BOMBAY: Punjab Director General of Police K.P.S.GillonJan.24 said that US President Bill Clinton’s presumptions on aligned human rights violations in Punjab. were based on highly exaggerated figures propounded by pro Khalistani forces in the West and were so far removed from the profound realities as to be entirely out of proportion to the situation.
Gill told the reporters here that even Amnesty International in its latest report on Punjab had presumed that all the disappearances from the villages were the work of the police while the true state of facts was that even we are looking for these boys.
Elaborating on the Amnesty International’s claims the Punjab police Chief said that the alleged disappearances of youths from the State were largely caused by their migration to the West on false or forged documents. These youths later resurfaced in the US or European Nations and while on the point of deportation back to India by unsympathetic foreign Governments were allegedly picked up by Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) for recruitment in their militant forces.
We are as much interested in looking for these boys (about 500 altogether from Jalandhar Hoshiarpur and Kapurthala) as is Amnesty International.
Article extracted from this publication >> January 28, 1994
