URGENT!! SIKH PRISONERS IN KUWAIT

[mann_kaum_layee_qurbaan]

Waaheguru Ji Ka Khalsa

Waaheguru Ji Ki Fateh!

As we all know the situation in Iraq is deplorable as innocent people of all faiths are being kidnapped and killed. My friends just came back from Punjab and told me about a Sikh truck driver that was kidnapped and murdered In Iraq. He worked for a Kuwaiti trucking company. He has left behind a wife and two young children and they are on the verge of becoming homeless because the Kuwaiti trucking company is refusing to compensate them and the INdian government is doing nothing as well. Another Sikh truck driver escaped and came back to pUnjab and told of the cruel treatment of Punjabi Sikh truck drivers in Kuwait. He said that the Kuwaiti trucking companies are forcing Sikh truck drivers to take shipments to Iraq and if they refuse they are brutally beaten and their passports are held forcefully so they cannot go back to India. He said that the Sikh drivers are being abused very badly and the INdian government is doing nothing about it.

The Sikh driver who had been killed sold most of his land to get to Kuwait. Now after the sad events his family is left behind with no aide.

We need to find out what is going on. If theINdian government is not doing something well I think we need to do something. Write to our leaders and try to help these struggling families out. The SGPC which handles millions of dollars of Charawa can help such people but their infighting never ends and basically they are incompetent. We really need to do something.

First of all I need someone to verify this story and try to found out more. If we can get more info on such matters it would be a huge help. Thanks.

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Waaheguru Ji Ka Khalsa

Waaheguru Ji Ki Fateh!

[ParnaamShaheedaNu]

BUMP! :|

[S Singh]

vwihgurU jI kw Kwlsw!

vwihgurU jI kI &iqh!!

I never heard about this :wub: .... when did it happen? :T: .... does anyone have more details?

vwihgurU jI kw Kwlsw!

vwihgurU jI kI &iqh!!

[Jeevan]

Dear Sikhs,

Please contact Amnesty International www.amnesty.org, your Local MP as the Coalition Forces out in Iraq are supposed to protect ALL workers in the re-building of the country. Contact our Sikh papers Des Pardes, The Sikh Times, Panjab Times, British Sikh Federation.

I don't hold out for much hope for the Indian goverment in protecting the Sikhs. As for the SGPC as a Sikh organisation acting on our behalf you can draw your own conclusions.

Jeevan

[Ryu Hayabusa]

Yes let's contact Amnesty International right away.

Also check out their current campaigns, we can help in these too:

http://www.amnesty.org/campaign/

http://web.amnesty.org/actnow/appeals-eng

* I wasn't able to find an email on the Amnesty International website, anyone ?

[J@ZZ_$INGH]

that is terrible.the governments should be exposed worldwide and should be held resposible for this.what about contacting Human Rights org.wjkk wjkf.

[ParnaamShaheedaNu]

also try contacting the sikh coalition or whatever..Like Hardayal Singh in New Jersey or Mejinderpal Kaur

[Gurjeet_Kaur]

* I wasn't able to find an email on the Amnesty International website, anyone ?

http://web.amnesty.org/contacts/index/eng-000

try contacting them through there

[mann_kaum_layee_qurbaan]

that's what i asked my friends and they said that no newspapers reported it only some Punjabi newspapers in Punjab have reported it....

good ideas, thanks. I still would like to get the strory from Punjab because If Kuwait is abusing Sikhs in this manner well then there is a serious problem because not only do truck drivers have to worry about Iraqi terrorists but their own employers are terrorizing them...

[mann_kaum_layee_qurbaan]

I'll work on a letter but i think it would be best to get some hard evidence.