PLEASE tell us what the, bleeding Sikh nation can do to make you “cry” like you did at Pope Paul’s welcome to Kurt Waldheim (your editorial 6/27/87)? Why do you echo India’s “official lies” about Punjab and the Sikh without raising a question or expressing your moral indignation? Why do you accept the Official justification for yesterday’s “raid” on the Golden Temple Complex (the Sikh Vatican)? Why cannot your reporter in New Delhi (who apparently is not permitted to go to Punjab) at least put a call through to the Head of the Golden Temple (Professor Darshan Singh) and provide his side of the story for your readers?
We do not have the resources for a full-page add, but we are also bewildered by the media’s silence, indifference and insensitivity, and we too feel “abandoned” like the Jewish people during the Holocaust.
During India’s misadventure in Sri Lanka, your news reports mentioned that India had invited foreign journalists to verify the reports. Where were these reporters during India’s “raid” on the Golden Temple Complex? Was there no need for verification? Why this double standard?
By the same token, while reporting the shooting incident in New Delhi last week (6/15/87), your reporter provided instant credibility to the official fabrication, blaming it on the Sikhs even though the whole incident was obviously engineered to divert the world’s attention from India’s misadventure in Sri Lanka and to fool the people in Haryana, where the ruling Congress (I) Party suffered its most humiliating defeat.
For heaven’s sake, tell us, why are you silent about eyewitness accounts of human rights groups about “unabashed state terrorism” in occupied Punjab? Why are you silent about the fact that not a single criminal has been indicted or punished in regard to the mass. acre of the Sikhs in November 1984, despite that fact that human rights groups have identified many members of the ruling party for having instigated or inspired mass lynching and’ burning alive thousands of innocent Sikhs men, women and children? Why you are silent about Punjab’s Gestapo Police Chief, Julio Ribeiro, and his Nazi Paratroopers who are terrorizing the entire Sikh nation in occupied Punjab under a complete news blackout? Tell us where the independent western media is?’ Tell us why the media has become a propaganda tool of India’s “sinister art of mass deception” and cover up? Tell us, why this double standard crying for one genocide and condoning the other? Free Press Digest
New York
Article extracted from this publication >> July 24, 1987
