BIRMINGHAM: Gurmej Singh Gill Prime Minister of the Government-in-exile Republic of Khalistan has condemned the demolition of Babri Masjid at Ayodhya as a fascist ploy to inflame communal hatred and trigger “ethnic cleansing” of the Indian Muslims.
He blamed the Indian Government for having master-minded and connived at this perfidy in order to humiliate and intimidate the Muslims who constitute the largest religious minority in India.
He said that the Indian rulers have prepared a “hit list” of 3000 Muslim shrines to be destroyed and desecrated one by one. The ultimate objective is to provoke the Muslims to react and create a situation in which the Hindu majority of the sub-continent may be used to kill loot and destroy this religious minority.
He said that intimidation of religious minorities had been the hallmark of Indian politics ever-since independence generally accomplished through Government-orchestrated communal riots Muslims Christians Buddhists Sikhs Dalit’s and other minorities have been chosen repeatedly one by one as targets for these riots.
“Emboldened by their exploits the Indian rulers went a step further in 1984 and used the Security Forces against the Sikhs” he said. “Their most sacred shrine the Golden Temple at Amritsar was destroyed and thousands of pilgrims massacred-followed up by anti-Sikh riots in Delhi Bombay and several other parts of India in which hooligans were used to do the actual killing arson and looting while security forces reduced the Sikhs to sitting targets under the pretext of “protecting” them.”
The next target for similar treatment he said were the Muslims of Kashmir-and now Ayodhya.
He said that the minorities will go on being harassed intimidated humiliated and “cleansed” one by one-unless they unite to fight the tyranny and fascism.
“United we stand divided we fall” he said. “The Muslims and Sikhs being the largest religious minorities in South Asia they have to show the way to other minorities by forging unity among themselves in this struggle for survival with dignity.”
Gill said that Sikh-Muslim unity could prove the beginning of the end of this vicious circle of state terrorism and culminates in the creation of safe havens for them and will eventually induct other oppressed minorities to ensure safety security and dignity for them too in their respective homelands.
He offered joint operations by Muslims and Sikhs inside India in pursuit of these objective-and joint peaceful demonstrations and lobbying abroad to mobilize world support for their just struggle.
Article extracted from this publication >> December 18, 1992
