India’s myth of secular democracy stands fully exposed in light of recent Hindu Muslim riots followed by the terrible loss of human life. Firstly, it was the Christians in the 1950’s and 1960’s who were the victims of majority community’s wrath.
Then, as the entire world knows, it was the Sikhs in the 1970’s and 1980’s whose holiest shrines were desecrated and destroyed followed by killings are still continuing under the cover of preserving the county’s territorial integrity and national unity. Now it is the turn of the Moslems whose religious place is the subject of the present unrest, The Muslim minority has been the target in fact since the partition of the country in 1947 from time to time. The only thing is that such incidents went unreported in the past by the international Media.
Will any of your readers suggest what recourse minorities in India have under these circumstances?
Amarjit Singh Buttar Director of Public Relations Council of Khalistan
Article extracted from this publication >> November 16, 1990
