WASHINGTON: A bipartisan group of 65 Members of Congress last week wrote to Indian Prime Minister P.V. Narasimha Rao demanding that Sikh human rights activist Jaswant Singh Khalra, the general secretary of the Human Rights Wing (Shiromani Akali Dal) be released, Khalra was abducted by Amritsar police on September 6 after he issued a report showing that the Indian regime has abducted more than 25,000 young Sikh men, tortured them, murdered them, declared their bodies “unidentified” and cremated them. “After the report was published,” the letter says, “Khalra was told by the Amritsar district police chief, “We have made 25,000 disappear. It would be easy to make one more disappear.”
“The letter was initiated by Rep. Gary Condit (D-Cal), ranking member of an Agriculture subcommittee and a longtime supporter of Sikh freedom. It
carried more signatures than any previous letter concerning Indian tyranny. Signers of the letter include members of the leadership of both parties.
Article extracted from this publication >> October 27, 1995
