NEW YORK: About 1500-2000 Sikhs from Connecticut, New Jersey, and New York states assembled outside the Indian consulate in New York City on September 25,1992 to protest against the army and police brutality of Hindu India’s security forces on Sikhs and Kashmiris in India. The peaceful and powerful protest Started at 11:00 a.m. outside the consulate and continued until 12:30 p.m. The protest was against violations of human rights of Sikhs and Kashmiris. The assembly was addressed by a well-known Sikh American attorney, Satjiwan Singh Khalsa of New York City. He said that the Indian government must stop the genocide of Sikhs in Punjab and let the Sikhs go free. Every nation in the world has a right to be free.

The protestors then marched to the U.N.O. building through the Streets and Avenues of Manhattan raising the same slogans all the way and displaying the pictures of Sikh and Kashmiri victims of Hindu India’s brutality. Another peaceful meeting was held at the Dag Hammarskjoeld Plaza outside the U.N.O. which was addressed by among others S. Amarjit Singh Buttar, Member National Executive WSO (U.S.A.) and President, New England Sikh study circle, Milford, MASS, S. Harbhajan Singh Gill, Vice-President (East) WSO (U.S.A.), S-Kabal Singh of Sikh Youth of North American, S Jatinder Singh Sabharwal, President Sikh Cultural Society, New York City. S. Amarjit Singh Buttar reminded Punjab’s D.G. police that Sikh history, past and present, is well documented that Sikhs have never spared the tyrants of innocent people.

He was also reminded that he will also pay his dues soon, for his role in the killings of innocent Sikh men, women and children. S. Amarjit Singh Buttar also complimented Kashmiris and Sikhs of New York City in retiring 9 termU.S. Congressman Stephen J. Solarz who lost his bid for Democratic nomination on September 15,1992, primary elections held recently.

At the end, S. Amarjit Singh Buttar, S,Harbhajan Singh Gill, S. Jatinder Singh Sabharwal, $.Kabal Singh and S  Jarnail Singh Grewal, President Gurdwara Singh Sabha, Glen Rock, New Jersey, presented a memorandum to the Representative of U.N, Secretary General Boutros Boutros-Ghali, highlighting the plight of Sikhs and Kashmiris as captive nations in India and who are being subjected to Hindu India’s barbaric stale terrorism.

Article extracted from this publication >> October 9, 1992