Sir,
India has massed for “exercises”, during the Planting season, 400,000 troops, besides 300,000 Para military forces, in the Sikh homeland of Punjab an area where spite is the main industry. This is an ominous development as the world’s attention is focused on the Persian Gulf and will remain so till January 15 or till the crisis is resolved one way or the other, The Brahmin Indian Ruling Elite is aware that in 1956, the crisis over the Anglo-French invasion of Egypt muted world reaction to the Soviet rape of Hungary, The Gulf crisis therefore, to the Hindu mind is a golden opportunity for the “final solution” to the Sikh problem in the Punjab.
As a student of Indian history I am aware of Hindu and Sikh compulsions i am afraid that any increase in state sponsored terrorism and degree of genocide in the Punjab is going to be counterproductive and could engulf and endanger the whole of South Asia including my former homeland of Kashmir hence the enclosed appeal to Indian Prime Minister Chandra Shekhar.
The Indian Ruling Class (14% Brahmins hold 92% of all influential class one posts in the bureaucracy) is very Nazi-like in their attitudes towards the Sikh, Muslim and Christian minorities. They have not, in fact they don’t care to, understand the Sikh psyche which compels retaliation and martyrdom against tyranny and injustice. The Martial Sikhs have not bowed to tyranny in their 500 year history and they are not about to start now, Any increase in the degree of violence or state terrorism by the Indian government in the Punjab is going to force the Sikhs to fight back as they have no choice.
I therefore appeal to you, Sir, to use your influence with the Indian government to urge restraint and a political settlement in the Punjab lest the situation gets out of hand and endangers the whole of South Asia.
- Sheikh
President
Kashmir Association of North America .
Article extracted from this publication >> January 18, 1991
