Dear Rashtrapati Ji,
We are giving below the methods of torture, humiliation and atrocities used by your State against the Sikhs. These have been mentioned by the humanitarian organizations and individuals who hold prestige in their respective fields. These organizations and individuals are not seen directly or emotionally connected with our movement They have been forced to write about the extreme violations of human rights of our people. We wish you to know and witness the continuous repression and atrocities perpetrated against the Sikhs by your army, paramilitary forces and police, We are not presenting all this to you to win your sympathy, nor do we wish you repent by taking pity on us, In fact by situating you in this picture we want to have the verdict of the people of the world over the extent you have violated the UNO’s Declaration on Human Rights, the Geneva Convention, and many other international treaties. We are mentioning below the violations and atrocities:
To interrogate the Sikhs, around log of wood is placed on their legs, and after putting heavy weight on the log it is rotated on the legs.
Chili power is sprinkled in the eyes and sex organs of the Sikhs. * The Sikhs are hung upside down from the ceilings till they became unconsciousness,
The body joints are battered.
Electric shocks are given making most of the youth impotent.
The Sikh women during interrogation are hurt in their sex organs. Filthy abuse is showered on them. * Violence is inflicted on the parents in presence of their sons and daughters and vice versa.
Brothers are gotten beaten by sisters and vice versa violence is inflicted on adult girls after stripping them naked their sex organs are damaged. They are sexually assaulted; pregnancies are terminated of the expectant females,
Crotchets are pulled apart.
The victims of inhuman violence are made to sit naked in winter, and under the sun in summer, kept sleepless for days in solitary cells,
The Sikhs are subjected to severe beating and filthy abuse in the presence of their village folks. “The dead bodies of the Sikhs killed in fake encounters are not handed over to their parents to conceal excessive violence, “The State manipulates tailored post mortem reports from the doctors, and burns the dead bodies of the Sikhs after falsely declaring them unclaimed,
All sorts of excesses are made on the parents of the underground Sikh youths.
Indiscriminate atrocities are committed on the parents of the underground youth of the area where some militant action takes place.
Atrocities are committed without caring for one’s age, health, life or death, If some one luckily survives such brutal excesses, it is well and good. But if one dies while under “interrogation” then such a dead body is taken out, pierced with some bullets, and a news item is sent that a dreaded terrorist has been shot dead in a police encounter.
The houses of the underground Sikh youths are demolished, their belongings are looted, crops destroyed, their tube well motors are forcibly taken away, they are stopped to sow new crops.
Even the distant relatives are Subjected to atrocities.
Even animals of the families of the underground Sikh youth are Subjected to police anger. After summoning the families to the police station they (villagers) are told not to take care of the animals of the families of the underground youth. Generally the animals starve and die.
The residents of the vicinity of the underground Sikh youth are beaten up indiscriminately,
The interrogation centers deserve to be called Butcheries.
False cases are registered against innocent Sikh youth, later they are let off taking fat bribes.
The Editors and Reponses giving true reports are arrested, an undeclared censorship is imposed on them to stop them from exposing Police atrocities.
Peaceful protests by the Human Rights Organization are prohibited.
The media in India and abroad are misused to launch vicious and false propaganda against the Sikhs. * Hardened criminals have been inducted into Sikh movement to help to arrest the Sikh revolutionaries and sabotage the movement. Such criminals inducted to tarnish the fair name of the Sikh revolutionaries are now called “Black Cats” in the Punjab. Under SSP Izhar Alam, such criminal gangs were named as “Alam Sena”. Besides, such police sponsored bands of criminals also operate under the name Panthic Tiger Force and “Red Brigade”. Izhar Alam used the name Panthic Tiger Force” as he wanted to gain control over the gurdwaras, and for this purpose he needed a name which appeared “Panthic” for the people. The Director General of Police has himself admitted about the
“Black Cats” bands. In his interview to the India Today on September 15, 1988, KPS Gill had announced it without an iota of shame that the security forces in Punjab cannot do anything without the help of secret bands (Black Cats). Therefore, there is no question of dismantling these bands.
Thousands of innocent pilgrims, children, females, aged people, who got encircled in the Golden Temple during Bluestar Operation were made to die through starvation and thirst. The whole Punjab was converted into a vast jail by clamping curfew on the entire area. The army bulletin branded all the Amritdhari Sikhs as terrorists,
The Indian army desecrated the Gurdwaras and committed such atrocities on the Sikhs that even the soul of Ahmed Shah Abdali might have felt ashamed of
During its simultaneous attack on the Golden Temple, the Akal Takhat, and several other Gurdwaras of Punjab, the Indian Army trampled down and insulted each and every clause of the Geneva convention, UNO’s declaration and international we treats on war. The Indian army’ s attitude was such as if it was rafting a war against alien people. By giving a few illustrations in this regard we demand that cases be registered in the International Court against the Army personnel involved in the Bluestar Operation for their crimes so that India’s communal Hindu Government, which never gets tired of boasting of its commitment to high human values, is fully exposed in the comity of nations.
During the army attack on the Golden Temple no security due under the Geneva Convention was provided to thousands of pilgrims and other present over there,
The journalists were disallowed from going inside the Golden Temple, The foreign responders were turned out of Punjab so that they do not get a chance to see with their own eyes the atrocious deeds of the Indian army,
Censorship was clamped on the newspapers so that people do not get full information about the army attack on the Golden Temple. Fearing that truth can also travel by the word of mouth, The whole traffic from and to Punjab was stopped.
The whole of Punjab was put under curfew. * The army attack was on a grand scale, and it involved both land forces and air force.
The Indian army employed guns and tanks in its operation so that buildings accommodating the pilgrims and devotees could be blown away.
The firing from the army was so intense that thousands of buildings were razed to the ground. According to the government’s own estimate, 800 houses and shops got demolished during the attack.
The targets of army guns were none else but religious, persons, devotees, pilgrims, ladies, old people, children or some militants whom the Indian government calls terrorists.
No neutral observer was allowed to take stock of the situation obtaining at that time in the Golden Temple Complex.
The injured people during the attack on the Golden Temple were subjected to extreme partiality. Whereas every assistance and facility was made available to the injured army personnel, there was no such provision for the wounded belonging to the opposite side.
The number of prisoners taken was rather small indeed. This ample scope for doubt that the Indian army had thought it beter to eliminate the thousands of people seized in the Golden Temple complex instead of taking them prisoners or providing them with medical assistance,
No need was felt to perform religious rites for the dead pilgrims and devotees.
Before consigning the dead bodies to flames, neither any effort was made to identify them nor the relatives were informed about identifying dead ones. As whole of the Punjab was in the grip of curfew no relative could reach there,
The Geneva convention was violated by not handing over the dead bodies to the next of the kins. In such a cruel situation only the dead or those wishing to be dead could be present for the last rites, * While performing the last rites of the dead Sikhs the Indian army did not feel any need of proper respect or decorum due at such occasions,
All the dead bodies were place in heaps and then consigned to flames. It was never insured that among the dead there could also be some Muslim devotees. To bum the Muslim dead’s is against the tenets of Islam. In this way no care was taken to know the religion of the dead ones and how their last rites were to be performed.
No need was felt to give a list of the dead to the Red Cross or any other International Agency,
Despite such atrocities by the Indian army, no commission was appointed to go into this dark episode, Even the Britishers, the foreign rulers, had cared to appoint Hunter Commission to inquire into the Jallianwala Massacre which Was of a much less magnitude on the other hand. The Indian government took all the steps to hide the army excesses on the Sikhs.
Article extracted from this publication >> October 23, 1992
