TORONTO: Sukhminder Singh Cheema, the editor of Chardi Kala, which is Canada’s top-selling Punjabi newsweekly, who was in Toronto during Bhai Gurjit Singh’s Shahidi program last week said. “Sikhs are in turmoil and anguished by the Indian Governments atrocities in Punjab. The press and media are muzzled and its time the world opinion is organized through the International Human Rights Day on December 10 and Sikhs struggle for liberation is highlighted”.
Cheema appealed to all Sikhs to help make their own media stronger to counter the false propaganda by several agencies. He said, “When over half the Army is deployed in Punjab what type of democracy is at work and how elections can be held at the barrel of the gun?” Cheema appealed the governments in Canada, U.S.A, and U.K. to help stop the human rights violations in Punjab and maltreating of Sikhs by the Indian Govt.
“Sikhs haye to be saved in Punjab and elsewhere in the world”. He also urged for the release of Sukhminder Singh and Ranjit Singh held in New York.
Other speakers were Mahpreet Singh, a close friend of Gurjit Singh, Bibi Sukhwant Kaur and Balkaran Singh. It was a packed hall and all donations will be sent for the victims” families
Article extracted from this publication >> December 6, 1991
