marris, who is also the Chair of the All Party Parliamentary Group for UK Sikhs. Phoolka, who spoke in the Jubilee Hall in the UK House, trained guns at Congress leaders, including Jagdish Tytler, and demanded a worldwide travel ban on them.

Phoolka has been representing as the counsel for the 1984 riot victims and fighting for their rights for decades. Phoolka said a coalition to campaign for a worldwide travel ban on those involved in genocide and crimes against humanity had now been put in place. Responding to a query by The Indian Express through e-mail today, he said the coalition comprising Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, Liberty and Redress Trust, would be a powerful medium to press for the demand.

The event was attended by a group of MPs, including Minister John Spellar and Shadow Attorney General Edward Garnier. Phoolka said the focus of his lecture was to emphasise that the persons committing "communal violence" to terrorise a community were no less than terrorists. "We requested MPs to impress upon the UK government not to allow Tytler and others to enter," he said.

Phoolka alleged, "The 1984 genocide was the beginning of the government-sponsored violence against a minority community in India."

He said had the guilty of 1984 riots been punished, the killing of Christians would not have taken place. Kevin Laue, a Zimbabwean rights lawyer representing the Redress Trust, explained the steps that were needed to ensure that there was a political will to implement the travel ban.

[JagtarSinghKhalsa]

Harvinder Singh Phoolka is currently (10-12pm) on Desi Radio Sky Channel 0169

Phoolka for travel ban on perpetrators of anti-Sikh riots

Express News Service Posted online: Nov 01, 2008 at 2319 hrs

Chandigarh, October 31 : Supreme Court senior advocate and former senior standing counsel for the Union government Harvinder Singh Phoolka addressed MPs in UK Parliament ahead of the 24th anniversary of the 1984 anti-Sikh riots.

The event was hosted by British Parliamentarian Rob Marris, who is also the Chair of the All Party Parliamentary Group for UK Sikhs. Phoolka, who spoke in the Jubilee Hall in the UK House, trained guns at Congress leaders, including Jagdish Tytler, and demanded a worldwide travel ban on them.

Phoolka has been representing as the counsel for the 1984 riot victims and fighting for their rights for decades. Phoolka said a coalition to campaign for a worldwide travel ban on those involved in genocide and crimes against humanity had now been put in place. Responding to a query by The Indian Express through e-mail today, he said the coalition comprising Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, Liberty and Redress Trust, would be a powerful medium to press for the demand.

The event was attended by a group of MPs, including Minister John Spellar and Shadow Attorney General Edward Garnier. Phoolka said the focus of his lecture was to emphasise that the persons committing "communal violence" to terrorise a community were no less than terrorists. "We requested MPs to impress upon the UK government not to allow Tytler and others to enter," he said.

Phoolka alleged, "The 1984 genocide was the beginning of the government-sponsored violence against a minority community in India."

He said had the guilty of 1984 riots been punished, the killing of Christians would not have taken place. Kevin Laue, a Zimbabwean rights lawyer representing the Redress Trust, explained the steps that were needed to ensure that there was a political will to implement the travel ban.

[spamindersingh]

With India economic might increasing the likes of the UK government do not have the bottle to implement a travel ban and even worse when the murdering scum politicians and police are on holiday in the UK (without any immunity) they are not arrested. There was a case of an afghan who was charged and sentenced in England for crimes he had committed in afghanistan. So whats stopping the Sikhs obtaining similar justice ?

[JagtarSinghKhalsa]

With India economic might increasing the likes of the UK government do not have the bottle to implement a travel ban and even worse when the murdering scum politicians and police are on holiday in the UK (without any immunity) they are not arrested. There was a case of an afghan who was charged and sentenced in England for crimes he had committed in afghanistan. So whats stopping the Sikhs obtaining similar justice ?

Criminal Justice Act has been around since 1988 - this year marks 20 years - only one successful prosecution of an Afghan Warlord several years ago for 20 years. In general lack of political will and limited police resources - so ban boycott is best practical option, although an attempt could be made to prosecute one or two where the evidence post 1988 is available.

[dasmesh_regiment]

i agree that a travel ban is the best practical option. no one will be arrested whilst abroad. we can only lobby for a travel ban. this will highlight to the world what these dogs have done.

[spamindersingh]

With India economic might increasing the likes of the UK government do not have the bottle to implement a travel ban and even worse when the murdering scum politicians and police are on holiday in the UK (without any immunity) they are not arrested. There was a case of an afghan who was charged and sentenced in England for crimes he had committed in afghanistan. So whats stopping the Sikhs obtaining similar justice ?

