Army operation is rightly adjudged as India’s declaration of war against Sikh nation: Babbar Khalsa International a decade has passed since the Indian army attacked the Golden Temple in Amritsar thus initiating a brutal military action against the whole Sikh community in Punjab. The horrible memories of the past still reverberates the hearts of Sikh nation The victimization of Sikh community by the Indian government had in fact started in 1947 Which touched its lowest ebb in 1984 when the army troops forcibly entered Darbar Sahib.
Before 1984 the Sikhs had launched many peaceful agitations to get their rights every time they had to suffer causalities and court arrests. Consequently a stage came when the Sikhs were compelled to demand the establishment of an Autonomous Sikh state through Anandpur Sahib Resolution The phase of the Sikh Struggle-to which Sant Jamail Singh Bhindrawale attached him Self in August 1982 and which the government of India tried to crush by mobilizing its army in June 1984 was democratic in every sense of the word and was scared out with the active participation of thousands of common Sikhs. In this process around two Laks Sikhs volunteered for arrests.
However the Indian govt preferred to launch a military action named Blue Star on June3 1984 when thousands of Sikhs were gathered at their holiest shrine in Amritsar to observe the martyrdom day of the fifth Guru Arjan Dev. This cold blooded mass murder operation was launched under the pretext that there were few militants hiding in the Temple. Almost 10 thousand men women and children were massacred in this shameful incident. The Indian military tanks reduced the Akal Takht to rubble. This Un-warranted attack on Golden Temple is a clear Humiliation for the Sikhs Is this under the Human Rights code or War code to attack the religious places when the whole nation had assembled in their worship place?
Although a few Sikh organizations like Dal Khalsa Babbar Khalsa etc had already decided to strive for a separate Sikh homeland each and every Sikh joined hands with them after the operation Blue Star the Sikhs had ‘realized that their survival as a nation lies in a separate homeland named Khalistan.
As the Khalistan movement reached on its peak the Indian Government started i poisonous propaganda campaign which was mainly aimed at maligning the Sikh leadership and the Khalistan movement. The Govt. attempted to paint the Sikh militant struggle as a militant one. A common argument with the detractors of the movement is that the ‘militants’ inspired the goal of Sikh freedom which the common ‘Sikhs do not accept. The point is obviously baseless The Sikh militants have not their goals independently of the people but in Subordination to their Will-The Will of the Community being coterminous with the Will of the Divine. There are many who denigrate the Sikh Struggle for freedom by calling it a terrorist movement. Such nasty attempts on the part of Indian government resulted in tarnishing the image of the Khalistan movement in the eyes of a few .The fact however is that however is that detractors meeting effective want to make it clear in categorical terms that the ongoing Khalistan movement is Historically legitimate and’ ideogically Sound.
Wadhawa Singh Babbar Birmingham U.K
Article extracted from this publication >> June 3, 1994
