While the investigations into the recent bombings in Bombay have yet to reach any firm conclusion, the Indian leaders have already started a chorus of accusing the religious minorities at home and smaller neighbors in the region.
Displaying an indecent haste in exploiting the tragedy for their fascistic designs, they have already started blaming Sikhs, Kashmiris, Tamils and Pakistanis for the bombings.
Some have even invented “claims of responsibility” by this or that militant grouping engaged in resisting Indian aggression.
All this fits into the behavioral pattern of fascists—of inventing scapegoats for their own crimes against humanity to tarnish the image of their intended victims, and then slaughtering them at the altar of fanaticism.
They blamed Pakistan for the rising tide of Kashmiri struggle for the right of self-determination in 1965 and invaded Pakistan.
They conducted a smear campaign against Pakistan in 1970 and truncated the country under the pretext of protecting the people of her Eastern Wing.
They blamed Sri Lanka for the Tamil uprising, landed their army in that country for the “humanitarian” objective of protecting the Tamils but ended up killing the Tamils when they refused to play their game of carving out an Indian enclave in Si Lanka.
They branded the Sikh protestors against injustices as secessionists, invaded the Golden Temple in 1984, and then claimed that Sant Jamail Singh Bhindranwale was being armed by Pakistan—in an obvious bid to invade Pakistan. (But for the assassination of Indira Gandhi at the 11th hour, the invasion would have gone ahead in November that year).
And, when the Kashmir struggle was resumed, they again blamed Pakistan for sponsoring secession in Kashmir and Punjab,
If past experiences are anything to go by, all this indicates that preparations for 2 fresh invasion of Pakistan are again on the anvil and the tragedy at Bombay has provided the Indian leaders with yet another opportunity of scoring a propaganda coup,
Indira Gandhi undertook a world tour on the eve of her intervention in East Pakistan—to solicit support of world powers for the Indian adventure of 1970.
And now Prime Minister Narasimha Rao has thrown the bait of trade prospects and brought world leaders to New Delhi for trade talks while the real purpose was the same,
This betrays the true intentions of the Indian rulers the intention of killing, not ‘one or two, but four birds with a single stone.
“Give the dog a bad name,” as the English saying goes, “And shoot it (with impunity)!”
Khalistan Government in exile has deep sympathy for the victims of the blasts in Bombay, but must affirm that the “claim of responsibility” by a Sikh grouping of militants is a concoction of the fertile chauvinistic mind of the Indian communalists.
There is no truth in it the authorship of media items—speculating that Pakistan and the militant groupings of Kashmir, Punjab and Tamil Nadu are the prime suspects — sounds the alarm bells of an imminent four pronged military adventure.
If the world leaders are not vigilant, and if they fail to see through the smokescreen being created by Indian propaganda, South Asia is heading towards a major conflagration.
I appeal to the people of the world to be on their guard against the Indian propaganda, which is intended to camouflage the Indian” adventure as “self-defense” or“ preemptive strike” against the victims of Indian fascism—the Sikhs, Kashmiris, Tamils and Pakistanis.
Sewa Singh Lalli Pres. Khalistan Govt. in Exile
Article extracted from this publication >> March 19, 1993
