AMRITSAR: A press statement issued by the leaders of the All India Sikh Students Federation Bhai Gurdip Singh, Rumane Chak, Bhai Inderbir Singh Laki, Bhai Sukhnandan Singh, Bhai Baljinder Singh Gandiwind and Bhai Bhupinder Singh Canadian presently lodged in security jail Amritsar and all the detainees, jointly asks Bhai Jasbir Singh Rode and Prof Darshan Singh, who claim themselves to be the only leaders of Sikh Panth and being the Jathedars of Shri Akal Takht Sahib, whether they have raised their voice to stop the alleged murders of Sikh youths in fake encounters and many other cheap ways adopted by the cruel government of India who wants to destroy Sikh qaum, (nation).
They have asked the two Jathedars to clear their stand regarding these tyrannical ways of government because no institution either religious or political has come out openly to raise voice against oppression on the Sikh youth in particular. The Sikh nation asks if their conscience is dead or still breathing. It asks those who claim to be the leaders of the oppressed nation and the whole Sikh community to finally declare their stand they should condemn and take proper action against the oppression to clear their stand or they should retreat from the Sikh problems or affairs.
The federation wholeheartedly praises the various organizations who raised the cry against the maltreatment meted out to Sikh women in particular and Punjab women in general.
Federation and the Sikh nation appeal to all the Sikh institutions to come out openly in the battlefield if they have any sympathy for the Sikhism and they want to keep respect of the whole Sikh nation during these most miserable circumstances that they should. By this the voice could be raised against the sinister designs of Indian government to wipe out the new generation of Sikh community.
The federation members appeal to the various organization serving for human rights including Punjab Human Rights Organization, People For Democracy, Amnesty International and Sikh Lawyers Organization to go from house to house to collect the facts about the violation of human rights by repression of the police. They should take up the matter, which is most serious in nature, to the world level so that the Sikh could get justice.
Article extracted from this publication >> June 30, 1989
