WASHINGTON. DC: A retired Sikh General of the Indian army and a Vice Chairman of Punjab Human Rights Organization, Maj Gen Narinder Singh has been denied a passport by the Indian government despite repeated request.
The Indian government has a vested interest in restraining those who have witnessed first-hand the gross human rights violations Sikhs in Punjab suffer at the hands of the so called world’s largest democracy. The last thing India wants is for someone as respected as Maj Gen Narinder Singh to travel abroad and speak out.
Though Sikhs had originally hoped that VP Singh’s new government would put an end to the genocidal policies of the Gandhi regime the reality has been quite the opposite. “Not only are we being denied passports,” Said Aulakh of the Council of Khalistan, “but there are at least 20 to 30 Sikhs killed every day in extrajudicial killings. The atrocities have actually increased under VP Singh. The police and the Indian security forces have a license to kill in Punjab. And some people still question why we demand freedom.”
The New York Times reported on May 31, 1990 “20,000 Sikh men and boys had disappeared in the custody of Indian policemen and intelligence agents over the Jast few years.” It is not much of a mystery, therefore to understand why India is the only so called democracy in the world which does not allow Amnesty International within its borders to investigate human rights abuses.
Other Sikh leaders experience the humiliation and the persecution that Maj Gen Narinder Singh has suffered as well. On June 5, 1990, armed Indian security forces prevented Sikhs from all over Punjab from gathering in commemoration of the June 1984 Golden Temple attack by the Indian government which killed over 20,000 Sikhs. Among the over 3000 arrested for attempting to pay tribute to the dead were Maj Gen Narinder Singh, members of parliament Simranjit Singh Mann and Bimal Kaur Khalsa; Justice Ajit Singh Bains, and Bhai Manjit Singh, leader of the Sikh Student Federation. These men were not informed concerning under what charges they were being arrested because they had done nothing even remotely illegal. They were, nevertheless, detained for three days as police filed false reports to legalize. The arrests. The Punjab Human Rights Organization has issued a statement to expose the concocted false case registered against the Sikh leadership.
Article extracted from this publication >> July 6, 1990
