Dear the Honorable Butros Butros-Ghali Honorable Sir:

I am writing this letter to seek your immediate attention and personal intervention in the deteriorating condition of the Sikhs in their own homeland (Punjab-Khalsa Sian) due to brutal killings staged encounters rapes humiliation suppression oppression persecution prosecution rampage and lootings by the Indian armed forces (Indian army paramilitary police and intelligence corps) and Punjab’s Present administration of Beant Singh a Congress(I) puppet of the New Delhi administration imposed by the Narsimhanrao administration merely by 7% of the total electoral votes. Innocent women and children have fallen victims to brutal Indian armed forces which completely disregard human rights. The Sikh political leader Sardar Simranjit Singh Mann himself a victim of post-1984 situation of Punjab created by the Indira Gandhi Rajiv Gandhi V.P.Singh Chander shekhar and Narsimhanrao administrations has repeatedly been denied passport to travel abroad preventing him from providing first-hand information to world leaders the international Sikh community and international news media with regard to issues concerning his people within and outside of Punjab. The cultural political economical and physical asphyxiation of the Sikh nation is being executed in systematic manner at the directions of the New Delhi administration As a result of these atrocities and the consequential disintegration of the Sikh homeland Punjab Khalistan 24 Congressmen of the United States of America made a strong plea (Nov.1793) to the Hon William J. Clinton President of the United States to assume an active diplomatic role in the Khalistan crisis and use his good office to persuade the Indian government to arrange for a plebiscite or self-determination for the Sikhs in Punjab Khalistan like the one held recently in Puerto Rico where Puerto Ricans voted overwhelmingly to stay with the United States.

It is strongly urged Sir to avoid further loss of life and dignity and in order to find a peaceful and amicable solution for the chronic Sikh problem of Punjab that the following steps be taken under your directions:

  1. All Indian armed forces and agencies (intelligence and otherwise exceeding 500,000 in number) are immediately withdrawn from Punjab.
  2. All Sikh detained under draconian laws of Indian parliament be unconditionally released from jails
  3. The United Nations force or teams be sent to Punjab to take control of law and order situation until the plebiscite or self-determination vote is held (under the auspices of the U.N.)
  4. The Sikh leader Sardar Simranjit Singh Mann President of the Shiromani Akali Dal (the political Party of the Sikhs) be issued the United Nations; passport so that he could hold talks discussions and consultations with yourself international dignitaries international news media and the international Sikh community in Order to apprise each party of the Sikh situation and Sikh question created by the morally and ethically corrupt Indian administrations
  5. Dr.Sohan Singh (80-year-old) a medical specialist and retired administrator leader of the Panthic Committee of Sikhs and Afghan national whom the Indian intelligence took in custody from Nepal in November 1993 and remains imprisoned in India in an interrogation center more commonly known as butcher center be freed immediately so that he may get much needed medical treatment for his ailing health in the United States (World Sikh News Dec.241993) In addition Dr.Singh could meet with the international news media to describe the treatment received from the Indian administration and its armed forces during his detention.
  6. The Indian government must bear the cost of all United Nations operations (maintenance of law and order civil and defence administration etc) until the self-determination vote is held.
  7. All areas of Punjab separated from Punjab after Aug.15, 1947 and other Punjabi-speaking areas are returned to Punjab before the self-determination is held in Punjab-Khalistan.
  8. Indian government must compensate the Sikh homeland and its nationals for all damages deliberately incurred during the operation Bluestar of 1984 30th October-November 1984 mund wood rose black thunder operations man-made floods of 1989 and 1993 and maintaining armed forces in the Sikh homeland (Punjab or Khalistan) since 1984 against the wishes of the Sikhs.
  9. Amritsar airport be opened to international air traffic so that foreign nationals can be directly transported to region of concern without the interference of authority custom immigration and other personnel.
  10. The present chief minister Beant Singh his police chief K.P .Gill former police chief J.F.Reibero former Governor of Punjab S.S Ray S.D. Sharma and their several associate who aided in committing human rights violations brutal atrocities and heinous crimes against humanity be tried before an international panel of jurists.
  11. Until India refrains from committing human rights violations and permits Amnesty International As in Watch and other international human rights watch-dog agencies to assess these violations all United Nations aid must be suspended.

I sincerely hope that the above points will aid you in creating an environment for international peace and it may even as I perceive avoid the greatest tragedy of this century.

Dr. Avtar Singh Edmonton Albt.

Canada

Article extracted from this publication >> January 14, 1994