WSN Service CHANDIGARH: The Punjab Human Rights Organization governing council met last week to elect Harinder Singh KhaIsa as chairman. Mr. Sukhdev Singh is president of the PHRO.
Khalsa belonged to India’s Foreign Service and was posted in Norway until June 1984 when he resigned protesting against Operation Blue star. He recently returned to India. Kha1sa assured members of the council he had no parliamentary ambitions and he would dedicate himself to the causes dear to the PHRO. Tazeen Zehra a student at San Francisco state, expressed her sympathy for the people of Punjab and Kashmir.
She said the deteriorating situation in the state of Punjab and Kashmir has drawn the attention to the aggression, oppression and suppression of the Indian govt.
She supports the current movement in Punjab.
She added “it will be a long drawn process to bring about liberation and absolute normality to state of Punjab. As long as the struggle continues, no government, no police force, can keep us away from achieving our arm.”
Elaborating further Tazeen said the Indian govt claims to be nonviolent and democratic while killing unarmed innocent civilians in Kashmir and Punjab. She concluded “we have not forgotten Indian govt’s shameful attack on the Golden Temple in 1984. “I ask the Indian govt to allow democracy in the state of Punjab and plebiscite in the state of Kashmir and let these people determine their future.”
Article extracted from this publication >> April 13, 1990
