WASHINGTON, DC: In its annual report released last month, Amnesty International censured ongoing human rights Violations, by the Indian government in the Sikh homeland Punjab Khalistan. The report strongly disputes the idea that there is “peace” in at in Khalistan.
The report said that “in Punjab, most “disappearances” were: cried onto by the police.” This past December, Amnesty published: i. special report, An\Unnatural Fate; Disappearances and Impunity: in the Indian States of Jammu and Kashmir and Punjab, which, detailed 80 cases of ‘disappearances’ in the Sikh homeland, Punjabi, Khalistan. According to journalists in occupied Khalistan, “for every case documented by a human rights organization. There are thousands which 26 unreported.”
Yesterday’s report also stated that deaths officially attributed to police “encounters” with so-called “militants” were mostly caused, by police torture of Sikh political detainees. Notably, the report cited the case of Gurdev Singh Kaonke, the Jathedar of the Akal, Takht or high trustee of the Sikh religion, who was brutally) murdered by police in January after he allegedly “escaped” from police custody. He never returned home.
Today India is under an international microscope, ‘said Dr. Gurmit, Singh Aulakh, and President of the Council of Khalistan. “Amnesty’s, report flies in the face of everything the Indian government maintains about Khalistan. There is no peace in the Sikh homeland. This report proves that there is only peace enforced by the barrel of a, gun.”
Amnesty International also criticized India’s Navional Burnary Rights Commission, which human rights activists have called “eyewash. “It said that the commission’s effectiveness is negated by the fact that “the Commission’s mandate effectively excludes investigation of particularly widespread violations committed by army und paramilitary forces.” t “India cannot expect to spill the blood of Sikhs with impunity.
Article extracted from this publication >> August 19, 1994
