LUDHIANA: The International Human Rights Organization (IHRO) has asked the US administration to direct its embassy in Delhi not to issue visa to K.P.S. Gill, former Director of Punjab Police, as it will send a wrong message worldwide that the USA has diluted its priority on human rights.

‘The IHRO Chairperson D.S. Gill an urgent appeal faxed to Ms. Robin Raphel, Assistant Secretary of State, said: “the reported move of K.P.S.Gill to seek visa to visit USA has come to the THRO as a source of great concern and worry, The visa, if granted, will give him legitimacy as a routine visitor, whereas this mans’ hands are soiled with the blood of thousands of Sikhs in Punjab.”

“KP.S. Gill should have been tried by an international jury for the crimes ‘against humanity on a scale perpetrated by some of the Nazi criminals. In Europe,” the IHRO said and reminded the Secretary of State, Mr. Warren Christopher, that during his tenure as Police chief in Punjab, Gill had not even spared the lives of political leaders, journalists, human rights activists and lawyers.

The latest case is of Akali Dal human rights activist Jaswant Singh Khalra. Reports by Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch/Asia and US State Department are one on the point, said the IHRO appeal, add in) that thousands of Rupees were paid a bounties to the police working under K.P. Gill’s supervision for the murder of Sikhs, even according to the US State Department. ;

Not only that, Mr. KP.S. Gillis sea maniac as is evident from his behavior towards a senior IAS officer, Rupan Deol Bajaj for which his # facing a trial in Chandigarh court and his junior cops prompted by his sexual behavior along with late Chief Minister Beant Singh’s grandson had levied a French tourist Ms. Katy Durand, added DS. Gill.

 The US rightly prides itself as) model democratic state with human rights on top of its: agenda, K.P.S Gill’s entry into that Jand will send) wrong message that the USA has diluted its priorities, while denial is a will reassure the world on Chagai that the administration is continuing the traditional policy of not tolerating human ‘rights abuses world wider Meanwhile, the IHRO General Sex relay Mr Mohinder Singh Grew: “has asked MS, Ruth Mary Hall, Polit call Officer in the Embassy of US/ New Delhi, to keep the IHRO informed of any development in the regard.

Article extracted from this publication >>  May 15, 1996