The political chaos in the Punjab is rapidly mounting to a point of virtual insurgency. Many factors are reserved for this explosive situation.
The process was first second motion when the custodians of law themselves started eliminating AISSF activists in staged encounters or in police torture chambers. Mt was further complicated by Ribeiro who dispensed with the established legal codes and adopted extrajudicial methods to wipe out the Sikh youths, His hiring of hardened criminals for killing Sikhs shocked the civilized world to such an extent that American Congressmen, Amnesty International and Human Rights groups lodged loud protests against this bestial criminality.
The law makers in Delhi contributed to the chaos by passing in quick succession, draconian laws that practically cancelled all hopes of legal redress,
The Sikh youths found themselves in an utterly hopeless situation. Every way death stared hard in their faces, it could come through a staged encounter or through a well-tailored judicial procedure or worst still through the bullet of, a hired assassin, they realized that they were required either to embrace death or submit to their slave status in India.
Article extracted from this publication >> October 1, 1993
