NEW YORK: The Sikh community of North American staged a well-disciplined rally for Khalistan in front of the United Nation’s building in New York Oct. 24th. The Rally was organized by the Khalistan Affairs Center.
The Sikh communities of Toronto, Detroit, Virginia, Maryland, New Jersey, Connecticut, Washington D.C. and New York were heavily represented among the thousands of colorfully dressed Sikh, men, women and Children, who having synchronized the protest to the 50th anniversary celebrations of the United Nations, hoped to draw the attention of the ‘world leaders to the terrible situation in Occupied Punjab, Khalistan, where 16 million Sikhs are held captive in the map of India drawn by the departing British colonials in 1947.
‘The thousands of Sikh demonstrators, waving Khalistani banners, carried hundreds of placards drawing attention to the human rights, economic, religious and cultural abuse being carried out by the mercenary minions of the fascist Brahmin minority rulers in Occupied Punjab. Some placards drew attention to the police Kidnapping, and subsequent disappearance, of Human Rights activist Jaswant Singh Khalra who was abducted from his home in Amritsar on September 6, 1995. Kashmiri demonstrators, demanding the promised plebiscite in their homeland, joined the Sikhs as a gesture of solidarity, goodwill and brotherhood.
A memorandum, listing the Sikh demands, was submitted to the UN Secretary General at the conclusion of the protest rally. The memorandum demanded that India be asked to recall its armed forces to the East bank of the Jumna River.
Article extracted from this publication >> October 27, 1995
