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Date: Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 4:04 AM
Subject: [bangla-vision] Dr. Aulakh Speaks at International Sikh Conference
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Dr. Aulakh Speaks at International Sikh Conference
Raised Slogans of "Khalsitan Zindabad", Very Well Received
WASHINGTON, D.C., January 21, 2011 – Dr. Gurmit Singh Aulakh, President of the Council of Khalistan, spoke at the International Sikh Conference on January 8 at Royal Albert Hall in Edison, New Jersey.
The conference was organized by the American branch of the Shiromani Akali Dal (Amritsar). Over 750 people were in attendance. He raised slogans of "Khalistan Zindabad", which were very well received. The crowd was very enthusiastic. Dr. P.S. Ajrawat, who also spoke, also raised slogans of "Khalistan Zindabad." Speakers came from Canada, Britain, France, and India as well as the United States.
In adition to Dr. Aulakh and Dr. Ajrawat, other speakers included Sardar Aman Singh Mann, son of former Member of Parliament Simranjit Singh Mann, leader of the Akali Dal (Amritsar); Sardar Buta Singh Kharoudh, leader of the Akali Dal (Amritsar) in the United States; Sardar Ram Singh of the American Gurdwara Prabandhak Committee; Sardar Rajbhinder Singh Badesha; Sardar Sukhdev Singh Gill; Sardar Chain Singh from France, European represenaive of the Akali Dal (Amritsar);
Sardar Manohar Singh Bal from Canada; and others. Dr. Ajrawat presented a copy of his book Khalistani Meditation to Sardar Mann.The conference was very successful and the drive to free Khalistan has reached the grassroots level in Punjab. Sardar Simranjit Singh Mann recently announced that the Akali Dal (Amritsar) will contest the upcoming elections for the Shiromani Gurdwara Prabandhak Committee (SGPC) in Punjab on a platform of independence for Khalistan. He recently held a rally in Jagraon, Punjab, which was attended by more than 100,000 people.
In India, the High Court of Punjab ruled many years ago in the cae of the late Colonel Partap Singh that it is legal under the Indian Constitution to seek independence for Khalistan. Nonetheless, Sardar Mann, leaders of Dal Khalsa, and others, were arrested a few years ago for holding a march, making pro-Khalistan speeches, and raising the Khalistani flag. India does not even abide by its own laws.
The Indian government has murdered over 250,000 Sikhs since 1984, more than 300,000 Christians since 1948 (plus many more throughout the country), over 100,000 Muslims in Kashmir since 1988 (as well as at least 2,000 to 5,000 in Gujarat), and tens of thousands of Tamils, Assamese, Manipuris, Dalits, Bodos, and others. Sardar Aman Singh Mann cited these figures in his presentation. These figures have been cited by this office, documented in the Congressional Record and published in the book The Politics of Genocide by Sardar Inderjit Singh Jaijee. The Indian Supreme Court called the Indian government's murders of Sikhs "worse than a genocide."
According to a report by the Movement Against State Repression (MASR), 52,268 Sikhs are being held as political prisoners in India without charge or trial. Some have been in illegal custody since 1984! Tens of thousands of other minorities are also being held as political prisoners, according to Amnesty International. We demand the immediate release of all these political prisoners. 300 million people in India – one quarter of the population – live in a subsistence existence on less than two dollars ($2) per day.
India is on the verge of disintegration. India is not a single nation, but many nations thrown together by the British colonialists for their administrative convenience. Such multinational states are doomed to disintegrate like Austria-Hungary, the Soviet Union, Czechoslovakia, and Yugoslavia have done. In 2009, the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency predicted that India will not exist as we know it by 2015.
When India became independent, Sikhs were to receive their own state, but the Sikh leaders of the time were tricked into staying with India on the promise that they would have "the glow of freedom" and no law affecting the Sikhs would pass without their consent. Sikhs ruled an independent and sovereign Punjab from 1710 to 1716 and again from 1765 to 1849 and were recognized by most of the countries of the world at that time. No Sikh representative has ever signed the Indian constitution. Sikhism was not even recognized in the Indian cnstitution as a separate religion, while Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, Jainism, etc. were recognized. Discrimination against the Sikh Nation took place in every sphere.
"I would like to thank the organizers of the International Sikh Conference for inviting me to speak," Dr. Aulakh said. "This event was a good step forward for the casue of freedom for Khalistan," he said. "Only a sovereign, independent Khalistan will end the repression and raise the standard of living in Punjab," he said.
"Khalistan is essential for the survival of the Sikh religion. "As Professor Darshan Singh, a former Jathedar of the Akal Takht, said, 'If a Sikh is not for Khalistan, he is not a Sikh'." He noted that other Akal Takht Jathedars, including Jatheedar Ranjit Singh and Jathedar Joginder Singh Vedanti, have also spoken out for Khalistan. "We must follow their lead and continue to work for our God-given birthright of freedom," Dr. Aulakh said.
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