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U.S. Should Declare India a Terrorist
State
Tens of Thousands of Sikh Political Prisoners Are Rotting
in Indian Jails Without Charge or Trial
WASHINGTON, DC, USA, January 13, 2000 (FPS): Dr. Gurmit Singh
Aulakh, President of the Washington-based Council of Khalistan,
called on the United States Government to declare India a
terrorist state. "India is one of the leading
sponsors of terrorism in the world," he said.
Earlier this week, Mandeep Singh Sodhi, a 27-year-old Sikh in
Uttar Pradesh burned himself to death to protest police abuses
against his family. The Los Angeles Times reported that India
violated international law by holding the prisoners who were
released without charge or trial. There are tens of thousands of
Sikh political prisoners rotting in Indian jails without trial. On
December 20, according to Reuters News Service and India West,
Pakistani police arrested a man who confessed to being an Indian
agent and to planting bombs that killed 9 people.
Responding to some recent reports, Dr. Aulakh said that
he "would not put it past" the Indian Government to
organize the hijacking themselves to justify a new wave of terror
in Kashmir. "They have created incidents to promote terror
in Punjab, Khalistan, Assam, Nagaland, Tamil Nadu and other
places within their artificial borders," he said.
The book Soft Target, written by two Canadian
journalists, proved that India blew up its own airliner in 1985,
killing 329 people, to blame the Sikhs. In 1994, the Hitavada, a
well respected Indian newspaper, reported that the Indian
Government paid the late Governor of Punjab, Surendra Nath, $1.5
billion to organize and support covert state terrorism in Punjab,
Khalistan and in Kashmir.
The Indian Government created the militant Liberation
Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) to invade Sri Lanka, take
the main port and prevent a Voice of America (VOA) tower from
being built. Then they turned on the LTTE.
The Indian Government has murdered over 250,000 Sikhs since 1984.
They have also killed over 200,000 Christians in Nagaland since
1947, more than 65,000 Kashmiri Muslims since 1988, and tens of
thousands of Assamese, Manipuris, Tamils, Dalits and others. "Only
a terrorist state could commit atrocities of this
magnitude," said Dr. Aulakh.
The U.S. State Department reported that the Indian
Government paid more than 41,000 cash bounties to police to
murder Sikhs. One of these bounties was collected by
police officers who killed a three-year-old boy, his father, and
his uncle. "Would you call this democracy or
terrorism?," Dr. Aulakh asked.
Government-allied Hindu militants have burned down Christian
churches and prayer halls, murdered priests and raped nuns. The
Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP), which is affiliated with the parent
organization of the ruling BJP, described the rapists as
"patriotic youth" and called the nuns
"anti-national elements."
Hindus affiliated with the VHP surrounded the jeep of missionary
Graham Staines and his two sons, ages 8 and 10, poured gasoline
on it, set it on fire and surrounded it, chanting "Victory
to Lord Ram." In 1997, police broke up a Christian religious
festival with gunfire. "Only a terrorist government could
allow these kinds of atrocities," Dr. Aulakh pointed out.
Last year, Indian Defense Minister George Fernandes led a meeting
with the Ambassadors from Cuba, Red China, Russia, Iraq and Libya
aimed at constructing a security alliance "to stop the
U.S." "How could India form an alliance against the
world's oldest democracy and then ask for help?," Dr. Aulakh
asked.
"Based on these and other pieces of India's pattern
of terrorism, the time has come for India to be declared a
terrorist state," Dr. Aulakh said.
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