To His Excellency

Mr Javier Perez De Cuellar Secretary General

United Nations

Sir,

The current strife and senseless slaughter in Kashmir and Punjab, by the Indian occupation forces, is an attempt to hold people captive through arson, rape, pillage, murder, psychological intimidation and state terror. The happenings in Punjab and Kashmir are in direct contravention of two of the cardinal principles of the U.N. Charter: Self Determination of Peoples and Respect for Human Rights.

In the Punjab a God fearing industrious people the Sikhs are being annihilated by a Brahmin minority who by chance/intrigue inherited the mantle of power from the departing British in 1947. The proud and martial Sikh minority, numbering eighteen million, in the Punjab have been given a choice accept the supremacy of the Brahmins by kowtowing in public, an example of which is shown in the photograph overleaf, or take the consequences which quite often can mean torture by the minions of the ruling elite as shown in the colored photograph attached.

It is the same story in Kashmir where among other atrocities gang, rape/castration is government policy to break the spirit of the people. Luckily Kashmir, unlike other disputed parts of the world, is unique in that there are U.N. resolutions upholding the right of its people to decide their future by means of a plebiscite. India’s attempts, therefore, to make it a nonissue by dispensing with the procedures of the United Nations is an affront to the august body. Delhi’s actions in the disputed land are causing strains not only in occupied Kashmir but also in neighboring Pakistan, Afghanistan, Khalistan, China and Iran. If this mass uprising in Kashmir is not handled through ways implied in the U.N. Charter it will surely result in armed conflict between India and Pakistan which could very quickly deteriorate into a nuclear exchange in South Asia. In our opinion Sir, the situation in Kashmir, even more than the Persian Gulf and Palestine, threatens international peace and security and you might have to invoke Article 99 of the U.N. Charter sooner rather than later.

We are, therefore, shocked Sir to see a copy of the “Report of the Secretary General on the Work of the Organization” dated September 16, 1990. What we cannot fathom is that every country in an area of tension or U.N, involvement (like Afghanistan, Algeria, Cambodia, Cote d Ivories, Cyprus, ElSalvador, Guinea, Israel, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Liberia, Malawi, Mauritania, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Nicaragua, Palestine, Philippine’s, Senegal, Sierra Leone, ‘South Africa, Sudan, Uganda and Western Sahara) is referred to more than ‘once in your excellent report while Kashmir, where the U.N. has had a presence since 1948 and which is ticking like a time bomb, is not mentioned at all. Neither is Punjab. Pray do tell us why?

In our opinion, Sir, India is the only country which has a interest in keeping Kashmir and Punjab out of your annual report and therefore, out of the international limelight. We doubt very much if your Indian Chief of Staff, Mr. Virendra Dayal, can offer an explanation for this act of omission or should we call it commission, or should we call it a brazen breach of Article 100 of the U.N. Charter which states that “The U.N. staff shall not seek or receive instructions from any government external to the organization? Shaikh President

P.S. Sir you have added insult to injury by nominating Mr Virendra Dayal as the next U.N High Commissioner for refugees We are sure the five million Afghan refugees will be “over joyed” by this appointment from z “sympathetic, generous, democratic and wealthy donor” country like India.

Article extracted from this publication >> December 7, 1990