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Sikh Federation Uk: Update On Murderer, 'Kamal Nath’S Visit To Belgium' Issue


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The following Sikh Federation letter was sent to all 72 UK MEPs, through the federations 12 'regional' hubs across the UK (this allows for all MEPs to be reached). The letter was also made available to contacts in France, Germany, Italy, Greece, Belgium, Netherlands etc. So MEPs in other countries were also contacted. Many MEP’s are expected to raise this issue with the Belgian PM etc….

It is still not too late for the general sangat to strengthen this campaign by contacting their own MEPs, by following the below instructions (will take no more than a minute):-

  1. Select link http://www.writetothem.com/
  2. Enter your postcode.
  3. Select ‘Write to all your MEPs
  4. Populate mandatory fields and paste in the letter below.
  5. Populate your name & address at the end of the letter.

5th EUROINDIA SUMMIT - ACTIONS FOR UK MEPs WITH RESPECT TO INDIAN MINISTER, KAMAL NATH & PROFESSOR DAVINDERPAL SINGH BHULLAR

Kamal Nath, India’s Minister for Urban Development is scheduled to attend and address the 5th EuroIndia Summit on 13 and 14 October 2011 in Leuven, Belgium.

It is a matter of official record {Justice Nanavati Commission Report-2005} that Kamal Nath was in control of the mob that attacked Sri Rakab Ganj Gurdwara (Sikh place of worship), opposite the Indian Parliament, in November 1984. Kamal Nath admits being present at the Gurdwara at the time of attack. {Under Oath Statement of Kamal Nath to Justice Nanavati Commission}.

Kamal Nath led and controlled the mob assault on the Gurdwara where hundreds of Sikhs had taken refuge. After a siege that lasted a day, parts of the Gurdwara complex were put on fire and Sikhs were burned alive by the mob.

Sikhs have approached Belgium Prime Minister, Yves Leterme, apprising him of Kamal Nath’s role in the massacre of Sikhs in November 1984 and urged that he be banned from entry into Belgium. Belgium’s law provides for “extra territorial jurisdiction” to criminally prosecute individuals for crimes against humanity and genocide committed outside Belgium. Belgium law of extra territorial jurisdiction does not provide immunity to any head of the states or dignitaries.

We urge you to raise this matter with the Belgium authorities to find out if Kamal Nath is to be denied entry to Belgium or if he will be arrested, charged and prosecuted while he is in Belgium.

As a senior Indian politician he has not been charged in a court of law in India, as he says, but his "involvement" in the 1984 cases is also a matter recorded by Manoj Mitta and Harvinder Singh Phoolka in their book - When A Tree Shook Delhi.

Extracts from the chapter titled: A Tale of Two Gurdwaras is as follows:

[Page 49] ...Rakab Ganj Gurudwara, despite being across the street from Parliament House, was subjected to a prolonged siege in which its periphery was damaged, and two Sikhs were roasted alive. The attack on Rakab Ganj Gurudwara was also remarkable for the fact that it was probably the first, and so far, the only instance in the history of mass violence in India, where a political leader admitted to being on the spot. And such an instance ironically occurred in the immediate vicinity of India's parliament.

The leader in question was Kamal Nath, who was at the time of the 1984 carnage, an up and coming Congress MP from Madhya Pradesh, and is now a cabinet minister holding a key economic portfolio in the Manmohan Singh government. In a siege that lasted over five hours, Kamal Nath is said to have been there for over two hours.

Given the strategic location of Rakab Ganj Gurudwara, Kamal Nath's presence there was confirmed by two of the senior-most officers, Commissioner Subhash Tandan, and Additional Commissioner Guatam Kaul, as also by an independent source, The Indian Express reporter, Sanjay Suri.

This is more than could be said about any of the Congress MPs from Delhi, whether HKL Bhagat, Jagdish Tytler, Sajjan Kumar or Dharam Dass Shastri, as the charge of their complicity was based entirely on the testimony of victims...

Not surprisingly the authorities in India have refused to take any action against one of their own Ministers. However, Sikhs living abroad, in the UK, mainland Europe, Canada, USA etc. have in recent years organised protests against him. In the UK in May 2010 and September 2010 he was forced to pull out of events in London where he was to speak.

In the USA, a United States Federal Court has issued a summons to Kamal Nath in a Tort Claim case “Sikhs for Justice et al., v. Kamal Nath (10-cv-2940)(S.D.N.Y.) based on the overwhelming evidence of Nath’s involvement in massacre of Sikhs in 1984.

In the context of the 5th EuroIndia Summit, the Sikh community would also like to remind you of the 7 July 2011 resolution that was passed and adopted in the European Parliament in Strasbourg in support of Professor Davinderpal Singh Bhullar and opposing the death penalty in India. The resolution that was passed expressed ‘grave concern’ at the decision on the death penalty by the Government of India and referred to this ‘bucking the worldwide trend towards the abolition of capital punishment’.

The Parliament instructed the President to forward the resolution to the President, Government and Parliament of India, India's Minister for Law and Justice, India's Home Minister, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, the High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, the Commission, and the governments and parliaments of the Member States.

In terms of economic ties with the EU the resolution specifically referred to the 1994 Cooperation Agreement between the European Community and India that made respect for human rights an essential element of the Agreement.

The text of the resolution also makes reference to United Nations General Assembly Resolutions and EU Guidelines on the Death Penalty and the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union. In passing the resolution the European Parliament questioned India’s ability to remain on the 47-nation UN Human Rights Council as India before being elected in May 2011 pledged to uphold the highest standards in terms of promoting and protecting human rights.

We urge you to remind the President of the European Commission and Baroness Catherine Ashton of the European Parliament resolution in July 2011 and for them to secure a commitment at the 5th EuroIndia Summit from the India authorities that the threat of the death penalty against Professor Davinderpal Singh Bhullar will be removed with immediate effect. If India does not agree to this we expect the European Commission to recognise India will be in breach of the 1994 Cooperation Agreement between the European Community and India that made respect for human rights an essential element of the Agreement and for further action to be taken against India.

Yours sincerely

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