VANCOUVER: I.S.Y.F Canada Sub Unit Vancouver challenged the Indian Government Consulate in Vancouver to debate in the media the issue of Khalistan (Promised Land) and the Human Rights abuses occurring in India by the State.
“You Sir are a hypocrite and a disgrace to humanity. How can you look at yourself in the mirror when you know your government is responsible for thousands of deaths every year? Your government’s relentless propaganda machine would have the free world believe the Sikhs are making up stories of Human rights abuses. When in fact your government is now been indicated in a 195 page report by Amnesty International. The report is called “Rape, Torture & Deaths in Custody”. The report goes on to say Torture is a daily routine in every one of India’s 25 States.
Police jail cells and military camps are directly being used to torture innocent people for information and punishment.
Children as young as 6 yrs old have been tortured, stripped naked, hung upside down and beaten unconscious.
Common practice of torture is using electrical shocks, putting large wooden sticks in rectum, slicing body parts and spraying hot chili in the wounds. Victims of State terrorism are tortured to extract confessions, often until they die or confess.
Mock Postmortems are performed and the bodies are quickly disposed of. We challenge you to a debate so that your true colors can be revealed to free world.”
Bhai Ranjit Singh, of ISYF stated in a written statement, “that you are the only official representative of the Indian Government in Vancouver. So that is why we believe you should have to answer for the crimes the Indian Government is responsible for. These crimes are not only inflicted against the Sikhs of Punjab, but against ever minority group living in India, Anyone who is even suspected as to holding any thoughts which are not pro Hindi, Hindu, Hindustan is considered a criminal. In simple words if you do not think like a Hindu and belong to a different religion you are in trouble.”
Article extracted from this publication >> May 1, 1992
