WASHINGTON: India’s state controlled wire service, the Press Trust of India has once again put the blame for the attack last Sunday on a train in Kabarwalla, Punjab, on “suspected Sikh militants,” a statement that was repeated by such U.S. mass media as ABCTV News and USA Today.
There was no mention of any other possibility for the attack in which killed 22 Hindus and injured 30 gunmen sprayeda train with automatic weapons fire, according to a “senior police official.
“The Third Agency is an Indian government intelligence branch that specializes in convert operations against Sikhs both in the Punjab and in India, but also abroad,” said Dr. G.S. Aulakh of the Council of Khalistan.
Third Agency operatives are already believed to be the real terrorists behind the bombing of the Air India flight that exploded off the coast of Ireland in 1985 in which 329 persons died. Details of this operation are given in the new book, Soft Target by two Canadian journalists, Kashmeri and McAndrew who followed the case for four years,
“The government in New De1hi, with Rajiv Gandhi at the helm, is only too willing to kill innocent Indian citizens to create a Sikh bogeyman, especially around election time,” he said.
Gandhi recently raised this bogeyman in a speech in New Delhi on Indian Independence Day (August 15). Gandhi said;
“Traitors are supporting her (Indira Gandhi’s) killers and even accepting swords as an honor (from Sikh militants.)….
Divisive forces are rising in the country. Dogmatism is still alive … Traitors can still roam and may even be present in parliament.
All these remarks are veiled references to Gandhi’s political opposition as traitors and to Sikhs as murderers. They are consciously designed to whip up ill feelings for the Sikhs among the Indian population.”
He added that a staged terrorist incident would be well timed to coincide with this kind of hate mongering Rajiy Gandhi is resorting to on the campaign trail. We can expect to see many more such ‘supposed terrorist incidents in the Punjab blamed on the Sikhs before the forthcoming elections in India. Evidence of Indian government assassins posing as Sikhs has already surfaced many times in the Indian press, Aulakh said.
“In any case, terrorism and matter of innocent people has never been nor will it ever be the policy of the Sikh faith or of the Council of Khalistan. We deplore this kind of violence anywhere, whoever commits it,” he said.
Article extracted from this publication >> September 8, 1989
