S Simranjit Singh Mann has finally resigned as member of the Indian Parliament after almost a year of being elected but never stepping inside the forum which has been instrumental in enslaving Sikhs. The kirpan issue eroded much of S Mann’s credibility but it also showed the attitude of Hindu India there was no way they were going to give the Sikhs anything.

S Mann was elected in November from Tarn Taran with a record mandate. At that time he was still in jail in the Indira Gandhi case. His mandate probably set him free as Rajiv Gandhi had planned a more sinister fate for the former police officer the gallows. He was arrested for resigning his job as a senior IPS officer and speaking up against the barbaric attack on the holy Harmandir Sahib in 1984 in which over 10,000 innocent Sikh pilgrims, mostly women and children were killed with tank and artillery firing. Not many Sikhs officers had the moral courage to quit the service of India.

S Mann was implicated falsely in the Indira Gandhi case, arrested and thrown in jail without any legal recourse for almost five years. While in jail he was brutally tortured and kept in solitary confinement. Yet this brave man found it in his heart to forgive his tormentors and wanted to place the demands of the Sikhs before them. We had warned him that his efforts were futile and would not work.

‘S Mann’s suffering and sacrifice for the Sikh cause is laudable and heroic. A grateful Silch nation voted to have him lead them to freedom. S Mann’s efforts, no matter how unsuccessful, cannot be said to be insincere. We hope he has realised that what we told him last year holds true even today. To talk to the fascist Indian leadership about the Sikh grievances would not work there is no way Sikhs can get equitable treatment in Hindu India.

The Indian constitution is a worthless piece of paper. In 43 years it has been amended 76 times and that is the last recourse crooked Indian politicians use. Extra constitutional methods are used to control the press and executive decrees are issued at will to suspend fundamental human rights. S Mann’s efforts to find a solution within this constitution did not win him much sympathy, in fact he lost valuable support S Simranjit Singh Mann must now take a bold and unwavering stand for the liberation of Khalistan from the unbearable yoke of slavery. The Sikh demand is as justified as was the demand for the British to leave India and the American war of independence against the British in the 1760s’.

The long suppressed diseases India was afflicted with have erupted much like a case of full blown AIDS. Death of that artificially contrived nation is certain. The only hope of a saving grace is to avoid bloodshed and to achieve disintegration peacefully, much as S Mann had worked hard for. The Sikhs must be in a position of strength to finally experience that much talked of glow of freedom’. And for that we must stick to our one point charter of demands Khalistan.

We cannot forget the thousands who have given their lives for our honor and for our freedom. Their sacrifice is too great for us to forget and ignore.

Article extracted from this publication >> October 19, 1990