The report in India Abroad, a New York based ethnic weekly on the killings of Sikh students in Bidar Karanataka was strongly condemned by community leaders as a clear case of lopsided and malicious ‘journalism’.
S, Jagjit Singh Mangat president of Sikh Cultural Society Richmond Hill, NY said, “The press in India blacked out reports of the massacre for many days. Here also but for its publication in the World Sikh News the reports of such a ghastly tragedy would have been covered up as in the past.
The newspaper’s attempt to twist the entire event by saying that the Sikh students were annoying women and taking obscene photographs of them is reprehensible and a distortion of the truth. Such wild charges were made to justify the Indian army’s assault on the holy Golden Temple in Amritsar in 1984. They were made on government controlled media to inflame the people to massacre the Sikhs after Mrs. Indira Gandhi’s assassination and are now being used to justify the latest attack on the Sikhs, Mangat added.
- Satwant Singh Sadhar, president of the Gorden State Association, reacting to the story told the WSN “It is a shame that the newspaper has put such slanderous charges against the community. They are slapping us and also accusing us at the same time. It is our information that the mobs attacked the boys while they were: sleeping,” he added,
Article extracted from this publication >> October 7, 1988
