NEW YORK: More than 300 Sikhs staged an impressive but peaceful demonstration before the United Nations Headquarters on October 25. The demonstration was organized to protest against the violation of human rights and civil liberties by the Indian government. It was arranged to synchronize with Indian Prime Minister, Mr. Rajiv Gandhi’s visit to participate in the 40th anniversary of the United Nations. Sikh demonstrators were joined by volunteers of the Azad Kashmir Liberation Front. The demonstrators carried placards and enlarged pictures of the brutal massacre of innocent Sikhs in November 1984. Sikhs raised slogans demanding investigation into the holocaust by a commission of International jurists, punishment of the guilty and creation of a separate Sikh homeland called Khalistan. Azad Kashmir Liberation Front volunteers also carried placards proclaiming, “INDIA GET OUT FROM KASHMIR, KASHMIR FOR KASHMIRS* FOREIGN TROOPS, OUT FROM KASHMIR, INDIA PRACTICES APARTHEID AT HOME. And they raised slogans like “WHAT WE WANT? SELF—DETERMINATION FOR KASHMIR.
Article extracted from this publication >> November 4, 1988