Criminal Justice Act has been around since 1988 - this year marks 20 years - only one successful prosecution of an Afghan Warlord several years ago for 20 years. In general lack of political will and limited police resources - so ban boycott is best practical option, although an attempt could be made to prosecute one or two where the evidence post 1988 is available.

Are you still linked with the Sikh Fed ? Ok how about this, Sukhbir Badal is in the UK every few months. He has no real diplomatic reason to be here so immunity will not be an issue. In Punjab we have Paramjit Singh Dhadi and other Singh locked up and they have been tortured. So can't the Sikh Fed get its MP friends to initiate the arrest of Sukhbir Badal next time he is in the UK. If not arrest then lets ban him form entry. Also there are ample affadavits which state that Mr. Kamal Nath (Minister of Commerce and Industry) was whipping up the crowds involved in the 84 genocide. So next time he is in the UK lets have him arrested and tried. Witnesses against Kamal Nath are in USA etc who saw him leading the mobs etc, if not arrest then lets get him banned from entry into UK.

I am surprised none of the Singh in Belgium took advantage of their laws to seek prosecution for war crimes against the likes of KPS Gill when he was over there several years ago.

[JagtarSinghKhalsa]

Sikhs observe 24th anniversary of 1984 riots

New Delhi | Saturday, Nov 1 2008 IST

Observing the 24th anniversary of the 1984 Anti-Sikh riots today, several Sikh organisations said that it was the ''beginning of government-sponsored violence against minorities which was evident in Gujarat in 2002 and in the recent attacks on Christians thereby communalising the Indian polity to the core.'' The Hindutva forces, then backing Indira Gandhi were believed to be behind the massacre of the Sikhs but later the RSS and its political front Bharatiya Janata Party had successfully shifted the entire blame on the Congress, said a member of Delhi Sikh Gurdwara Management Committee(DSGMC).

'That is why, neither the six-year long BJP-led NDA rule nor the Congress-led UPA government expressed even a customary or regret in Parliament till today on the killings of more than 3000 innocent Sikhs in Delhi alone,'' he said. Several Singh Sabhas and local gurdwara committees here organised special prayers in the religious places, on the roads and in trains in the memory of those who were killed following then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi's assassination.

Earlier, on the eve of the 24th anti-Sikh riots anniversary, Mr Harvinder Singh Phoolka, a senior lawyer of Supreme Court, while addressing the MPs in the UK Parliament on October 30, said the 1984 genocide of Sikhs was the beginning of government-sponsored violence against a particular minority community in the country.

Despite being aware of the situation, foreign governments and leaders did not exert sufficient pressure on the Indian Government and no actions were taken, he added. If this had been nipped in the bud at that time and the guilty of 1984 had been punished, then the recent attacks on Christians with impunity would not have taken place, Mr Phoolka said.

In the last few weeks, the US, the UK and the Australian Governments have expressed their concerns to India over the continued anti-Christian violence. French President Nicholas Sarkozy, on behalf of the 27 EU countries and civil society groups in the 53-nation Commonwealth, have also voiced their concern. Mr Phoolka appealed to the MPs, from each of the three main political parties, to get the UK Government and nations across the globe to recognise that the violence against the minority communities is ''an act of state terrorism and communal violence targeting minorities is totally unacceptable.'' At this Parliamentary event, organised by the Sikh Federation (UK) and hosted by Rob Marris MP, the Chair All Party Parliamentary Group for UK Sikhs, it was revealed that a coalition to campaign for a worldwide travel ban/boycott of those from India involved in torture, genocide and crimes against humanity had now been put in place. It is a powerful coalition comprising Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, Liberty and the Redress Trust.

http://news.webindia123.com/news/Articles/...01/1093380.html

[dasmesh_regiment]

spaminder i sense that you are trying to ridicule some sikhs attempts at achieving something. if that is your intention then you should be ashamed of yourself.

[lsingh]

With India economic might increasing the likes of the UK government do not have the bottle to implement a travel ban and even worse when the murdering scum politicians and police are on holiday in the UK (without any immunity) they are not arrested. There was a case of an afghan who was charged and sentenced in England for crimes he had committed in afghanistan. So whats stopping the Sikhs obtaining similar justice ?

Narendra Modi CM of Gujarat has been banned from the USA and was to scared to visit the UK in case he was arrested for the Gujarat massacres. In the Atlanta Olympics , after some succesful lobbying by Sikhs no airline would carry Gill, the Olympic committee had to make arrangements for him to travel by train.

[JagtarSinghKhalsa]

Harvinder Singh Phoolka will be speaking today (Sunday 2 November) at Sri Guru Singh Sabha, Slough for 30 minutes between 10-11am

Please try and attend

He returns to Delhi later today