Vaheguru Ji ka Khalsa Vaheguru Ji Ke Fatheh
We have dedicated these pages to the thousands of Singhs and Singhnea who fell for our right to be sikh. The Sings and Singhnea that fought for human rights, the singhs and singhea that were massacred, toruted, raped and still missing in the Dehli Riots, Operation Wood Rose and Operation Black Thunder.
Saurav Sen, who was a teenager then, recalls the horror that swept the national capital during the 1984 anti-Sikh riots and the time it took to get back to normalcy.
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From June 3-6, 1984, the Indian government brutally invaded the Golden Temple and 125 other Gurdwaras around Punjab. Over 20,000 people were killed in these attacks, including such Sikh leaders as Sant Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale, who was the strongest spokesman for Sikh rights and Sikh freedom in the 20th century. A unknown number of young boys, ages 8 to 13, were taken outside into the courtyard and asked whether they supported Khalistan, the independent Sikh homeland. When they answered with the Sikh religious incantation "Bole So Nihal," they were instantly shot. The Guru Granth Sahib , the Sikh holy scripture, handwritten in the time of the ten Sikh Gurus, was shot full of bullet holes by the Indian army. Sant Bhindranwale warned that if the Indian government invaded the Golden Temple, it would "lay the foundation stone for Khalistan" and it did.
"The Indian goverment are always boasting they are a democracy, they are always boasting they are democratic, that they were nothing to do with a secularism.They just kill Sikhs to please the majority" Narinder Singh, spokesman for the Golden Temple, on NPR August 1997.
Over 250,000 Sikh men, women and children have been murdered since 1984.
More than 50,000 Sikhs disappeared in Indian government's secret cremations. Their remains have never been given to their families.
Indian government paid over 41,000 rupess to the police to kill as many Sikhs as possibly.
Jaswant Singh Khalra kidnapped by police and murdered in police custody after exposing Indian policy of arresting Sikhs, torturing them, murdering them, cremating the bodies as "unidentified."
Gurdev Singh Kaunke, former Jathedar of the Akal Takht, highest Sikh religious leader, murdered by police official Swaran Singh Ghotna, who has never been punished.
The Indian newspaper Hitavada reported that the Indian government paid the late Governor of Punjab, Surendra Nath, the equivalent of $1.5 billion to foment and support covert state terrorist activity in Punjab and Kashmir.
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