Mr Prime Minister
Your warning to Pakistan that “you will have to pay a very heavy price, and we (India) have the capability to inflict this cost” is a reflection of the policies of Hindu India since its independence. In a previous letter I indicated that you assumed the task where your predecessors (Nehru, his daughter Indira and her son Rajiv) left off. In a short period you have earned the title of Hindu India’s third Hitler by massacring at least 1,100 innocent Kashmiri Muslims who were simply demanding their right to self-determination and freedom like the brave Sikhs of Punjab. In this massacre in Kashmir, your Hindu military dumped dead bodies in the Rivers Jhelum and Chenab, a pattern similar to the massacre of Muslims of Bhopal in 1950’s: Meerut, U.P. in 1989; Dalits of Maharashtra and Gujarat in 1988; the Sikhs since 1978 especially after Operation Blue star, or the undeclared war on the Sikh nation in June 1984.
India has waged three wars on Pakistan in order to side track the issues like a stagnant economy. Indira Gandhi promised the eradication of poverty and also gave them 20 point package. She failed badly. To divert attention she created communal problems, waging an undeclared war on the Sikh nation and every House of God, or Gurdwara. The national and international news media were fed so as to slander the Sikhs around the world. This was done deliberately by your country’s Russian trained intelligence advisors, Indian intelligence personnel in foreign missions, and by the personnel of the Research and Analysis Wing which functions under the Prime Minister.
The warning of war or the psychological pressure applied on the people of Pakistan and Kashmir follows the Punjab pattern. It is therefore; amply clear that Hindu India’s administration has no room to accommodate minorities as the Sikhs, Muslims, Dalits and Christians. According to some sources, one of the your predecessors had been carrying out war preparations against Pakistan to (i) declare her total military losses of June 84 (ii) to wipe out the Sikhs of Punjab, Haryana and Delhi in another war (November 84) with Pakistan. But she was assassinated.
It seems that your honeymoon with strange political bedfellows is almost over. The voters become disillusioned and your opponents are becoming impatient. Your treasury is bankrupt but you have to pay for (i) imports (particularly wheat and rice) to meet the ever increasing demand of 930 million people mortgage payments (to your Russian masters) for military hardware worth more than U.S. $15 billion (iii) shelters for millions of homeless Indians; As such you have no choice but to issue stern warnings or start a war with Pakistan again diverting the attention of your countrymen and political foes.
However one must not forget that present intentions are hastening the fragmentation of an artificial union of people. I sincerely wish that you would give the people of Punjab and Kashmir the right to self-determination. This will prevent further bloodshed, bringing stability to the South Asian region. I do not think that flexing your military muscle is the answer to the problems of the Sikhs, Muslims Dalits, Christians, and other minorities of an artificial country whose very basic foundation has been laid on discontent and the betrayal of promises.
I shall look forward to hearing from you, although you have yet to reply to my previous letter.
Awatar Singh Sekhon Ph.D, CLD, FIBA, RM (CCM)
Article extracted from this publication >> April 20, 1990
