WASHINGTON, D.C.: In memory of over 40,000 Sikhs murdered in the 1984 Delhi massacres, the Council of Khalistan will be marching on the Indian Embassy in Washington, D.C. on Saturday. November 2 at 12:00 noon. The demonstrators will march to the Indian Embassy at 2:00 p.m. The Sikh Nation must remember those who died at the hands of Indian government inspired mobs. 20,000 Sikhs were murdered in New Delhi and another 20,000 throughout India in the first four days of November, 1984, following the assassination of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi. While the massacre continued, the Home Ministry locked Sikh policemen in their barracks. No action was taken against the mobs for three days as the state television and radio, also under the control of the Home Ministry repeated the cry, “Blood for blood.” The Home Minister at the time was P.V. Narasimha Rao, the former Prime Minister who has recently been arrested in a bribery scandal.
The Indian regime has murdered over 150,000 Sikhs sionce 1984, more than 200,000 Christians in Nagaland since 1947, over43, 000 Muslims in Kashmir since 1988, and tens of thousands of Assamese, Manipuris, and others. The regime is threatening witnesses in the case of Jaswant Singh Khalra, who was kidnapped on September 6, 1995, after publishing a report exposing the regime’s brutal policy of mass cremation of Sikhs. India’s Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) recently admitted in court that it had amassed evidence that “bodies tagged as ‘unidentified’ by the Punjab Police has been disposed of surreptitiously.” The Indian Supreme Court described the mass cremation policy as “worse than genocide.”
“This massacre was a very revealing chapter in the brutal history of Indian ‘democracy’,” said Dr. Gurmit Singh Aulakh, of the Council of Khalistan, The Council of Khalistan leads the Sikh Nation’s struggle for a sovereign, independent country called Khalistan, as declared on October 7, 1987. “The Sikh nation will never forget the genocide committed against it in the massacres of 1984,” said Dr. Aulakh.” This kind of force can’t keep India together, With 18 official languages, it is destined to fall apart,” he said. “Khalistan will soon be free.” Participants will gather on Saturday, November 2, 1996, at Lafayette Park across from the White House and then march to the Indian Embassy starting at 2:00 p.m., reaching the Embassy at 3:00.
Article extracted from this publication >> October 30, 1996
