please sign the petition on whitehouse site to recognize sikh genocide

[JasSinghKhalsa]

TARGET ACHIEVED

[Singh, Mahan]

After the goal of 25000 signatures was achieved, it appears that people have stopped signing the petition.

However the ‘Sikhs for Justice” has appealed to those who have not signed as yet, to continue signing the petition. Petition is still open for signing till December 15, 2012

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An Alert issued by the Sikhs for Justice reads,

“Keep signing the Sikh Genocide petition to President Obama till December 15. We should get aim to get 1 signature for every Sikh murdered by the Government of India during the Genocide. That’s over 37,000 signatures”

Please keep on promoting the petition via Social Networking websites, such as Facebook and Twitter. Please ask all your relatives, friends (both Sikhs and Non-Sikhs) – especially living in USA, to sign the petition.

The URL for the petition is

https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/recognize-sikh-genocide-30000-killed-india-during-november-1984-yes-it-genocide/Py4DhDGg?utm_source=wh.gov&utm_medium=shorturl&utm_campaign=shorturl

[lsingh]

The petition has crossed the 30,000 mark

Sikh Genocide Petition with 46,000 signatures tabled before Obama administration

IP Singh, TNN Dec 20, 2012, 11.09PM IST

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Jalandhar: A Petition, with over 46,000 signatures, has been tabled before Obama Administration urging it to recognize the organized violence perpetrated against Sikhs during November 1984 as "Genocide". The 'Sikh Genocide Petition', as it has been named, is the first ever petition submitted to the US administration on the issue of November 1984 massacre of Sikhs.

While minimum 25,000 signatures were required for its submission it gathered 46000 signatures (29,000 online and 17000 on paper),

Rights group "Sikh for Justice" (SFJ), which had initiated this petition, has announced to converge at Capitol Hill on February 1, 2013 during the Constituent Work Week of the House of Representative to lobby in support of the Sikh Genocide Petition.

[lsingh]

http://english.samaylive.com/world-news/676523503/1984-anti-sikh-riots-sokh-rights-group-genocide-news-petition.html

Sikh group asks US to declare 1984 violence as genocide

Sikh group asks US to declare 1984 violence as genocide

Representatives of a prominent Sikh rights group have met State Department officials, seeking support for a petition which has asked the US to recognise the 1984 anti-Sikh riots in India as a 'genocide'.

The group, Sikhs for Justice (SFJ) met representatives from the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labour; Office of India Affairs; Office of Religious Freedom and the Office of Legal Adviser of the US Department of State.

It (group) submitted a legal brief, statements of survivors and other information to the officials, legal adviser of the group Gurpatwant Pannun said.

In December last year, the petition with more than 46,000 signatures was tabled before the Obama administration urging it to recognise the violence perpetrated against Sikhs during November 1984 riots as 'genocide'.

"The evidence submitted by SFJ to the Department of State will help the US Government in making a determination regarding Sikh genocide and rights group will continue to submit this evidence to members of US Congress," Panun said.

[lsingh]

http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2013-02-08/chandigarh/36992104_1_genocide-petition-genocide-petition-sfj

Rights group presents 'Genocide Petition' case to US Department of State

IP Singh, TNN Feb 8, 2013, 06.05PM IST

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• JALANDHAR: In order to secure support for the 1984 "Genocide" Petition, the rights group Sikh For Justice (SFJ) met the representatives from the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labour; Office of India Affairs; Office of Religious Freedom and the Office of Legal Advisor of the US Department of State.

To buttress the Genocide Petition the rights group submitted a legal brief, statements of survivors and the newly the discovered evidence since 2011 such as mass graves in Hondh-Chillar, Haryana and other States of India. On December 15, a Petition with more than 46000 signatures was tabled before Obama Administration urging to recognize the organized violence perpetrated against Sikhs during November 1984 as "Genocide".

"For 28 years, the gravity, scale and specially the organized nature of these attacks was concealed by the Indian governments' portraying them as 'November 1984 Anti-Sikh Riots of Delhi'. These attacks were neither "riots" nor were they confined to Delhi. In fact, in the first four days of November 1984, Sikhs were attacked in 18 states and more than 100 cities of India in an identical manner and the death squads were led by Congress (I) leaders," SFJ said in its written submissions to the US department of state.

"During the meeting with the US Department of State, the rights group presented Official Records of Government of India showing that a total of 35,000 claims of deaths and serious injuries were filed by Sikhs who sustained genocidal attacks during November 1984. Out of which more than 20,000 claims were from attacks that took place in the states of Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu & Kashmir; Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Orissa, Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, Tamil Nadu and West Bengal," said SFJ legal adviser Gurpatwant Singh Pannun.

"The recent discoveries of mass graves and ruins of Sikh localities clearly show that the violence against Sikhs during November 1984 was "Genocide" as per article 2 of the Genocide Convention and White House is under obligation to recognize the same," the submissions in support of the petition said.

"Contrary to what is commonly portrayed, November 1984 was not the result of a spontaneous reaction of the masses on the assassination of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi. It was rather an organized, deliberate and politically engineered action by Congress leaders that unleashed a nightmare of violence against the Sikh community of India on November 01, 1984 which continued unabated for at least next four days" the submissions said.

[JasSinghKhalsa]

The goal should be to declare India's congres (I) as a terrorist organisation???