WASHINGTON: Sikhs around the world will observe India’s Independence Day on Tuesday, August 15 with protests, Demonstrations will be held at sites in North America, Europe, and Australia to protest the ongoing genocide by the Indian regime against the Sikh Nation More than 120.000 Sikhs have been killed by the Indian regime since 1984 According to published reports, 70,000 Sikhs are currently in detention. The State Department reported that between 1991 and 1993. Over 41.000 each bounties were paid to police officers for killing Sikhs. A report from Human Rights Watch quotes a Punjab policeman as saying that 4,000 to 5.000 people were tortured over a five year period at his police station alone. There are over 200 of these torture centers (police stations) throughout Punjab, Khalisan. Another policeman is quoted as saying that in a similar period, 400 to 500 people were killed at his police station,

Recent newspaper reports show that 6,017 Sikh bodies were cremated as “unclaimed” since October, 1986, in the Amritsar district of Punjab, Khalistan This is just one of 15 districts in Punjab, It is reliably estimated that 25,000 Sikhs were killed in this manner by the regime. At the same time, “disappear once are routine. Half a million Indian troops continue to occupy Khalistan – more troops than the British kept in the entire subcontinent during their rule In addition, India has killed over 150,000 Christians in Nagaland since 1947 over 43,000 Muslims in Kashmir since 1988, and ions of thousands of Assamese, Manipuris, and others. India continues to deny passports to Sikh Ieader Simranjit Singh Mann and Dalit (black “untouchable Ieader VT Rajshekar. Recently, 53 members of the U.S. Congress wrote to Indian Prime Minister P.V. Narasimha Rao demanding that passports be issued.

In the face of this repression, the Sikh Nation declared itself independent on October 7, 1987, forming the independent county of Khalistan

The Washington, D.C. demonstration will be held on Tuesday, August from 9:30 am to 12:00 noon at the Indian Ambassador’s residence, 2100 Macomb St. NW, at the end of Macomb Succt of Connecticut Avenue.

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